26 replies to this topic

[OfMini&Men]

£666 for panels they old boy sent me up the page. (few panels removed as I have them)

[Noah]

If your doing all the welding yourself then in theory it only costs you gas and time.

Any Shell can be saved, the reason most have said re-shell is because honestly its not a good financial move.

[kappa]

What year is the shell mate?

[OfMini&Men]

The shell is 1 1979

[myredmini]

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[sonikk4]

Anything Heritage get from Minispeed, 12.5% discount. And the shell is not beyond saving. Unless you get a totally rust free shell you will no doubt have to spend something to bring it up to spec.

[jakejakejake1]

Better the devil you know
At least you know what exactly needs doing to this shell, and once its been stripped down and its just a case of take one area at a time and working your way through the lot, and if the front end is alright then I say go for it.
As with any second hand purchase there is a reason for someone to sell it, and to be fair its not normally a 'Well I welded the shell up and its perfect, but now I'm going to sell it' it's normally 'there is too much work to be done, and I don't have the time/ skills/ money'

[OfMini&Men]

Hey guys if you fancy the challenge of bringing a 79 back to life then you can, end of the month when I can pay for TMF+ so i can put it up for sale its going :'(

I'm not in a good or strong financial position to keep the mini, theres alot of parts that come with it, lots of spares I have amassed a fair few parts since owning it. If you fancy it drop me a PM

THIS IS NOT A FORSALE ADD :) just stating it shall be at the end of the month

[Mini-Mad-Craig]

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Neither I'll just assume its really rusty.

Scrap it!

[hawky443]

mate i had this problem, if your gonna spend that much on panels i'd go for a new shell... sometimes you just gonna cut your losses! i had to.

[OfMini&Men]

Well I priced everything up Mix of M machine, Pattern Panels and sheet metal comes out at £400 in panels, Turns out the guy Ive lived next door to for the last 2 years is a welder and use to race minis back in the 80's :/ so welder is now sorted!

Just gotta write up a plan of attack for getting it done!

Thanks for all the help guys! I shall keep you all uptodate on whats happening and properly ask some stupid body work questions as I'm a Engineer.

Thanks

[Wigeon Incognito]

It's nice to hear you're saving it and not selling, it'd be good to see it in a project thread with a few pictures. I'm intrigued how rusty the shell is!