Mini Cooper 1275S Mk.1

[Guest]

Trying to get out of a major slump and finish this one; not too much left.

[Guest]

Lovely paint job

[Richi72]

Totally agree with Tommy there

Good job.

Cheers Richi

[yambam26]

Looking good,its coming together nicely.

Cheers,Ben

[monica]

this is looking great and nice progress do like the paint work,so far,and who cannot like a mini,

[Guest]

Beautiful work oh how I remember these cars I had so much fun in them, in various forms, I especially love the van (we won't go into why but, when you work in a sponge factory, and you can line the whole inside with a sponge matress, well I leave the rest to your imagination)keep up the good work.

[Guest]

Lovely paintwork so far!

Well....you have nearly done

[john i am]

Beautiful work oh how I remember these cars I had so much fun in them, in various forms, I especially love the van (we won't go into why but, when you work in a sponge factory, and you can line the whole inside with a sponge matress, well I leave the rest to your imagination)keep up the good work.

Well for exactly the same reasons that we won't go into my vehicle of choice was a marina van.Daniel your mini is looking fantastic look forward to next update cheers John

[Guest]

Great stuff, worked on a lot of these in my early days in the garage.

[Marc Stock]

Love your painting techniques. very clean work.

[Guest]

Thunderbird, I love your Mini build, and I signed up just to tell you that - this is my first post!


If you still need a prompt to decide on roof colour, red with a white roof was never, ever a factory option on the Mk1 Mini you're building. All Tartan red Minis would have had a black roof. The white roof was reserved for factory race or rally cars only. Of course, most aspiring Paddy Hopkirks weren'thaving any of that and painted their black roof white within days of taking delivery! Another 'fun fact'... someone mentioned the red white and blue Minis of the Italian Job. Although they were all badged as Mini Cooper S models, they were fairly special in that they didn't have contrasting roof colours at all. Solid red white and blue. Took me a while to notice that! Lol! Keep up the great work. I have the road-going Austin Cooper S on my bench and your thread is inspiring me to break out the contact cement.

[Guest]

Thanks for the comment Steve.


I am aware that the roof should not be white (even says black in the instructions) but it is more about personal taste in this case.

[takeslousyphotos]

This build is looking superb Daniel. First class work matey.......... I only just found it but I'll be watching from now on.


........ Are you planning to give it an "oil leak" ? ....... The two I owned when I was a lot younger (Not Coopers though) ...... Both leaked oil and had all that gunky mixture of dirt and oil all over the sump & engine block.

[takeslousyphotos]

This build is looking superb Daniel. First class work matey.......... I only just found it but I'll be watching from now on.


........ Are you planning to give it an "oil leak" ? ....... The two I owned when I was a lot younger (Not Coopers though) ...... Both leaked oil and had all that gunky mixture of dirt and oil all over the sump & engine block.

[Guest]

I am afraid not. I am not very good at that kind of detailing work.