Irish Mini Owners Club

them tyres not the best,wing has been cutting into nearside tyre,hammer fixed that for time being!! tyres one of many thigs on shopping list.
stan's asrta in background and my run around 96 astra parked behind stud! 96 astra will be for sale when stud on road.

StanO'Toole wrote:

mark halford wrote:

Theres my Astra!

no its not yours is an estate thats a hatchback

stans astra is there in top right of pic astra behind stud is my 96 astra which has stopped breaking down on me at last rotor arm and dizzy fix that problem was starting to think bad luck from stud was rubbing off to astra!!!

ha i didn't scroll across!!!

mark halford wrote:was starting to think bad luck from stud was rubbing off to astra!!!

Sounds about right!

panels in gareths garage! ready to be put on to studly. looking for ideas if anyone can help me on front grilles wavy slat,cooper 8 slat or thin mk5 slat i cant make my mind up and fog lamp set ups which are the best to use? thanks

Matter of personal taste but for me its mk1 wide slat , looks cool all painted gloss black , have seen it on a car from japan
goes good with dark colours

really like this one.... another jap too...

http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee30 ... 16/1-1.jpg

Yea saw that one real nice on 10s to

been quite last few months! recession hit!! and had hoilday to save for but promise news to come soon on poor old stud!!!!

Get him on the road! And let me know if you see the mother driving the 09 Suzuki Swift Ex-works!

only news at moment is got competition exhaust manifold gasket for poor old stud better than paper one that on it now

So you are still alive! I thought you had lost interest

no just dont have the money need to get charity set up for poor old stud....but went stud up and running the wait will be worth it.....

Stud is well worth it! He is some character and I'm sure the lads here could back that up! You'll never no what he'll do next!

car cover gone! wind rip it in half time to get things moving to get stud up and back on road ready for new year......hopefully....

mark halford wrote:car cover gone! wind rip it in half time to get things moving to get stud up and back on road ready for new year......hopefully....

Yay!

at last order gone in for few bits for stud!!!!thanks to minispares ,then it off to gareths garage to panels on and other bits done to poor car..see you all MTM 2012 for sure!

Massive progress has started on stud again today. Have it in workshop all striped panels cut off all ground up and gonna start welding new panels on tomorrow. Then get some paint on it next week.

gareth wrote:Massive progress has started on stud again today. Have it in workshop all striped panels cut off all ground up and gonna start welding new panels on tomorrow. Then get some paint on it next week.

big thanks to cliff and gareth at castletown motors for all work done so far and no
doubt all work to come.

its looking well lads, how long before ur in the road?

work that got done late last night thanks again to gareth,handy man with the old spray gun.

and now with paint

lookin good lads, did ye have a tough time lining up the front end??