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Hi All, This has been on the back shelf for many, many years. I have lost count. I think the reason was that I had decided I wanted to wire up the ignition, and it was at the time that my eyesight was poor due to my diabetes. However, I received a birthday card from my sister recently, and it had a picture of a Mini Cooper on it, and I saw a recent Car SOS episode where they restored a Mini Cooper S, so that inspired me to try and finish this one. Anyway, enough waffle, here is where we are at the moment: This was more or less where I had got until the other day. The only work done before I took these pictures was to wire up the ignition and put in the glazing. As it happened, the wiring went rather more easily that I had thought it would. I then installed the door panels and carefully prised the body onto the floor-pan, thus: This little blighter has been fighting me all the way to the finish line. (Still a long way to g0 yet though!!!) I was fitting the oil-cooler when the body shell fell out of my hands on to the work-bench. All the glazing fell out. A few choice words were spoken over it, but after a bit of wriggling with the glazing, I got it back in. The problem was that having installed the door panels, they now were in the way of the glass... Still, we all live and learn, and I did get the glazing back in without any PVA glue smearing the windows. Getting the body on the floor-pan was a bit of a challenge, and a couple of small bits fell off in the process. Nothing major though, and easily fixed. That's all for the mo. Thanks for looking. Cheers, Alan.
