This is hank my 1968 mk3 hornet

Hi this is hank
























hope you liked the pics as u can see it does need alot of work to get back to a roadworthy condition our aim is to get him on the road as a daily drive as he is my dream car plz feel free to comment and advise us on the build

I's suggest maybe finding a donor/parts car. There is an Elf on ebay at the moment that you could probably get for cheap that has what looks like usable floors and front panels.
EBAY LINK

yeh seen that one on ebay would be nice to get as it looks very solid but can not afford it gona get pannles one by one and work out wats wat we have restored many a mini but this is the 1st hornet hope it turns out good

That's certainly a brave project (and I know about those! You should see my Clubman Estate!)

Anyway if you know Minis then you'll be able to do this one. No point trying to get floors from a donor car when new panels are easily available. Keep us updated!

Well finally got round to taking a closer look at Hank today,and have ordered the inner wing panels for his drivers side from M Machines. Hopefully by next week he will have his wing on and then as the money for parts allow,he will get his new floors!!! Hopefully we will get some windows in him too,as we have no garage to store him in,just a cover for now to keep most of the rain off him.Its certainly gonna be a long old ride but fingers crossed we will get him sorted. Still trying to sorce a bonnet and grill for him too,have polished up alot of his crome work,lights etc that came with him,ready for a day when he has panels to attach them to.

Bonnets & grilles do come up on ebay, in fact I saw a good set on a stand at a show last week, a Mini breakers in Stafford, don't recall the company name though.

ok thanks for that,I will endeavour to track them down.

Kevin at Bradford mini spares always has good used elf/hornet parts, and at reasonable cost!.

Thankyou,have tried to ring both numbers today and yesturday,to no avail! Got the numbers from google search but I guess I will just have to keep trying. But thanks for pointing me in the right direction...

I have Kevin's card at home somewhere, I will have a look for you!

Thankyou,but I have now managed to speak to him,sadly he has no hornet parts in at the moment! but I have kept the number on my phone for future times, thankyou again for your help!!

i keep trying to upload pics of wor k that has been dont vier photo bucket but it wont generate the link codes any ideas

halfpenny68 wrote:i keep trying to upload pics of wor k that has been dont vier photo bucket but it wont generate the link codes any ideas

What you were doing before was working. What are you doing differently?

as far as i knoiw,im doing the same as before??? just not having any luck. Have been busy doing some work and it is starting to look ok,just wanted to upload pics for all to see and comment on!!! needing the encouragement to continue as its all a bit daunting...

It looks like PhotoBucket has changed their procedures a bit. I've posted an updated guide.
Look here: posting-photos-on-the-forum

thanx for the guid red riley that is exactly wat i have been doing but when i hit genarate link codes nout happens and at very bottom of widow it says error on page will try upload one by one now fingers crossed it works

these are pics from the 18th may the 1st day of work on hank

we started at the worst point sill/door post inner wing in this pic we have cut away the bad part of lowwer door post


here we have cut out a patch from a door post repair pannle still needs a bit of fetling in this pic


patch welded in note it is not welded behind the door step this will be done when the complete sills are being sorted

this it the front pannle after the 3/4inch filler was removed wat metal is left is very flimsy


o/s/r window sill repair


holes cut out


patches made to fit level so minimum filler



welded in and ground back

close up


filler sanded back


with primmer on needs a lil work to get 100% but pritty much ther

Looking good!

Looking good so far. May I say again, you are a brave brave person.

Red Riley wrote:Looking good so far. May I say again, you are a brave brave person.

Agreed!

keep going!

defanatly need to be brave or stupid with this one . biggest project we have taken on so far but shour we can turn it around and make it the best we can thanx for your comments and continued support please keep t up

It will be very worth it at the end! love the pics!

well we have managed to get hold of a bonnet and also a pair of bumpers and some other lil bits
the bonnet is in a sorry state but we have started repaires

all 4 corners look a bit like this one even parts of the inner structure are rotted


metal ground back on front edge


the scary bit cut out


patch 90% welded in but now out of gass


and other corner welded in