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#1 Mike D92

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Posted 02 March 2013 - 07:37 PM

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Hope you all enjoy :)

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Posted 02 March 2013 - 07:43 PM

looks like a good project but i thought the rear lights would of been like the mk1 ones? i thought the lights that are on it now come later then 1959? please correct me someone?

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Posted 02 March 2013 - 07:46 PM

Yep. Mk2

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Posted 02 March 2013 - 07:47 PM

Great project & best of luck!

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Posted 02 March 2013 - 07:48 PM

Looks Good, What are your plans for it?

looks like a good project but i thought the rear lights would of been like the mk1 ones? i thought the lights that are on it now come later then 1959? please correct me someone?

It was a common mod to do back then,swapping mk1 lights with mk2's.

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Posted 02 March 2013 - 07:49 PM

looks like a good project but i thought the rear lights would of been like the mk1 ones? i thought the lights that are on it now come later then 1959? please correct me someone?


Back in the 60's it would have been an ''old'' car (i.e. undesirable) so it wasn't unknown to fit the later lights in an effort to make it look newer than it was. It's gone fill circle now with people fitting MK1 lights to an 80's city-e!

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Posted 02 March 2013 - 07:49 PM

so its a mk2 mini 1959? that many minis i get confused lol

#8 Mike D92

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Posted 02 March 2013 - 07:49 PM

It was registered 5th november 1959 according to my dad so i don't know if he put later lights on it?

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Posted 02 March 2013 - 07:50 PM

Plans are just to bring it back to use really! get all the holes sorted and wiring and get it back up and running :)

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Posted 02 March 2013 - 07:50 PM

ahh right dont see many of them minis around. anyway as above whats your plans?

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Posted 02 March 2013 - 07:50 PM

Looks Good, What are your plans for it?


looks like a good project but i thought the rear lights would of been like the mk1 ones? i thought the lights that are on it now come later then 1959? please correct me someone?

It was a common mod to do back then,swapping mk1 lights with mk2's.


Indeed people wanted there cars to look newer.

Looks like a good project.

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Posted 02 March 2013 - 07:51 PM

cool how long has it been stood there?

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Posted 02 March 2013 - 07:52 PM

Plans are just to bring it back to use really! get all the holes sorted and wiring and get it back up and running :)


exellent idea:D just please change the wheels and the colour scheme :P looks ...strange?

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Posted 02 March 2013 - 07:57 PM

cool how long has it been stood there?


been there since 1991 why i put the tax disc picture :P




Plans are just to bring it back to use really! get all the holes sorted and wiring and get it back up and running :)


exellent idea:D just please change the wheels and the colour scheme :P looks ...strange?



ye im not too keen on the green roof to be honest, maybe black with green racing strips but that might be a bit much, up to my father to decide really though!

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Posted 02 March 2013 - 07:57 PM


Plans are just to bring it back to use really! get all the holes sorted and wiring and get it back up and running :)


exellent idea:D just please change the wheels and the colour scheme :P looks ...strange?

Personally, I like the colour, and the wheels... :tumble:




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