76 Mini Clubman Estate

[P78]

this definately needs more pics

[MkI]

verrrrrrry cool. I have a '63 850 myself. Love the minis you have done (saw a little bit on them in your van thread)

subscribing!

[notabmw1]

Did a quick shop..Did a one piece bumper, I still don't like the tag location. I might have to move it to the left door like my other Estate I had. And of course slammed... let's see if I can get it stanced before the CMR spring run!

[forloveandglory]

Amazing!
(And I'm still speecless, you've got a Trabant over there.)

[notabmw1]

Well the Trabant is strangely how I got into Mini's. My wife is from East Germany, and we settled on a mini because it looked "similar" to a trabant, or atleast she thought so, and I was having a really hard time tracking one down. 5 years later I found one 30 minutes from me. The guy brought over 4 from Hungaria or a dealership lot. Bonus was it was a wagon! So I did a quick resto on it to surprise my wife. She had no idea, had my buddy redo the Polizei decals, I fabbed up a light bar, and fixed the old siren. Then one night I pulled her over coming home from work. She was in tears. Her parents just recently visited and her dad was tinkering on it.He had one probably for 15 years, and he was laughing that a Trabant is in the USA. Anyway, I got it ready for the Trabant Parade at the spy museum back in November. Was a great show, and I can say I have a 1 of a kind Trabi. I lowered it, negative camber on the rear, dyed the interior black. Not real big plans, cause to be honest I don't won't to take to much away from the originality of what makes the car special, so the 2 stroke, 2 cylinder engine is staying. Anyway, here is a pic from the parade:




No that is not me standing next to it! Ha.

[projektzwo]

can't wait to see it lower

also i'm super surprised i see a Trabant in USA, tell us more about it

[notabmw1]

Got the new shoes on, Need to lower it now... Maybe in a couple weeks before the cruise.




Little bit of poke


Front is super high!

[notabmw1]

Finally got the tires mounted up, 175/50 13 Yoko Ao48's... medium compound. Can't wait to get them on there.


A little bit of dish with 4" b.s.

[e30saam]

Dat interior, I wish my e30's was plaid.

[Tupers]

Looks like you're going in a good direction with this.

I've been trying to find a suitable air ride kit for my '72 Clubman Estate but I haven't found anything yet.

[notabmw1]

Currently I have the 2 clock setup in front of the driver. I have a center gauge dash I've been saving for a few years and I want to do something different as well. Basically a spin on the classic look but with electronic speedo/tach combo. I would use a GPS sender for the speedo, same thing I am doing in the Morris. Which one do you guys like better? I will be using a smiths 2 1/16 fuel gauge on the left, and a dual oil pressure/water temp on the right, so I prefer it to be black face, chrome ring...



OR



Here are the other two guages I have currently...


SMITHS DUAL GAUGE-OIL/WATER-BLACK FACE-VEE BEZEL


SMITHS FUEL GAUGE-BLACK FACE-VEE BEZEL

[MommysLittleMonster]

This thing is a busload of cool.


Pun intended.

[Minuki]

I'd love an Estate..maybe one day.

Super excited to see where this goes.

[Brian.]

Yessss, I love mini's. I'm still trying to find one for in my price range!

[FluidMotorUnion]

This is going to get crazy. Can't wait to see how it progresses!