Shed Clear.... Trailer Started

Trailer time! First we had to clear the shed, and then clear the mini of what we had stored inside it - and then pack it all back into the shed - a few shelving units later and lots of hard work - we had fitted it all in!


This is the one of the last pictures I have of him whole. It's all a bit sad for me, being my first car and whatnot. Needless to say I felt really bad when we started cutting the roof off once it was braced.



Then he under went 'roof chop'...


Then he under went half and half.....


and now he sits like this...


But we had some laughs along the way....



RIP to my first car....

Repairing Floor

Apologies for those who are following my tale, but as you know, in England the weather has been horrible, and that's stop most of the progress being made.

Repairs to the floor have been carried out. Haven't done really much else to the shell this weekend due to needing the nut that welds into the healboard for the subframe, once we have the we can make the panel and get the new sill sorted and put him back the right way up!

Fixing the Bin

You can see we had to remove some of the inner sill to be able to get to repair the bin, the bit we took of was nice and clean, so it just got cleaned up and put back on.




Afraid it's not much of an update, and there isn't much progress, but hey ho.

Where is the sun?

Weather has been against us again recently - It's June but where is the sun and the dry days? Ugh! Mildly annoying considering it wouldn't take long to finish up if the weather was in our favour for once.

Seem to be replacing alot, but it's all nice and simple stuff.

Mini Tipping

A complete cock up is all I can describe this as..... again Previous Owner Syndrome - a common thing in Mini's it seems....

Anyway....

3 sills... and a wedding?

so we tipped - which was easy!

then we found this.....



but my help advised me that we could get thru this and come out the other side with something rather special....

Passenger Side - Headache

The panel to be fitted....



So, some previous clever sod thought it was clever to weld a new panel to an old panel - leaving old rusty panel inside to rust even further - around of applause to that clever c**t!




Oh and hang on - let me weld a patch - and then put a genuine panel over the top of it shall we?


Leaving one big hole - and me with a damn headache.

It makes you wonder.

Passenger Side Sill

We then spun him around baby! Right right round - like a record...


Sorry!!


To start on the passenger side, this was going to be the worse side by far, but to be honest I didn't expect what is coming up....