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Post by Holly on Feb 2, 2010 14:05:16 GMT
On saturday we covered the parcel shelf  ...  And also fitted these new fatter style headlight rims to Merri. I think they look really good ...  Merri & Mandi on the Van & Traveller 50th Birthday display at Stafford Mini Fair 2010  ...  Here is the signboard that I made for the display ...  I got this fab 5" Woody model at Stafford, its made of rubber and squeaks like a rubber duck hehehe ...  We made the journey to and from the show fine, although Merri did cut out a couple of times on the M6 coming home so we will have to have a look at what was causing that at some point  |
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Post by Holly on Feb 3, 2010 16:59:59 GMT
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Post by Holly on Feb 5, 2010 19:27:54 GMT
We finally bought the corner panels to properly sort Merri's rear valance at the Stafford Show last weekend. Plus we bought this grill that we are going to tidy up a bit and then use as a winter one to save the chrome one from winter salt etc ...  Plus a piccy of Merri in the snow in Wales has just won a photo comp on the MiniForum, you will see a piccy of Merri in January of their 2011 calender |
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Post by Holly on Feb 6, 2010 20:06:10 GMT
We found out why Merri had trouble driving home from Stafford last weekend, the rubber connector to the distributor on the vacuum advance pipe had split! ...  We cleaned up our new autojumble grill that we bought for Merri last weekend. In fact it was in much better condition that we first thought, its not chrome but is quite shiny. We are wondering if it may be stainless. Anyway here it is with the other Chrome one that has been on Merri ... can you tell which is which ? ........................ the one on the left is the autojumble one ...  The new autojumble winter grill has now been fitted to Merri, so hopefully we can get the chrome one cleaned up and looking nice for the summer shows ...  |
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Post by Admin/Founder 2 on Feb 6, 2010 20:19:58 GMT
Sorry to hear about the running Problems with Merri,at least you've found whats causing it and it wont be too hard to fix  The grille looks great,ive got to do the grille on Boris soon as hes getting Resprayed We want to keep his grille Original,All the surround pieces are scrap really but we will be stripping the black bit,priming,and repainting in Satin Black hope it turns out as good as yours |
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Post by Holly on Feb 7, 2010 19:18:04 GMT
Today we had to fill both of Merri's dashpots on the twin carbs with oil as they were a bit low. We will also need to clean all the winter dirt off the engine & bay in the near future, but thats a job for another week ...  |
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Post by Holly on Mar 30, 2010 9:44:25 GMT
I bought a stainless reversing light and some Innocenti repeaters for Merri at Brooklands over the weekend ....  |
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Post by clambod on Mar 31, 2010 7:36:39 GMT
That's looking really good. I like the job you did on the rear parcel shelf, very professional. You must be very proud of her.
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Post by Holly on Apr 5, 2010 13:54:24 GMT
I bought this excellent little retro car picnic tray for Merri at the Malvern show yesterday, it was even boxed with the old price of 4'11 on it hehehe ...  |
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Post by notamini on Apr 8, 2010 19:13:18 GMT
I like the note on the box "hooks easily on to car doors with winding ;D ;D windows"
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Post by Holly on Apr 12, 2010 10:16:38 GMT
As the weather was nice over the weekend we had a chance to respray Merri where the colour did not match properly from when we did her in January ...  we also decided to have a go at the wheel arches as we have always had them painted black ...  while the weather was still nice it was the perfect time to give inside the arches a good coat of Beige ...  a nice coat of Elpaso Beige ...  and the wheel arches are looking much better already ...  we also had time to fit the Innocenti indicator repeaters ...  |
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Post by Admin/Founder 2 on Apr 12, 2010 10:52:16 GMT
Shes looking Great Holly Brings back memories i really had fun spraying some of Boris myself 18 months or so ago OK i used cans and your using a Posh compressor but theres still a great sense of achievement when you do it yourself Plus once you have a good coat on it theres nothing stopping you flatting it down every couple of years to use as an undercoat and just laying down a new thin top coat to refresh the paint Keep up the good work Jodie |
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Post by Holly on Apr 17, 2010 17:15:54 GMT
Wooooo classic spot/fog lights for Merri arrived today (another ebay bargain) just got to wait for the 2nd set i found to arrive so i can make a matching pair ...  |
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Post by Holly on Apr 19, 2010 10:23:01 GMT
We found some more bodywork that needs looking at on Merri this last weekend  ...  |
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Post by Holly on Apr 20, 2010 13:55:52 GMT
2nd set of classic fog/spot lights for Merri arrived, just have to pick which pair to use ...  |
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Post by clambod on Apr 20, 2010 15:12:31 GMT
Use all 4 of them
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Post by Holly on May 6, 2010 9:26:15 GMT
I have bought this excellent retro radio to put in Merri, it even has been converted to have an ipod input ...  |
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Post by Admin/Founder 2 on May 6, 2010 21:59:57 GMT
Lovely Old Wireless Set Gawd im feeling Old ;D Great Little Radio Holly,should look the part in Merri What make is it? Dont Forget to post some pics when its fitted |
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Post by Holly on May 15, 2010 10:09:55 GMT
After having some huge cutting out problems with Merri last weekend and her not making it to Himley  ... today we are changing the fuel pump. Merri's old fuel pump is off, just got to fit the new one ...  keep your fingers crossed for us as i really want to take her on the L2B run tomorrow |
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Post by asahartz on May 15, 2010 12:32:25 GMT
If that's an original SU pump, you can get a parts kit to recondition them. Might be worth doing - it's always useful to have a spare on the shelf!
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Post by Holly on May 15, 2010 15:23:44 GMT
Oh dear, on a test run one of the clips for the bottom radiator hose on Merri seems to not have been man enough for the job, it popped off under pressure and she dumped all her water ...... a new jubilee clip required me thinks !! |
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Post by Holly on May 17, 2010 15:38:32 GMT
 The "New Look" Merri ...[/size] Merri's new wooden side panels took unbelievably long to make, however i think they cam out really well in the end. I just love the wooden finishing piece that goes round the filler cap too ...  I bought some reverse rim for her, they just needed a little tidying. So to start off we had to sand them back a bit ...  next they were all painted Elpaso Beige to match Merri ...  We had the tyres transferred over from her old alloys ...  and also had some white wall flaps fitted ...  then the hubcaps needed a good bit of polishing ...  Mmmmm Shiny ...  I decided to go for the yellow spot lights in the end ...  I wanted to fit a roofrack but couldn't find any that I liked that I though would suit her and wouldn't damage her wood. So we decided to make our own that the mountings would fit on the just in front of the wood. We made the framework from some aluminium tubing that my dad gave us ages ago ...  Next we made some wooded slats for the roofrack ...  before the could be fitted to the roofrack framework the wooden slats were stained to match Merri's wood ...  Seems to be coming together nicely ...  I think Tigger approves of my design hehehe ...  We also fitted some new retro styled headlight to her ...  Here is the "New Look" Merri on her first test run out .........  |
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Post by Holly on May 24, 2010 10:54:41 GMT
we fitted Merri's new reversing light and rear fog light on sunday ... thats much better than the rusty (falling apart) ones that were on her before ...  |
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Post by Holly on Jun 1, 2010 11:03:36 GMT
It was a good weekend for Merri, she won a trophy in the Variants class at Norfolk Mini Day 2010 ...   And she won a trophy in one of the year classes at Knebworth Mini & VW Show 2010 ...  |
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Post by notamini on Jun 1, 2010 17:02:00 GMT
Total congrats to you and Merri. You both look like a couple of cuties in the pic and so deserve an award. Holly, where did you get the White Wall flaps? Do you know if I can get them for 12" rims? |
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Post by Holly on Jun 2, 2010 10:41:45 GMT
my husband bought the whitewalls from a guy who had some genuine 60s one in his shop, we bought the only ones he had left though so we had spares ... we already lost one down a motorway as it just tore off  |
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Post by Holly on Jun 5, 2010 13:18:22 GMT
Mr. Bear lends a helping hand to tighten Merri's handbrake ready for her MOT ... hehehe ;D  Here is a piccy of Merri up on the ramps at her MOT yesterday ... its good to see that her underside is still nice and solid ...  She also made a Camper friend whilst at the MOT ... hehehe  |
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Post by Holly on Jun 6, 2010 10:03:31 GMT
yesterday, we were working on lots of wiring in Merri ... Mr Bear was helping us again hehehe ;D  we wired up the new spotlights so that they now work ...  installed and wired up the new Oooga horn ;o) .... we had to take out the old Muh Horn (Bull Horn) first, please beware of the Bull horns as ours shorted out and started a small fire in the engine bay and we have heard of another person having the same problem with this type of horn ... you have been warned ;o). Anyway this piccy is of the Oooga Horn all in place ...  We had to fishish off the interior wiring that we did not have time to do last weekend ...  Now the vintage radio is even wired up and work ...  |
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Post by Holly on Jun 22, 2010 7:22:01 GMT
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Post by Holly on Jul 7, 2010 11:01:06 GMT
Merri had a few little problems whilst up in the Lake District !Merri lost 2 x whitewalls on the journey up to the Lake District !! It doesn't quite look the same without them ...  Here is what was left of the whiteall flaps that came off ...  Luckily we too spare whitewall flaps with us up there so manage to get the new ones fitted while we were still holidaying in the Lakes ...  Merri had to Travel back to the holiday cottage on a flatbed after her head gasket suddenly went whilst we were on holiday in the Lake District ! We broke down at just gone 4pm, it was 11pm before we got back to the cottage and it was only 10 miles down the road ... I was not best pleased about having to wait that long for the RAC to come out   ...  A piccy of Merri being unloaded from the breakdown truck, awww how sad ...  Just a slight hole in the head gasket that went whilst on holiday in the lakes. We do know what made the head gasket go suddenly, which appears to be the exhaust breaking down inside, blocking the box and the back pressure causing the gasket to blow ... you should have seen the stuff coming out of the exhaust after it happened, looked like a dead skinned animal or something ... I will get a piccy late and show you all ...  luckily we had a spare head gasket set with us so was able to get it all changed in the garage at the holiday cottage in the Lake District. I should point out that after we fixed her she did drive the whole 250 miles home fine ...  We ran out of petrol whilst driving accross the Yorskshire Dales on the way home ... hmmm maybe we should not have driven past that last petrol stop hehehe   ... 
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