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Author:  mz.mini [ Sat Dec 30, 2006 4:02 pm ]
Post subject:  Fiberglass panels
Hi
Is it possible to fit a roundnose fiberglass frontend on to a clubman?

I am able to get 2 clubmans for under $1000, but i really want a roundnose and here in Darwin there is not much to choose from.

If anyone can tell me i would much appretiate it :)
Author:  Mick [ Sat Dec 30, 2006 4:09 pm ]
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Can't help with the panels too much (but yes they will fit with fettling).

I was up there for 6 years from 1997 to 2003, and yes there isn't a lot up there to find easily, and the wreckers are pirates!
Just over the Baggot Rd/Stuart highway overpass was a yard with roughly a dozen or more ex-rental mokes behind the fence on the southern side. Are they still there? He had a roundie floating around in there. Speak to the manager at Port Darwin Motors, he knows a thing or two about minis having been the BMC dealer up there until the end. He may know the whereabouts of a roundie. You will be quietly surprised what comes out of Darwin sheds, I saw a Vought Corsair in Winnellie, and a couple of WWII Harley Davidsons in Malak !
Author:  9YaTaH [ Sat Dec 30, 2006 4:49 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Fiberglass panels
mz.mini wrote:
Hi
Is it possible to fit a roundnose fiberglass frontend on to a clubman?

I am able to get 2 clubmans for under $1000, but i really want a roundnose and here in Darwin there is not much to choose from.

If anyone can tell me i would much appretiate it :)


Welcome Mz...you aren't ex-Canberra are you :wink:

Might be easier to just buy the new guards from Karcraft, a second hand bonnet etc and make a clubby into a roundy (I know, sacriledge :roll: ).

Fibreglass flip-fronts are available if you really want to go fibre.
Author:  mz.mini [ Sat Dec 30, 2006 5:33 pm ]
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Hi mick
I dont think the cars are there anymore and Port Darwin Motors is no longer around.

Mazda is now owned by the Kerrys Group so i dont know if he would still be manager.


9YaTaH

Thanks for the welcome and no i am not ex-Canberra, never even been there.

Thanks for that i will see if Karcraft have a website.
Author:  Marvin [ Sat Dec 30, 2006 5:37 pm ]
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mz.mini wrote:
Thanks for the welcome and no i am not ex-Canberra, never even been there.

consider yourself lucky :lol:
Author:  drmini in aust [ Sat Dec 30, 2006 6:34 pm ]
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mz.mini wrote:
Thanks for that i will see if Karcraft have a website.

See www.karcraft.com.au
email is [email protected]
Ask them to post you a printed catalog. It has real prices... :wink:
Author:  mz.mini [ Sat Dec 30, 2006 6:37 pm ]
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See www.karcraft.com.au
email is [email protected]
Ask them to post you a printed catalog. It has real prices... :wink:[/quote]

Thanks will do that :)
Author:  9YaTaH [ Sun Dec 31, 2006 7:55 am ]
Post subject:  Peninsular.....
[quote="Marvin"]
consider yourself lucky :lol:

....thats enough out of you Dromana boy :P
Author:  Lillee [ Sun Dec 31, 2006 9:38 am ]
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Side track: How legal is fibre glass fronts on the road? alot of the structural integrity of a mini is the front panels and I'd hate to think what would happen in a head on crash with fiber glass panels :shock:
Author:  feralsprint [ Sun Dec 31, 2006 9:46 am ]
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Lillee wrote:
Side track: How legal is fibre glass fronts on the road? alot of the structural integrity of a mini is the front panels and I'd hate to think what would happen in a head on crash with fiber glass panels :shock:



Sorry mate but as mini's never had crumple zones designed into the front and that all the structural integrity is actualy designed into the passenger cell called the cabin and all the bits of the front just hang of it to cover the wheels and engine the change to fibre glass will make no difference in a front collision.

Jon
Author:  drmini in aust [ Sun Dec 31, 2006 10:14 am ]
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I agree, having hit a smallish tree at ~60MPH and lived to tell the tale. The LF guard just peeled inside out... :shock:
Author:  buztoy [ Sun Dec 31, 2006 10:18 am ]
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Lillee wrote:
Side track: How legal is fibre glass fronts on the road? alot of the structural integrity of a mini is the front panels and I'd hate to think what would happen in a head on crash with fiber glass panels :shock:


id hate to think of what would happen anyways with a steel front, :oops:
Author:  drmini in aust [ Sun Dec 31, 2006 10:25 am ]
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buztoy wrote:
Lillee wrote:
Side track: How legal is fibre glass fronts on the road? alot of the structural integrity of a mini is the front panels and I'd hate to think what would happen in a head on crash with fiber glass panels :shock:


id hate to think of what would happen anyways with a steel front, :oops:

Trust me there are worse cars than a Mini to have a head-on in...
I know Mini people who have had head-ons, rolled em, bent em bad, and they are all still alive and kicking. 8)
Author:  buztoy [ Sun Dec 31, 2006 11:57 am ]
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there is a car up the road from me, 4 door 7 seater thing, 7 people in it, would be like a rice bubble on wheels
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