I'm on this site nearly everyday looking at everyone else's minis, so I thought I'd share a bit about my project. I'm very lucky to have it now, as it has been in our family for most of it's life, and gone through 3 generations.
The first one to own it was my dad, who got it for free off his aunt in the early 80's. He got it running again and used it as his everyday car until my parents needed a more practical car My grandfather owned it next, from the late 80's until last year. He used it as a runaround on his farm for a while before he decided to fix it up. He had the 848cc engine replaced with a 998cc, and fitted a remote gear change at a later stage. He also had it resprayed from tartan red all over to red with a white roof - 25 years ago. Since downsizing to a smaller house in town he used it as his everyday car
It got passed onto me early last year. Since then I've done a fair bit of work to make it more reliable and a bit more period correct. It currently looks like this
I've been planning on getting a set of Hi-Lo's and a Stage 1 kit for a while, unfortunately most of my modification money keeps getting reallocated into the maintenance side of things. The engine is also a little tired after 25 years, so I'd like to rebuild another 998 or maybe a 1098 myself to replace it in the next few years
