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Hello

I would like to show you one of my cars,

My favourite! offered by my father (he drived it 10 years before)

She is from 1967 never restored,

But 1 year ago I started a full rebuilt!

When I get It, never restored, she has all original panels and number plates, just resprayed in 1990



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and 2 months later! soda blasted!


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A french worshop My Mini Revolution did all the body work!no filler..



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We kept all the original panel, no chinese "heritage panel"

Respraying, epoxy, primer and finishing



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Maroon B!!



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The body work is finished..

thats lovely

That is bloody gorgeous, a quality job, lucky man.

Pete

Now it's time for the engine and subframes refurbishement



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dizzy and carb



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The hydrolastic system restored!!



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Engine bay ready to receive the engine and the subframes, brand new master cylinders, hoses, etc..



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Back in the engine bay..



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A lot a works done,

Brightwork and interior,

We kept a lot of original spares,



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Newton commercial brand new carpets



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A NOS item... to replace the chinese badge



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The car finished at the workshop


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And back home, I was Like a child !! so happy!!



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The end..

Thanks for your nice comments guys!

Wow, absolute perfection!

Superb restoration. You must be over the moon with it. Well done.

Stunning. Top work.

I'm on the moon exactly!!

There is just a missing sticker, that I will buy this week,

The weslake patent sticker on the rocker cover,

I'm totally in love with this car

my favorite car,smart and simple!

I found the original badge 2 weeks ago on ebay, It was the last missing spare!

superb workmanship,love the colour,you should be a very proud man to own such a wee diamond.well done

Wow, that is amazing! How did you get the manifold to look like that ?

Also, do you have the hydro hoses redone somehow? The joints look mint!

Charlynsane wrote:
I found the original badge 2 weeks ago on ebay

Another good example on why people will pay extra for NOS parts.

That repro one looks very poor, compared to the original BMC part.

Your car looks fantastic

well done.


Jens Christian

abri wrote:Wow, that is amazing! How did you get the manifold to look like that ?

Also, do you have the hydro hoses redone somehow? The joints look mint!

I sandblasted the manifold and I painted it with a special heatproof paint made by "restom" a french brand,

I bought the brand new hydro hoses at minispares and I repainted the hydrolastic displacer bag, It perfectly works,


I love Hydrolastic suspension!!

I made a photo for you of my workshop/home

You can see my 1293 car (my first mini), my mk1, my father's 1967 moke, and his 1969 cooper mk2,



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Lovely paint job, it really makes the job.

Nice selection of Minis!

Thank you so much for your comments,

Anyone has a photo of the original mk1/2 jack bag?

I still have the original lifting jack, but I have a repro jack bag from newton commercial,

It's good quality but a little bit to large I think

Thank you

Hello

Just somme little news of the french baby!

The latest missing detail

the weslake sticker!



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I also found the original 1967 MK1 Handbook..



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The next step is to find the original coil, the lucas HA12,

I'm looking for a NOS coil.. less hard to find than a SA 112..

This any good ??

my mk2 Cooper


Ian

Thank you so much,

I think you have exactly the same car as my dad.. lol



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My dad used to have a cooper S mk2,

But one day 2 years ago, I was driving the car and it's exploded,

Tanks was on fire..

with my brother we decided to offer a 998 cooper to my father, to replace the cooper S,

The only real cooper that we find, was this cooper, she used to have a lot of filler but we restaured it too..but she has all her numbers, and her original engine



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She is now back on the road!!

dad's working:



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Beautiful car Charly
perfect combo color

Olivier

Thank you very much Olivier

A lot of work done on both cars,

The mk2 cooper is at Adrien's workshop, we are changing the sill panel, which was full of filler and other stuff..

"SFR automobile"... thank you

What about your 66 cooper? have you ever drive in the snow this year?