Mini Pickup Rebuild by mini-man-dan

3 minute(s) of a 78 minute read

Nope, that's the original bed. It has had a couple of small repairs, but with a slight skim over the top looks near on perfect. Was a very lucky find to find one in such good nick. I know Gaz off the pickup forum replaced his, and I think it was M-Machine. He did spend 4 figures on panels though... Ouch!

And yes, here we have an update. A very very big update infact!

Me and my brother, who resprayed the car, had a really close look over everything last week, and came to the conclusion that we weren't happy with the finish of it. So he agreed to respray it again in a metallic blue. It's a custom mixture of Vauxhall Arden blue and Toyota MR2 Caribbean blue I think, because I couldn't chose which to have. So I had both! I think there's some added pearl in there too. I haven't got any decent outside pictures of it yet, but you get the idea from the following pictures. It looks so so sooo much better than before!

Also, the engine went in last night. Putting in radiator, starter, alternator etc later on today and hopefully it'll be running tonight or tomorrow. Still waiting on wiring loom though...

Here's some pictures:

The images make the engine look kind of pink, but it's not it's bright red and silver. Got the carbon fibre rocker cover to go on sometime, may do that tonight...

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My mate sam was hitting the ball joint splitter when the head of the hammer came off yesterday though! Was extremely lucky, only a very small pin dent in the corner of the front panel which is hardly noticeable. I did say bad luck comes in 3s though, as yesterday that happened, the engine hoist decided not to allow up to jack it up and today we've found out the threads in the gearbox where the sump plug goes in are all stripped. So close to starting it for the first time too!