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[cooper_shaz]

Hi All

Very new to the mini scene but have been in the car scene for a long time, Bought a 1998 mini cooper sport pack a few moths ago and been hooked since..

Yesterday i bought a clubman estate as a project and i am thinking of turning it into a pick-up, the conversion will be very easy, but i am not sure if it would be a good one..!!

Having had a look around the car it is really solid, has been in an old lady's garage for years and years and only has 24k on it..

Bits of rust in the boot floor in the corner by the rear doors, some round the rear wheel arches
(can someone tell me where to get the repair panel for this please)

Also thinking of changing the front of the car from clubman to a round front.

any opinions/views/thought welcome..
will post pics soon
meanwhile here is one i did a quick 2 min doctor of in paint shop

[cooper_shaz]

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[Purple Tom]

please leave it as a Clubby estate!

They're getting rarer now, and I think only the genuine Pick-Up looks good, because of the vertical rear section. The Clubby Estate and Van back slopes forwards at about 10degrees, and they just look wrong as a Pick-Up - in my opinion anyway!

It looks good too, I like the wheels.... :grin:

[Guess-Works.com]

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo !

But on the subject of changing from clubman to roundnose, the quickest way is to chop the whole of the front of and put a fiberglass roundnose flipfront.. otherwise youre changing all the front panels including inner wings.

Edited by GuessWorks, 23 September 2005 - 03:04 PM.

[Jammy]

I share the same opinion, if you want a Pickup there have never been so many on Ebay at the mo! And I question the rigidty of the conversion. Also, some of the pickups on Ebay at the mo require quite a bit of restoration, which would allow you to fit a Clubb front if you wanted.

[Teapot]

I think you're entitled to do what you want with your own car. IMHO this one look very tidy but rather sad,
as if it can't make up its mind what it wants to be

[Pickup76]

Urm well its not gonna look anything like a mini pickup but you could make it look that sort of style i suppose. Clubby estates have the wrong heal boards and the wrong rear corners as minis 84 said so you'd need to sort those and i dont think you can get the rear window panel so you'd need to fabricate something there but making it a pickup minis possiable. There was one at mini 45 that acctually looked pretty good, alot of time had been put into making a correct looking rear window and making the bed right but it still had the sloping corners. IMO keep the estate and get a pickup but its doable

[cooper_shaz]

Thanks for the opinons guys..
I have listened to the cries of horror and i am going to leave it as an estate, thanks for the pics of the clubman pick up... I will restore the estate back to its former glory !!.

Will post pics this week!!

cheers!!
:worship:

[Jake Blues]

Good news!! (check out www.clubmanestates.co.uk as well)

[cooper_shaz]

Well it is like an addiction, just dug out this post from all those months ago and the Clubby had been getting pushed to the back of the queue for too long, so over the last few weeks this is what has happened

After months of getting put to the back finaly made a start on the CE



This is the car as i found it. Was parked in the garage i bought so did a deal and bought the car too.

Stood still for about 10 years, Garage was very well ventilated, clean and dry so car is in good shape, bar rear valance which was removed and the rear doors, but spares new ones came with the car



There are laods of invoices for service work and bonus is it had a new goldseal engine fitted


Odd bit of surface rust in the boot but nothing to worry about.

parts had been stripped but every nut and bolt was present


Body panels were really straight and after striping out the interior all that was needed was one door step and the rest of the interior was solid


So the work began Jan 28 - 2006
Cleaned flanges up and welded in new valance panels and fitted new fuel tank and sender


Jan 28/29 cleaned down floors and re-sealed with stone gaurd



after cleaning down the roof it was in great shape, so was the rest of the car, nice straight panels


But it is getting a full re-spray anyway

cleaned up and painted the boot area and re-fitted everything

Prepped the new doors




Fitted everything up to make sure all was well, and it was Phew..!!

4th Feb 06
Sanded down the car, surface rust round where the plastic wheel arches were, nothing drastic anywhere








8th Feb 5pm, off to the paint shop (Let me borrow his booth)




Poor car, looking a bit angry at being photographed nekid


Strip of the final bits and key down the whole car.

7pm little dings filled and car cleaned down

8pm masked up and suited up ready to clean car down in the booth and on with the barcoat (stops any reactions with the old paint)
8:30pm - quick scotchbrite and tac rag and on with a coat of primer

9:15pm out the booth, flat down the car - re-mask the car once it is cleaned and back into the booth

9:30 on with the first coat
9:45 on with the second
10:00pm on with the third

2 pac paint, so let it sit in the booth over night



Thursday morning -










Looking nice and clean and happy.


close up


I have decided to let the car sit for a week and a bit, let the solvent fully evapourate and paint cure before flatting and polishing


not polished yet but you can see the potential

11th feb
All the hinges and small parts are cleaned and painted

and re-assembly begins








12th Feb
Now to tackle the interior
Bought underlay/soundproofing and carpet on a roll
time to get out scissors, knife, spray glue and lets trim

Underlay going down




started to cut the bits of carpet to shape and fit them


Feb 15th of for an MOT :driver

Oh no it failed... :eek

Washer jets missing ... oops forgot to put them back on
handbrake needs tightening .. ok
cv boot split .....
Seat belts insecure ... doh... loosened when fitting the underlay
headlight aim incorrect (fitted new headlamp bowls)
wipers and sticky, probably need a strip down and grease...

and....... thats it...
so not too bad at all, happy with that

This weekend coming 18th feb, will sort bits for mot
and finish carpets and interior off and flat and polish the car..

The reason this was such a quick project was that the car was in good shape to begin with...

anyway, hope your still awake... cheers for reading if you are..

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[Holly]

i want 1

[cooper_shaz]

Feb 18th 2006
Well not a productive weekend as such.
Bogged down with the flu bug that was going around, but Friday night managed to all the things that needed done for the MOT
and cracked on with the carpets..

After the sides were fitted it was time for another trial fit of the rest of the carpets taking note which bits would require trimming.



Looked at the cross member, I decided to do this in 3 sections, I for each edge and one for the middle.

With the pieces in place it was simple a case of marking the edges to cut with a soft pencil and then cutting to shape


This was not fixed at this time, just trimmed.
Next piece to get to shape was the bulkhead carpet.
I pushed the carpet right into the corners with a scraper and again marked the edge to cut with a pencil.
Carpet was pulled out then re fitted to make sure the lenes were correct.
After i was happy with that it was trimmed and fitted


Then on to the pieces for the inner wheel arch, agian trimmed to size, spray glued and fitted


Same for the other side


Looking in from the back of the car with the edges of the cross member piece fitted


Cross member piece now in place, also decided to remove the rear ashtray for a cleaner look


Front carpet simply laid in place without glue, and trimmed round the gear lever



Back section laid into place and slits cut to fix seat belt anchors


and another


Then it was onto the boot carpet


This was fixed to the back of the seat and left loose on the boot floor to give easy access to spare wheel etc



And there we have it, job done


Before


After


Before



After

[minimadjonesy]

now that's what I like to see! another clubby saved! nice work, beautiful car!

[Lt-SilverDragon]

Ooo I like the carpet nice contrast to the outside colour.

[wobbit]

looks great!