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#1 Will16

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Posted 04 October 2015 - 08:49 PM

Just a thought on a thread? Would anyone care to share old scans of their minis from older era's? And any mods they did back then :-)

#2 Ben_O

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Posted 04 October 2015 - 09:07 PM

Not modified but here are two of my previous Minis. the only ones i seem to have photos of.

 

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Both taken around 2001-2002. I don't suppose that's what you had in mind but never mind 



#3 timmy850

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Posted 04 October 2015 - 09:21 PM

This is my car from the early 80's when my parents owned it. I'd like to go back to this house one day and recreate the photo..
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Posted 04 October 2015 - 09:22 PM

This is exactly what I had in mind, supurb :D

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Posted 04 October 2015 - 09:44 PM

A few of my parents ones that I still have photographs of. Between them they have had way too many!

Misty blue the family clubby back then and clubby mum was building to race.
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Then dads old racing mini (Badly taken :P) and also his fiesta. He still has the fiesta but it retired more than a decade ago and it hasn't rolled out of the same lockup since! (Wish he kept the mini instead though)
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Posted 04 October 2015 - 09:49 PM

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#7 Anthony30

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Posted 04 October 2015 - 11:24 PM

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Edited by Anthony30, 06 October 2015 - 05:26 PM.


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Posted 05 October 2015 - 01:02 AM

This is a picture of my first mini (of two).  It was a 1979 pageant blue 998cc Austin Mini.  It was purchased in 1986 and reluctantly sold in 1989 when I moved to London for a job.

 

The wheels are the standard 10 inch rims with pressed steel centre caps and plastic "chrome" nut covers.  The wheels were removed from the car one at a time, wire brushed and repainted with gunmetal paint.  I removed the wheel weights after marking their position and masked the tyres with newspaper.

 

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The black material along the seams is rust converter.  In the foreground can be seen an old aluminium pan which acted as my bodging bucket.  This was used to supply what is described in Haynes manuals as copious amounts of clean water during the rubbing down stage.

 

The keen eyed will notice that the full width mounting flange for the front bumper has been lovingly separated using a hammer and chisel.

 

Please also note the advanced technique employed to hold the headlamp bowl out of the way by clamping it with a mole grip to one of the thermostat nuts.

 

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This under-bonnet shot shows the obligatory twin air horns, a shiny new coil, an uncharacteristically clean washer bottle (soaked overnight in biological washing powder), colour coded solid copper cored ignition leads and the nicely painted rocker cover with the tongue in cheek turbo sticker that I thought was hilarious, right up until I took it for an MOT.

 

The yellow and green cables leading to the alarm next to the master cylinders were due to a friend of mine suggesting that using the same colour wire for all connections would make it harder for car thieves to disable the alarm. He recommended earth wire.

 

Thank you B and Q.

 

I did tidy the wiring up later and even screwed the box to the bulkhead.

 

The cable running between the horns and the coil is an internal boot release cable from a scrapped  Austin Allegro.  I fitted it to the Mini release mechanism but left the external release lever for a few weeks before I was confident enough to saw off the external lever.

 

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This shot showcases the versatility of David's Isopon P38 as I am using it here to cover up badly pitted metal on both flat and curved surfaces.  The slightly non standard looking headlamp surrounds are actually Cibies.  They were originally chromed but I painted them black.  I was told by the chap who bought my car that it was probably built in Belgium because of the headlamps.  According to the V5 it was permanently exported in 1980.  I had often wondered if it had been imported from Jersey and re-registered.  This was a common practice back then as fairly new cars could be passed off as brand new by cost-conscious owners, but the Belgian origin sounds more plausible.

 

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Moving on to the scuttle panel now, you can see the LHD wiper holes have been reinforced from behind with David's Isopon P40 (other "Fast Repair" pastes are available), and aluminium gauze.  The 2 plastic, single jet windscreen washer nozzles have been replaced with the finest metal, twin jet nozzles Halfords could shoehorn into a bubble pack and hang off a hook.

 

And finally, not the best view but that steering wheel was liberated from a Dolly Sprint for only a fiver from my favourite scrapyard.  It was leather but had no cancellation pegs for the indicators which I considered a small price to pay for such a stylish upgrade.



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Posted 05 October 2015 - 09:20 AM

My first car, (and Mini), a 1979 1275GT taken in 1984

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My mates 850 at Stanford Hall in 1986

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And after its repaint at Stanford Hall in 1987

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My brand new Flame two weeks after I bought it in 1990

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My 1991 Cooper 1.3i taken in 1992 at Longbridge

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Not Minis but, here's my 1984 MG Metro taken in 1987

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My 1987 MG Metro taken after I went to see the 1988 Lombard Rally

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Got loads more pics of other Minis I used to have including a Mk1 850, a Mk1 997 Cooper and a Mk2 998 Cooper. I'll dig them out and scan them sometime.

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Posted 06 October 2015 - 10:33 AM

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Sorry to go off topic briefly but what arches are these? Are they standard size plastic that you have painted met black your self? Looking for some just like this for mine but can't find any.
Thanks.

#11 Anthony30

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Posted 06 October 2015 - 11:41 AM

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Sorry to go off topic briefly but what arches are these? Are they standard size plastic that you have painted met black your self? Looking for some just like this for mine but can't find any.Thanks.

No problem. Standard 'special' arches painted as standard.

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Posted 06 October 2015 - 01:00 PM

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Posted 06 October 2015 - 03:47 PM

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Sorry to go off topic briefly but what arches are these? Are they standard size plastic that you have painted met black your self? Looking for some just like this for mine but can't find any.Thanks.
No problem. Standard 'special' arches painted as standard.
Awesome thanks. Just to clarify, they're the standard plastic arches that you have painted??
Thanks 👍

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Posted 06 October 2015 - 04:53 PM

"Huey" my old 1977 1000. It used to belong to a guy who worked in an exhaust centre. The back box started blowing and he didn't have a Mini system in stock, so he went to the stores to see what he could find. He found a front pipe and centre silencer from an 80s flat-four Subaru and used that. Huey had twin upswept rear pipes about 10 inches apart. It probably did nothing for performance (the rest of the car was standard) but sounded lovely and meaty. Huey was upgraded over the 2 years I had him with early GT seats, and S discs along with change of wheels from standard steels to Rostyles (with trim-rings!) to reverse rims. Then tinworm happened... Note the badly-matched rattle-can painted front wings and the large strip of underseal along the bottom which was a poor attempt to disguise rust/holes. Poor Huey was sent to the scrappy in 1996 by the guy I sold him to.  :o

 

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"Bruce" my 1979 1275GT with 1330 engine & 286 cam. He was always "bad tempered". I still wish I'd never sold him - but he hasn't been on the road since.

 

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And "Mel" my 1985 Mayfair with 1302 engine, MED head, S discs, twin 1 1/4" SUs, reverse rims, too much chrome, MPi seats and chromaflair paint on the roof. Still on the road and fairly local, but not owned by me. I sold her from Ipswich, she went to Scotland, then to Oxfordshire and was bought by someone in Clacton, where I used to live. Small world.

 

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#15 Anthony30

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Posted 06 October 2015 - 05:23 PM

 

2011.
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Sorry to go off topic briefly but what arches are these? Are they standard size plastic that you have painted met black your self? Looking for some just like this for mine but can't find any.
Thanks.

 

Standard mini thirty wheels arches. It comes from the factory with painted arches on this particular model. :shades:






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