Welcome to the Irish Mini Owners Club Forum. Keep an eye out of on coming events!!!!
Elmo
Moderators: spud1979, The Marcos Graveyard, Moderators
- mini_sprite94
- NON Member
- Posts: 181
- Joined: Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:23 pm
- Whats your location?: just out side Mitchlestown.
- Region: Southern
- What Minis have you?: 1995 Mini Sprite, Elmo.
- Location: Tipp/Cork border
- Contact:
Elmo
well I got back into the mini saddle again last Saturday, here is my second Mini, Elmo. (Small & Red with a black mouth)
finally got a chance to go for a spin with My two today, It was their first trip in a mini ever, and we got some pics up in the Vee Vally, the roads around my house seem designed for minis I swear!
By mini_sprite95 at 2012-06-13
By mini_sprite95 at 2012-06-13
By mini_sprite95 at 2012-06-13
as you can see He's pretty standard, I'm only have to replace some bushings and put in an engine steady, to get his in ship shape. I'm upgrading the brakes, and wheels, and fixing the couple of rust spots soon, and I have the interior mapped out too.
finally got a chance to go for a spin with My two today, It was their first trip in a mini ever, and we got some pics up in the Vee Vally, the roads around my house seem designed for minis I swear!
By mini_sprite95 at 2012-06-13
By mini_sprite95 at 2012-06-13
By mini_sprite95 at 2012-06-13
as you can see He's pretty standard, I'm only have to replace some bushings and put in an engine steady, to get his in ship shape. I'm upgrading the brakes, and wheels, and fixing the couple of rust spots soon, and I have the interior mapped out too.
-
- NON Member
- Posts: 329
- Joined: Thu Jul 01, 2010 7:57 pm
- Whats your location?: Mullingar
- Region: Eastern
- What Minis have you?: 1985 Matte Black Mini Mayfair
- Modifications: the matte black paint,standard arches,white rover style minilites,removable,roof racks, bonnet,honda prelude bucket seats ROOF RACKS Ftw!
- Location: Westmeath
- Contact:
Re: Elmo
Good base.for putting your own mark on their...good luck with it!
MiniBallers Mini Club-
https://www.facebook.com/miniballersofficial?ref=br_rs
http://miniballers.freeforums.org/
https://www.facebook.com/miniballersofficial?ref=br_rs
http://miniballers.freeforums.org/
- macker
- NON Member
- Posts: 1950
- Joined: Mon May 23, 2005 5:30 am
- Whats your location?: THE FRIDGE
- Region: Aboard
- What Minis have you?: 110bhp 1968 mkII
- Modifications: NEW Custom flakey paint
- Location: The Fridge I told ye!!
- Contact:
Re: Elmo
nice one Ger, well wear!
looks nice and tidy in the pics,
can't help thinking that I know this one from somewhere?
looks nice and tidy in the pics,
can't help thinking that I know this one from somewhere?
- mini_sprite94
- NON Member
- Posts: 181
- Joined: Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:23 pm
- Whats your location?: just out side Mitchlestown.
- Region: Southern
- What Minis have you?: 1995 Mini Sprite, Elmo.
- Location: Tipp/Cork border
- Contact:
Re: Elmo
thanks guys. Macker, it was from the north orig. moved down here years ago, and left in a garage, untaxed for years!
just ordered a "big shop" credit card starting to melt! common postman!
just ordered a "big shop" credit card starting to melt! common postman!
- mini_sprite94
- NON Member
- Posts: 181
- Joined: Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:23 pm
- Whats your location?: just out side Mitchlestown.
- Region: Southern
- What Minis have you?: 1995 Mini Sprite, Elmo.
- Location: Tipp/Cork border
- Contact:
Re: Elmo
grrrr I pay for 48hour delivery and my parts dont show!? its now been 3days no show!
sigh.
on the other hand took Elmo to the paint shop today, got him booked in with Fran in Portlaiose. so I have a few months to drive about before the strip-down
sigh.
on the other hand took Elmo to the paint shop today, got him booked in with Fran in Portlaiose. so I have a few months to drive about before the strip-down
- mini_sprite94
- NON Member
- Posts: 181
- Joined: Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:23 pm
- Whats your location?: just out side Mitchlestown.
- Region: Southern
- What Minis have you?: 1995 Mini Sprite, Elmo.
- Location: Tipp/Cork border
- Contact:
Re: Elmo
2 weeks and a few days waiting for the ruddy parts. they get here today, when I'm out of the house for the first time in ages! pox! the local shop was given my parts (dont you love rural Ireland?) and it was shut when I got home. oh I cant wait for tomorrow, christmas!
- mini_sprite94
- NON Member
- Posts: 181
- Joined: Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:23 pm
- Whats your location?: just out side Mitchlestown.
- Region: Southern
- What Minis have you?: 1995 Mini Sprite, Elmo.
- Location: Tipp/Cork border
- Contact:
Re: Elmo
Uploaded with ImageShack.us
gutted! not a christmas morning, just a connector of my dust extraction system.....poop!
- The Marcos Graveyard
- IMOC Paid Member
- Posts: 4720
- Joined: Fri Feb 04, 2005 10:05 am
- Whats your location?: Longford
- Region: Eastern
- What Minis have you?: 1971 Mini Marcos.
1984 Mini Sprite - Modifications: 1380cc
Weber45
S/C CR gearbox and drop gears - Location: Longford
- Contact:
Re: Elmo
Who did you order the bits from, is this still the 48hr delivery ?
- mini_sprite94
- NON Member
- Posts: 181
- Joined: Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:23 pm
- Whats your location?: just out side Mitchlestown.
- Region: Southern
- What Minis have you?: 1995 Mini Sprite, Elmo.
- Location: Tipp/Cork border
- Contact:
Re: Elmo
mini sport, they had problems getting parts....shipped most of the parts wensday afternoon. so I'm guessing monday
- The Marcos Graveyard
- IMOC Paid Member
- Posts: 4720
- Joined: Fri Feb 04, 2005 10:05 am
- Whats your location?: Longford
- Region: Eastern
- What Minis have you?: 1971 Mini Marcos.
1984 Mini Sprite - Modifications: 1380cc
Weber45
S/C CR gearbox and drop gears - Location: Longford
- Contact:
Re: Elmo
Hope they are refunding your shipping.
- mini_sprite94
- NON Member
- Posts: 181
- Joined: Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:23 pm
- Whats your location?: just out side Mitchlestown.
- Region: Southern
- What Minis have you?: 1995 Mini Sprite, Elmo.
- Location: Tipp/Cork border
- Contact:
Re: Elmo
I'm getting two deliveries, the second one is free, now if the ruddy first one could get here!
I'm going back to somerfords
I'm going back to somerfords
- Billy
- IMOC Paid Member
- Posts: 4649
- Joined: Mon May 09, 2005 12:49 pm
- Whats your location?: Roscommon
- Region: Western
- What Minis have you?: 1967 Morris Cooper, 1967 Austin Mini auto, 1968 Wolseley Hornet x2, 1981 Clubman Estate
- Location: Roscommon
- Contact:
Re: Elmo
Have used MiniSport very reluctantly for the Moulton Smootharide kit. But even then the delivery was 2 weeks.
- bluesteel
- NON Member
- Posts: 63
- Joined: Fri Aug 27, 2010 4:26 pm
- Whats your location?: Clare
- Region: Western
- Location: Clare
- Contact:
Re: Elmo
I know they don't have as much, but Huddersfield post the stuff out on the day, and 2 days later it arrives to your door. Very efficient!
When did I know I wanted to become a farmer? Good question. I suppose it was just a feeling I had from my head tomatoes.
- mini_sprite94
- NON Member
- Posts: 181
- Joined: Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:23 pm
- Whats your location?: just out side Mitchlestown.
- Region: Southern
- What Minis have you?: 1995 Mini Sprite, Elmo.
- Location: Tipp/Cork border
- Contact:
Re: Elmo
I have to hound them, to get a reciept after dropping a load on parts, I have to hound them for tracking numbers of packages, and still no info. all I want to to know so I can leave the ruddy house!
-
- NON Member
- Posts: 195
- Joined: Mon Mar 28, 2005 8:34 pm
- Whats your location?: Belfast
- Region: Northern
- Location: Belfast
- Contact:
Re: Elmo
My orders where the same. All items showed in stock on there site and then in told it will be two weeks till there back in. A month later I was still waiting. Like someone said you have to hound them for receipts and info.
Shame really cause there prices on certain items are great.
Shame really cause there prices on certain items are great.
- mini_sprite94
- NON Member
- Posts: 181
- Joined: Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:23 pm
- Whats your location?: just out side Mitchlestown.
- Region: Southern
- What Minis have you?: 1995 Mini Sprite, Elmo.
- Location: Tipp/Cork border
- Contact:
Re: Elmo
i'd say there is a warning siren every time i call, just tell me the truth, i'd be fine
- mini_sprite94
- NON Member
- Posts: 181
- Joined: Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:23 pm
- Whats your location?: just out side Mitchlestown.
- Region: Southern
- What Minis have you?: 1995 Mini Sprite, Elmo.
- Location: Tipp/Cork border
- Contact:
Re: Elmo
well almost christmas today, 3 of 4 boxes showed up. sigh!
still new wheels! yeay!
Uploaded with ImageShack.us
we wait with baited breath for the brakes and dampers!
still new wheels! yeay!
Uploaded with ImageShack.us
we wait with baited breath for the brakes and dampers!
- mini_sprite94
- NON Member
- Posts: 181
- Joined: Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:23 pm
- Whats your location?: just out side Mitchlestown.
- Region: Southern
- What Minis have you?: 1995 Mini Sprite, Elmo.
- Location: Tipp/Cork border
- Contact:
Re: Elmo
well at long last I get my hands on the final box, after it was sent to Kilkenny, then dropped into Tipp G.station (thank you Blue Network) and my wife playing courior,
all the parts getting fitted now
all the parts getting fitted now
- mini_sprite94
- NON Member
- Posts: 181
- Joined: Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:23 pm
- Whats your location?: just out side Mitchlestown.
- Region: Southern
- What Minis have you?: 1995 Mini Sprite, Elmo.
- Location: Tipp/Cork border
- Contact:
Re: Elmo
well my workshop is covered in a fine black mist and pear-drops smell. ahh
Uploaded with ImageShack.us
a new petrol cap, bumpers, an old grill, orig. grill still on Elmo, and elmo is in fermoy getting brakes fitted. old grill looks well......see what I can do with the orig. one...thinking hard on this one.
Also today, while my wife and daughter slept. work started on breaking ground for Elmo's new house. I know its dark but you get the idea, tis a trench!
have to build a foundation, and blockwork to get it up to the tarmac drive. as my daughter shouted today, "its so exciting, can i drive the digger?"
Uploaded with ImageShack.us
a new petrol cap, bumpers, an old grill, orig. grill still on Elmo, and elmo is in fermoy getting brakes fitted. old grill looks well......see what I can do with the orig. one...thinking hard on this one.
Also today, while my wife and daughter slept. work started on breaking ground for Elmo's new house. I know its dark but you get the idea, tis a trench!
have to build a foundation, and blockwork to get it up to the tarmac drive. as my daughter shouted today, "its so exciting, can i drive the digger?"
- mini_sprite94
- NON Member
- Posts: 181
- Joined: Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:23 pm
- Whats your location?: just out side Mitchlestown.
- Region: Southern
- What Minis have you?: 1995 Mini Sprite, Elmo.
- Location: Tipp/Cork border
- Contact:
Re: Elmo
well the foundations were laid there saturday, and Elmo should be back from getting his brakes fitted tomorrow!
- mini_sprite94
- NON Member
- Posts: 181
- Joined: Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:23 pm
- Whats your location?: just out side Mitchlestown.
- Region: Southern
- What Minis have you?: 1995 Mini Sprite, Elmo.
- Location: Tipp/Cork border
- Contact:
Re: Elmo
well got Elmo back today, his new brakes, Wheels and dampers are all set up and he's also got a new ball joint. Now he looks like a Hobo, with new runners. cant wait to get him painted now
you cant see the Spax but they are there, and tis raining heavy now so I'm not bothered going out in it
Question, Should I put on the Painted grill & Bumpers now, or wait till Elmo's paint is done?
you cant see the Spax but they are there, and tis raining heavy now so I'm not bothered going out in it
Question, Should I put on the Painted grill & Bumpers now, or wait till Elmo's paint is done?
- mini_sprite94
- NON Member
- Posts: 181
- Joined: Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:23 pm
- Whats your location?: just out side Mitchlestown.
- Region: Southern
- What Minis have you?: 1995 Mini Sprite, Elmo.
- Location: Tipp/Cork border
- Contact:
Re: Elmo
well, I was looking at the job I did on the grill, and it was a bit rough, and the petrol cap was dire, so took them back into my workshop today and got them looking allot better. I also gave my wipers a fresh coat of paint, as it seems the original black paint on them didn't even cover them fully. plus it'll help them match the grill, bumpers and cap.
also worked up the interior. I'll be dropping this sketch off to the upholstery guy after I drop the car into Fran in the next week or so. Me and my neighbour going on a road trip that day, my wife is packing the yorkies
also worked up the interior. I'll be dropping this sketch off to the upholstery guy after I drop the car into Fran in the next week or so. Me and my neighbour going on a road trip that day, my wife is packing the yorkies
- mini_sprite94
- NON Member
- Posts: 181
- Joined: Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:23 pm
- Whats your location?: just out side Mitchlestown.
- Region: Southern
- What Minis have you?: 1995 Mini Sprite, Elmo.
- Location: Tipp/Cork border
- Contact:
Re: Elmo
well Elmo is still with Fran, so I sealed and painted the floor of his shed, even tested it with the ride-on to see if the paint would lift, but it staying put, even with my two testers trying their best to wreak it.
my Son's mini collage, to make me feel better when I look at an empty shed. All my mini mags are shredded, if anyone wants to donate a stack he'd be in heaven!
my Son's mini collage, to make me feel better when I look at an empty shed. All my mini mags are shredded, if anyone wants to donate a stack he'd be in heaven!
-
- IMOC Paid Member
- Posts: 235
- Joined: Sun Mar 28, 2010 4:23 pm
- Whats your location?: West Cork
- Region: Southern
- What Minis have you?: 1983 Mini City E
- Contact:
Re: Elmo
I have a few magazines at home that I don't mind donating to the wall.
I'll hold onto the tech sections in them but he can have all the Mini pictures if ya like?
By any chance are you a Product Designer or artist of some sort as that sketch of the seats is fantastic! Fair play to ya.
Loving the work on the car too...red on black will look sweet when she's finished.
I'll hold onto the tech sections in them but he can have all the Mini pictures if ya like?
By any chance are you a Product Designer or artist of some sort as that sketch of the seats is fantastic! Fair play to ya.
Loving the work on the car too...red on black will look sweet when she's finished.
Who is online
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 0 guests