After stripes comes lights!

Posted on by Ian C.

I headed down to MINI Peabody today to get rally lights installed on GBMINI#3 – if they had been installed before the bonnet stripes, they would have needed to be removed again, so I had to wait, till now:

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Todd also installed the euro shelf for me in place of the knee bolster, since it has to be removed anyway during the install, and I switched the stock rally light relay for my improved one.

Thank you Todd for a great job, and thank you Gary for “squeezing me in” …

GBMINI#3 earns his stripes

Posted on by Ian C.

Finally back driving GBMINI#3 again, instead of the rental car; Julian from Sublime Restorations called this afternoon, to say the new bonnet stripes were finished and GBMINI#3 was ready for pick-up. Hooray!

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The “S” on the roof is of course now finished too, but no time to get another aerial shot yet, so here’s a night flash shot:

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The Haynes Manual

Posted on by Ian C.

In England, Haynes Manuals for cars are the ultimate repair manual, detailing absolutely everything related to stripping down & rebuilding your car.
For every car I owned in England, the first thing I did was bought the appropriate Haynes manual (dependant on year of course, as well as make/model).
Here in USA Bentley Publishers put out a MINI manual nearly a year ago, but I was a bit disappointed with the lack of content in some areas.

Now Haynes is in the middle is disassembling a MINI in preparation for their forthcoming manual, and on the web they have put up a sequence of pictures as their project progresses:

I look forward to buying this latest MINI book when it is finished …