Thought I would get the rusty sills off and rear lower valance ready for the new ones.
Got the mini off the small trolley and pushed it on its side on the old tyres being carefull where I placed the tyres not to dent the panels.
At a first glance it all looks like what the most people would call a hard mini !
However everybody that has ever owned or worked on a mini will know beter !
Outer sill doesnt look all that bad from here either.
Taadaaa, hard mini indeed .. someone had once welded part of a new fromt outer sill over the rusty sill causing this ... Always remove the rust never patch over ..
Anyway after the rain always comes sun, the reest wasnt to bad and will be removed for new sills.
Old sill removing wasnt to bad approx 40 minuten per side.
Just sliced and diced along the seem with the door step pull down the sill slice in to bits and drill a few spot welds out.
Looking at this its going to be an outer sill job left and right and an inner front sill and floor pannels left and right also most likely doing the door jam and flitch panels too.
inside isnt looking rusty really.
Although you cant really see from this photo the side of a mini is slightly rounded.
Unfortuneatley someone over the years has patched things up not removing the rust.
Rear lower valanc..
Rear lower valance corner closing panel and boot floor is looking tired.
After slicing the rear lower valance off it revealed more panel work which will need tweaking..
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