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[Bungle]

very good can you do sarahs now ?

how much is the postage ?

[cowboy]

how much is the postage

about £500 for shipping each way to canada

then you have to get it to edmington which is a weeks drive or so

ill only be 8 hours away when i move over to canada, so Al i know where to come for a re spray,,

the cars looking great at the moment keep the pictures coming

your doing a grand job

[CharlieBrown]

Thats brilliant Al.

Its so ace youve done some of the spraying, I wish I could do stuff like that myself.


Thanks for showing us all what loads of effort can achive.

[Al*]

alright! I'm glad you are all as into this as i am! I will keep the pics coming for you all to drool over..... and cowboy when you move here I'd be glad to respray your car! :grin:

Now heres where I am with the car..... grille is on with the grille buttons, front bumper is on, front fogs and brackets are on, hood is set up with the pins and hooks, wiring loom is re-run through the car and about 65% figured out......

:gasp: but theres also bad news.... the ba$tards at the tyre shop messed up all 4 rims (gouged the paint off the edges.) and completely ruined one brand new tyre... (which they told me was a flawed tyre) i went to my mini parts supplier and he showed me exactly what they did (when installing the tyre it jammed on the edge of the rim slamming the armof the machine right into the alloys..... they screwed it up themselves....(it pisses me off more that they tried to cover it up with lying....i would have raher had them just fess up!) so now today i have to go down there and try to get these guys to pay fo rall the damage to my wheels..... I'm really not too happy about this If i can at least get them to pay the $125 for the messed up tyre i guess i'll be OK seeing as all tyre shops say they aren't responsible for damage to rims I guess I'll be respraying the rims on the tyres...... (oh well.... complaining never got anyone anywhere! just thought I'd update you all..)

Oh! and more good news!.... the hi-lo set that i bought of of Vasi arrived yesterday.... It'll be sweet! I'm putting frames together tommorow. :cheese:

Al

[Will]

stupid idiots

[Al*]

well heres some more pics fo ryou all too drool over! :wink:

Al

lets kick it off with the wiring loom in the engine bay..... about 75% done with it methinks... ........

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[Al*]

and here is the front end with grille,fogs,bonnet etc. on to give the general idea..... i'm done with the bonnet for now so it's going into the basement where it won't get in the way.

Al

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[Al*]

heres another bonnet to show ho wmuch of a raise it has.... planning on increasing it a bit more i think.

Al

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[Al*]

heres the bootlid with the num,berplate light on....

Al

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[Al*]

heres a wheel set in place.... i love the look of em' they suit the period and look quite racish in my opinion......

ps. the turn out of the whole tyre place problem is this; they payed for the new tyre but I'm stuck repairing my rims... (which turns out to be only 2 not all 4 ) still kinda gutted about it but I'll get over it!

Al

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[Al*]

and heres my hi-los...... (thanks alot Vasi.) I went and picked up some new knockles today so i can start in on those now.....

thats all for pics at the moment but i'll keep em' coming.

Al

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[clubman_dan]

that looks stunning mate, good job!

[Barnett]

Great work Al...you must be very proud, the mini looks the nuts my friend!! as we all say keep them pictures rolling in, and of course keep up the VERY good work.

Must be a great feeling getting RUSTY all tarted up like that...esp doing it yourself aswell, thats a talent in itself...and much easier on the back pocket... :cheese:

Love it...

[Boab]

would love to try and help you out but I'm in Canada so don't have much of a clue really..... i know in canadian currency by th etime i was done primer/paint the supplies cost me aroun 800-850 dollars canadian ..... to get this done at my shop would have been $3000+

Glad everyone likes the rims too! I'm getting my Falken 165/70/R10 's mounted onto them today!

Al

I think that would be around £368.22 and £1299.60 respectively

Canadian Dollars to 1 GBP


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I could be a couple of pennies out each way though

[Jackman]

Looks well good, keep us informed.