I thought I would make myself a topic to share with you my tears of joy and sadness along the way. I've always wanted a mini, nothing else would cut the mustard for me, if not a mini it would have to be a ferrari f40, that is next on the list but I can't quite remember why I didn't get one come to think of it. Anyway I did my test in april and the weekend after I was doing coast to coast on my bike (raised £6000 
) and on the second day my Dad and auntie came over to tell me that when i get back I would soon be picking up my mini. I was so worn out from riding I didn't know what to say. I had been stalking it on ebay ever since the auction started.
Well here follows a pick of the second day I got it, none of the first, will explain after the pic....
On the first day of getting it, about 5 miles after many smiles it ground to a halt, muck had been dragged through the tank and filled the carb with crud so it was a no go the rest of that day. It had been rebuilt by a fella up the road from me and it had not been on the road at all since he built it so it was to be expected. I took it as a taster as to what was to come in mine and nicholas's relationship 
I think my face on the next pic says a lot. It was on the first real drive out....
Anyway the first shopping kart contained a new steering wheel, I'm not going for originality with this mini, I just said this mini, it shows my intentions for the future already and want to modify it to my own taste. I went over to P and L minis and picked up a mountney steering wheel and boss, also a nice towbar for karting my bikes around 
and a few other bits and pieces I can't remember. I don't have any pics of them at the time but this pic shows the wheel and radio I fitted when I went to visit my sister on her birthday ...
Radio with ipod iput was given to me for free by a kind chap, after putting a few 6x9s under the rear seat it brought something extra to the car 
Not too shabby for a grand total of £45 for a complete sound system.
Many fun times pursued after this with not a great deal going on mechanical wise and thennn... it let me down.
As it turned out it was just that the earth on the battery had come off At least I got an afternoon off college for it.
Then came the minis first big trip, well 200 mile round trip to north wales for the tartydays trial bike weekend. Took three of us plus our bikes plus our camping gear, I thought he did well!!
Next up a painted my street trials bike after I got it welded. Can you guess where I got the inspiration for colour from?? 
I did a bit of work for an older lady on her mini after hers got broken into. I told nicholas she was too young for him 
Not got much else to share as I didn't plan on creating a topic like this, I will make sure more pictures are made. After many tedious hours trying to get a good seal between the original manifold and downpipe I bit the bullet and bought a stage 1 kit. No pictures of this as there isn't a whole load to show for it. Made a fair bit of difference but I really need to get the carb fettled with and timing sorted out to cater for it still. Juts one of those things on the back burner. Had issues with the wheel bearing too so stripped it down and rebuilt the front corners with new pads, discs and painted the calipers go faster red ;P
Lastly a cool recent edited shot...
Immediate future plans are to cut the front bodywork to accomodate for bigger wheels, take off the wood and picket arches and fit group 6s and get some form of superlite 13x7s on there B)
Future plans are to fit myself a nicer interior, hopefully when my birthday comes around. I have had my heart set on these http://www.minispare...21&prod_id=2394
Then after that it will likely be that I give the suspension components and rear drums a good going over.
I promise to keep updating with plenty of pics, au revoir for now!!
Edited by Duncy H, 11 June 2013 - 09:57 AM.
