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Christine's Mini Cooper Convertible Project

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Christine's Mini Cooper Convertible Project

Postby Sarysia » Fri Sep 21, 2012 10:06 am

I am going to make a few modifications to my new mini, and here is the first one.


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Re: Christine's Project

Postby irlmin » Fri Sep 21, 2012 10:12 am

Ah yes !!!!!! the good old 'Furry dice', looks good good to see the whole 'orange' thing continuing :)
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Postby MiniMpi » Fri Sep 21, 2012 9:38 pm

Very good Christine !! :)
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Re: Christine's Mini Cooper Convertible Project

Postby Sarysia » Sun Sep 23, 2012 10:28 pm

My car is currently standing on two wheels.

Two has been taken off to prepare them for something special i have in mind. Ill post picks once there are some daylight hopefully. I have set up a gazebo in the backgarden and got a working lamp so i can do stuff while its dark.
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Postby MiniMpi » Sun Sep 23, 2012 10:53 pm

Interesting !!!

Looking forward to seeing the photos Christine.
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Postby Sarysia » Mon Sep 24, 2012 9:07 am

About 4 days ago Michael ordered some parts for me on ebay and today they arrived :D

Black bonnet stripes and a new chrome handbreak handle as the other handle was loose.
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Postby MiniMpi » Mon Sep 24, 2012 6:12 pm

Nice :)
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Postby Sarysia » Tue Sep 25, 2012 6:01 pm

Some hard work has gone into these alloys.

Step 1

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Sanding down and repairs of holes done.

Step 2

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Primer has been put on and prepared for the Hot Orange metalic paint.

Step 3

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The orange has gone on and the next step is the glossy black.

Results so far, though some more work has to get done before they are finished.

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Postby MiniMpi » Tue Sep 25, 2012 6:04 pm

Now that is wild !!! Well done and for doing something totally different :)
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Re: Christine's Mini Cooper Convertible Project

Postby irlmin » Tue Sep 25, 2012 6:16 pm

Now THAT is radical , looking forward to seeing them on the car .
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Postby Derfinn » Tue Sep 25, 2012 7:06 pm

WOW!

What a great idea! Can't wait to see them on Tango.
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Re: Christine's Mini Cooper Convertible Project

Postby Sportspack-Mark » Tue Sep 25, 2012 7:30 pm

these are gonna look different! :D lets see them fitted!
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Postby Sarysia » Tue Sep 25, 2012 7:48 pm

Derfinn wrote:WOW!

What a great idea! Can't wait to see them on Tango.
(Have you kept the name?)



I havent named my car, but im ok with others keeping the name ;)
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Re: Christine's Mini Cooper Convertible Project

Postby Masterbiker » Tue Sep 25, 2012 8:25 pm

Sportspack-Mark wrote:these are gonna look different! :D lets see them fitted!


We can't do that yet :( Only just put the first coat of clear on two of them.

The other two, don't look good enough so we will re-paint them, which means waiting until next sunday. These two were the first ones we started to paint and had masked them up the opposite way of what we should have done.

But at least two of them are pretty much done so we will be able to put them on the car soon.
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Re: Christine's Mini Cooper Convertible Project

Postby minidragon » Tue Sep 25, 2012 9:26 pm

Really Looking forward to seeing the new modifications to Tango
Hope she treating you well.The handbrake is due to the speed bumps in Ballincollig (Damm things )It went spring across the car that was after it was glued on :-(
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