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[bamby]

eurgh. metallic. *is sick*.

hahah

well ive had some parcles deliverd today hehe i'll add pics once they have loaded on. Also the mini is home tomorrow Night at 730pm ish woo! the man says she looks good

[bamby]

ok she got delivered at 7:15pm today thanks George so heres the pictures you've all been waiting for ...


A look at the front:


Scuttle:





Side:





Other side:





Rear:



The patches on the boot floor...



and the wings:



I also got George to re skin the doors for me so after i supplied the skins(£40 at Bingly) they cost £120 to do:


then George had to get a drivers wing as the one i supplied was utter rubbish so that was £32
then two closing panels at £18 the pair

brings the total cost to £420 so really thats not bad at all then Jack's dad Mark's coming on saturday(my bday woo) to have a look and talk about some paint !

thanks
Bamby

[M44K TS]

Getting there!

Love the rat look bonnet too

[bamby]

Getting there!

Love the rat look bonnet too

haha yeah it does look good may be a feature to keep yeah your right shes getting there

[rimmer1993]

Saw u an thug today looking good

[bamby]

Saw u an thug today looking good

yeah twas good .. the colours now going Almond Green with a White Roof with no arches...

just waiting on quotes hehe

[rimmer1993]

Saw u an thug today looking good

yeah twas good .. the colours now going Almond Green with a White Roof with no arches...

just waiting on quotes hehe

Nice! Im pretty sure it will look damn good

Edited by rimmer1993, 16 February 2009 - 05:03 PM.

[bamby]

Right oh a bit of an update to keep this upto date,

Last week i decided to fit the car back up as much as i could prior to it going for spraying:

firstly a little bit of a space issue on the drive me thinks (naughty Bruce!)


then it was on with the fitting of the underlay.. £10 from Malverne ! topjob







Then it was on with Fitting the Rover Zero temperature warning led (bought off ebay! )





As yet ive not fully tested the system that will be done when the cars been sprayed as it requires a hole in the front grill to be operational..

So this week, I've had quotes in this week for as follows

Spraying the front and doors to match the rest of the car:
(For politeness ive changed the compaines names)
Company A - £450 +VAT
Company B - £500
Company C - £900
Company D - Yet to Quote (suposedly calling today after miday HA!)

Respraying the whole car:
Company C- £1100-1200
Company E - Quoting on Saturday
Company B- £1000
Company G- £1100

So thats where im upto at the moment, theres a meeting with me and my finances and then it maybe a vistit to the worlds favourite bank (Mum & Dad)

So whilst waiting for Company D yesturday (3rd day on the trot) i decided to tidy the mini and treat her to some Krust:










So all in all a good week so far, plans for the weekend include:

Undersealing the front wings and lower areas, and re doing the rear arches too.
When Company B came he told me the underside of the Min was in good condition and just needed a blowover of underseal to keep it in tiptop condition so
thats another thing that i'm not going to worry about for a while, also the insides of the sills are to be waxolyed after its been painted. these have been given a life
of 10years so that gives me to 2016 (replaced aug 2006) before they need redoing, yes i'll admit they are oversills and i am aware of the "issues" assosiated with them,
to be honnest at the time they were replaced it was the best i could afford and the car needed to be on the road, also there was fire damage that was repaired as well so I
can't really complain too much.

bamby

[rimmer1993]

Good look with ya bank meeting an looking better by the week

[bamby]

righto since the last update if secured the finances to get the mini sprayed so should be making the all important call this week to say when can i drop her off

theres only 9 weeks till the deadline eek!

so this weekend ive spent £23 on the min buying a jerry can and an oil catch tank thing (usually for draining oil)

i needed to remove the bootlid so i could strip it for painting, then i decided in my wizdom to remove the fuel tank , checked the gague before i removed the battery and it reads 1/2 a tank so thats 18 litres of fuel , luckily the jerrys 20l's !

so an hour later and the garage floor smells of fuel but the jerry ful ! yay! then it was time to remove the light cluster and remove the wiring from the boot ...

today i've removed the headlining and sound proofing to reveal the smoke damage from the fire (3years ago now) not as bad as i thought it would be..

all thats left is to take the two boxes out of the min and lift the carpet , await the arrival of the fixed tow ive ordered, removing the light board off the trailor then its off to the bodyshop courtesey of Bruce

ill post some pictures on tuseday night when i lift the carpet, thats going to be my placement therapy (start of 2nd placement in school!)

thanks

Nick

[rimmer1993]

Good luck witrh ya painting an im sure ull reach the deadline

[bamby]

Ok gang bit of an update for you...

ive got my order from mini sport , towing eyes teardrop mounts and bolts so i can fit the towing eyes ready to take thug to the spray shop
(the order was wrong what a supprise )

Just ordered my arches from Mini Spares bonus
and bought some arches of a mate too!

All thats left is to tidy up the car and send her on her way and am speaking to the guy thats doing the spraying on Wednesday at the mini meet

will add some pictures later of all the soundy bits ive got to wire up ready to go in when the minis back

pictures taken from Mini Spares website for illustrative purposes

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Edited by bamby, 30 March 2009 - 05:56 PM.

[Down&Out]

good choice on arches . i have some in the shed, i shall use them... someday!

[bamby]

Well more of an update

Spoke to Mr Cooper last night and the mini is going to be sprayed on saturday morning ! yay ! :tumbsup: can't wait .. although there is a fair bit still to do!

Whats left to do:
Remove the old rivets in the bodywork
Remove tank retaining strap
Seal petrol tank pipwork
remove *clutter* from inside of mini




Fit the teardrop mounts and towing eyes
fill a box with the arches and mirrors etc that are being sprayed
mask up all the electrics to protect them from the painting
remove bits for tarting up

thats all to be done tomorrow as she goes on saturday morning to be there for 1030am as im at work for 12noon ! (yes i got my job back at M&S yay !)

So after the last day of teaching placement today i found this waiting for me at home:







then i just had to check the look of them ...





and heres two pictures of the fire damage that i had back in 06



so ill update again soon with my completed list of jobs

[rimmer1993]

Its coming on now mate good luck with tomorrows jobs