MK 1 subframes
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Sep 7, 2017 03:47PM | 1963SV2 | Edited: Sep 7, 2017 03:50PM |
Sep 7, 2017 01:12PM | Dr Mini | |
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Sep 7, 2017 06:00AM | CooperTune | Edited: Sep 7, 2017 06:45AM |
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Sep 7, 2017 03:59AM | Dr Mini | |
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Sep 6, 2017 02:07PM | CooperTune | |
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Sep 5, 2017 10:09PM | minimans | |
Sep 5, 2017 08:26PM | Dr Mini | |
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And there's a difference between a "running car" (as the ad might say) and something you'd be happy to send your daughter off to school in.
I would strongly suggest you really need a "complete" car - that way you will have some idea of what you need when you go shopping...and a model for what goes where. Also, having pulled things apart, you will have some idea of how it goes back together.... A good worksop manual - maybe a Haynes, although there are better ones once you start pulling things apart, Porter's book as suggested by DrMini and a Mini suppliers parts manual (I find a printed one that I can flip pages is easier than something on-line) will get you started.
IMHO there are basically two kinds of Minis; Mk I/IIs and the rest (based on some basic body parameters). However, someone once said that Minis are the Mr Potato Heads of cars. Many bits are mix and match. The trick is knowing which bits can be used for your car ...at what sort of trouble. Anything can be used anywhere ... its just that some things are more trouble than they're worth.
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Edit: forgot Hi-Los w/ new knuckles
This is no longer a hobby for a teen age boy as I was when I started with my first $300. mini in 68. Steve (CTR)
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I'd suggest someone coming into the hobby buy the best car they can afford and move forward from there. Sooner or later you will need deep pockets with a full restoration project. I have a mid 80's Mayfair, nice little car with a few issues. We put it up for sale but it would not quite make the price. The owner decided we should go though and repair as required. Roughly $7000 later we have a mid 80's Mayfair with completely rebuilt tranny, engine, suspension and brakes. The car is very solid with a section of rust bubbles along the scuttle. I want to put a new set of tires on it and it could be driven anywhere.
This car was a father son project, driven to college then given back to dad. I don't know what age child you have but a driving car with some things to be done would be a lot more fun. I also have a 997 project missing the front sub frame. Also a 72 Inno MK 3 Cooper project needing front floors and the front end. Now that I think of it it needs both subs. Steve (CTR)
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$3,800 may be a bit steep, but I'm looking at the car and shell with a British eye instead of an American one, and I'd take the project on.
over here it'd be £2,000 just for the shell...
The pile of treasure that come with it is random, and not all useful, but one man's junk is another man's treasure - what isn't useful or used can be passed on to hlep fund the project. The engines are all useful, as are the gearboxes, most of which have some early Mk1 bits on them like the transfer housings. Don't forget, the lowly 998 can easily be made to perform like a stock 1275, and has better reliability.
I'd start my haggle at $2,250 and be prepared to spend many happy/grumpy hours welding & grinding to make something personal - this car will never be concours, but has the potential to be a decent project - but probably not for someone who can't do ALL of the required work themselves... start paying someone to do the work and it's route one to an abandoned project that needs to be priced high enough to pacifiy "Her Indoors" after years of expenditure that noone will buy it.
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Since this is your first mini save up a bit and be prepared to find a complete running car. mini's are a mine field of different parts for different years, after all they were in production for 41 years! Don't be put off just go in with your eyes wide open and preferably with some one who knows a bit about the subject cars................
Mini's are like buses they come along in a bunch
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"Even after driving 14 hours to get it."
The car is located 14 hours from Omaha.
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