Wanted: Garage to rent

Nope, but I did look at some girls and drove into another car. The good thing was, the driver wasn't insured, got scared and pissed off. The LHD thing must have confused him, as I was in the car with my nephew - a big fella with afro :-)

Haha awesome!

Everything, mate :-)

1. I need to fit the new roof (got one, hydraulic) Never done one so may be a problem
   
2. Need to fit new doors as I can't be bothered with ironing the dents (got a set of primed) Original replacements or lightweight aluminium ones?
   
3. New rear bumper (got one) Fairly easy to do
   
4. New front bumper (got similar, but with holes for the washer jets where the lights are) Fairly easy to do
   
5. Full respray in Boston Green.
   
6. I have to fit new steering wheel (got a nice Nardi one with the boss) do you have an airbag at the moment as you would need to disable the sensor.
   
   
7. Perhaps an alarm?
   
8. Once the new bumper is in place - new fog lights (got a set) Easy to do
   
9. New dashboard and a center console - got few wooden bits Dashboard is a bitch to do.
   
10. Still need to find door inserts in beige Oregon leather.
    
    

It was already lowered, new tyres fitted, I change the front lights.

My house and the shed are full of car spares, bikes and parts, broken cameras... I need to reclaim the leaving space or expand to the neighbouring property.

You need to get the car sorted for the summer.....

It's hard. I have some sorting to do with the bikes first. Then myself.

It's hard. I have some sorting to do with the bikes first. Then myself.

let me know if you need a hand

I will, Stefan. Doors are legit BMW OEM.
And also a left side mirror (have the shell and the glass)

The thing is, all those parts need to be (re)painted first - some are primed and some are black. There's no point to fit them on when they have to come out again.

Without trying to butt in, I restored my mini cooper (1967) from the ground up (welding, fitting, refinishing) so if you do need a hand I can 'do' or at least help.

You seem to be quite the engineer, Wingedangel!

My father started me and my sister off when we were kids, he used to build aircraft/race motorcycles/tinker so was quite accomplished himself. I learnt to braze/weld when I was 11 or so, he has oxy/acetylene at home, and I use a mig sometimes in the art stuff I build. Though I restored a mini with him as my first car(at 16), I then re-restored it 5 years ago as it had sat at a farm for 10 years after I crashed it into a lake at 50mph...hhmmm)
At the moment I have a crappy mig welder that my mate lent me, though at dad's I have a good one (very adjustable) I want to bring down, (will do when I take the bmx up for my nephew).

His breadth of talent when it comes to metal is quite astonishing (which is an understatement, he has a machine shop at my moms ) so when he did stuff as kids we would inevitably help him, and I have built on that base as I have grown up. I am trying to get a small compressor in my studio so I can start painting my own frames, they are so easy if you go from the sand blasting to paint route ( the most tiresome and boring bit is removing the paint ) flatting and prepping a bike frame is relatively easy. the surface area is tiny, when you compare them to a car, even a mini bonnet, the amount of viewable 'clean' paint is so small. all the tubes/angles are rounded so the flat panels that take time to prep/refinish/prep/refinish simply don't exist (I'm not saying it's easy, just different...;D...)

Nice one. I like dads who incorporate kids into their tinkering :-)
My dad would chase me away when I was little when he was repairing a car and after was surprised, that I can't do anything as a teenager.

after I crashed it into a lake at 50mph...hhmmm

How did that happen, then? It doesn't seem to have been such a deep lake?

@ Wingedangel whare are you based as you seem a handy person to know

@Oliver I don't know whats worse driving into a lake or doing a 180 into a wall at 50 ;p

How did that happen, then? It doesn't seem to have been such a deep lake?

I had raced it at castle coombe the week before, and like a lazy and know it all 21 year old I left the slicks on (despite numerous occasions of my dad nagging me to change them...) as they were enormous fun around the lanes....until...torrential rain...spliff...youthful exuberance...coming down a hill with a hairpin at the bottom an inch thick with water, the chevrons having been conveniently knocked down the week before...I almost got it round, got it round, got it round, annnnnddd...and clipped the kerb...boom... the car went flying and that was the start of my 'off'...it hit the water on the left front wing, and rolled over onto the drivers side, on first instance it had sliding windows which shot open and ejected the freezing water into my face and as it rolled and came to a standstill I did ejecta passenger door, only to find the water was literally 4'6'' deep (the exact width of a mini), it was just washing around the edges and you could see an outline of the door and side of the car. it's a good job the water was there as It would have piruoeted and rolled(and rolled), as it was, the water took a great deal of the force and momentum out of the crash, however I only crashed as it was raining.

I went back the next day with a tractor from my mates to drag it to shore, and the water was so cold it made me wail, meh. November muddy water, fucking eeek... I had hit the kerb square and so hard that I had popped both the tyres from the rims on the nearside, and it ended up almost 40ft from the embankment.

I learned many a lesson that evening...dumbass!!! (just to clarify it wasn't really a lake but a field that had been flooded out, it ran along side the road that was embanked up, so a corner of the feild for a few hundred feet wash awash, as deep as the embankment (6-8ft).

Forum nosh at popham lil chef w Heston?