Hi all, I’m back after a few years away. Some of you may remember my previous builds, the 205 GTI rally car and a Fiesta St. I’m back now with not 1 but 2 projects. The first of these is this. It’s a 1985 Mini Mayfair that I originally owned for a brief period when I was 18. I sold it to a guy in Liverpool and I managed to track it down and buy it back in September 2019.
The car itself wasn't a bog standard Mayfair. It has a 1275 MG Metro engine and box, spax suspension, MG Metro 4 pots, 13" minilites and had been fully de-seemed. Now, all this was done before I originally bought it in 2005, add in the fact its been sat outside since 2006 until I re acquired it in 2019, its safe to say that pretty much everything needs to be replaced. Since its going to be re born as a historic rally car, everything will need to be replaced anyway so its a perfect base to start with.
The plan and the story so far is a full rebuild after finding copious amounts of rust, as you’ll see, and then building it as a historic spec rally car. I’ll let the pictures do the talking but so far it’s been fully stripped, the driver side sill/floor/door step has been replaced and the heel board repaired. Panels are on order to do the same on the passenger side and also replace the quarter panel.
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