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[8vAlan]

Took delivery of my mini on monday and started goin about sortin him out! i hate mini electrics!!

more pictures to come...

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[8vAlan]

bit of a slow day today folks, sorted all the lights out (finally) and got the rear windows in. thats it!

[mlc_chloe]

ooo good luck with the project. If i had loads of money i would definitely buy another mini and do it all over again. Its so worth it in the end!

[8vAlan]

big change of plans!

im gonna strip him down fully and get a full professional respray. just gotta find the right colour!

any sugestions? - pics please. i was thinkin aboiut marroon, or deep red, or baby blue all with a cream roof??!

[GW]

there was real nice red on some of the later rovers, think it was nightfire, like a dark metallic red....i love it!

[8vAlan]

is anyone good at photoshop? can you put the four previous colours on this please???

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[Mini 360]

is anyone good at photoshop? can you put the four previous colours on this please???

Try posting in the Digital Mini section in General Chat.

[8vAlan]

right o, fanx muchly...

[GW]

it is nightfire red i'm thinking of...like this one....



they look great in the sunshine too....

Edited by Small Bore Racer, 28 June 2007 - 06:53 PM.

[8vAlan]

that does look the mutts nuts! im finding myself drawn to the baby blue and cream roof option...

[8vAlan]

right decided on the colour [colours in my siggy] should be goin in to be painted in a couple of weeks, as soon as iv sold my landrover engine..... grrr cant shift it :[

[Juju]

I'm liking the scab-red!
You gonna have a grey roof?

[8vAlan]

its gonna be roughly that red up to the waistline and a dull metalic silver beyond! and im gonna have an iron cross just im front of the rear wheel arch on both sides.

[8vAlan]

*UPDATE* (at last!)

engines oot!



o yeah and can one of the mods or admit put this topic in the 'non-mini engined projects' section please??

[8vAlan]

Right, iv pulled me finger out and drew up a wish list so i have something to er.. live by...

Allspeed small block subby & mounts
Pair of one piece billet driveshafts (c16se)
Bulkhead box (standard vaux gear select)
Reverse standard mpi 8v inlet manifold
C16se gearshift bracket
Slam panel replacement section
4 branch c16se zorst manifold
Full length vaux rad
11gal alloy race tank
Copper break/fuel lines
4 pot KAD calipers
Braided hose kit
Vented, grooved and drilled disks
EBC Green 4 pot break pads
FG (fibre glass) front end
FG smoothy bootlid
FG smooty/MK1 bonnet???
FG group 2 wide/race arches

thats a hell ova list for my wallet to cope with

if anyone has any of these for sale please pm me, cheers

Edited by ADministrator, 24 September 2007 - 03:07 PM.