Meet Mia The Mini

[DaveDreads]

Got yourself an absolute bargain there mate, £500quid for a car that starts, runs & drives with very little rust.

Are you going to get an MOT to see what needs doing to make it road worthy?

[NoahRobinson07]

Got yourself an absolute bargain there mate, £500quid for a car that starts, runs & drives with very little rust.

Are you going to get an MOT to see what needs doing to make it road worthy?

I think so, I was even luckier earlier, popped to my auntie's to see my cousins and they had a builder in who has just restored a 79' mini 1000 and mk1 escort mexico. I like died at the mexico. and he said he'd be happy to paint it for me

[DaveDreads]

I hate you right now.

[Revels]

Lovely.

Are you in One Direction?

[NoahRobinson07]

I hate you right now.

Haa, You know it. It's nudging 30 degrees here so I can't do anywork on the car

[NoahRobinson07]

Lovely.

Are you in One Direction?

No. Do you like coffee or orange?

[TIG ACM]

£500 is a real bargin, I sold mine for about £3k, 2 years ago

[NoahRobinson07]

£500 is a real bargin, I sold mine for about £3k, 2 years ago

Yeah, i was really lucky most of them we're around the 800 pound mark and they we're well past it. lol.

[NoahRobinson07]

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[NoahRobinson07]

Just some more pictures, with my one seat. lol. Cobra clubman if anyone was interested oh and my badly corroded Superlight wheels.

[SteveyB.]

If you like Mexico's you may appreciate this.... My old mans pride and joy

[NoahRobinson07]

If you like Mexico's you may appreciate this.... My old mans pride and joy

HUBA HUBA lol. WOW> Jaw. Drops.

[NoahRobinson07]

Sunday 1st July 2012:

So today I removed the door cards, this may have sounded like a simple task which should have only taken ten minutes. Yes it should have done, but the door cards which had been "installed" in Mia were solid metal, I think steel will post a picture soon. Because their immense thickness and weight for a door card, they had been pot riveted into place, so my morning consisted of drilling out pot rivets very carefully as to not go through the outer skin of my amazingly solid doors.

Once the front door cards where out the fun began. The rear panel cards "can't really be called door cards". Although these hadn't been pot riveted in, as this would have gone straight through the body of the car, they were well and truly jammed in. I got the passenger side out after around an hour, as I was being meticulously careful to not rip the securing metal of the car.

The drivers side was another story. As the bucket seat wasn't helping with any leverage on the panel, I decided to take it out. And of course, I could find every size spanner but the 11mm one I needed. I had 10 and 9 but not 11. So resorted to using some ply grips and a adjustable spanner, meaning that a simple process took much longer than it should have done.

Once I had the seat out, I cracked on with the door card. Now they're out I have to post them to blackpool as someone is doing a trade of some parts that I need for the interesting door cards. :P

Can't do anything today, as A) its raining and B) I have no parts to install or take out. :P

[NoahRobinson07]

And sorry for the read and No major pictures I didn't think a picture of a door card and some bolts was that interesting :P

[NoahRobinson07]

Parts update:

Just got myself a centre speedo binnacle and two ancillary gauges for a meer £70. Instead of the £250 asking price for a new one. All gauges tested and working . This will be going in Mia at some point closer to the end of the restoration. But I just couldn't resist not getting it at such a low price.

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[Scrooge]

Those centre binnacles do look cool but don't the 35th have the 3 clocks in the right place, I prefer them IMO.

[NoahRobinson07]

Those centre binnacles do look cool but don't the 35th have the 3 clocks in the right place, I prefer them IMO.

Well if they did. Mine didn't :P. I don't like the 3 clocks because all the later models had them in wooden dashes, and that just put me right off them :P.


Also when I first started even thinking about having a Mini. My main requirement was the centre speedo Shows my priorities. Oh and on the clocks now. The speedo doesn't work.

[Scrooge]

Ah just looked at the pictures, only had the little 2 clock binnacle. Haha it's just a taste thing, always like the 3 clock look.

[DaveDreads]

All i've been thinking of since you started this thread is buying a Mini,
or at the very least a 1300 Mini engine to tear down and rebuild, then at some point a rolling chasis to put it in.

Not that I have any money at all for it and the Clio needs all the belts changing
so that's all of my spare money accounted for this year.

Oh and don't think that just because you think it's not interesting, we will too, i'm interested.

Whatever you do, take a before and after picture for us,
I want to see everything you do so at some point in the future I have more of a clue what i'm doing when I get mine.

[NoahRobinson07]

All i've been thinking of since you started this thread is buying a Mini,
or at the very least a 1300 Mini engine to tear down and rebuild, then at some point a rolling chasis to put it in.

Not that I have any money at all for it and the Clio needs all the belts changing
so that's all of my spare money accounted for this year.

Oh and don't think that just because you think it's not interesting, we will too, i'm interested.

Whatever you do, take a before and after picture for us,
I want to see everything you do so at some point in the future I have more of a clue what i'm doing when I get mine.

Aww <3 Thank you. Lol. I have before Pictures of the door cards. Tomorrow I will pop outside and take some pictures of whats behind the door cards.

Tomorrow is also my hunt for the Wiper fuse. After I was looking today and couldn't find the manual am just going to replace all broken fueses.

Oh and, go buy one! Even if you get a shocking example and do it over a long period of time. My advice is dont buy the MPi Or SPi more commonly known as the cooper sport or as I call them the later models, so from around mine 1994 is the latest i'd go for. The later ones tend to cost more and rust much worse!