Irish Mini Owners Club

Hi,

In February 2008, I started out on the restoration of a 1979 Mini Clubman. I kept a restoration thread going on Mini Resource showing the trials and tribulations of the work.

Follow this link to view the full thread......http://www.miniresource.com/forums/inde ... opic=28731

Anyway, the project turned into a major ground up restoration with 90% the car brought back to bare metal, then Zinc primed, and eventually professionally resprayed/baked in a Fiat/Alfa shade called Giallo Ginestra.

I'm happy to say that the car is now finished and on the road (classic tax and insured). Just wanted to say thanks to Paul D for all the help and to the folks on MiniResource and IMOC for the invaluable advice during the rebuild.

Here are a few highlights of the rebuild in progress and a few pics of what he(christened Bob) looks like today.





















And Finally , Last weekend,




















Once again, thanks to everyone who helped out along the way.

Roll on a new project for 2010

regards,

Unfit.

Lovely car nice choice on the colour yellow is my favorite clubman colour
any idea how much ya spend on it

Glad to see your on the road and it looks lovely.Turned out really well and the colour really suits it.Que more crying from Maxi about nice Clubmans

Thats a lovely clubman, well done..

as said on MR, great job dude!
a credit to you

wow. she looks lovley dude. sitting really nicely too. sweet job!!

lovely lookin clubby

Stunning.

Excellent work

Thanks for that lads. Its great to get the acknowledgement from guys who know these cars as well as you do. I have to admit that the last few bits to be sorted out took the longest and there is still a few bits of minor tidying to be done inside the car.
For example, I put a crank shaft oil seal in it there 2 weeks ago to cure a small oil leak and spent a few late nights putting it all back together and it felt that some of the enjoyment factor was missing. But glad to say, I'm now happy I went to the bother of doing that seal. Its like a lot of the other unseen work that goes into a rebuild. I'm sure you know what its like.
By the way, TMG, I have not forgotten that pivot bolt you lent me that time. I will settle up with you when we meet up at a run.


Unfit

Gorgeous job-well done.

I love the colour


Tony

seen this the other nite, its stunnin looking. the colour really looks well on it

She looks the DOGS DANGLERS !! worth all the effort and pain in the end !

Cheers for those seats Skelly. Really comfortable. Will look at that dash liner tomorrow and maybe sort out a few minor internal details that I have been ignoring.