Thanks Cam, I really appreciate you holding onto them for me. Is this weekend ok??

Also, you never responded to my challenge regarding finishing our conversions together - how about it?

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Can I have mine finished at the same time too please

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Absolutely Gordo, the more the merrier!!!

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My reins have been severely tightened... Meg has a bun in the oven and we're in the middle of buying our own home up here finally.
And my poor car is still in Sydney, not getting the attention it deserves!
Ohh and the new place dosnt have a shed at least I get to design and build my own

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Thats a very optimistic way of looking at it

Congrats Gordo an apprentice


Good work Tricky ,you dont muck around do you

Cheers Hallsey

Not an apprentice Hallsey, a Padawan!!

Of course I am not mucking around my friend, you have inspired me!!!

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Tricky - sounds good to me. If only someone would give the gift of time.

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72 Clubbie - Current project - Vauxhall C20XE 2000cc 16v 150hp.
78 Clubbie - Future project.

Them's the rules we have allowed for a work shed to be built. And if that dosnt happen I have no problem with ripping out a wall and putting a garage door in the side of the house. Just that threat is about enough to build a shed.



Thanks Hallsey, training and teaching will be the key

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Maybe you, Gordo and I need to complie our collective resources for the common good!!!

That sounds an awful lot like communism....

Anyway, you get my drift.

Cheers,
Tricky

P.S. Can you PM me your address again as its been so long since I have been to your place!!

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Oooh, did some more to El Gato this weekend - this is starting to be a habit!!

Decided to shift my attention to the things that need to be finished so I can paint him, and of course the major thing outstanding is a bit of bodywork. The major piece of bodywork outstanding is the front spoiler. So I decided to attack that head on!!

The front spoiler needs to be finished - shaped and profiled to fit the new design front end. This will in fact be a blank. From the blank gets pulled a mould ( a negative), and from the mould gets pulled a moulding which hopefully should be identical to the blank. So I decided to spend the day bogging, sanding, shaping and scraping, to get it just right. Its a huge job, and very labour intensive, but it needs to be done!

Not quite finished, still about 20 hours left in it:




But the curves are all uniform now:


And here is where it fits, for those who have forgotten:


I also decided to get off my lazy arse and go and pick up the intercooler inlet and charge air pipes from Cameron (Cazmo). He has had them for about 12 months now becuase I have been so lazy! Thanks Cam, you are a good mate. Hope to see Cam's Mini on the road one day too!


Well that's about it until mid-week when I will send a few hours finishing off the centre console.

Cheers,
Tricky

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Oh yeah, getting some good progress done now.

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Not only am i super impressed with the work ol'sock but i'm
impressed the photo's were taken in the dark meaning you put in
a huge day

Well done keep this up she'll be on the road before you know it

Cheers Hallsey

Thanks Ol' Sock, but you supplied the inspiration.

Heaps still left to do, but with each step....

Cheers,
Tricky

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Hi Everyone,

Put in a few more hours on the Mini this weekend and made some progress. Got some 3M rust converter to use on the surface rust I have on the shell prior to epoxy priming. The surface rust came about from not priming the metal after sanding it like I did when I was putting on the bodykit and the rear spoiler.

Lesson learnt - always prime the work area at the end of the day if you sand down to the bare metal!! The black stuff on the shell is the converted rust, ready to epoxy prime right over (which will be on next weeks agenda).







Also spent a few more hours on the front spoiler. Probably another 10-12 hours left in it. Progress is very slow - fill, sand, check, fill, sand, check, fill, sand, check etc.






More next week.

Cheers,
Tricky

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