mini city e auto rest 1991

[minimanryan]

ok so heres the start of my resto been doing little petty things today like pumping up tyres so it will move changed the punchered tyre for some reason its a smaller tyre than the rest but the ones on the car rub so me thinks the last owner dident know what size tyres took the tank out drained the water
but anyway heres the start of a slow story

[minimanryan]

ok so i took all the wings off and stuff


bit off ruat think it might need a flitch


took the scuttle ends off to find there was no inner flitch on the right hand side



but heres what it looked like wehn i got it

apart from the handles




cant be bothered writing ill just post the pics


all the rusty panels took off
put some stickers on to make it look better when it was sat on the drive so it wasent a isor as the naighburs claimed

theres my estate


this was just before it went in the garden then ill start uploading my recent pics

one of my mates moved in down the road and wanted to help cutting up my mini lol no chance haha so sson as he was so keen to help i got him to rub down and paint the rust on my bonnet and clean all the black off it





so recntly i put it in the garden now i wanted to get down to buissness so i took the tank out

also to inspect the boot

two petrol cans full of manky rusty fuel


wow think it needs a new arch

took my seatbelts and seats out


the passenger bin no wonder he had it covered up i can see the radis arm


the seat base good job its getting cut off



the bin yet again

think its the drivers bin this


the rear floor had cover sill on

its leaking in through the door card and sitting inbetween the two floor pans




heres the drivers pan

just a small hole in the right hand side rear floor

progress got the door cards out
and the rear seats and seat belts and all that

good way to keep the rain out where the tank hole is

the left hand side rear arch pic earlier on



now in minimag it says dont have your project full of all the bits nooo i dont do that i just put it in the mini estate lol

bit full id say

heres the mini estate







A nice cleen shiny engine i show you a pic from when i got it it was horible


what i thought to be a head gasket turned out it wasent it wasent



IT WAS THE BLOODY THERMOSTAT only found this out when i toped up the water and it poured out the thermo and down the block



thats where the oil is leaking out


all the rad has disapeered

subbys like new cleaner that you think

cleaned all the grime of the sump


will continue tmoz

[niceboy1275]

Its a good start for your project, good to see you getting right down to ugly bits Its terrible what the salt on the roads does to cars over there, my 68 minimatic here in aus didn't have no where near that rust, and its over 40 years old. Good luck to you though, and don't give up!

[minimanryan]

im in to far with it and wont get back no where near what i paid and i couldent take a loss that big i cant really give it up so just got to carry on no matter what and ive still got the engine to invrestigate and what kept the sibby so clean is all the dirt and grime but the rest of it has been made really bad by all the salt and wet mud stuck between the bits that made it so bad and the mini estate hasent really got rust it just been crashed really bad that bad the bulkheads twisted in one corner and the window surround is back but as there all expencive bits that can wait till ive done mine wrong pic i will put the sump one on now

and heres the estate scuttle

for some reason the wheel rubs

fairly grotty gearbox

[minimanryan]

gonna put some more pics on tmoz