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Hi all,
as some of you know, did I restore my W&P/JANSPEED Mini, 5 years ago.

This was done in the "before I got a computer age" 2006/2007 .
So I thought I would make a thread to show how I (we) did it.

Here she is in October 2006.



Jens Christian

The car was found early 1999, and bought 11 months later = winter 1999/2000.

JC T ONE wrote:Hi all, as some of you know, did I restore the WP/JANSPEED Mini, a couple of years ago.

Jens Christian

HELLO, I am new inhere, and I collect information on the old British tuning firms, what did janspeed do to this car? I noticed a picture of jansped emblem, but it is the car a turbo? I have only seen a picture of a austin metro, with this companies turbo.

OM.

Hi signed up here again, had a few other cars with janspeed turbo conversions on them still have some pics somewhere rs1600i very good car (wish i still had it) and capri still have the conversion off the capri somewhere rotex turbo,cast manifold by janspeed but must say the capri was bog slow!!!very bad design running on 40 dellortos if i can find some pictures will post them regards Jon

Hello to you two, and welcome


Yes to the first question, my car has a JANSPEED turbo conversion.

It spent more than 2 months in Salisbury, and every thing was rebuilt/altered by JS,

suspension/subframes/brakes/fuelsystem/gearbox/bodywork/etc, they had the wiringloom

remade, but that was done "out in town" by a local auto electrics garage, so was the respray.

I would love to see pictures of your JS cars Jon not many around anymore.




Jens Christian

Thanks for the links, interesting to see a janspeed turbo on a Mini,
the car was very rotten.
saw a black Mini from ebay for sale, it had a normal tuning with 2 su carburators.
cant be many of those?


OM.

hello again,

Yes I saw the Ebay car Black roundnose

Talking of JANSPEED, do anyone inhere (Mark maybe ?) know more about the 4 "Land crabs" (1800,s)that JS prepared for the 1968 London to Sydney?

only have a old article with a B&W photo.


Jens Christian

Had some sad news today, my cars first owner passed away in her sleep last night, after a long period with bad health.

Unfortunally did I never get to show her the car.
She knew it had been found/restored, and I send her the first feature article (Mini mag).
But it would have been nice to have shown her the car.

I have recently found out, that it was a very private thing I had found/restored, as it was a birthday gift from her husband.
It was only sold off, becourse they moved to New York in 1980/81.
When I met them in the summer 2000, they were very surpriced to hear that the little car had survived,
and were pleased to hear, that I was going to restore it.

Link to the website http://www.margitbrandt.eu/

links to some of todays news

http://nyhederne.tv2.dk/article.php/...dt-er-død.html


http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Kultur/2011/10/134521.htm

http://jp.dk/indland/article2585884.ece


And about her fantastic life http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margit_Brandt



Rest in peace .

Hello JC,

Sorry to hear of your bad news, it seems she was a very interesting Lady, and you have her old Mini, that is something to treasure.

Good memories.

Best regards,

Pete

Hello Pete,


Yes it has always been very interesting to own this car.

It sort of tells its own story, if I had a Penny for each person
who told me a story regarding this car, I would be a rich man.

No matter where I have been with the car, someone always come up, and start talking about it,
and the good old days, when it was driven by chauffeur.

All todays newspapers have the story, about her untimely death on the cover.
I gave up reading, as there were too much, I would post a picture, but my camera is out

Jens Christian

did you see this janspeed mini on ebay?


http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/250914561010? ... 1423.l2649


didnt seam to sell for a lot?

Hi Rich,


Yes I saw it, and I agree, that was a VERY low amount of money, he let it go for

A genuine Cooper S engine & gearbox, built by the "Cream de la Cream"
that alone would cost 8000 to build (atleast) if not more ? .

Then you add a complete MOT,ed car with S brakes & complete JanSpeed suspension etc.
--- I would never have sold that car for so little.


Jens Christian

On the other hand you could say it was strong money for a nicely modded early 70's Mini 1000.

Pete wrote:On the other hand you could say it was strong money for a nicely modded early 70's Mini 1000.

Hi Pete,

I agree, that is also a way to see things

But buyer got a nice car for his money

Hi all,


Just bought some more "stuff" another "must have item" for a nut like me

As this now has become a thread about the restoration of the car, I will now add some more pictures

Here she is, these were taken together with the one in my first post, around October 2006 .

7 years of storage, is visible

Hello JC,

That is an impressive dash, what you might call WOW.

An impressive amount of dust too...

Pete

36inter wrote:Hello JC,

That is an impressive dash, what you might call WOW.

An impressive amount of dust too...

Pete

Hi Pete,

thanks, but that dash is all W&P,s "handiwork"

and if you a re impressed by that amount of dust, then just wait to we start working on the body
you wont BELIVE how much plastic filler it had some places 15-20mm thick.


Jens Christian

This filler is a bit on the thick side too, I think the car had run under the back of a lorry at some time, there is a big groove up the panel to the screen and I found lots of glass under the carpet, its about 15-20mm deep. It created a white out in the garage when I put a rotory wire brush on it and had to stop.

Pete

36inter wrote:This filler is a bit on the thick side too, I think the car had run under the back of a lorry at some time,
there is a big groove up the panel to the screen and I found lots of glass under the carpet,
its about 15-20mm deep. It created a white out in the garage when I put a rotory wire brush on it and had to stop.

Pete

Hi Pete,

WOAW that was SOME amount of plastic thought my car was bad, but you join the club

I also stopped with the grinder on my scuttle panel, when all was covered with White dust








This picture is taken October / early November 2006.

I am testing the grill I had, its the wrong one (Victor) and I knew W&P used a Ventora grill.

I had searched a long time for one, but only found the Victor, later I found the Ventora, but this was in a BAAD state,
so in order to have a small chance to get the car ready for IMM 2007, it was decided to use the Victor grill.


Jens Christian