1982 Mini Scamp

It's now the 20th of July

The units a working Garage, so most of this evening was spent underneath a Transit or a Vivaro or other generic van

I did manage to get the recip saw out mind. The vision is starting to take shape









26 days and counting

24th July

Get the rear arms in on the cage and chuck a cross bar in






22 days and counting

31st July

It's August tomorrow, we're entering proper deadline territory now

Another evening of fixing vans, fitting clutches, turbos and welding the awful things.


Only got a little done, but it was done well


Used the MX5 seat base as the car already had the holes in the right place to fit them.

Made up some thick plates to line up with the mounts on the new plastic, waterproof seat.






All mounted up




15 days and counting

It's the 9th now


Cleaned the cage up, the tube had been outside for months and I added a little filler to the welds to smooth them out




Started making the new dash, the old one was a mess of random pods





8 days and counting

It's the 13th now, that's 2 days of work left!


A trip to Halfords saw me with 2 cans of their truck bed liner, this is brilliant stuff, masked up, throw it on, done.
You can see the rear lights. Amazingly I bought some led clusters a good 2 years ago to fit to a trailer tent I had. It never happened and it transpired they were the perfect width to fit the Scamp, winna!




Dash was rewired, the only switches I have are for the side and dipped lights




This must have been another fix stuffs in the unit day as that's all that got done to the Scamp


2 days and counting

Those big flat side panels could do with some kind of detailing. Such as pressed triangles etc.

16th August - RRG day!

Well, today's the day, a 75 mile trip to RRG


Woke up, opened the curtains, it's hammering it down - ideal


Either way, jump in her and go.




Temperature is off the chart, clearly not just the thermostat and housing. I'll order a high capacity waterpump and a HG whilst i'm at it.




She made it!




A great time was had as always, just he journey home now.

It's not raining, this should be a much nicer drive. And it was. For 10 miles.

I was driving along a tight lane as pace (probably 30mph, but everything feels fast) when there was an almighty bang and the rear end of the car launched itself skyward, follwed by screeches from behind.

I pulled over and the engine was still running, so it's not that. Turned her off, got out to find my mate behind me ferreting through the hedgeline.

Turns out the whole exhaust has snapped at the manifold, bent under the car which launched it, then my mate drove over it.


Well, that's not going back on is it. Jump back in, start to drive. MY GOD THE NOISE!!!

Another 65 miles we drove, Ear splitting sounds and now she was really down on power. As a bonus Shelsley isn't in a hilly part of the UK... no, wait! Up hills were a struggle, having to thrash he in low gears didn't help the noise issue.


We got home though, slower than expected



RRG was awesome and the Scamp did me proud

Saw it over the weekend and it did look good, wondered how the drive over had been, you don’t really appreciate completely open motoring until you’ve done it, did the flyscreen do anything?

It did look very pretty
Made us want coloured for the Fug too