Mini Marcos restoration

[skeebs]

Making great progress. It's always the prep that takes the time.

Certainly underestimated the amount of time the bodywork takes to get it right

[IanD1965]

That frame that endaf has made looks almost the same. Great Welsh minds thinking alike!!
I’ll try to resize more images and post progress .
All best with yours.
Ian

[skeebs]

Put one of the doors on the other day with the new alloy hinges, to see how things lined up. Not too bad but a couple of issues were highlighted!

The door fouls on the short section of the hinges. We looked at the old hinges and they have a small cut out to allow for full movement of the door so some slight modification is needed. Secondly, the door seems slightly small for the aperture -the gap at the front is largish and can live with that but the gap at the rear seems way too big. Not sure what we're going to do with it at the moment.
We're generally happy with the alignment and have fitted some turnbuckles and wires which have worked very well and pulled the bottom of the door flush with the body - a problem that is commonly seen with these.

Today we got chance to do a little bit more on the car. It's taken quite a bit of work to get the rear panel flat again. It did have Chevette rectangular rear lights in and was quite warped. Holes now cut and the new rear lights test fitted - very happy with the way they look!

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[roger mcnab]

hi
maybe a bit more glass and resin on the b pillar will help the gap or add to the door edge could be of help
cheers roger mcnab

[skeebs]

hi
maybe a bit more glass and resin on the b pillar will help the gap or add to the door edge could be of help
cheers roger mcnab

Thanks,That's what we think we're going to have to do, add glass to the door profile to fill it out slightly!

[Workinprogress]

BMW 2002 lights?

[skeebs]

BMW 2002 lights?

Indeed it was a toss up between these or cortina rear lights which are more commonly used