Because that is too easy, I like to over analyse and complicate things

Yep, Excited
But will be a little while till mine goes on the car

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1968 Morris Mini Deluxe - members gallery
1970 Morris Cooper S - members gallery
Mini's I grew up with
Slot car couch

pulled out the wiper linkages and cleaned up the cable , greased it up and spent ages trying to get the silly thing back up on the drivers side.
raised the front 1/2 inch
fitted headlight rings
filled the tanks for the first time in 30 years
drove 3klm, for the first time on a real drive since 1979
and also did a handbrake slide into my driveway
my mini is almost ready, just need a mad matt tuneup
http://s1199.photobucket.com/home/kooper70

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A good friend will come and bail you out of jail...but a true friend will be sitting next to you saying "Damn...that was fun!"

wow - awesome

Doing some maintenance to the car to keep a couple of rust spots at bay.

Starting in the boot.

Car on stands
Wheels off
Fuel tank out
Battery out
Cables out of boot
Vacuum out dust.
Wire brush some surface rust.
Rust converter.

Ready to wipe out and paint boot tuesday.

Then on to the spots below windscreen and rear screen including patching a couple of pinholes in the front floor.

De - rust
Wire brush
Dress file/sand
Rust converter

Ready to wipe and fill Tuesday

After that paint etc. Should keep the nasties at bay till I do the full resto.

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Cheers
Alec
1275LS - July 78 - XNFAD18Y/102918

Changed the oil in my daughters Mini Clubman and found a tooth.
I think it is off second gear.
Looks like an engine out job coming up.
It will have to wait until after OZ50 and I build the engine for the project.

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1969 Cooper "S"
1967 Mini Deluxe
1973 Clubman Van (the fleet spare)
1978 ex 1275 LS ("Wizard" Eaton Supercharged)
2015 HSV GenF GTS(occasional drive & tow car)
2019 MINI F55 Cooper S

Absolutely nothing...however in the effort to kick the MGB out of the garage fettled the new shields for the V6 headers (through the inner wings) so can move on to prepping and painting the engine bay.

Left hand/driver's side in Canada:

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Select a gear, bring up the revs and release the clutch...off you go!

It's been a while since the last post, so I'll bump it.

I've been meaning to replace my battery in the Mini for a while, and now that I'm tuning my MegaSquirt and stopping and starting it all the time whilst trying to tune it etc the battery just can't hack it.

Bit the bullet and bought for $168 an Exide Extra X56C from Big W (later found out Kmart had it for $164). Car starts well now, plus 3 year warranty.

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'68 Morris Mini 1310 A+ (Now Sold!)

Drove to the physio, then bit of a drive around the suburbs. The little car is going to well, something is either going to break or fall off. I can feels it in me bones I can.

put in the windscreen washer Yesterday and today made contact with the Blue Slipper. Hope he's nice to Marcia at the end of the week

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Stop Licking the Dog...I Don't Care Who Started It

Did half the floors in the moke, and rebuilt most of the subframe mount. Even bogged over and sanded some small holes i welded up.

proooogrrrrreessss

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You're so square
Baby I don't care

Removed what was left of the flairs from the van.
We had a little incident with a local flood effected country road on the way down to the Picnic at Hanging Rock car show.
I think we launched out of the first pot hole and cleared the second while airborne but the damage had been done.
Thanks go to the sump guard though. That took a beating.
Hopefully I'll get my new set of Wood & Picket style flairs on before the Sydney show. Probably won't be painted though.

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'72 English Van...'72 Export Moke ...63' 850...KZ 750E1...'74 P76

Final preparations on the K mini for Oz50 Wakefield Park (& the HSRCA meeting the weekend before) - replaced the rear brake cylinders, replaced brake & clutch fluid, oil & filter change, grease, full check over, new battery and 4 new tyres.

Then the car trailer, new brake master & wheel cylinders to be fitted, re-pack the wheel bearings and check all lights, winch etc. Plan to leave here next Monday morning for the 3000km trip south.

I'm looking forward to catching up with some old friends and some new ones.

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Steve

Woo Hoo! Will be great to see you Steve, long time mate!

Let me know if you want to stop off here for the night on your way down!

Cheers!

Graham

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Sir Alec! we are not worthy!

Hi Graham, yep looking forward to seeing you and Lilian too. Has been a long time. Many thanks for kind offer, we will be travelling the inland route, thru Goondiwindi, Dubbo etc so will miss Newcastle this time. Might get the chance to have a run on the track eh?

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Steve