1971 Cooper S restoration

[Britax]

So I have had this genuine S for soon 13yrs.
And this year I decided to start the restoration.

The car is a RHD car imported from UK by a previous owner, original licenceplate was SVN 612K.

The car was looking decent, I knew the floor needed to be changed out because of poor previous repairs, but didnt really realise how bad the car was until it came back from media blaster

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[snoopy64]

Nice! Media blaster...we've all been there... its quite a shock sometimes!

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Thats it for now!

[mk1]

Hi Britax,

Welcome to the forum.

Looks like you are making great progress on your resto. I look forward to seeing more soon.

[Supersonic]

Hi Britax, firstly welcome to the Mk1 Forum and thanks for showing us all your car and recent work. I love the Mk3 Cooper S cars and have one myself. What part of the world are you from

Alan

[Britax]

Im from Norway.

Hope to get all the welding done by christmas, and get the body painted in January.

[Britax]

Finally, welding done!
Got hold of an old, but good, spot welder which helped out alot to get the last 250 spot welds done.

So now i just need to remove 9layers og primer and paint, remove small dents and then its time for paint!

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[Fanfaniracing]

Nice job!

[Britax]

Thank you!

[Britax]

Body shell painted in its original colour, BLVC18 Teal blue!

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