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

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 !

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SooperDooperMiniCooperExpertEngineering

All garage work involves equal measures of enthusiasm, ingenuity and a fair degree of irresponsibility.

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

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 ).

Fibreglass flip-fronts are available if you really want to go fibre.

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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.

consider yourself lucky

See www.karcraft.com.au
email is [email protected]
Ask them to post you a printed catalog. It has real prices...

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

See www.karcraft.com.au
email is [email protected]
Ask them to post you a printed catalog. It has real prices... [/quote]

Thanks will do that

[quote="Marvin"]
consider yourself lucky

....thats enough out of you Dromana boy

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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

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Lillee - 1969 Morris Mini K

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

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Roundies and Clubbies(except vans) are both ugly that is why I have Midas and a van
1293 Mini Midas Bronze,1275 Clubman van

I agree, having hit a smallish tree at ~60MPH and lived to tell the tale. The LF guard just peeled inside out...

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

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

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any parts for a 76 clubby pm me or ring 0405 329 326

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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.

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

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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any parts for a 76 clubby pm me or ring 0405 329 326

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