Back on the road

mini1275cc · Post by **mini1275cc** » Fri Jun 24, 2016 08:05

Well its taken me 12 years but finally back on the road again cant wait to open the throttle to get rid of the cobwebs

amarshall · Post by **amarshall** » Fri Jun 24, 2016 08:31

Well done! More photos please (and some for the calendar ? )

KevW · Post by **KevW** » Fri Jun 24, 2016 11:14

Great news John. I hope to see your car out and about sometime

dunc · Post by **dunc** » Fri Jun 24, 2016 12:24

WOW,

Your car looks great - well done for getting it back up and running.

Nice to see a narrow excel restored tot he road!

alanmoss · Post by **alanmoss** » Fri Jun 24, 2016 21:59

Well done, terrific achievement.

mini1275cc · Post by **mini1275cc** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 07:53

Will post some more pics when i get a chance to clean her out and give her a polish not happy with the garage as i put a new carpet set in and they get muck all over the seats and floor of there dirt overalls and boots

bash · Post by **bash** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 14:35

What part of the country are you from, background looks familiar ?

Bash

Ps, car looks good mate, well done

mini1275cc · Post by **mini1275cc** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 19:27

bash wrote:What part of the country are you from, background looks familiar ?

Bash

Ps, car looks good mate, well done

Hi Bash
Im from whitley bay near newcastle
Thae car needs a spray job on the top as its faded and some of the paint has flaked off just spent the whole day cleaning the interior looking like new now

Cheers john

MrCoolA · Post by **MrCoolA** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 20:34

mini1275cc wrote:
bash wrote:What part of the country are you from, background looks familiar ?

Bash

Ps, car looks good mate, well done
Hi Bash
Im from whitley bay near newcastle
Thae car needs a spray job on the top as its faded and some of the paint has flaked off just spent the whole day cleaning the interior looking like new now

Cheers john

Whitley bay

That's where I bought my car from in 2006. I live in Gateshead. Not too far.

Pete Boole · Post by **Pete Boole** » Sun Jun 26, 2016 16:58

mini1275cc wrote:
Thae car needs a spray job on the top as its faded and some of the paint has flaked off

Cheers john

Must be all the brilliant sunshine up north!

Pete

mini1275cc · Post by **mini1275cc** » Tue Jun 28, 2016 07:53

From this

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bash · Post by **bash** » Tue Jun 28, 2016 10:58

clearly I dont recognise the area..... its my age you know. Keep at it tho, looks a good project.

Bash

mini1275cc · Post by **mini1275cc** » Wed Jul 27, 2016 20:37

Well shes back in the garage broken again

the timming belt slipped last weekend and bent the valves looks like it will be another 12 years before she see the light of day again

AndyC · Post by **AndyC** » Wed Jul 27, 2016 21:25

That confused me.
I typed a bit about hating the semi-auto tensioners and how they're better to be replaced with an entirely manual one like the later cars, then I realised your car has the SE interior. Cue head scratching, obviously you've done the job of moving to the later design of interior, so removing head again shouldn't bad in comparison.

It's still summer, still time to get head off, sort valves and get some more fun from the car this year.

mini1275cc · Post by **mini1275cc** » Thu Jul 28, 2016 08:06

Yes i bought a 89 interior to replace the old pinstrip blue one.
the problem i have with the head is im skint had lots of unexpected costs with my business so think it may stand until next summer but it was a good couple of weeks driving her before she broke

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