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[M700FGT]

So this is just more out of interest (and fun) than anything.

 

So to get us started.......

 

My last owner:

 

1. Used 30 meters of speaker cabling to get from the front to back. It was rolled up in two bunches.

 

2. Cut a MPI Cooper accelerator pedal in half, to fit a terrible fitting aftermarket pedal cover.  

 

3. Painted the engine block red..... then painted EVERYTHING in the engine bay blue (including the block). None of this paint was high temp, so it was a bubbly mess everywhere.

 

4. Used a permanent pen to start drawing a Union Jack on the underside of the bonnet. 

 

5. Painted one front caliper blue and the other red. 

 

6. Drove the car on the big square spares, without noticing two studs missing! 

 

7. Suggested i wear slippers while driving to protect the car........ 

[steeley]

Left it in a damp garage for eight years, until the boot floor and front floors, sills and whole front end rusted beyond repair

[jonlad]

Removed a perfectly good engine and chopped the front off in the quest for Vauxhall power. 

[Gilles1000]

On my previous Mini.

He was a fan of gasket paste. Put loads of it on the carb to replace the paper gaskets.

Further to that, I think the front right hand tyre was not leakproof, he sealed it with some paste again. Very safe...

 

When I bought the car it was not running, I found out after no success by replacing the fuel pump, that the fuel hose was twisted just after the tank, so that the mechanical fuel pump could not suck fuel...

 

On my curent project, the only big problem beeing a former front crash, the floor touched the ground and got damaged. They pulled the car back on the road on the rear subframe, which also bent.

And rust everywhere, but this is normal.

[Gcal]

They repainted the whole car a different colour leaving lights,window glass in place.ended up painting the wheel arch rubbers body colour and the back carpets were soaked with water as the front and side windows leaked,the engine was two tone black and red bubbley paint

[GT Jimmy]

The crazy fool crashed it

[carlosgt]

Gasket paste everywhere    and using a black pen to "hide" paint scratches on a grey car

[DB1380]

Mine was built by the previous owner about 18yrs ago as a trackday car....

 

When it was finished, he then spent the next how many? years taking it to the Nurburgring once a year for 3 or 4 days at a time doing laps...Nice.lol

 

Ive had it 15 months now and over that time turned it back into a fun weekend road car.

 

Dicky. 

[Chris1275gt]

He'd been driving it around with no clevis pin between the brake master cylinder and pedal, changed the rear cylinders and the pin that locates in the backplate was in a different place so he drilled a 12mm hole that the cylinders were able to twist and dislodge 2 of the rear shoes. The new front shock absorber top brackets had unc nuts rammed on the unf threads. The petrol pump had 1 nut holding it on with fish tank tubing connecting to the carb covered in scorch marks. Apart from about 100 other little bodges it was fine!

[MikeRotherham]

Compared to others my car was perfect only small things which just made you think why would they do that?

 

Battery wedged in with two pieces of timber. One was a very nice piece of mahogany. It had just passed an MOT. I thought the battery had to be secure as part of the MOT.  Is wood an acceptable fastening medium? I wonder what happened to the factory fitted restraint?

 

There was a length of domestic green and yellow earth cable bridging two cables on the loom as it emerged from the bottom of the steering cowl. I removed it and looked around to see what was affected. The indicators had stopped working. I got them working again by reseating the appropriate relay.

 

One of the window supports for the glass in the drivers door was missing. There were screws missing on the drivers side door pocket and the screw covers missing from both window winders. Found one when removing the top dash rail at a later date.

 

But the piece de resistance was: The gear lever nascelle (automatic car) was fastened to the tunnel with two white plastic right angle joints, the type you would join two pieces of chipboard to make a corner joint, and four no 6 3/4" posidrive wood screws.

Edited by MikeRotherham, 11 September 2020 - 11:42 AM.

[Bobbins]

The previous owner repaired the inner sills with some sections of 6mm thick steel plate ......

 

 

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[RustyAutoCityE]

The previous owner repaired the inner sills with some sections of 6mm thick steel plate ......

Think of the weight saving when it is fixed properly! Chuck the offcuts on a set of scales and let us know.

Edited by RustyAutoCityE, 11 September 2020 - 12:07 PM.

[sonscar]

The previous owner let me repair it for sixteen years,then gave me it when he had completely worn it out.He is my son.Steve..

[nicklouse]

crashed it.

[beardylondon]

Previous owner thought it would be better to replace this rubber heater pipe with domestic copper heating pipe soldered together. Admittedly it didn’t leak, but looked awful.

Edited by beardylondon, 11 September 2020 - 04:48 PM.