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[mab01uk]

REAR BOOT FLOOR/SEAT PANEL ASSEMBLY - AFB360040
"This factory repair panel from Minispares is almost half a Mini! Just about every piece to rebuild the back half of a Mini is included in this very major repair panel. It includes the rear seat bulkhead, the entire boot floor with battery box and wheel arches with rear valance fitted. It all comes welded together as an assembly."
£718.63 incl. VAT

https://www.minispar...-panel-assembly

 

Edited by mab01uk, 02 July 2025 - 08:18 AM.

[sonikk4]

Yup, thats a big chunk of tin. Not for your average Diyer, thats for sure.

[DeadSquare]

Presumably, that is the largest sub-assembly that they can make, that you can drive home with, inside a Mini.

[stuart bowes]

Just did a quick tot-up of costs, individually that's a total around £1000 (heritage parts) so that's a bit of a bargain (saving enough that bascially it's a free boot floor?)

 

the only thing is it being all welded together for you, in some cases that would be really useful but sometimes you need to jiggle things around a bit to get it to fit so this makes it a bit more awkward.  maybe if you're replacing rear quarters and some of the back panel anyway then it makes things bit easier and quicker (put this massive chunk in place with the aligment right then clamp everything else up to it)

 

would 100% consider it if I did another one later on

Edited by stuart bowes, Yesterday, 01:23 PM.

[Ethel]

Yup, thats a big chunk of tin. Not for your average Diyer, thats for sure.

 

Maybees, but at least half are some of the easiest welds you'll do on a Mini. You aren't going to get much of a tan, if you don't have to try and climb inside the boot though.

[DeadSquare]

Can't you see ?  This is one of Baldrick's "Cunning Plans".

 

The next module will be the Front Bulkhead, Floor and Windscreen Surround.  Then, the Side Panels, Cant Rails and Pillars, with a Fibreglass Front, Roof and Boot as optional extras.

 

Sadly, like all Baldrick's plans, there is a flaw.  It is 55 years too late to avoid Purchase Tax, by building the car ourselves.

 

 

 

Apologies to those born after 1970, who don't know that Purchase Tax was the former vat.  The tax had strange loopholes.  A Mini Van was exempt because it had no rear side windows, and provided there were no instruction to help build it, there would be no Purchase Tax on a Greenhouse or Ikea furniture, so, Colin Chapman sold the Lotus 7 as a kit, with instructions for removing faulty parts.

 

Buyers found the Index at the end and worked forward to page one.