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[furiousjim]

Hello everybody

Firstly i have to say this forum is going to be a saviour, im glad i found it . I'm James, i'm 15 and Mini's are in my blood Well kind of. My Dad's been Mini'ing for well over 25 years now and now the gene has been passed to me. While i've been alive, we've had 6 minis, so were doing ok

A sad looking blue Cooper (ill get date later) has been sitting in our front garden for a long long time, Dad bought in an auction a while back, but had no where to keep it under cover and it kinda died ....today me and dad decided it needed to live again. So we moved it into a now built garage, and its now our project, i took everything out this afternoon (seats, carpet ect.) only to find lots & lots of rust...but i guess thats normal, especially as its been in the rain for a while!

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Edited by furiousjim, 30 September 2006 - 06:57 PM.

[Feeble]

Looks cool! Welcome to the forum!

[Bungle]

nice project for someone of your age

[furiousjim]

Thanks for the replys guys

[Sieve]

Welcome to the forum, theres a projects topic on here, set yourself one up, and keep us up to date as you do stuff with piccies etc!

[jack_marshall]

Is that a MK1 or early Mk2?

Looks good matey, keep us informed!

[stickycreambun]

Hey sounds great, looks like the car could be a gem too. Good luck and have fun.

[furiousjim]

Hey guys, we finally got the mini in the garage I was just talking to dad and for those who wanted to know the specs:

'68 early Mk2
1000 CC (may change it to 1275)

Im making a mini project page for updates and that

cheers

[Lloydie Boy]

Nice project dude good luck with it will keep checking your project page for the updats and welcome to the forum.

[Tomm]

looks good!

Wish my dad was into minis instead of Astons and Jags

your very lucky hopefully you will have a motor like Jacks soon!

Tomm

[Retro_10s]

oooooh i love Mk2 minis. you're looks lovely!

A quick word in your ear. Being as it's a cooper ...That car'll be worth a HELL of a lot more with the 998 block in it rather than the 1275 you're thinking of exchanging! Particuarly as seeing as finding these early minis is getting rather hard to do now.

[furiousjim]

hey Retro

cheers for the quick word but i think that the Cooper was a 1000CC to start off with. But ill tell me Dad you gave us the heads up

cheers mate

[Retro_10s]

yep... i'm saying keep the 998 (1000cc)

[furiousjim]

oh right!

whoops, my bad! sorry!

cheers though