Minimad Vanden Plas

[Minimad]

A frame works perfect ....

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I took the decision not to fully strip down the mini suspensions before I sent it to the paint shop so that I could keep it on it's wheel and move it around ...as space was a bit of an issue. Also....I have already build up my front and rear sub frames already, so all I need to do is drop the front and rear frames once the car is back from the paint shop....sort out the painting of the undercarriage and put the restored frames with suspension in......

going to try as much to explain the steps of the build as I post up the pictures to the best I can remember......as this build start in 2013....and is almost close to completion.

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Paint Shop

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Both rear window sills were replaced from a donor car.
there was no boot lid that cam with the car, so I decided to source a MK1 boot lid as I like the set-up of the number plate flap with the chrome number plate light as the bottom.

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body prep stage 2

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Stage 3 ...spot putt was applied to cover up most of the marks make but the 8o grit sand paper that was used to rubber down the lite weight body filler that was used to cover up the welded areas.

after that was done we did a final check on the body and sorted out any flaws that was over looked in stage 1

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then the whole car was blown over with MS primer so that the fine scratches and paint chipped areas could be covered.

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then another round of spot putty