Micrashed

Anyone else following this build project on You Tube? Ive found it both fun and very interesting so far.
 
Toyota Celica 2.0GT Turbo 4x4 grafted into a Mini....
 

 

Anybody else go round the scrappys as a teen and rob switches to fill their blanking plates with?

Good lord.
Boat-shite.
 
You sir, deserve an award of some description or other.

On a Boris Bike please

1.3L in diamond white would be my weapon of choice, if only so I could be like I was in 1989...

1.3L in diamond white would be my weapon of choice, if only so I could be like I was in 1989...

1.3L in diamond white would be my weapon of choice, if only so I could be like I was in 1989...

I once used an old spark plug as an "emergency" sump plug - lasted for years like that.

I once used an old spark plug as an "emergency" sump plug - lasted for years like that.

Well, there is that "its not a mini" any more, but Im just enjoying the engineering and fabrication going into this.

Once loaded we had time to have a chat, more tea and explore some of the other beauties he had....

 
Like this Transit (one for Fred)

 
 
There was rather a lot of other stuff too, which I cant really show as it wasnt a museum. Shame really as it was far better than any museum I have been to for a while. However here are some petrol pumps and an old AA patrol box...

 
So after a quick bog break it was time to hit the road again back to Bobs workshop...
 


 
Down some lovely country roads again...
But all to soon back to teh M6

 
Before too long, back home and time to unload...
 

 
Ellie Mae in the workshop with Nina

 
Spares car relegated to outside
 

 
Ellie Mae's KWOLITY repairs

 
Proper Temp Gauge

 
Teh Endz

Can you tell what it is yet?

 
So here we have not one but two Ten Fours, in a bit of a state - Ellie Mae is Bobs car, the other is a spares car.
Ellie-Mae has a good chassis and amazingly the engine turns over... The body work however is shot.
 

 



 
Anyway, after standing round, drinking tea and admiring the cars, we had to load them up onto the trailer and the flat bed. The spares car which has a knackered chassis but a good(!) body went on the flatbed first. With NO winch to help us we relied on brute force and a bit of gravity to help (sadly I have no photos of this actual bit as I was trying to stop a 10-4 with no brakes or steering running off down a hill. The only casualty was one of the 50 year old tyres which let go when it caught the side of the metal ramp.
 We hitched the trailer up and repeated the exercise again but this time with the car with engine, gearbox, all its body, and rammed full of spares. In order to help us down the hill with it ( no brakes) the seller rather kindly hitched it up to his own Ten-Four with a chain and used that as a brake...

Anyone else following this build project on You Tube? Ive found it both fun and very interesting so far.
 
Toyota Celica 2.0GT Turbo 4x4 grafted into a Mini....
 

 

My father had a Big Dick and he gave it me before he died.

Anyone else following this build project on You Tube? Ive found it both fun and very interesting so far.
 
Toyota Celica 2.0GT Turbo 4x4 grafted into a Mini....
 

 

Well, there is that "its not a mini" any more, but Im just enjoying the engineering and fabrication going into this.

Whos money was it? The twunts getting upset on RR or this guys?
 
Its his, he has (presumably) paid for it, he can do what the fuck he wants with it. Run it as a daily and look cool and attract attention more or less everywhere he goes. He can pant it in Nitromors and glue dildo's to the bumpers.
 
Its his. He can do what he wants and thats that. Thats a nice cool car to run as a daily, respect to the dude (though 7 large for that, he possibly wants his bumps feeling)

I must say Des looks somewhat shorter with fewer metal teeth  than I had imagined

White Metro makes me want to cry - i want to bring it home and love it.

Just setting off to Appleby in Westmorland... More laters chaps
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EDIT:

Since starting this thread of the collection and resto of Ellie-Mae for some reason many of the "dirty" links I used for the photos have gone bad - I use Facebook a lot for quick uploads off my phone.
 
So here are most if not all of the photos in more or less chronological order in this Flickr Album:
 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/micrashed/albums/72157644354579484
 
Given that the resto of Nina took 8 years from start to MOT dont expect this one to be a lot quicker - both Bob and I have full time jobs and family.

 
Marty.
 
 

Small update, only a couple of pictures as most of the other ones involve my kids sat on the mocked up floorpan with seats in place.
 
So, the Chassis has now been painted in black hammerite (2 coats) and a further coat of underseal - nowhere near original or concourse, but Ellie-Mae is never going to be a concourse winner its going to be used all year round, which is another reason for todays roof decision.

 
The floorpan was fitted shortly after this was taken then the seats put into place to make a decision regarding whether or not to change the original into a DHC or keep as a standard saloon - much tea/coffee was drunk whilst the girls clambered all over the car, oh and some very smelly sand was spread on the lawn at this point. Eventually we concluded that the saloon body shell would stay as the 8 was the convertable for nice day use and the sliding sunroof fate was sealed. Originally the car had a sliding sunroof - these leak, they leaked pretty much from new and cause much of the rot found within the wooden frame at the front of the car. The update above shows the sunroof sealed up with a piece of steel pop riveted into place - both body tubs have this "modification" and its quite common on unrestored cars owing to the afore mentioned leaky sliding roof.
 
The plan with Ellie Mae is to neaten off this repair by seam welding in a new piece of steel then grinding the welds down - how neat this looks is the difference between the roof getting a skim of filler and spraying or getting vinyl covered. Again this isnt going to be original as no 10-4 left the factory this way, we debated leaving the roof drains in place, I thought it would be a good idea, Bob thinks it will look better without them - either way the car will be more weather tight and more useable in winter/inclement weather - which is what he wants.
 
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This ^^^ is actually quite an easy conversion to do and makes the car worth nearly twice as much - but it wont be happening to Ellie Mae.
 
This is body shell number 2 (the 1934 car) and is very solid - two small simple areas need fabrication on the inner rear wings, and of course the roof - which is going to be a bit of a bugger to do. The wooden frame however is actually worse than the 1933 body tub off Ellie Mae, which is why for now it remains on this car. The metal work is going to be fabricated first, then the wooden frame replaced before moving it over to the 1933 chassis. 
 

 
Sorry there are not many pictures this time, but work is progressing quite well so hopefully the next update will include some hardcore welderizing action rather than hardcore sanding,painting and spreading manure action.

Just setting off to Appleby in Westmorland... More laters chaps
___________________________________________________________________________________________
 
 
EDIT:

Since starting this thread of the collection and resto of Ellie-Mae for some reason many of the "dirty" links I used for the photos have gone bad - I use Facebook a lot for quick uploads off my phone.
 
So here are most if not all of the photos in more or less chronological order in this Flickr Album:
 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/micrashed/albums/72157644354579484
 
Given that the resto of Nina took 8 years from start to MOT dont expect this one to be a lot quicker - both Bob and I have full time jobs and family.

 
Marty.
 
 

Its bitterly cold, not only that Bob has managed to slice a large chunk of his leg with a plate glass window ( I offered to suture it up be he declined and went to A&E where they glued it back together), so with Christmas, New Year, a trip to France and some snowboarding and climbing (not by me) the car has taken a back seat.
Not a right lot has changed since we were last here, mostly bits of body work prep.

 
 
Not run since 1965, it does at least turn over on the starter freely. 

 
 
Today it was the "lets get this thing started day"
 
A lot of fiddling with the electrics got us ( and a heavy duty 12v battery) to the stage where the genuine 1960's sparking plugs burst into life As you can tell from the commentary this was a huge family occasion with three generations present. t 

 
Then we set about feeding the car with petrol, though this was after bolting the cylinder head back down ( no torque wrench here, just a big spanner and a "thats tight" attitude)
 
Sadly after a Heath Robinson affair involving a funnel, the top of a wood glue bottle, some rubber hose and a couple of coke cans worth of unleaded we were no nearer, even trying to get it running on fumes wasnt working. By this point it was late and we buggered off in for our tea. Hopefully in a couple of weeks it should be running. Then its on with a gusto with the body work. A pair of headlamp bowls were proving very difficult to part company with the light bar, they seem to be held in place with a brass washer that almost seemed to be shrink to fit. I was in danger of wrecking either the bowl or the washer so admitted defeat with that today. Heat and swearing clearly wasnt working, but then the whole lamp bar was working as a giant heat sink and clearly too much for the soldering torch.
 

 
Everyone needs a tin of rusty big ends