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Well, I thought I'd throw a quick build up 
The car is a 1990 Mini Cooper RSP which I picked up for £300. There were around 1000 of theses made and mine is number 141. The previous owner said the sills had recently been done, so that was a big load off my mind. But as usual with a Mini things didn't always go to plan....
The original intention was to strip it, replace the front end, put a cage in it and use it for Hillclimb/Sprints. But went I started stripping it, i found lots and lots of rust that I didn't expect. Just my luck, eh?
Anyway some pics!
Loading it onto the trailer to be taken home
After a good wash!
The rusty bits -
The weekend after getting her(My friend Sammy named her Sammy
) I got her running...for a couple minutes at least. Then it developed an oil leak which turned out just to be a loose nut on the oil cooler.
I stripped the rear subframe and sent it off to the sandblasters. It's now painted black and ready to be re-assembled.
When I was poking around I noticed that my boot floor wasn't really a floor...it was just sort of a mix of badly repaired panels and shoddy welding. So I knew I had to do something about that.
Underneath the boot-
Inside
Next I went about lightening the car...with a hammer.
And that was it "repaired"!
I found some dodgy bits on the boot lid which turned out to be massive holes. So they've been repaired and the boot is now in primer. It's not perfect, but It'll do until I do a full resto...maybe.
A couple of weeks later, myself and my dad started to tackle the front end. I managed to get my hands on a new pair of wings and front panel from eBay for relatively cheap
Starting -
Couple minutes later with the angle grinder
Some more crappy "Repairs"
Fixed
...lovely
And that's all for now. I'll update this later, but right now I'm going out to shoot some MTB!
The car is a 1990 Mini Cooper RSP which I picked up for £300. There were around 1000 of theses made and mine is number 141. The previous owner said the sills had recently been done, so that was a big load off my mind. But as usual with a Mini things didn't always go to plan....
The original intention was to strip it, replace the front end, put a cage in it and use it for Hillclimb/Sprints. But went I started stripping it, i found lots and lots of rust that I didn't expect. Just my luck, eh?
Anyway some pics!
Loading it onto the trailer to be taken home
After a good wash!
The rusty bits -
The weekend after getting her(My friend Sammy named her Sammy
) I got her running...for a couple minutes at least. Then it developed an oil leak which turned out just to be a loose nut on the oil cooler.I stripped the rear subframe and sent it off to the sandblasters. It's now painted black and ready to be re-assembled.
When I was poking around I noticed that my boot floor wasn't really a floor...it was just sort of a mix of badly repaired panels and shoddy welding. So I knew I had to do something about that.
Underneath the boot-
Inside
Next I went about lightening the car...with a hammer.
And that was it "repaired"!
I found some dodgy bits on the boot lid which turned out to be massive holes. So they've been repaired and the boot is now in primer. It's not perfect, but It'll do until I do a full resto...maybe.
A couple of weeks later, myself and my dad started to tackle the front end. I managed to get my hands on a new pair of wings and front panel from eBay for relatively cheap
Starting -
Couple minutes later with the angle grinder
Some more crappy "Repairs"
Fixed
...lovely
And that's all for now. I'll update this later, but right now I'm going out to shoot some MTB!
But as it's necessary in the UK my dad insisted on me having one. I let him do what he wanted and was presently surprised with what he came up with! 
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