I bought this for Mrs Rat last Monday

As it was when it arrived home




Now a few piccys of it after owning it for 6 days















Hope you like

Day 8 - Not much done today, I got the old flitch panel removed and prepared for the new panel, just the bottom of the windscreen to sort now and then get the welder out

There wont be any updates for a few days as the weather is not looking good until Saturday, so the min has been tucked up is a warm blanket




Day 13

After much deliberation upon discovering the A Post was shot I've decided to replace the whole A post and O/S inner wing.

So it was out with the, drill, dremel and grinder again







Day 14 of ownership

Finished work @ 3, collected inner wing, got to work on the min

Only screwed on at present, hoping to get it all welded up tomorrow night









Day 15

The panels and big hole required to replace the A Post and inner wing









Day16 rain rain rain

So I put up the gazeebo to work under

The front is all screw on now, just got the final panel alignment to do before I fire up the welder

Anyhoo on to the pics








Its a mini again almost




Day 26

After not having any time this week thing have slowed down but I got the inner wing, bulkhead and scuttle done today












Day 27

N/S almost ready for A panel



Hole in O/S floor to deal with



Removed rear subframe and found more holes





Sheared off one N/S bolt, i'll weld a nut on to remove it but at least the heal board looks ok



The old subframe Mmmmm, remember this still has over 8 months MOT





It fell over



Bottom cleaning horrid job




Bit more tin worm to kill



Day 51

Well Brother is now married, the sun is shining so I spose I ought to get me fingure out



Bit of bird shit



Little better



New bum



Day 52

Scooby scooby doo





The last few rusty bits first















The floor panel marked for cutting



Few repairs







I need sleeeeeeeepppppp

Day 60

Only a quick update for today




Day 61

More tin worm to kill




Doobery doo





Paint prep at the front cos I got borred of welding



Day 65

Good bye paint







Thats it for the time being

 

and i thought escorts were bad!!! that's one rotten mini....
fair play for all that progress tho, stirling work...

 

thats a shit load of work you got there mate! good job minis are small! keep us updated

 

Great job mate

What is amazing is where your doing it Fair play to you for doing a big resto outdoors

 

nice 1 mate thumbs up to u, looks likes my mate but not as rotten.


plz say u payed less than a grand so i can rub it in his face

 

I paid Ł200 and it still has tax till end of the week and 7 months mot lol

This ones next

 

Great work there bud. The mrs is wanting one doing next year after ive finished the mongoose. Will be keeping an eye on this.

 

good work mate

 

Amazing work, considering how fucked it seemed and its all done on your drive

 

can't moan then.

i be keeping a eye on this coz so far it looks good

 

great project done a lot of work looks like fun

 

keep up the good work mate .minis are fun

 

sterling work mate reminds me of mine.
minis are great fun

 

Nice one mate! Jason told me you got pissed off with it and went to town on the little fucker!

Looking good!

 

Fucking love mini's!! Don't wanna sell the one I got, But I have to.. Or the pulsar has to go...



I will have another, and it will be next year, XE powered!



Good luck, Will be keeping an eye on this

 

Cheers for the encouragement everyone, I'm going to move it upto to my lockup tonight to stop if from turning orange all on its own

All work will continue at home so it'll live on the car trailer for a while and I'll tow it over to work on it

Hopefully the bits should arrive today to fix the compressor so battle can commence again on Sunday (Saturady is the Mini show at Combe)

 

Top work there mate fair play cant be easy doing it all outside

 

Great work. Reminds me of my old 1963 Beetle. Had a similar level of grot. I didn't do the work, but the guy that did was very talented. At one point he had the bottm 8-10" cut out of the car and it was all a bit floppy. By the time he welded it all up, the doors shut first time, the hinges didn't even need re-aligning.

Not for the faint-hearted though, looking forward to seeing the end result.

 

fuck me i thought mine was a mess! top work matey

 

Very impressive mate

 

Ta for the kind words, finally got it under cover

Day 80

New profession

Stripping





Start the inside



Bugger more rust to cut out

 

spot on good luck!

 

Day 93

Inside nearly ready for painting





Outside prep continues



Gazebo spray booth starts to take shape



Also finished painting and applying stone chip to the underside

 

Been a little busy with weddings, stag do's, building a house etc so not had much time to work on the car but heres a little update

Day 114

Stone chipped bum



Front is now all welded up






And finally the misses has decided on a colour scheme

Surf Blue (the colour of the bonnet) with black roof

 

 

Love minis yet never had one. Nice work.

 

a lot of work you've put into that mate

 

What an absaloute legend, we need more Mini owners like you!! I am having to sell my immaculate clubman sadly

Good luck with the rest of the project.
Ratty

 

Absolutely stunning project mate!

 

cracking work that

 

Day 127

The mustard bomb arrives

Might even get some paint on before Christmas

 

Fooken love it mate!

You get my respect

 

Top job mate

 

top job mate

 

This looks absolutly mint, cxant wait to see the finished product!

Only problem is me + my mate bought a mini when we was 15 and its still sat there in a field, now I'm getting ideas!!

 

You know you wanna start rebuilding it

 

It's very tempting!!

 

Awesome progress mate! pat on the back!!
James
(ps, does your missus mind you calling her mrs ratty lol??)

 

no she dont