Mini Cooper 1275S Mk.1

[Guest]

Got most of the painting done now. Once completely dry I will mask and paint the underside black and part of the seats red.

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[Alan 45]

Nice gloss work I like it

[Guest]

i had an orange 1275 went through a beautiful hedge in mine,and still managed to fix her up lol,your job coming along nicely,go for checker board on the roof lol

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Would be fun to create a checker board pattern, if I find a good way to mask I will consider it.

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Some progress...chassis and seats are almost done I just need to touch up a couple of imperfections with a brush.

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The engine is mounted.

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[Guest]

Nice work so far!

[skinflint]

Enjoying watching this superb build. Brings back memories from owning a couple in the past, although not the Cooper version they were still a great little car.

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Interior is starting to take shape.

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Looks very well.

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Interior and engine bay are pretty much done.

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[Guest]

This is looking amazing great progress loving it.

[Guest]

I had an ordinary blue one the original with the long wobbly gear stick, the starter on the floor and the thick string festooned on the door to open it.

My senior partner had a blue Cooper. This car was lethal as it was, for those days, like a rocket. The response when you put your foot down was incredible.

On the roof colour my memory is that it was not a white white it tended to be an off white towards the brown scale rather than blue.

Looking good Daniel brings back memories. Mini is interesting, apart form the suspension and transverse engine as it was one of the first lot of cars to introduce colours. Most in those days were black grey and dark fawn. Ford also introduced a bright pink.

Laurie

[Guest]

Don't believe I've missed this.....I kinda like my Mini's - can you tell ??

That looks great work so far, but that engine bay is far too clean !! ;P The most common colour for the roof is usually white ( Old English White iirc ), though its not uncommon, especially back in the day, for them to have a black roof...

And just an fyi, the underside would have been body coloured, but that's a lovely paint job !

Cheers, Neil

[Lee W]

This is one of those builds that I want to go......excellent stuff!

Me, I'd be silly, I'd drill out the parcel shelf and make up some speakers, lower the mini, put bigger wheels on it, open the boot to show off the 12 inch sub...time to shut up! o_O

Keep going Dan, quality build

Lee