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[Maxmini]

This is my latest project, it is a 1979 Mini Clubman Saloon with 30,000 miles on the clock. The car has sat under a carport for the last eight years. I purchased the car in December 2003 off a work colleague who had the car when it had 5,000 miles on it, I am the third owner. The car was not as good as I had hoped for and I done the silly thing of offering cash upfront before seeing the car. The car had never been welded and was all original. These are the pictures of the car when I first picked it up, as you can see there is plenty of rust in the usual places, holes in the floor pans, wings and worst of all rot in the roof guttering where the carport leaked.

[Feeble]

Looks pretty cool!

[Bungle]

so where are you starting ?

[Maxmini]

After freeing the brakes I managed to get the car back home on a trailer. Here are a few photos just before the welding of the new panels was done (February 2005). As you can see you could put your fist through the floor pan! My next installment will show before and after pictures of all the completed panels welded on.

[Feeble]

I'd love something like this!

[Maxmini]

As you can see the car had all the rusty panels replaced and repaired I even got hold of a roof to repair the roof guttering. A friend of mine done all the welding for me .
Here is the list of panels.
WINGS
A PANELS
INNER AND OUTER CILLS
FLOOR PANS
SCUTTLE ,BOOT ,ROOF AND FLINCH PANELS







Job done lol

Edited by Maxmini, 15 November 2006 - 12:07 AM.

[supermotolee]

paint it brown again! brown minis are soo cool black roof and arches and some fat little 10'' wheels love it top work so far!

[Retro_10s]

awww it makes me so happy to hear another clubby is being put back on the road at last

[lewis]

youve gone about it really good aswell, i really like this project keep it going i want to see what happens next!

[Maxmini]

I also forgot the car had a brand new bonnet and passengers door skin fitted aswell. When the car was back home the car was completely stripped, all welds were ground flush, all traces of rust and underseal were removed completely both underneath the car and the engine bay and treated with a rust preservative. As you can appreciate this takes a long time and you get covered in oily muck, don't make the mistake of leaving in the windscreen when flushing the spot welds for the wings as I ruined a perfectly good windscreen! The next installment will be the same pictures but showing the areas painted and seam sealed with minor prep work done.

[Maxmini]

All the underside and arches are seam seal and primed and the engine bay painted with highbuild primer. The car was preped and sent away again to be painted in highbuild primer. When the car was back I blocked the car and fill any small dents. As you can see the boot lid has been smoothed out to.

Edited by Maxmini, 23 November 2006 - 09:52 PM.

[metro1275]

excellent job sir!!!
what did you use to strip the underseal and what would you recommend for protection,

cant beat a nice clubman

[1976 clubamn]

very nice. good work

[Maxmini]

The seam sealer was from Halfords and the rust treatment paint .It was hammerite rust beater and it kills rust and primes also loctite rust treatment

Edited by Maxmini, 23 November 2006 - 10:54 PM.

[miniman86]

looks good mate, keep up the good work!!