06-20-2017, 10:13 AM
Hi Tim
Needless to say due to 3 other projects of my own and two serious resto mods and a full on restoration on a 997 Cooper on client cars, the GTS has been on the back burner. The pics above is still how the car is standing since December last year. Mostly due to the welding that is still outstanding and the nose not being re-connected to the car I have been very lazy to move the car. I have however been a busy boy in terms of sourcing new parts for the engine and body. I also bought a brand new set of GTS correct arches from Kollie for this car.
Quite frankly I thought my new colour choice would be unique, but in the last few months almost 5 cars with the same colour has come out of the woodwork. Further on this point almost weekly now a GTS is up for sale, again if whether these are genuine or replica cars is yet to be discovered. It seems like now is the time to get this beauty done as prices seems to soaring, (car that sold 3 weeks ago for reported R280 000) case and point.
I have been in two minds about selling the car to some international collectors once it is done, clearly all back to original not in it's current state of tune however. I have since last year Sept helped two collectors to source and verify genuine GTSs outside our borders. However since I am against letting our good cars (the few that is left in this country in any way) go, I might consider keeping it after all the endless hours upon hours upon hours of work that has been done to this point. Bottom line is body wise the car is just as good if not better than in late seventies when it left the factory.
But I however am after another more sought after Mini, so time will tell what transpires. Last point is I want to make my current collection of 6 almost running usable cars down to half of that with some serious collectable cars in the collection and not the current everyday items I have.
Needless to say due to 3 other projects of my own and two serious resto mods and a full on restoration on a 997 Cooper on client cars, the GTS has been on the back burner. The pics above is still how the car is standing since December last year. Mostly due to the welding that is still outstanding and the nose not being re-connected to the car I have been very lazy to move the car. I have however been a busy boy in terms of sourcing new parts for the engine and body. I also bought a brand new set of GTS correct arches from Kollie for this car.
Quite frankly I thought my new colour choice would be unique, but in the last few months almost 5 cars with the same colour has come out of the woodwork. Further on this point almost weekly now a GTS is up for sale, again if whether these are genuine or replica cars is yet to be discovered. It seems like now is the time to get this beauty done as prices seems to soaring, (car that sold 3 weeks ago for reported R280 000) case and point.
I have been in two minds about selling the car to some international collectors once it is done, clearly all back to original not in it's current state of tune however. I have since last year Sept helped two collectors to source and verify genuine GTSs outside our borders. However since I am against letting our good cars (the few that is left in this country in any way) go, I might consider keeping it after all the endless hours upon hours upon hours of work that has been done to this point. Bottom line is body wise the car is just as good if not better than in late seventies when it left the factory.
But I however am after another more sought after Mini, so time will tell what transpires. Last point is I want to make my current collection of 6 almost running usable cars down to half of that with some serious collectable cars in the collection and not the current everyday items I have.
Own some minis, break them, fix them, improve them, test them to the limit....
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