Well thought I would start a thread up for my first car! Bought her when I was 16 ready to drive on my 17th birthday.
Heres a pic from the ebay ad.
Had a few mods. Stage 1 kit with an RC40 exhaust, Some badly painted minilites and some wheel arches.
Here she is the day I bought her.
Anyway pretty much kept her like this and just had a few bits of welded done for the MOT. Then started to learnt to drive in her.
Then came some typical 17 year old mods. Sick angle eyes and clear rear lights bruv! Plus a few other tacky chrome bits.
Here she is at the IMM2009 the Minis 50th Birthday.
Then the engine had some mods. Had the block pocketed and at 1300 head fitted a bigger carb and a cam. For a 998 it really did go like a rocket.
Then I had a new front end fitted as the other had rotted out pretty bad. Went for a removable fiberglass bonnet.
Rattle canned this as I wanted to do a few other bits before I got the whole car painted.
Came out ok though!
At this sort of time I also grew out of the tacky 17 year old mods. Thank god! So some old school mk2 tail light were fitted.
Used it like this for a while then noticed 2 tyres where worn and the other 2 getting close and they were odd so as I had a drive to Kent that weekend for Southern Mini Days I splashed out on 4 new tyres.
I drove to kent and had a great time.
Then the Monday I popped to town to get some bits and bang. The diff went.
That was the last day the car saw the road! With 4 tyres that had done less then 200 miles and a full tank of fuel.
After this happened the strip down started.
Engine out
That was then sold. I was quite happy with how far I had tuned the 998 so I sold it to fund bigger and better thing.
Then the body work started.
Had new floor pans sills and door steps on both sides!
So I go that back and dropped the subframes. Leaving me a bare shell.
I then bought some new door skins and reskined some doors I had bought as the frames were much better. The ones on the car were so rotten they were not even worth reskining.
New doors.
New door skins.
And tah dah! Nice rust free doors.
So thats it! Half way a bare shell so now things start going back together!
Started off drilling the holes out for the new grill gone for a mk1 cooper grill with an Inno tash
Anyway then bought some new arches. Went for some W&P ones.
Fitted too of them and have a teaser shot with the wheels I will be using 10x6 motorsport wellers.
Then the most important thing! The new engine. A stage 3 1293.
That is pretty much were I am at. Need a very small bit of welding done to the shell then it can be painted. Also need to build up a strong gear box for the engine so I can put that together. Hoping it wont be long until shes back on the road. Its been 2 years now and I so miss driving her. Anyway that pretty much it for now.
Thanks for reading!
Heres a pic from the ebay ad.
Had a few mods. Stage 1 kit with an RC40 exhaust, Some badly painted minilites and some wheel arches.
Here she is the day I bought her.
Anyway pretty much kept her like this and just had a few bits of welded done for the MOT. Then started to learnt to drive in her.
Then came some typical 17 year old mods. Sick angle eyes and clear rear lights bruv! Plus a few other tacky chrome bits.
Here she is at the IMM2009 the Minis 50th Birthday.
Then the engine had some mods. Had the block pocketed and at 1300 head fitted a bigger carb and a cam. For a 998 it really did go like a rocket.
Then I had a new front end fitted as the other had rotted out pretty bad. Went for a removable fiberglass bonnet.
Rattle canned this as I wanted to do a few other bits before I got the whole car painted.
Came out ok though!
At this sort of time I also grew out of the tacky 17 year old mods. Thank god! So some old school mk2 tail light were fitted.
Used it like this for a while then noticed 2 tyres where worn and the other 2 getting close and they were odd so as I had a drive to Kent that weekend for Southern Mini Days I splashed out on 4 new tyres.
I drove to kent and had a great time.
Then the Monday I popped to town to get some bits and bang. The diff went.
That was the last day the car saw the road! With 4 tyres that had done less then 200 miles and a full tank of fuel.
After this happened the strip down started.
Engine out
That was then sold. I was quite happy with how far I had tuned the 998 so I sold it to fund bigger and better thing.
Then the body work started.
Had new floor pans sills and door steps on both sides!
So I go that back and dropped the subframes. Leaving me a bare shell.
I then bought some new door skins and reskined some doors I had bought as the frames were much better. The ones on the car were so rotten they were not even worth reskining.
New doors.
New door skins.
And tah dah! Nice rust free doors.
So thats it! Half way a bare shell so now things start going back together!
Started off drilling the holes out for the new grill gone for a mk1 cooper grill with an Inno tash
Anyway then bought some new arches. Went for some W&P ones.
Fitted too of them and have a teaser shot with the wheels I will be using 10x6 motorsport wellers.
Then the most important thing! The new engine. A stage 3 1293.
That is pretty much were I am at. Need a very small bit of welding done to the shell then it can be painted. Also need to build up a strong gear box for the engine so I can put that together. Hoping it wont be long until shes back on the road. Its been 2 years now and I so miss driving her. Anyway that pretty much it for now.
Thanks for reading!
