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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okk9U_y4 ... 72EA46FC55 Some other good clips on there too.

Impressive how few spot welds they feel are necessary in the sills!
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Sadly that's another illustration of just how far Mini production had come after some forty years, crap steel, thin paint (no paint in a few places !), body underseal in all the wrong places and non in the right places, crap panel gaps, gutless engines, cramped interiors , apart from that they were great cars !

Pete wrote:thin paint (no paint in a few places !)

My dad began his mechanics apprenticeship with a local BMC dealership in 1965 and he tells me often about how the cars came straight off the transporter and into the paintshop, where the apprentices were given a paintbrush and a tin of chassis black to paint the underside of the cars.

So if anyone finds a Co Armagh registered BMC with a chassis black underside, chances are it most likely was bought at Wesley Turkington Motors, Lurgan!

Pete wrote:Sadly that's another illustration of just how far Mini production had come after some forty years, crap steel, thin paint (no paint in a few places !), body underseal in all the wrong places and non in the right places, crap panel gaps, gutless engines, cramped interiors , apart from that they were great cars !

Aye and when I were a lad we lived in a cardboard box in't middle of road.............................

minimans wrote:

Pete wrote:Sadly that's another illustration of just how far Mini production had come after some forty years, crap steel, thin paint (no paint in a few places !), body underseal in all the wrong places and non in the right places, crap panel gaps, gutless engines, cramped interiors , apart from that they were great cars !

Aye and when I were a lad we lived in a cardboard box in't middle of road.............................

Common knowledge over here fella.

Believe me I know!! I used to work for a BL dealer in the 70's some of the crap that we fixed on PDI beggars belief!!