Austin Mini 1967

[WesleyB]

hi,

I'm new on the forum, I have bought in the begin of the year a Austin Mini in Portugal.
This Mini is with the good numbers of chassis, engine. Smoke grey is the color.

More photo's you find here http://jalbum.net/a/1955329

Because I love the rally mini's and I do some rally's, I want to make it rally car, not extreme but with works dashboard, lights on the front, ...
No numbers on the doors, just nice car.

If there are some photo's of rally cars of this period, with this color, welcome
The most Mini's you see are always red/white.
Now I look first to the many topics on this forum

Cheers
Wesley

[jay weinstein]

Very nice car!

Welcome to the forum.

jw

[miniminor]

Beautiful car and superb colour combination.

[Fanfaniracing]

Hi Wesley!

Welcome to the forum.

You will get a lot of Inspiration here!

Nice looking Cooper you have here.

Regards

[WesleyB]

Thx for the replays
today I have my new wheels, I have put my M&S tyres on

[AndyB72]

Looks fantastic, cracking colour!

[coopertim]

Love the M&S tyres! I will be fitting them to my 1071 as a nod to its rallying past.

Tim

[billycooper]

Love the M&S tyres! I will be fitting them to my 1071 as a nod to its rallying past.

Tim

Come on Tim, we need you to start a thread on this new car of yours !



Love the colour, love the wheels, I would have defo done mine this colour had it been a 1960 colour, keep the mods coming Wesley !

[Gary Schulz]

Yes, great color combination especially with the classic steel wheels. Where did you find those tires?

Are these remolded tires?

[AndyPen]

That car looks lovely!!

In your shoes I would only make changes that can easily be changed back, and keep all the original parts

Tim's wheels look lovely too - just what my ex rally car needs

[WesleyB]

hi,

the tyres you find on https://austin-mini.fr/fr/

This year in Mini Mag you find this article, I love that mini. And it was/is a plan to make it the same, good wheels, works dash en lights on the grill. I do sometimes rally's with the car. But I keep my original seats in

[WesleyB]

Next question,


I did last summer some rally's, but sometimes the chrome trim is off.
I don't want to take hard glue. What is the advice to put it good on ? And not falling off when I do bad roads.

Cheers
Wesley

[almond cooper]

I use a product called “Blu Tack” a sticky reusable putty,
Push a small piece into the trim and then push back on to the lip of the car.

[Peter Laidler]

A bit of semi heavy duty double back carpet tape works just fine. Wrap a 1" long piece around the lip part at each end. Did both ends of mine years ago and it's still fine

[WesleyB]

ok thanks !!

[UHR850]

Hi Wesley

[miniminor]

I made a temporary fix to one of mine about 5 years agao - piece of chewing gum!
Still there.

[WesleyB]

thanks for the compliments

i have get my Saint Nicholas


first I put this behind the steering wheel. Later I can put it in the Works Dashboard.
I must study how to instal it, it's have 6 cable

Next step is look for Austin mudflaps
and a wintergrill cover. but how do you put this on ? I hope with some tyraps, I don't want to make holes in the Mini

[mk1]

What a lovely car!

"Smokegrey" used to run a very successful Smoke Grey rally car, hopefully he will post some pictures as inspiration.

[WesleyB]

yes that look good, extra photos for inspiration.
later I want also Lucas spots on the front, but I don't know for the moment how much, 2, 3 or 4. I was think 2, not to much.