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[micromontenegro]

Hi folks! I'm Santiago, from Caracas. After much reading and wishing, I finally made it into the ranks of Mini owners.
My Mini is a basket case, so I will be asking all kinds of silly questions in order to get it right- or something.
It is a Venezuelan-made Minicord, fiberglass body, stage 1, and has all kinds of botched repair jobs done with Opel parts. I joke about it being the offspring of my two bigger motors, and you can surely tell why:

[Juju]

Hello Santiago!

Lovely looking mini. What's it like inside?

I bet there are some fabulous roads in Venezuela for mini-ing....

Nice choice of motors, by the way. Landies & minis have always been a happy family.

[mk1leg]

Hi..and welcome to TMF and the Venezuelan-made Minicord fiberglass body are the nicest F/G shell wich have the side seams................keep us posted with pics of the resto will make a change to see a F/G resto.............

[micromontenegro]

Thanks for the welcome! Will be posting inside pictures ASAP!

[Scallywag630]

Hi and welcome to TMF. Are those bodies still made?

[micromontenegro]

Nope, sadly they were an economic failure, and were made only from 1992 to 1995, with a couple of hiccups in between. As far as I know, only about 1,300 were completed. There's people in the hunt for the molds now, but I haven't heard about them in a while.

[minidream94]

Welcome to the forum mate, lovely looking mini you have

Theres one of these around the corner from my house, just been sat on the guys drive for ages

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[wesson124]

hi! great to see someone with a mini that is a little bit different!