Sold What do you do with a hot pink & rusty mini?

[AlabamaShrimp]

Stick it back together as everythings available and sell for far too much money

[stuboy]

fix up and keep it

[Noel Tidybeard]

 

Vehicle details

• 6 month rate £79.75
• 12 month rate £145.00
• 6 monthly by direct debit totalling £76.13
• 12 monthly by direct debit totalling £145.00
• Monthly by direct debit totalling £152.25 (Monthly payment of approximately £12.69)
• Vehicle make ROVER
• Date of first registration 03 January 1998
• Year of manufacture 1998
• Cylinder capacity (cc) 1275cc
• COâ‚‚Emissions Not available
• Fuel type PETROL
• Export marker No
• Vehicle status Not taxed
• Vehicle colour MULTI-COLOUR
• Vehicle type approval Not available
• Wheelplan 2 AXLE RIGID BODY

here be the answer to the colour question- or maybe not!!!1!

[steve_earwig]

MULTICOLOUR

That sounds like camouflage to me (more reason for twats in BMWs to pull out on you)

 

1998? Was it re-registered or something?

 

I0m sure there's some sort of cake you can get like that with pink icing on the top.

 

What you really need is some sort of flash colour scheme that will enable the old bill to follow you through traffic, if only to point and laugh.

[twosmoke300]

Chop it in half and nail both ends to some MDF in a Bowenesque style. Then attempt to sell the ends as mgf's through your dealerships

Ftfy

[Fabergé Greggs]

I haz a set of these seats.

 

[Fabergé Greggs]

1998? Was it re-registered or something?

 

It's a late registration madness MPI front radiator airbag one.

[steve_earwig]

Front radiator? Why did no one tell me? [/Not been near a Mini in 22 years]

I haz a set of these seats.
 

[AlabamaShrimp]

I haz a set of these seats.

 

I had these seats in my designer special edition! Was black but has a flower instead of a mini badge. It went to the scrap for a stuck clutch!!! No idea why it was never fixed....

 

Anyway are those seats for sale?

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Clean it up, stick it on teh Ebay and sell it to a Mini loon.

[Formula Autos]

A full resto in Autoshite spec.

 

I can't believe it's taken so long for this suggestion to come up.

 

This place ain't what it used to be, etc. etc.

[fordperv]

You need to restore it in its pink glory, i drove a mates pink fiat 500 when they had not long been released and people's reactions were priceless, i would happily rock a pink car around,

 

Mrs fp has just fell in love with the first picture, she loves minis and guess what her name is

[AlabamaShrimp]

Harold?

[Lord Sterling]

Paint it in some sort of 70s BL flat colour like sky Blue or summat, stick some 10" steelies and make it look like some random early Mini as per:

 

 

Everyone seems to want thier cars to look younger, never seen anyone want to make a car look older than it is.

[DeeJay]

 

Mrs fp has just fell in love with the first picture, she loves minis and guess what her name is

 

Morris?

[DeeJay]

Austin?

[Fabergé Greggs]

R66?

[Fabergé Greggs]

Paint it in some sort of 70s BL flat colour like sky Blue or summat, stick some 10" steelies and make it look like some random early Mini as per:

 

 

Everyone seems to want thier cars to look younger, never seen anyone want to make a car look older than it is.

That's totally what I'm thinking at the moment. Definitely into 10" steel wheels, and think I'll go for a bit of a back date on the rear lights and grill too.

 

Very common in the x1/9 world to back date them too- the earlier ones are way prettier. MGB's too..

[New POD]

Mini body parts are dirt cheap. A gasless mig is dirt cheap. Fix it.  Paint it yellow.  Use it.

[scruff]

I'd fix it up to original spec, as a late MPI is a nice thing and it's already a rare sight to see one that hasn't been Sportpacked/had Mk1 lights grafted on/crashed through "Bolt on Bitz" show stand.

 

That's just me though, I can totally get where you're coming from.

[AnthonyG]

It looks a lot more worthwhile in that garage pic than the dumped pic at the start. Looks like an excellent opportunity to learn to weld, with the bonus of all the panels/repair sections easily available. Somehow I don't imagine that will be the case with an X/19.

 

Once it's all straight and solid it's up to you how to spec/colour it, after all it would have been a scrapper otherwise.

[Fabergé Greggs]

Mini body parts are dirt cheap. A gasless mig is dirt cheap. Fix it.  Paint it yellow.  Use it.

 

Out of interest why gasless? Is that so you can use it outside?

[Rusty_Rocket]

I've been welding Mig and Oxy Acetylene for nearly twenty years.. and I cannot get a proper weld with gasless wire.

 

As above, an MPi  (or twin-point) Mini is about as good as they got re. daily drives.

They had the looooongest final drive (2.76:1) so can do motorway speeds at sensible revs and lots of sound deadening.  The difference between this and even an 80s model is very noticeable.

10" wheels look great but you'll need to downsize your front discs so the wheels physically fit.  This is expensive as you'll want a 60s Cooper S setup which, arguably isn't as good as the 8.4" stuff you currently have.

 

I'd just get it legal, get rid of the PINK and rag it about.  You'll most likely even make money on it when it's time to sell.

[New POD]

Out of interest why gasless? Is that so you can use it outside?

 

That's what I've got, because whilst a little pissed at a party, I got talking to a mate of my Brother in Law who was into Land Rovers, and I ended up agreeing to buy it for £35 . 

It's just a low powered clarks hobby welder I have, that retails about £150, but it does the job.

 

 I've used it on the sills of a cavalier, and got a decent weld.  It means I don't have to worry about making sure I have enough gas.

[New POD]

 

 

 

Everyone seems to want thier cars to look younger, never seen anyone want to make a car look older than it is.

 

 

We have a J reg plate on an R reg Mx5, and earlier alloys about to go on, as I prefer them.  Does that count.

[Fabergé Greggs]

This is the type of encouragement I need. I know this is a stupid question, but I've got a bit of leave to take. My parents have got a garage up in that there Dumfries. 

 

My pal sent me an exhaustive list of stuff he reckons it needs, he's very thorough though:

 

Inner/Outer sills

Front floors

Rear floor patches

Inner/outer a panels

Boot floor

Boot closing panel

Rear valance

Door skins

Door steps

 

Panel under scuttle/window surround rotten, maybe pass MOT though?

 

Subframe mounting kits both ends

Front ball joints

Drivers window mechanism

Rear brake kit

Front calipers

Brake lines

Rear subframe

Set of engine sensors

Engine mounts/ steadies

 

Brake servo

4 New tyres

Bumpers 

N/s headlamp

 

Code reader

Grease gun

Mig welder

Cone spring compressor

 

Say I take 2 weeks off and spend 80 hours and a grand on it, is that even close to what it'll take? Welding looks really hard and suddenly that list looks very long. 

[Rusty_Rocket]

Sadly, the newer a Mini is, the worse the body is likely to be

The MPi cars had thinner metal than before and in some areas no paint at all.  I don't just mean, no top coat, I mean no paint whatsoever, just bare metal.  Rover really did have a cheek knocking these things out for £10k+....

 

Anyway, it would appear to need all the 'usual' areas.  Don't kid yourself, that is a major project.  People say Minis are simple bodily; this isn't strictly true.  If the outer sills are shot, the inners will be too.  If they are gone, the floors will be rotten.  This then spreads to the bulkhead, heelboard and, well, everywhere else!!!  The problem is, every panel is spotwelded to its neighbour.. and sometimes this can mean a seam that is three panels thick.  Damp gets in and causes mayhem.

Of course, literally everything is available new, but a 'shell that needs all this is easily a 6-month weldathon if you want it done properly.

 

With all that in mind, I recommend you buy it immediately and get cracking

[Fabergé Greggs]

No need to buy it, it's already mine..

[jonny69]

You won't do it in 2 weeks - forget that idea. Especially if you can't weld yet.

 

Because of the value of Minis and the availability of panels, though, if you have the cash and somewhere dry to do it then I'd recommend the replacement panel route. It's much easier that way.

[vulgalour]

^truth.