She had been at ours for a couple of months already, originally an automatic she was found to have gearbox issues as well as the obvious lack of a front end, so its previous owner sourced a decent manual engine and box, my lad removed the engine and started changing the pedal box, that is however as far as she got before she ended up my hands.
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The good news is that she is complete apart from the obvious missing front, a lot of bits have already been removed but are there so that side of things shouldn't be too bad.
Despite the looks of things she isn't too bad for a mini bodyshell wise, though there is of course welding to be done, and no doubt the list of repairs will grow. I've already decided I need to do the sills despite the only rot in those areas being to the door steps, that is because the door steps have started to rust due to someone having at some point filled the original sills with expanding foam, somewhere after that someone has fitted new sills, but neglected to remove the originals and expanding foam.....
Ah well, at least I can be good and fit the proper sills while I'm there rather than the more common and frowned on over sills she currently has.
I've made a start at some stuff anyway, so will bring this up to date later.
for now, here she is where the Riley used to live.
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