Might've found some better seats for the car, they're (the ones on the left) out of a Porsche 911, the ones on the right are out of a 40th Anniversary Cooper S for scale
And sitting in said 40th Anniversary Cooper S:
Seem to fit OK yes?
Finally got around to sourcing and fitting some gas struts for the bonnet today also:
You'll also notice that the 'cold air intake' and piping, shown here, is gone:
The alloy piping across the length of the engine bay, along with it (pretty much) contacting the exhaust manifold, was doing an excellent job of heating the air coming through, totally negating the whole point of a cold air intake... So, instead we're going to mount the air intake on the right hand side (so on the left as you're looking at the above picture), the filter will be sitting in the front spoiler in fact. This does pose some risk of water ingress, but realistically I don't expect to be driving this car through floodwaters or even in particularly heavy rainfall, and besides which, I live in Townsville and it hardly bloody rains here as it is ha ha
Also seriously considering ditching the doors that Tricky made up, getting the non-mini door handles to work with the mini door latches etc is proving to be a bloody nightmare (I wonder why they were never done eh?
). As I'm now pretty sure I'm going to get the car vinyl wrapped once it's complete this isn't such a big deal (don't get me wrong, I do really like the Martini paint scheme, but it's perhaps a little to garish for general street use? Getting the car wrapped rather than re-painting it will be a cheaper option and will also leave the Martini scheme intact if I ever want to go back to it at a later date