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[5MITHY]

Ok, i thought it was about time I posted up a little bit about the life and times of the checkmate, I wont be rebuilding it or anything like that but this thread is basically going to be about general ownership and personalisation of my little black beast!

The car is a little 998cc 1990 Mini Checkmate, restored last year, I bought it April this year.

its been painted in a dashing shade of black (black) and the roof is the whitest white youll ever see (white)

Anyways, enough of the jibber jabber, here he is:

this is basically how i bought him:



then I added some cibies:
lol

Then i added some Angel Eye headlights:


Then i added some more (bigger) cibies:


thats pretty much what he looks like now!

thats enough for now, dinner time at work is up!

feel free to ask questions / comment, will update as I go along.

Dan

[5MITHY]

so nobody likes me then

ahh well, will update anyway.

Tonight I took a look at my petrol gauge because it wasnt working
was hoping it would be something that wasnt technical because im a bit scared of luckily i found this:

connected the black wire and:
woohhoooo!

probably because of all the *rubbish* in the boot:
cant wait to get a boot board...

took out the back seats (in the dark fubling around) ready for taking to be re-upholstered,


and found some ruddy orange stuff, looks like its only surface though, whats the best way to get rid of it? i was thinking sandpaper, zinc primer and paint with hammerite... this sound ok?

[MiNi FiZ]

yeah dude, get some coarse sandpaper on it, sand it down as much as you can, then rust treat it, wait for it to react/dry then hammerite should be plenty good

and dude

awesome car!

[5MITHY]

thanks buddy, will do,

going have to do something about it, to the left theres a little pool of water so i wonder if its one of the window seals leaking a little,
maybe the rear one as every now after heavy rain therell be a bit of water under the 10'' in the boot...