Re-Birth of Boris

Hi all
Thought its about time I put up the rebuild of my mk1 on here.
Bought from a granny, in full granny spec the cars standard 1300, fairly tidy, few dings here and there, rust in heater bubble and rear wheel well, few vey small holes in floorpans, bot floor etc
Lovely old lady and her hubby had had it from new and called it Boris so its sort of stuck, (my mk2s called Brenda!) when Ipicked it up and drove it the 50 k trip home it would only do 30kph so i just sat at 30 with my pedal to the metal, after 5 minutes it coughed and farted and blew out pile of smoke, then it started moving, the speedo needle was going mental as it had never been above 30!
The old dear had only driven it in the day, so when i got it home and played with everything, and tried the lights it seriously took 2 or 3 mins for them to come on!
 
Plan for the car is 1600, twin choke, extractors, etc. Im a pomme so 13" wheels, lowered, clean straight bodywork prob original colour (father in laws an awesome oldschool spray painter, maybe of interest he's always keen for foriegners and does an awesome job), or like the look of bionic blue.
Doing it on a mega budget as moneys fairly tight with a young family etc, so itll be fairly basic spec but a good standard to add too in the future.
Struggling to put pics on here, so if anyone can give it me in the most basic way how to resize or what site to use etc it would be great, dont understand all thi 250kb thingy and how to achieve it
 
 

Hi Mate,
 
Sounds like a great base to start from.
 
To get the pics up you need to download image resizer (http://imageresizer.codeplex.com/)
 
Cheers
 
Matt
 
 
 

download " shrink pic" and it does it automatically for you , i had the same problem

Yipeeeeeeeeeeeee my pics worked, feel like bill gates!

Dang, it has all the accessories! It looks to be a very honest car. I like the original colour, the paint still has a gleam to it. Your mates back in the uk will be very envious :D Nice score, i look forward to seeing your progress.
Haydn
 
 
 

It's just a suggestion, but keep the side strips if you can. I kept mine on and it really lends to the heritage of the car. You can see it's an original, well looked after classic, not something that's been stripped back and resprayed (usually what happens to rust buckets). just my 5c

I'm confused - the car has WA plates but you are in NSW?
 
If in WA I recommend keeping the original retro number plates.  Although they now make these available at a higher fee as a form of personalised plate in WA, you would probably get brand spanking new ones for virtually nothing seeing they would be direct replacements.
 
Nice find.  Good luck with it.

Hi mate. I have those front struts out now and your welcome to them complete if you want. They have almost new peddars springs and insert but won't lower it by anywhere near what you're planning for the back.
I'll probably be down in Port week after next, so if you won't to catch up just drop me a PM.
Cheers,
Cam