The Ultimate Mini Restoration Manual gives you all the info you need to evaluate your skills and attitude, get your garage sorted, choose the right Mini, weld-up the rust, paint it, overhaul the engine, sort the rest of the mechanicals, retrim – then make the car faster, smoother, sharper, and a lot more fun!
Condensing several decades of hands-on Mini experience into a restoration manual that works with and enhances existing repair manuals, Iain Ayre encourages the reader to evaluate realistically their own potential, equip a garage as a 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 rewiring, and rebuilding and retrimming seats.
Once your Mini is on its way 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.
Iain Ayre is a long-time Mini enthusiast, who has built and modified his own Mini-derived cars, and who has written many articles for MiniWorld and Mini Magazine.
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
