2 years, and I have it perfectly correct, with no clubman bits..... (But that's a story for another day )

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18 months and I have a bare metal shell with most of the rust cut out and ready for welding

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77 mini sunshine: the slow build continues
http://www.ausmini.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=70699

It's either 5 or 6 years now since I bought it half dismantled and with some dodgy repairs. Shell repairs happening as we speak, fingers crossed for 2013 as I would like to attend a Mini in an actual Mini. When I finish it will be better than new

Excuses: Canberra is bloody cold for 3/4 of the year, moved interstate, house renovations, appendix removed, ankle surgery x 2, TAFE at night, glandular fever, marriage, first child, limited talent, werewolves

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3 years and counting on the cooper s. Both subframes rebuilt, small amount of panel and paint and engine rebuild currently in progress. Not to mention a whole lot of procrastinating.

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Dog Food! Most kids like it more than Broccoli.

D.A.V is Desert Assault Van. The name Watto and I gave to the van Frednuts donated to us for Shitbox Rally 2013.

I've got spark burns in weird places but its coming along nicely. An immovable deadline (the rally) certainly helps with the motivation.

Cheers,
Brett

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Brett Nicholson
Greendale (near Ballan) VIC.
1971 Morris Mini Moke
1966 Austin Mini
1965 Morris Mini Traveller
1973 LR Series 3 88
2007 LR Freelander 2

wow some of the time frames are very varied, has any one had any big hurdles holding them back from there build or would it be financial? I know for me it was mainly financial other wise it would have been on the road mid last year but I just did what i could in the mean time and now it's back on track.

Ah ok lol I had no idea what that was supposed to mean. I was running ideas through my head and none of them were close to that. good luck with the build

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Regards Kermit (TadPole)

Time with family takes priority over "shed time". I achieved a lot more before I had kids because I could often spend most of the weekend in the shed.

Part of the reason I've done so little with Trixie the Traveller is that easier or more urgent projects have leap-frogged it in priority.

Cheers,

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Brett Nicholson
Greendale (near Ballan) VIC.
1971 Morris Mini Moke
1966 Austin Mini
1965 Morris Mini Traveller
1973 LR Series 3 88
2007 LR Freelander 2

Body and Paint about 6 months off the road.

Now for the Engine rebuild: A year and counting...

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Ahhh... Mine hasn't been on the road since the 80's. I've had it since 2000. Still hasn't been on the road, and I'm now 25. Hopefully get blasted in the next 24 months

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1963 850 - laid up
1970 Morris mini K van - eating up the kms!

2 years for mine, was alot of cutting and welding involved

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Carpe Diem
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1967 Deluxe (Bluey)

Took 5 years for my!

I bought my Minis on the road and other than the Moke needing a gearbox rebuild which took Mini Classic 2 weeks to do and the Rover needing some electrical fixes, they have never been off the road to get back on the road..... just the way I like it....



The roadster project though.... 1.5 years and counting and all I have done is started him every now and then to keep the oils moving.... the parts are all their... the time isnt.

18 months of hard yacca

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First you get the money,then you get the power,then you get the Mini.

It may take us longer than we first set out to be but it's so much fun building them up. I definately want to do another one when i can

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Regards Kermit (TadPole)

From stripping my Moke (took around three proper weekends) to receiving it back from the paint shop, it was about 3 months of occasional weekend work to get it back on the road.

I could probably have done it in a bit over a week if I worked on it at full-time hours.

But a Mini has a lot of other hanging/fiddly sh!t than a Moke!