After getting it back to our unit, it had to live in our container for a month or two while other projects were completed. Work has been pretty wild lately so I havent had a lot of time to work on it, but I have been scouring TMF and ebay for bargains, and have got loads of bits. Got an MG metro engine for a 100 quid , discs, driveshafts, ordered a dash off Eddie Payne, arches, mk1 doors from bacon (cheers) a one piece rear door, and god knows what else. Theres a big pile of stuff in the back, anyway!
My dad is good with a mig (better than me, anyway ), so hes doing the patching and panel replacement with me. Unfortunately I bought it from "the welder from hell", who did all his practice work on the car, not on scrap! A lot of what we have done so far is putting his mess right. It has been deseamed (quite well, it appears) and has a turbo box in the bulkhead, again , this has been done very well. Other than that, its a bit of a patchwork! He had welded a lip round the sill line to fix a body kit onto , so a few minutes with the grinder and that was gone! the rear lights have been chopped out and plated. looks lovely...... not!
It also has a flip front, that I will be keeping, but making stealth.
This is progress as of a few weeks ago, We now have most of the front end repaired. New A panels, patched up the flitch panels, scuttle corners, got the flip front rigid and locking down and fitted locking bonnet pins. Its begining to look like a mini again! Well, I seem to have gone on a bit now, so I'll get more pics tomorrow and show the progress.
Edited by minivanman, 14 July 2006 - 08:04 PM.