I took last week off work and 6 or 7 litres of paint stripper later my second mini looks like this...



Ran out of time to totally finish removing, but hopefully I've saved myself some money.
It looked like this when I got it...



This morning it got towed off to get the engine out and then off to the paint shop.

good effort! I'm sure you did save yoruself money, but maybe not... since you took a week off work haha

What colour are you repainting it? Back to white?

wow... looking good.. thats alot of stripper... i used about 2L on evil.... and wire wheel on the inside..

I kinda like it white........

: D

Black roof....

Performance wheels. NOYCE.

leave it like that and weld some mad max spikes and blades on the front FULLY SIC M8

looks like a mini De'lorean!!!!

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Now THAT would be an interesting conversion.

If someone can go back in time, can you change my HSC results. I wanna be a doctor this time..

If you could find a mini without ANY rust, you might be able to clear coat it and make it look like a delorean. Not sure how the doors would work though .

you could sort of do them... there are lambo door kits out the for the clasic mini.. not cheep...

i have a mini in similar condition with paint on will stripping the paint realy save m1e dollars and when its stripped what are you coating it with to prevent rust i have taken the floor back to metal and all parts are stripped is it worth stripping any further

Marc don't waste time/money on that shell stripping it back. I know that car don't as it won't save you $$$.
I stripped back the race car that you saw when you were over here but only because it had about 13 different colours on it. Maybe some hidden defects but yours is a very good round nose shell.

(edit) and only use quality primers and paints. I recommend Dulon. Use Etch Primer on bare metal, then primer, then your colour. NEVER use Supacrap paint. I made a huge mistake using this shite paint for the roof (white) and it is phucked!

I haven't done any primer or anything, it's gone straight to the painter. He recommended he do the sanding, so any primer would just be sanded off anyways. If you sand it back yourself, then put at least some kind of protectant on it.

how many layers of paint did u come arcoss?? on my old gem there would have been about 8

Mainly factory paint actually, except in the bits which had been repaired, and even then it was a decent job because there was only one extra layer.

really? i thought going to back to bare metal was always better
i want this one to be pretty mint
i have done what i can with the floor and put some rustbuster stuff on it the front pans will get replaced with new ones and maybe the sills if they need it i dont think they do
so what would you suggest i have stripped it all windscreens roof lining all other bits
not much rust few little dints here and there i will not paint myself as i want a decent job done