Mini City *Old Skool*

[jamieread]

Well i havnt got a cupra yet so cant post any pics of that so i thought i would just post some pics of my mini that i have just sold .

Me and my dad restored it....fitted new panels...Loads of welding...Re-spray...and pretty much everything new.

heres a pic of when i first got it...

and heres some after....

Was great fun and what a great first car!

 

[Brummy]

pics aint workin' doood

 

[jamieread]

sorted...thanks to the admin

 

[dannyk]

i can see them.

Looks ace mate, always loved the mini esp with the wide arches

 

[Brummy]

ool pics .. love old (proper) mini's

 

[lunalupi]

Looks cool!

I want a project mini, something my dad can teach my how to work on cars with - but I'm not at home, and we havn't got the space really

 

[Ibiza 130 tdi]

My god that's tidy! I did exactly the same with a Racing Green. Spent loads of money on it. that was my first car.....except i can't let go and it's still sat in the garage. I have pics too.

 

[DIFT]

Lovely, I did this to my mini 30, and loved it. Cant believe I sold it years back

One of the biggest regrets of my life.

 

[james_tiger_woo]

My god that's tidy! I did exactly the same with a Racing Green. Spent loads of money on it. that was my first car.....except i can't let go and it's still sat in the garage. I have pics too.

I hope you're going to post some pics of it....

 

[jamieread]

cheers guy's.
Really did enjoy restoring it with my dad. Took a while and quite a bit of cash but was worth it.

yeah get some pics up of ur's....

 

[Deleted member 13581]

Minted mate.

Really like the 2 tone and the wheel.

 

[KP]

minis are so

well done on restoration, looks good, driven a few myself handle like go carts, soooooo fun

 

[Tom B]

Nice, love the colour too!

Theres an old dear up the road from me that has a white N reg Mini, 6k from new and she's the only owner. I have already offered her cash for it but she wants to keep it for a year. She has my number, I hope she calls me!

 

[Ibiza 130 tdi]

Just a few pics of mine then.....got HUNDREDS.

Fully restored it - new panels, respray (everything but back end cos not one bit of rust), bought the bucket seats, dash, erm.....so much! They only made 1500 Racing Greens so it is a limited edition. And rolling roaded at 49bhp at flywheel! What a beast.

 

[james_tiger_woo]

That's well cool - proper old skool - you wanna sell it? Lol

 

[Ibiza 130 tdi]

I have been thinking about it because now i have the Ibiza it seems gutless and bad on fuel....I did over 10,000 miles in it as my first car! But EVERYONE says the biggest regret they ever had was selling their Mini and that it was their best car. I even had a women stop me once in a Mazda RX-8 saying that she didn't like it and wanted her Mini back!

 

[WeeJase]

how much you guys spent restoring these ?compared to how much you sold them for?
just that a friend wants to do one,but his mrs(who will end up owning it)can't wait too long(or doesn't bloody want to)

 

[jamieread]

Nice racing green

Well i bought the car for £1000....payed a bit too much really for how rusty the god damn thing was. Spent about 5500 restoring it...It soon adds up.
I sold it for £1800 but it had a dent in the pasenger A panel and the arch was smashed (Work car park..*******s!)

 

[Neale]

My 1st car was a 1988 mini mayfair and i loved it to bits i paid £700 for and owned it for jst over a year....i had reciepts for £1700 1st thing i had to do was replace both subframes as they were rotten thru....after that was out the way i started on new wheels,flared wheel arches,buckets seats,centre exit exhaust,new dash and other shiney bits...and after all that i sold her for a measly £900

This is how she looked wen i last saw her:-

 

[Ibiza 130 tdi]

Well I bought mine for £900. The door skin was seperate to the frame on one door - had rotted out! Replaced A-panels, sills, rebuilt doors, rust around headlights, windscreen.....I got the whole bodywork and paint done for £900. But i got carried away. The seats themselves got about £350 for the pair... think I've spent about £3500.