Just took delivery of this guy. Pics to come.
Headed off to work in 15 but had time to investigate on the bonnet. Will order a new lip to mount the chrome and transfer over the frame ends from a scrapped bonnet. Hood stripe will get painted on.
Is that Dave Patton's car?
I've been trying to entice him to go on one of our classic runs......
Yes it is. I told him about our drive.
At this rate, every classic mini in Oklahoma will be a Dan Custom.
Lol, yeah there isn't a lack of work available!
Had some time the past couple days to continue on with this guy. Keep finding more rust to be repaired.
How do you get leaves into there?! I don't understand. lol.
Good news is there's a brand new hood there now.
Ha thanks again for delivering that!
No problemo. Always good to see you guys and I really wanted to see the shop. I would love that place. Wife would hate it. haha. Sorry I couldn't stay longer. We have some stuff to do here before we move out and had an appointment at 1700.
Yeah sorry I didn't have more time as well. Busy day for me. It's definitely a total man pad.
Dan, I need the safety catch off that hood if you're not using it I see you already cut it off.
Jeff
Oh it's being put to use on the new hood. They don't come equipped with the safety latches.
I wondered about that mine was missing and they are hard to come by, I have a makeshift one I made for now.
Moving right along today. I should emphasize the need to mount the door before you weld the skin on. Small adjustments are sometimes required.
Last patch of the day.
I need the part that welds on too, If yours is all of it I'll take it if not thanks for the mini spares link I looked and somehow missed it.
Sorry for the thread hijack, Looking forward to watching this project.
Dug into the left side and finished a door skin.
Great day to work on some minis. Open the doors and get to knocking out some panels. Looks like this weekend will be pretty good, too.
Fun watching the progress here. That's a lot of unexpected rust though. Makes me feel good about how little I had on Tink. haha
Yeah I had the doors open and the music going. I evidently saved the best for last on the rust repair.
Here's looking down into the floor on this side. Also got to use the drill press and restud this hinge.
More door step reconstruction.
More pics from today.
I just seen the door interior pics from the other day... and I was wondering how to remove that regulator part. I think it makes more sense now seeing the door split open. Looks like you are trucking along on the this thing Dan.
I don't think any thought of rust prevention went into the production of classic minis. Is there a way to improve the water drainage out through the bottoms of the doors and seal up the sills to prevent future rust issues ? Or is it more up to preventative coatings ?
Well I put seam sealer between the skin and the frame when I reassemble. Then I will pour a little sealer primer inside and slosh it around to further seal up any gaps between the skin and the frame. Otherwise it's up to 3 drain holes to remove water. On the cills I paint the back sides before welding it back together. You will see some minis with access holes on the door frames to spray waxoil in. Not much else you can really do.
Just when you think you're done you find more. Aside from half a dozen minor fixes I found an ouchy in the boot.
What kind of seam sealer did you use on the roof on Buzz? Was it a liquid or a brush on or.....?
It really is smooth is why I ask......
Negative seam sealer required. Sealer primer followed by filler primer, sanded, resealed, painted.
Where the bumper bolts on, is that three layers of metal? Looks like the boot floor, the valence panel and the rear panel all have a lip that join together there....
Quote from: 94touring on February 09, 2016, 12:11:16 PM
Negative seam sealer required. Sealer primer followed by filler primer, sanded, resealed, painted.
OK, so the last guy did it wrong, cause there was some sort of goop in the gutters.....
Correct you have 3 layers of metal. Which is why I cut out a perfectly fine hinge panel, just so I could remove the middle rusted layer and properly patch it up.
On roof gutters you will typically find cracking and peeling seam sealer. It's crap. So I always remove it and seal with primer which not only looks better but should last the life of the paint.
Rot free in the rear. The other areas I fixed are prepped, now to prep this.
It's so hard to find a stopping point when you get into one of these, you'll be going back to the same color I take it? I hope that's just dirt or glue in the lip of the boot opening.....
Are you painting the roof too?
A respray on the body and a buffing on the roof. Should pretty much have it done this week.
Getting pretty close to paint.
Little more today.
How's this one coming, got color on it yet?
Oh wait, you mean that's not the primer????????
Is that Stan's white car in the background?
I've been in recurrent training this week. There's two quarts of red paint in my car at the airport ready to go on it though.
Whew - so that was just the primer after all!
Ha yeah just experimenting with tints but really need white primer. Though purple is suppose to give a richer red.
Got some color on a few things.
Got it painted finally.
On the home stretch!
Bet he'll be glad to get the car back again..... 4.gif
Hopefully get this roof shined up to match the rest of it now.
If any of the Brit guys see that flag they'll complain, the red stripes are not supposed to be centered on the white....
It should look like this......just sayin......
(http://new.minimania.com/images_temp/800600001g2nma1102.jpg)
Never paid enough attention to notice the location of the stripes. Good to know.
Looks great....I like the red and blue cars with the union Jack roof......Are the bonnet stripes going back on ?
Yeah I'll be painting on the stripes next week. Here's doors on.
Shiny red and rust free!
(for now ;D)
The roof is a decal that's been on the car for who knows how long fyi. We talked about me painting them on but as you can imagine it wouldn't be cheap. Though it sure would look good.
Wow, so how will you make it shiny to match the rest of the car?
Would a good cleaning with a vinyl cleaner followed by a good coat of polish on the paint do anything for it, cause next to the new red paint it does look kinda tired.....
It will get buffed and we'll see.
Finished off the boot and bonnet today.
That's looking great! I'm not sure if I'll be attempting to paint my van myself....I can't imagine it coming out that well!
Yes...the flag is indeed wrong
Started in on the buffing.
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Wow, even the roof came out shiny - looks fantastic. I'll bet he can't wait to get his car back, and you can't wait to get paid.... ;D
I've got 3/4th of it color sanded and buffed. Half of the assembly down too. I'm sure he's going to like the end product.
One more before I left.
Dan. the quality of your work always shines through. 4.gif
Italian Job garage mod scene
Ha! Red, white and blue cars.....Stan's right! :-)
Quote from: 94touring on March 16, 2016, 05:57:46 PM
Never paid enough attention to notice the location of the stripes. Good to know.
How about that! I never noticed either; it's a rather busy design, and I guess I more or less use a bit of 'recognize and recall' when viewing it.
I was on a British forum and they mentioned how the "American" version of their flag was always wrong, so I went to Google to see if I could figure out what they meant....when you look at the pics you see it right away......otherwise I never would have noticed either.
Coming out nicely.
I just looked through all the progress photos again and there was a lot of work that went into this car. It looks great Dan. Just like a new one. Union Jack looks like it shined up well and the new painted stripes , so much better than vinyl decals .
It was suppose to just be two door skins and some scuttle repair. Turned into a full refurb.
Pic of some reassembly.
All done.
Looks fantastic, I know he'll be happy to get it back!
Quote from: MiniDave on March 27, 2016, 11:34:12 AM
I was on a British forum and they mentioned how the "American" version of their flag was always wrong, so I went to Google to see if I could figure out what they meant....when you look at the pics you see it right away......otherwise I never would have noticed either.
Makes me wonder why they haven't adjusted it.
Nice job, Dan!
You really should start doing a before and after shot of these cars from the same angles. Minds would be blown.
Thanks Cameron. Yeah he's going to be happy. I even pulled interior and gave it the full cleaning. This car was perfect refurbishment candidate.
Gorgeous!!! 4.gif