THE ULTIMATE MINI RESTORATION MANUAL
HOW TO CHOOSE, RESTORE, PAINT, TRIM, OVERHAUL, UPDATE, UPGRADE..
Condensing several decades of hands-on Mini experience into a restoration manual that works with and enhances existing repair manuals, Ian Ayre encourages the reader to evaluate realistically their...
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Condensing several decades of hands-on Mini experience into a restoration manual that works with and enhances existing repair manuals, Ian Ayre encourages the reader to evaluate realistically their own potential, equip a garage as restoration shop, and buy exactly the right sort of nasty old Mini. Showing two major semi-professional body restorations, on older and newer classic Minis, this manual explains how a full-scale rust rescue job can be successfully tackled, before looking at the aspects of restoration not usually covered in repair manuals, such as re-wiring, and rebuilding and retrimming seats. Once your Mini is on its way to to full restoration, you'll be shown the art of improving Minis, an art learned during the writing of hundreds of articles on modified Minis ... and in racing and crashing them!
• Contains valuable information missing from ordinary repair manuals
• Based on a combined 50 years of hands-on Mini experience
• Provides an entertaining but realistic picture of what’s actually involved in restoring Minis
• Exhaustive pictorial guide on how to resurrect a crumbling shell
• Options for modern Japanese power units evaluated and discussed
• Improvements to suspension, steering and handling explained
• Explains upgrades for seating and interior comfort
• Includes photo walk-through of seat rebuilding and retrimming
• Techincal Editor has built 50 engines – without a blow-up!
• What to do if your Mini turns out to be toast, when its full rust is revealed
• Contains valuable information missing from ordinary repair manuals
• Based on a combined 50 years of hands-on Mini experience
• Provides an entertaining but realistic picture of what’s actually involved in restoring Minis
• Exhaustive pictorial guide on how to resurrect a crumbling shell
• Options for modern Japanese power units evaluated and discussed
• Improvements to suspension, steering and handling explained
• Explains upgrades for seating and interior comfort
• Includes photo walk-through of seat rebuilding and retrimming
• Techincal Editor has built 50 engines – without a blow-up!
• What to do if your Mini turns out to be toast, when its full rust is revealed
Product specification
Binding
In paperback
Pages
176
ISBN / EAN
9781845841164
Publisher
Languages
English
Publication date
11/2015
Colour illustrations
501
Dimensions
21 x 27 x 1 cm
Additional information
Book type or Series
Restoration and Repair
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