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#136 Northernpower

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Posted 14 September 2017 - 09:48 PM

As always Frank, looking great.

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Posted 14 September 2017 - 09:50 PM

Seems photos have got missed out/doubled up kind of struggling to fix them so here they are,

 

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Rear no plate mounting and exhaust,

 

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under wing fan,



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Posted 14 September 2017 - 09:52 PM

As always Frank, looking great.

Thanks for that ,



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Posted 17 September 2017 - 06:53 AM

Like the above comment i no soon as look on here there will be some awesome work :) Not long now to drive time at this rate.


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Posted 17 September 2017 - 08:07 AM

That roof vinyl looks incredible 



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Posted 17 September 2017 - 11:38 AM

Looking really really good!

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Posted 17 September 2017 - 11:54 AM

Fantastic work, this really is a beautiful Mini and it's good to see it's history and originality, is this one your going to keep?



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Posted 17 September 2017 - 08:02 PM

Thanks for the comments guys! I am pleased how the roof turned out and the fact

that I managed to find a trimmer in Halifax (where the car was Coachbuilt ) to do it

is in keeping with the fact its never been out of Yorkshire.

That however will hopefully change next year as the plan is to keep it and take it to as many

shows as  possible, was at a Classic Car Show at Trafford Park in Manchester! on Saturday and

made a provisional booking for next year.



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Posted 24 September 2017 - 07:16 PM

As said before thanks for the comments ect! don't know about anybody else

but I think its great to see a few of the long running projects on here being

updated and a few new ones as-well, this seems to be popular forum and

well worth the fiver for TMF+ and the fact you get some discount here and

there, I certainly like a bit of discount being retired ex Motor trade.

 

So enough of all that,  back to the job in hand, 

 

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got some more bits cleaned up and fitted, stripped and cleaned carburettor just

as well when I took the top of float bowl it was half full of brown dust from dried

out fuel,

 

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Sunroof frame cleaned up sealed round and fitted! inner parts need to come back

off to fit head cloth, (when its made??) 

 

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Whats left of old head liner, being cloth its rotted away, as was usual with this

type of material in old cars! have scoured the same type of material to remake

it, I don't think more modern vinyl would be in keeping with the original look I

am trying to preserve,

 

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After seeing a set of these wheel embellishers on eBay over a year ago and not

bidding on them, and looking for a set when I found out that the car did have them

fitted for the last 6 months in the same  place! , a chance mention to Rich at Mini Spares

North he new exactly where to get some, and it turns out they are NOS from the original 

Manufactures, as they say its not what you know it whom you know, Thank Rich.

 

Thanks for looking more to follow.



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Posted 16 October 2017 - 08:31 PM

As usual thanks for the comments and likes, makes it worthwhile and keeps

the motivation going! especially with the more mundane parts of a project!!

 

Its good to get back onto this, been away on holiday for a bit and got mucked

about a bit with the Monarch Airways collapse ! getting to hate Airports!

Then when I got back there was a brown envelope in the post, got to that age

when my Driving licence has to be renewed , remember when passing my test

at 17yrs and thinking renew at 70 HaHa.

 

Anyway on with the story, 

 

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this radio cassette player came with all the other parts of the car that the previous

owner had stripped out, agony is that we threw out all the cassettes we used to have,

 

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stuck it in place with the consul and the old bits of carpets that I had just to see

how it fitted before making any holes in new carpets ,

 

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this is whats left of the companion box carpet and inner liner have made a new

bit of carpet and reused the vinyl liner, by the time all the bits are made my sewing

skills will be stretched to the limit, when I was at school if you said you wanted to join the 

needle work  class ! 

 

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under bonnet work more or less complete! just need to add coolant and fuel ready for

the start up,

 

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and keeping with the Yorkshire them could only use this oil the factory is only down

the road from me ,

 

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spot lamps fitted still got a bit of wiring up to do with these and some other bits,

 

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grille cleaned all the black paint of quite a task had been over painted a few times,

masked up ready for repainting, for the moment decided not to fit the Wolsley  2200

grille, its in poor shape, and after asking a Snooty person from the owners club about

the availability !!!!!! ( he turned his nose up at me and walked away when I said it was

for a Coachbuilt Mini ) 

 

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picked up this rive nut tool at Huddersfield Auto Jumble a few weeks ago, got it

for a fiver with all the rivets complete , works well, I used to have the big lazy tongs

one but sold it with all my tools when I retired .

 

Thanks for looking .



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Posted 17 October 2017 - 07:24 PM

I'd not noticed until now, but you would've thought that they'd have mounted the servo as per the GT with what (then) would've been readily available brackets etc to suit the clubman wings. Interesting they chose to reverse it.

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Posted 17 October 2017 - 08:08 PM

Staggering. Love this mini. Congratulations on the rapid and immaculate restoration.

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Posted 17 October 2017 - 08:09 PM

I'd not noticed until now, but you would've thought that they'd have mounted the servo as per the GT with what (then) would've been readily available brackets etc to suit the clubman wings. Interesting they chose to reverse it.

I wondered about that the first time I looked at the car, it does seem strange when as

you say the brackets were available, it appears they utilised the short pipe at the nose

of the servo as a steady. I had a GT back in the mid 70s, sold  it then had to re-shell it

when its new owner wrecked it , back then a shell less  doors , bonnet and boot lid was

£475 +VAT as I remember!



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Posted 17 October 2017 - 08:12 PM

Hmm - I think I'd would've rather had the proper nose bracket as a steady rather then a brake pipe that could work harden and fracture!

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Posted 17 October 2017 - 08:18 PM

Did you use 2k paint on this?

Edited by 73MkIII, 17 October 2017 - 08:18 PM.





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