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Hi there, I've been a regular visitor to the website but this is my first time posting.
Finally made the plunge last week and bought myself a 1990 mini city. She was owned by a nun from new and is in extremely good condition and 100% original. 48k miles on the clock, and solid as can be. A bit of welding is needed at the bottoms of the doors but that pretty much it. Mechanically she's sound, could possibly do with a good clean of the carb (she's cutting out a lot when idling so hopefully that'll sort that).I'll finish her off with a full respray in the original silvery/grey. Plan is to have her looking like new for MTM 2012.
Here she is anyway, will upload better photos soon. And keep updating my progress
Finally going to start work this week. But before I start stripping her down, can anyone tell me if these decals are original? I've been looking on the net and havn't found another mini with the same logo and stripe on it
Been meaning to update this for a long time, work is progressing slowly but surely! Only a few weeks to MTM2012 so I really need to get the finger out!
Mini before strip down
Work begins
Passenger door
Repair to passenger door
Driver door damage
damage where door was bent back at some stage in the past - decided at this point to remove and replace the entire skin
driver door off
removing skin
skin removed
new skin fitted
removing windows - some rust needs attending to
more stripping down
newspaper found in back of car - date is 7th May 1990. Competition in it to win tickets to Italia '90!!
will keep this updated more regularly - less than 3 weeks to the MTM2012 and lots of work to do!!!
