32 replies to this topic

[Jackman]

Thats very nice. I like the colours.

[centralminiTC]

ah!! Teapot.

It used to be a white black cooper S with black bonnet stripes. Used to get very hot in there so I installed a full length sunroof. Later on when the rust started to come through as it inevitably does I decided on a new look as i needed new panels anyway. Hence the funky pearl job, the mk 1 front and custom boot lid. Doing the roof was too hassly with the sunroof and more expensive so I left it!! Apart from that - the big black sunroof would look a bit mad on a white/pink roof.

You only get hints of the pink in certain types of weather so most of the time it looks white.

I do plan to re-do the alloys in black to try and even it up a tad!! Inside is pink and black as I cant afford to recover the seats to match up - me pension doesnt stretch that far!! :grin:

So there :tongue:

[Teapot]

OK, back to me zimmer frame and shut up :fear:

[centralminiTC]

I'll let you borrow me fluffy zip up boots in this chilly weather!!
(I've got a spare pair in fetching tartan!!)

[lewis]

pink pink pink!! i may be a lad but pink on a mini is cool, did you do the interior yourself?

[centralminiTC]

Yeah - interior all hand done!! Custom Consoles of course for the console - but I supplied the vinyl.

sheets of vinyl, bits of wood and some glue!! Had a great time reliving my childhood watching blue peter :grin:

[tipcat]

Glue? Whenever I watched Blue Peter they used sticky back plastic! unless the glue was used before they started the show, to make the show more interesting!

[Guess-Works.com]

It even looks pink in the dark..

B)

[centralminiTC]

unless the glue was used before they started the show, to make the show more interesting!

LOL Valerie Singleton high as a kite!!!!
.....didnt they use blobs of glue to stick the felt on the toilet rolls...?!?!?!
the more mature ripe people among us should remember - along with a 'cracked' teapot :cheese:

It even looks pink in the dark..

ah -JG - it was covered in muck as well :grin:

[Teapot]

No, all I can remember is elephant poo. :sick:

Don't encourage us old folk to reminisce ... we go off at huge tangents and never come back.

And don't say just as well. Oh, you did. :whitething:

[centralminiTC]

you nutter!!!

[marksmini]

i see you have a tape deck in the dash, do you have a CD player in there at all??

just wondering as you wont be able to play you brands hatch run music cd we will have (unless i put it on tape just for you lol

[centralminiTC]

oh Mark you are so thoughtful!!! :grin:

I do have a CD multichanger roaming around under the seat - its wired up but not bolted in yet and has free run of the mini, along with some empty crisp packets, water bottles, sweetie wrappers.....etc....!!!

Its not a high tech thing - but better than the old gramaphone!! and you can just about hear it over the exhaust!! :erm:

[tipcat]

but better than the old gramaphone!!

I get this mental picture of someone in the back seat winding the gramophone while you drive..... but wouldn't the old 78's skip?

[Teapot]

Nah, you just tape a half brick to the end of the player arm, keep it well bedded into the vinyl :nugget: