A mad, bad Mini project

[Lefty]

Ha.

Is it finished?

what do you think?

[Megaflow]

Lefty said:

Ha.

Is it finished?

what do you think?

Not a chance…

[ChocolateFrog]

Great episode.

I can't tell you how much it's satiated my OCD seeing so many odd jobs buttoned up.



The steering column in particular was a brilliant solution.

I'm guessing those steering wheels are many hundreds?.

[Caddyshack]

Looked really good. Lovely to see it all done.

[chrisgtx]

I want to see it getting mapped.

[robemcdonald]

Do you think in the next video they will address the front wheel position?

[smn159]

Looks OK to me

[Randy Winkman]

smn159 said:

Looks OK to me

Yes - I dont think it looks too bad and in real life probably isnt an issue. I guess that modifying the arches would make it look spot on but I cant believe they would have the motivation to do that.

[KP328]

It will be interesting to see how it drives and handles.

I love the attention to detail they have given everything and it inspired me when i was building my mini.

[skwdenyer]

Randy Winkman said:

smn159 said:

Looks OK to me

Yes - I dont think it looks too bad and in real life probably isnt an issue. I guess that modifying the arches would make it look spot on but I cant believe they would have the motivation to do that.

It looks like parallax error to me.

[Lefty]

There must be 10,000+ hours gone into this. And people wonder why low-number restomods from scratch are so expensive eh? Obviously BOM has done most of this themselves but imagine if you were paying people to do it at £50-100/hr.

[robemcdonald]

Lefty said:

There must be 10,000+ hours gone into this. And people wonder why low-number restomods from scratch are so expensive eh? Obviously BOM has done most of this themselves but imagine if you were paying people to do it at £50-100/hr.

If I took a car to a restorer and they gave me a £10,000 bill for time they spent developing a new machine for PCBs I wouldn’t be impressed.

[leglessAlex]

robemcdonald said:

If I took a car to a restorer and they gave me a £10,000 bill for time they spent developing a new machine for PCBs I wouldn t be impressed.

Especially when those PCBs won't stand up to 1,000 miles (at best) of road vibrations

But I do agree with Lefty, when you look at the sheer number of hours that go into things it's easy to see why any restomod that looks good has a stratospheric cost.

Edit, I agreed with wrong person sorry Lefty

Edited by leglessAlex on Saturday 29th November 17:33

[Lefty]

robemcdonald said:

Lefty said:

There must be 10,000+ hours gone into this. And people wonder why low-number restomods from scratch are so expensive eh? Obviously BOM has done most of this themselves but imagine if you were paying people to do it at £50-100/hr.

If I took a car to a restorer and they gave me a £10,000 bill for time they spent developing a new machine for PCBs I wouldn t be impressed.

You know what I mean though. Little innocuous parts that take an inordinate amount of thinking time, development time, fabrication time, finishing time, testing time and then various revisions to get right. If you’re paying for every single hour it really adds up to serious money.

[Alex9]

I'm not up to speed with my YouTubers. Who were they referring to with the moustache comment?

[clubracing]

Another episode really of just fitting parts that they've had ready for years, but good to see it 'finished' still. Can't fathom why they didn't put a dust cover over it at least in the mean time though.

Hope when they get it mapped and driving that there's actually some airflow through the rads....

[dxg]

Pfft! It's the journey, not the destination.

(Which is somewhat ironic for a car restoration).

[threadlock]

Alex9 said:

I'm not up to speed with my YouTubers. Who were they referring to with the moustache comment?

I'm guessing it's Hudson Auto Films - another low-key British channel that's working on rescuing some fairly unusual cars.

[Stick Legs]

threadlock said:

Alex9 said:

I'm not up to speed with my YouTubers. Who were they referring to with the moustache comment?

I'm guessing it's Hudson Auto Films - another low-key British channel that's working on rescuing some fairly unusual cars.

And worth your time.

[robemcdonald]

Stick Legs said:

threadlock said:

Alex9 said:

I'm not up to speed with my YouTubers. Who were they referring to with the moustache comment?

I'm guessing it's Hudson Auto Films - another low-key British channel that's working on rescuing some fairly unusual cars.

And worth your time.

It’s a decent channel, but suffers from the usual curse of never fking finishing anything before moving on to the next one