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[MaxAndPaddy]

What colour is your top rail it looks grey?

[MaxAndPaddy]

Call me an ole fart, but I'd want this in her

http://www.ebay.co.u...=item3f132da2f4

[bcjames]

It's black, the photo below was my poor attempt at cream I gave the interior a good clean yesterday and I do actually quite like it. The dash rails are a nice deep glossy black and they do look smart contrasting the walnut.

I did see that top cover on ebay. I'm guessing it would go for more than I can afford, purely on the JCG connection! Black stitching on black does look good though, very subtle. I'll keep an eye on it, although I could get an aftermarket one probably for massively cheaper!

MOT in a few weeks!

[MaxAndPaddy]

The last one he put up went for around £100....Paddy has the red, they do look good. Down side to the cream is it shows the muck more, Max's takes a fair bit of effort or the muck gets in the leather grain

Good luck on the MoT!!....which reminds me Max and Paddy's must be due soon eeeks!!

[bcjames]

£100 isn't so bad! Somerford and South Lakes have the coloured top rails for around £180 a piece. You're right about the cream leather, its a pain! I can see why Rover moved the coloured parts of the wheel to the top and the bottom rather than where your hands go on the later MPis.

I've got a friendly MOT inspector, just need to check my brakes and all should be well. Damn emissions

[bcjames]

I had the best intentions of sorting out my squeaky brake and my steering clunk today. I wiggled the wheels, it's ball joint play

Anyway, that was as far as that went. Hopefully it's off to the garage to have that all sorted and generally checked pre-MOT. I feel bad not doing it all my self, but I don't really have the time to spend out in the garage. At least this way it should get done quickly, concisely, and anything else I may overlook identified.

So the spanners went back away, and...

I screwed this on!



Gear knob by bcjamesmini, on Flickr

And glued this on!



Intake finisher by bcjamesmini, on Flickr

And I think that will do for today

[MaxAndPaddy]

Not yet kemo sabe!...that JCG top rail finnishes tonight

[bcjames]

I know, I checked this morning for the hundredth time. Debit card at the ready! Seems to be a few people interested in it.

I keep thinking the £100 or so it's likely to go for could be better spent elsewhere!

And I think I want an alloy gear knob again. The old one went with the handle set when I sold that, but the leather ones just seem to wear so much on the stitching. That'll be silly money for another Cooper one then

Edited by bcjames, 26 February 2012 - 12:19 PM.

[bcjames]

Shiny car bum



Bum by bcjamesmini, on Flickr


Steve, didn't win the top rail. Only just went over my max but who knows what the other persons max was. Probably for the best

[MaxAndPaddy]

Well my ebay ban went down the swanny!...His cheaper stuff seemed to make good money tonight and his more expensive stuff went for low prices. I thought the top rail was a good price Ya Muppet!

He offered me the full door set for £400...bought all 3 sets tonight for £250

But thats it now...no more

For a while

[bcjames]

£100 was my limit! I have an engine to rebuild ahead of cosmetics

Steve, you're mad. You'll have a shops worth soon!

[MaxAndPaddy]

I'm just trying to grab it while I can....good investment

Bid on the clocks too what that chaps very good for is second offers, wouldnt surprise me if he comes back with one for you on the top rail

<<< Hoping he does on the clocks they went cheap!!

[bcjames]

Well no email from him about a 2nd chance, but you never know! The parts are certainly a good investment though. It's been ten years and they are rare and get a good price, imagine 20 years, 30....

[bcjames]

Ordered quite a few bits this week but none have arrived before the weekend

I can feel the MOT looming!

[bcjames]

My fixing is not going well!

I picked up a replacement headlight adjustment motor from Dale in the hope I could get the offside working. Fitted that and it still doesn't work. It's a pretty simple circuit, all that I'm missing is a 12v at the motor from the fusebox. It's getting to the nearside, just not the offside. That means somewhere after that wire splits away from the other motor and switch, there is a break or something. It's all wrapped up in the loom so I'm not sure theres much I can do about it.