1971 Restoration by green96v4

3 minute(s) of a 34 minute read

thanks for the kind words, we've been importing classic Mini Coopers over here for a number of years so fairly used to driving on the "right" side of the car (or the correct side to confirm!!!)

It's funny, when I worked for Porsche Club Great Britain there were a number of members who were the same as you, had left hooker Porsches, but also bought LHD daily hacks

Enjoy the wiring diagram, I'm still chasing the electrical bugs on this one!!

8-3-2015

just going off the original boards that were in the car, perhaps SAAB spelt it incorrectly.....



if we're getting really picky the font I've used is off (which those judges you refer to, may notice) but I'm not going to ever subject myself to the torture of concours judging as I just want to enjoy the car

I'm afraid I can't answer your other comment on images, something for the moderators, just happy we have such a positive and active forum

8-4-2015

beer hardened sounds far more interesting!!

I did search quite hard for the correct texture on the board (most hardware stores here it's now smooth both sides) but I did get the correct texture, original photo didn't show it well



and I will be adding the umlaut to the A

8-28-2015

So the interior is nearly done, seats have been re-foamed and the velour part replaced, door card has new boarding as the originals had suffered from the usual wet-rotting. I'm going to use velcro for the top rail as I could never stop the clips from rattling when I had the car on the road (and I'm short a fair few!)



As we have "one person/one belt" rules in Ontario (despite this being in conflict with a different law with the Registrar of Imported Vehicles that states that beyond 15 years old the car only has to comply with the original spec for the country it was sold in) my wife has put her foot down and said seat belts in the back! (she's probably right)

Having only ever seen inertia belts in later cars, I was going to get Quickbelts to make up some custom pebble weave static belts to match the original front Klippan static belts, but then some original Klippans front belts came up on eBay and I've managed to get them to work in the back (Quickbelts are still making the clip loop)