56 replies to this topic

[Dr s]

You'd want to be starting with a mk1 or mk2 so I suspect it'll be as rough as a pickup..

[ToM 2012]

i actually have a mk1 shell but i dont want ti use that. i have a mk3 shell that i have just read up is easier to use. ile get the thread up. 

[ToM 2012]

http://www.theminifo...ted to pickup

[Dr s]

How will you sort out the door shuts or is it going to be internally hinged? The doors are different sizes?

[ToM 2012]

does the doors effect turning it into a pickup? cheers tom 

[ToM 2012]

it will be internal hinged on the shell i would be using but if it was external hinged how would that effect it? thanks tom 

[Dr s]

I guess it depends how close to the factory you want it to be. I don't see why it couldn't have the later doors but you'd have a load of fab work for the back of the cab. Internal hinges and clubby fronted pick up would look great. Just like a mini Vw caddy

[Dr s]

The difference it that the doors are smaller lower and different shaped on a mk1/2 pickup. So your rear side panel will be affected around the b pillar

[ToM 2012]

ahh right i fort all doors was the same size.. ile look into it more as i do want a pickup but the price of a project is steep but to have the real thing then a copy is the difference. 

[alex-95]

Heres the difference between the doors, mk3 shell with a mk1 door.

[Tupers]

You would have to modify the front of a pickup quarter if you wanted to fit them to the front a MK3 shell. Not a huge job considering the amount of work you'd be in for with the rest of it. 

[ToM 2012]

ahh yeh ino the doors are different i will be leaving the doors as a mk3 door i wouldnt change the doors.. i have seen pickups with the same doors as a mk3 mini tho. 

Edited by ToM 2012, 14 September 2014 - 07:57 PM.

[Tupers]

They were more than likely Clubman estates chopped into pickups. 

[ToM 2012]

thanks tuppers ile add up how much panels and etc it will come to and then go from there.. 

[Tupers]

According to my calculations it would cost £2,464.81 in panels!!!!!!