Smoll shite acquired. The wife made me do it....

[groovylee]

And so it begins.... ?

[warch]

Is that on 10 inch wheels? Must have aftermarket smaller brakes then to clear the wheels, the 80s disc brake set up was too big for anything smaller than 12 inch wheels.

[big_al_granvia]

that metalwork is clean

[groovylee]

4 hours ago, warch said:

Is that on 10 inch wheels? Must have aftermarket smaller brakes then to clear the wheels, the 80s disc brake set up was too big for anything smaller than 12 inch wheels.

12x6" at the moment.  they're going in favour of slimmer silver ones.

 

[groovylee]

New shiny thing has been acquired from fleabay for much cheapness ?

[warch]

This is an excellent thread, unbelievably clean looking car too, although I think the 80s Minis did at least have decent underseal on the floors. My C plate Mini Chelsea had a good floorpan, and largely superficial rust on the bodywork, whereas my R reg one from the 70s looked mint but had no floor to speak of (as I discovered after conking out in a flood). 

[groovylee]

An even smoller mini arrived today courtesy of our very own Eddy ?

thabks mate, it’s perfect! 

[groovylee]

Also, new front and rear heated screens fitted. Had a small moment where I lost the front windscreen seal... spent 20 mins searching the house and surrounding streets for it before my mum remembered I’d put it in the airing cupboard to warm up! ?

[big_al_granvia]

that is a braw wee real mini

[groovylee]

Today I have mostly been stickering ?

just the other side to do now.

[rainagain]

I always remember my mate had a mini around the millennium. I spent many weekends welding it up for him. He lost interest when he went to uni and his mum made him sell it for pennies shortly after just to get it out her garage.  
 

He didn’t even give me a shout to see if I wanted it, which I would have! 

[eddyramrod]

Unusually for me, I actually like it on those black (anthracite?) wheels, with the black roof.  Sort of gives the little car an "edge" that makes one think "hey up, this might be a bit tasty..."  Obviously the stickers help too.  I think you've scored here.

[groovylee]

12 hours ago, eddyramrod said:

Unusually for me, I actually like it on those black (anthracite?) wheels, with the black roof.  Sort of gives the little car an "edge" that makes one think "hey up, this might be a bit tasty..."  Obviously the stickers help too.  I think you've scored here.

cheers Eddy.  Kerry wants it on silver minilites, rather than the anthracite...  im really unsure which way to go.  i think the wheels look a little too wide as they are, so will be going back to 5" wide either way.  the bl;ack roof will be staying ?

[groovylee]

As an aside, the mini needs a name. i cant think of one. 

family friendly options please ?

[eddyramrod]

I understand her logic!  I'm no fan of a black wheel normally, but sometimes they just look right.  Not very often!  I'm sure it'll be a delight once it's in use, like my 998 Mayfair I had in 2002.  I had a 4.2 Daimler Sovereign at the same time, and a six mile commute down country lanes at 6am.  You can imagine.... Amazingly, there was nothing between my lap times whichever car I took.

Name?  Have you (has Kerry) decided yet if it's male or female?

[Agila]

Excellent car, excellent thread, excellent direction with the car.

 

In a word...excellent.

[groovylee]

1 hour ago, eddyramrod said:

Name?  Have you (has Kerry) decided yet if it's male or female?

hmm, not yet.  if it doesn't stop leaking then it's going to be deemed female.... ?

I'll have to ask kerry later lol

off to minispares later to get a new under bonnet seal. hopefully that'll fix it. 

[groovylee]

Bit of an update - the new interior arrived on Friday, so we got a bit busy...

[groovylee]

The frames on the front seats needed touching up, so I drafted in mrs groovy 😎

found some random things in the bowels of the seats 🤣

[groovylee]

And lastly, we trial fitted one of the new wheels. I’m 50/50 with them, but kez says the silver ones are best, so decision made 👍

[Floatylight]

I'm with Kez, silver looks better..

[Agila]

28 minutes ago, Floatylight said:

I'm with Kez, silver looks better..

Correct.

[groovylee]

Back from work for the weekend, so much busyness ensued today!

The handles are some sort of wood that isn’t burr walnut, and it’s kind of grey/black, so goes great with the door cards. I really can’t wait to get the interior back together. Some wiring to do first....

[groovylee]

Got busy with the new carpets today. Much gluing of hands to Floor, jeans to doors, in fact just about everything except carpet to car! Got there in the end though, so the newly retrimmed front seats and door cards went in 😎👍

[Agila]

What a beautiful little thing. Really tastefully done and great colour combo.

[groovylee]

Thanks Agila, it won’t be perfect, but it will hopefully look nice 

[spartacus]

It's looking good.

It must be satisfying to have bought a good starting point that needs little or no 'fixing', so you can get straight on with the interesting stuff!

[groovylee]

3 minutes ago, spartacus said:

It's looking good.

It must be satisfying to have bought a good starting point that needs little or no 'fixing', so you can get straight on with the interesting stuff!

indeed. 

my main stipulation was - no bodywork!  there are mechanical things that need dealing with, but that doesn't worry me at all. the interior has been a welcome distraction from sorting out the ignition side of things (there were some interesting things going on there...)

 

[groovylee]

Not much to add on this as yet, working away has put a stop to much activity, not a lot will happen until my next batch of holiday. 
BUT...

mrs Groovy did get a very good present from my parents for Xmas 😎👍

[2flags]

Great car. Nice to see it being given the love it deserves. Also nice to see one that doesn't need hundreds of hours welding on it. Looks like a good one there.