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He bought this neon last year when he was still 16 with the idea of having it as his first car but insurance company’s have a different idea so now he’s passed his test he’s had to buy an UP! And have a horrible black box fitted. I’m insured for the mini so we are treating it as a bit of fun to do jobs on and learn how cars work for him. I’ve been a home mechanic all my life so am reasonably competent but never did the mini thing as a lad, like RWD too much. Over the Christmas break we fitted a stage one kit, inlet manifold, carb needle, 4 branch exhaust manifold and a larger bore twin box exhaust. The results are not huge but it definitely has free’d up the breathing so revs out more eagerly. Next job is to get some bucket seats in there. All this is being done for the day when he can get insured on it for a sensible amount of money. 
To be honest we didn’t try too hard to find reasonable insurance because we decided using it as a daily would probably spoil it so keeping it for occasional run outs and going to shows would be better and have a more modern practical car for day to day use would be better. He is like me in loving old cars so he’ll never not want to drive the mini, he loves it! He’s doing engineering at college so it’s been great for teaching him about mechanical things and how to ‘do spannering’.
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