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[her_elf]

Hello!

I am in the process of stripping one of our 3 Riley Elf's - this one's a 1968 Mark 3. I know the colour - has to be purple of course - but cannot decide on wheels or other features. I don't want minilites or superlites, everyone has those and they get a little overdone and repetative... my partner says they have to be 12" or bigger to fit the brakes...

I have eyelids for her, pair of recaro seats (from fiat super strada).

We also have a 1967 Riley Elf which will become a Frankenvan for my partner and a 1964 Riley Elf shell. There's also a 1962 Mini Deluxe with twin cam BMW head to do up. We've decided to start on my car first, she needs lots of work - stripping etc....

I'd be keen to see/hear any ideas that might help with the restoration - photoshop pics would be nice too

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[Aaron_Gardner]

totally go all out on it, chav it up body kit the lot :]] i really want to do that one day :]]

[jbeenz]

10x5.5's

[Down&Out]

10x5.5's

i want them!

[minipete]

There was a picture of one while ago in one of the mini mags,it was in Japan an was done touring car style.Miglia arches,de-bumpered fat 10" wheels and it really looked the part.

[tedmcedd]

yeah i remember that one, it looked really really nice!

go really subtle! get all the chrome done black, thats whta i would do, that would look good with the purple, make sureiits a nice deep shade of purple too. wide arches with wide wheels... i would go for 10's but if you have to have 1's for the brakes, go for 12's, not 13's... dont put a bodykit on it, that would look stupid...

get lots of switches and lots of guages! get some of those F1 stle mirrors on it too!

[her_elf]

yeah, looking at a deep purple, House of Kolor passion purple, and sports pak arches - other half is thinking black grille and whiskers, with surrounds in chrome

[her_elf]

10x5.5's

i want them!

you can pick those up in the north island of NZ - apparently they are everywhere, but I need them in 12s preferably... other than that they are nice - cheviot hotwires....

[jbeenz]

you can pick those up in the north island of NZ - apparently they are everywhere, but I need them in 12s preferably... other than that they are nice - cheviot hotwires....

IM IN WHANGAREI!!

Never seen 12's, but i did have some 13's - which i stupidly sold!

[sweetser]

tubb the rear arches and slam it over some wide 10's

[her_elf]

you can pick those up in the north island of NZ - apparently they are everywhere, but I need them in 12s preferably... other than that they are nice - cheviot hotwires....

IM IN WHANGAREI!!

Never seen 12's, but i did have some 13's - which i stupidly sold!

we have a source in the SI that has lots of chrome spare parts for Elf and a few for Hornets )

[sweetser]

do this

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[Down&Out]

tubb the rear arches and slam it over some wide 10's

and take the sump off on a speed bump...

[sweetser]

tubb the rear arches and slam it over some wide 10's

and take the sump off on a speed bump...

ahh well you dont worry about that untill it happens lmao

[Down&Out]

lol. my dad did that one one of his minis, he got it low enough so that when we went over a speed bump the wheels span but he went nowhere