real mini

[Lund]

Ok so a little more about my Mini.

Its a MK4 1979 Mini City. 848cc, 10 x 6 deep dish minilights, group 2 arches, straight through Rc40 single box exhaust joined to a maniflow majic link, Cooper/checkmate interior, astrali steering wheel, custom gearknob.

Simplicity at its best:

Hope you like

 

[dave]

thread split to here https://www.fiatforum.com/non-fiat/135466-real-mini.html

 

[x Alex x]

stunning!

 

[herpsuk]

stunning mini, love it, not far from me as well, got mine from the wirral,

 

[JFL]

looks in fab condition

 

[Schwenck]

Looks excellent mate! A Mini was all I wanted from the age of four until I was about eighteen. However, being brought up on rallycross from Lyden Hill on Saturday afternoon tele, it would have had the grill replaced with a plate with a few holes in it, tape across the lights and big knobbly tyres...

 

[Charlotte]

Lovely Wow.........

 

[faster4_tec]

awesome mini!! no rust nothing!

keep it up! as they are climbing in value quite drastically now!


I really want a pickup, slammed, wide minilites, black archs (because body coloured is too fancy), with internal cage, buckets, then dump the austin engine, and put a 1.4TDI out of a VW lupo remap'd (~100hp/175lbft + 55mpg in a lupo, MORE in a mini, prob 65 on a Vgood day), then I want a proper load cover thing like you get on big pickups, and a roofrack to stick bike/kayak on.

then I would use it EVERYDAY :yum:

 

[The Free(welsh)man]

awesome mini!! no rust nothing!

keep it up! as they are climbing in value quite drastically now!


I really want a pickup, slammed, wide minilites, black archs (because body coloured is too fancy), with internal cage, buckets, then dump the austin engine, and put a 1.4TDI out of a VW lupo remap'd (~100hp/175lbft + 55mpg in a lupo, MORE in a mini, prob 65 on a Vgood day), then I want a proper load cover thing like you get on big pickups, and a roofrack to stick bike/kayak on.

then I would use it EVERYDAY :yum:

If you build it, I'll place an order

 

[faster4_tec]

thats the problem with most classic cars, whilst the old school engines are fun, they cause headachs (not just cost, talking emmissions,I persoanlly can't drive somthing that smells of rich fuel get a migrane, then crash as I loose balance/perspective/concentration etc).

get a classic, then modernize it, americans love doing it, call em 'super muscle car' something thats essentially old, but being breathed on with modern suspension, brakes, engines, g'box, a.c, proper seats etc.
but all the time keeping it looking practically as was when it was built

 

[jug]

thats just wrong, you need to keep the rough motor, weak brakes and basic suspension on classics to give them the "i'm about to die" feel. its the only way you can enjoy driving without breaking speed limits, fighting it round bends at 50mph is what classics are all about

 

[faster4_tec]

I get the 'i'm about to die' sensation just driving a modern fiat LOL