1979 Mini Clubman project- so far

As it came to us, bought off eBay, went to see it and the man said we may as well take it home with us, took a cheque, very trusting! I drove it, couldn't make it do above 40, Dad drove it home at 85, my trailing behind in his Fiesta not wanting to lose my driving licence.



Got it home, hooved it, threw all the rubbish away including a bit of plywood with stick on carbon fibre stuff which was screwed in realised it was actually pretty decent underneath! Stripped off the checkered roof as it looked terrible!



Paint was flat as a nit, and refused to be revived despite a power polish and T-cut.















Got t all stripped out and I started the long and tedious and not finished job of paint stripping. Dad got the fun job of whipping out the angle ginder, taking off the seams and welding them up.

Then I bought some new Heritage panels from Moss- reccomend them, great service- and Dad cut out the bad repairs on the boot floor and some more rust and that is how it is now.

I keep buying things for it but buying another mini and the fact that Dad is resident mechanic to about 7 cars as well as working 12 hours a day means he doesn't get much of a break, but the clubby will not be forgotten, I'm having a year out before uni to make sure of it

Very nice Min, very very nice big garage

Ah that's asbestos dad, 40 years in the motor trade makes you laugh in the face of health and safety. And that is a 4 car garage which at best holds 2 cars, the shell, a sit on mower we don't want and piles of junk; could easily get 6 minis in there ....

Sounds cool. Clubmans are the best IMO:)

Marc Bolan's 1275GT was black tulip, shame he died in it