Howdy

[Shrimps]

I joined the forum awhile back and have been basically lurking but figured I'd post a formal introduction.  I currently own two saloons; a Canadian Mk III & a RHD English Mk IV.

Purchased the III (my first Mini) over four years ago with the intent of it being a running project.  Something I could fix up while I continue to drive.  Shortly after buying it discovered the engine was shot with trashed thrust washers among other things.  I pulled the front subframe to clean it up, rebuild suspension & do something with the engine.  Having never rebuilt an engine before I didn't know how to proceed.  That lead me to dragging my feet and work on little bits here & there.  Ultimately I discovered Jet Motors four hours North of me who I had rebuild the motor, which turned out to be a genuine thin flange Cooper S motor.  The guy I bought the car from indicated it was but a lot of sellers will tell you anything you want to hear so I didn't take it to heart.

In the mean time I bought my Mk IV to have a Mini I could actually drive.  It is very clean and original with 20k miles.  I've got MOT certs from new as a little old lady owned it up till 2004 when a servicemen bought it & brought it back to the states.

I continued to tinker with the Mk III but the body has some rust so I decided to swap engine/trans & brakes/suspension from my Mk IV to the III and ultimately sell it.  The rebuilt Cooper S motor and new suspension are going into my Mk IV.

Fast forward to today where I just got the Mk III on the road with the 998 from my Mk IV.  I will be posting it for sale soon.

The Mk IV is just about ready for the rebuilt Cooper S motor after I clean up the engine compartment.  I had the front subframe powder coated and have already cleaned up all the front suspension goodies so I hope to have it road worthy in the next couple months.  Ultimately it'll be a fair weather driver and autocross car.

I live in Southern Oregon and met Minicop (a few years ago) & have helped him a bit with his car.  I'm always on the look out for other Mini's but there just aren't that many around my area.

[edit]Here's an album with pics of my Mk IV[/edit]

Trenton

[94touring]

Welcome on and thanks for sharing.  I've seen you lurking for some time. 

[MtyMous]

Welcome, Shrimps. Always cool to have another familiar face on here. Car looks good, too.

[Shrimps]

Thanks guys.  The car will look a little different when I get it back on the road.  Nothing outrageous,  but just not as plain jane.  The car hadn't been changed much from new but there's nothing special about it (being a simple ole Mini 1000 and all) so I didn't mind tearing into it.

[Jims5543]

Cool story, welcome here.

Great group of guys.

[Mudhen]

Welcome aboard Shrimps!

Pat

[Shrimps]

I'm back, well at least I hope to be more active in the coming months  I've been distracted with life since early spring after selling my MkIII.  I'm quickly coming up on a year of taking my MkIV off the road. Hoping to get back into it & get it back on the road over the next couple months.  Frankly it should go pretty quick but I don't seem to spend too much time at any one time working on car stuff.  And/or I have the tendency to over think things which stalls my progress as I try to think of every possible scenario when dealing with something that doesn't go right before making a decision on how to proceed.  It's a curse really.

Anyway, nice to see things have picked up around here.