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[stuenutter]

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Just bought this 82 mini city e off a good friend of mine and hopefully remove it from his garage to mine over Christmas.

 

Little bit of history about how I came by it.

My Friend bought it back in 2009 and was and does still appear to be in good shape.(but we will see when I get it out)

Basically he has too many projects on the go and so never actually done anything to it other than moving it from lockup to lockup.

I did try and buy it shortly after he bought it but he kept telling me he paid to much but now its value is what he did pay and to cut a long story short managed to strike a deal.

 

Not sure what my plans for it are yet. part of me says original and another put modify.

Anyway will add some more photos and an update hopefully in the next couple of weeks

 

[stuenutter]

Didn't manage to get the mini out of storage over Xmas but yesterday had a day off so its now out.

 

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[stuenutter]

As you can see it does require a fair amount of work but have seen much worse

 

Also picked up a 1275 but the head seems to have dropped the valve seat out which is a new one to me. but it was cheap so no complaints really

 

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From what I can make out from the engine tag its an a + block and pistons but the head does have a bypass hose so not sure if the heads older as I no it was out of a 1275gt

[stuenutter]

On the shell welding wise as far as I can see is as follows

 

Boot floor repair panel (to replace previous bodge)

Boot closing panel lip

rear valance and closing panels

l/h rear  arch panel

l/h outer sill and repair inner (possibly replace)

r/h outer sill and repair inner (not as bad as l/h)

both a panels

repair front floors (small amount of rust around bung holes)

r/h wing

r/h outer door skin

 

I'm sure i'll find more on the way as it is a mini.

will get some more photos when I have striped out the interior for a better look

[Van13]

To be honest that looks like a nice starting point good luck

[jamesquintin]

Ahhhhh man, exactly the same as my second mini, and the one I had most of my life experience's in 😀 Would loved to have kept mine but it went to the big carpark in the Sky.

What I always wanted to do with it was to have it look completely factory standard, but supercharge the 998... Would be fun off the lights!

[jamesquintin]

I also used to get 60MPG out of mine doing 55mph on the motorway...

[stuenutter]

I also used to get 60MPG out of mine doing 55mph on the motorway...

Blimey that's good.

Will be using the engine that's in it to start with which I believe is the original

[Rocket.]

Nice project !

 

I have a city "E" that's basically the same as this all standard it's so much fun to drive  

 

Good luck

[blueovalcraig]

Looks a nice wee project.  My family had a 1984 City in the same colour when I was just a lad

[stuenutter]

Thought it is about time I posted some of my progress on the mini.

Been putting it off after leaving it and now I need to do loads but anyway here we go

 

First off couldn't resist letting her meet her big daily brother

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Before being put away and letting the work commence

 

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Next was to check the rust situation

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Yuck

 

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[stuenutter]

So the next problem I have is my lockup garage has no electric so after some contemplation of mig and a genny which would also be expensive and noisey decided some old school oxy acetylene welding would be the way to go.

 

Time to start cutting

 

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To make things worse it had a bad bit of bodged welding all over the back of the boot (even covering the hinge bolts) Luckily I could get a spanner in underneath where it was so rotten20170128_122247 by Stuart gaylor, on Flickr

 

 

 

 

 

[stuenutter]

After lots more cutting and fettling we eventually ended with it starting to look like a mini again

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And the realisation when you discover your gas welding skills are a bit rusty

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But all fitted nicely in the end

 

 

 

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Lined up the boot floor repair section

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Lots of gaps to fill

 

 after lining it up temporary I removed the repair section and welded the rear valance and fillers at work with the mig (no pictures though i'm afraid)

  but this is what it looks like hanging back on the min

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