Well thanks to mokesta some photos are up of the mini and the half cut. the mini has been a ground up resto that has taken me 3 years and it should have rego withih 2 weeks. It's just got a 998 in it and drum brakes (for the moment) I'll just drive it around till i have everything ready to go for the conversion. the half cut is a beauty, only 85000 klm's on it and i got it for $2,000 . I bought it from CVAP in shepperton (vic) Andrew Vibert is the owner and could'nt have been more helpful,he's going to get another one in so check him out
cheers hallsey

Good work Hallsey, and not a bad halfcut either.

Good luck with it.

Cheers,
Tricky

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Thanks andy , pretty happy with it. Going to finish off the jig for the front end tomorrow so slowly but surely.

I finished the jig for the subframe tonight . won't have time to do anything on the weekend but I'll start cutting on monday night (batteries flat on the camera dooh!!)

Stripping the half cut

I'm think I've got the hang of the photo thing.
Heres a couple of photo's of stripping the half cut, man wires everywhere.
I'm struggling for time as both my kids race motocross, so I'm away 40 to 45 weekends a year. So its out the shed of a night but its a bit cold.

I'm half way through making the subframe so ticking along slowly , would've had some photo's but the batteries went flat in the camera dooh! Also just about ready to get the mini rego'd hopefully a couple of weeks I'll put up some photo's when I get a chance cos we all love the photos
cheers hallsey

Freaky... I found your email again about 'catching up' and you said you were thinking about a conversion and then I find this thread

ah yes my alien friend, good to her from you. still like to catch up if your free. if you still have my number I'll be home on sat (21st), your most welcome to come have a look
cheers hallsey

Well I thought i'd take a step back and show the build of the car. I bought 3 mini's all within a month. the 1st was from a little old lady who only drove it to church on Sundays. I got receipts an inch thick on all the work she had had done on it by northern mini's, which also included a fully reco'd 998 which had had 3 months use before I bought the car.the only problem was she had been T boned and had pretty much stuffed the car,so I picked it up for $400 bucks.
The 2nd car was a hairy lime green with a pretty good shell but the motor was tied.I got this for $450 and this is the shell I used. 3rd one was a fully rusted out sunshine but had mags,extractors,2" system and factory tinted glass, got this one for $250
I was so keen to start the build I did'nt take any photos of the cars before I started but here are some into the build.

Welded in some floor pans ,boot floor and bits n pieces.







My daughter Kimberley just itchin for a drive



The underneath painted







The rear subframe insitu





Engine bay painted and some body work





The motor cleaned and painted





A bit of undercoat







And the start of a bit of color





Sorry for a few blury photos





I'll have some more photos up soon
cheers hallsey

Excellent work Hallsey, and I love the colour!

Cheers,
Tricky

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yeah thanks Tricky, it's ford monza red(red is fast lol) these pics are probably 2 years old so it's progressed a bit since then

'U will be' (shaking fist) Looks good, is it a standard colour?

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yeah just standard monza red but I do like it. From memory "k" is the paint code.