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The Ultimate Mini Restoration Manual: How to Choose, Restore, Paint, Trim, Overhaul, Update, Upgrade, Grossly Overpower and Generally Have Fun with a Classic Mini (Restoration Manuals)
Iain Ayre
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Description for The Ultimate Mini Restoration Manual: How to Choose, Restore, Paint, Trim, Overhaul, Update, Upgrade, Grossly Overpower and Generally Have Fun with a Classic Mini (Restoration Manuals)
Paperback. The Ultimate Mini Restoration Manual gives you all the info you need to evaluate your skills and attitude, get your garage sorted, choose the right Mini, weld-up the rust, paint it, overhaul the engine, sort the rest of the mechanicals, retrim - then make the car faster, smoother, sharper, and a lot more fun! Num Pages: 176 pages, 501. BIC Classification: WGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 277 x 213 x 15. Weight in Grams: 782.
Condensing several decades of hands-on Mini experience into a restoration manual that works with and enhances existing repair manuals, Iain Ayre encourages the reader to evaluate realistically their own potential, equip a garage as a restoration shop, and buy exactly the right sort of nasty old Mini. Showing two major semi-professional body restorations, on older and newer classic Minis, this manual explains how a full-scale rust rescue job can be successfully tackled, before looking at the aspects of restoration not usually covered in repair manuals, such as rewiring, and rebuilding and retrimming seats. Once your Mini is on ... Read more
Condensing several decades of hands-on Mini experience into a restoration manual that works with and enhances existing repair manuals, Iain Ayre encourages the reader to evaluate realistically their own potential, equip a garage as a restoration shop, and buy exactly the right sort of nasty old Mini. Showing two major semi-professional body restorations, on older and newer classic Minis, this manual explains how a full-scale rust rescue job can be successfully tackled, before looking at the aspects of restoration not usually covered in repair manuals, such as rewiring, and rebuilding and retrimming seats. Once your Mini is on ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Veloce Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Dorset, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845841164
SKU
V9781845841164
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50
About Iain Ayre
Iain Ayre has been writing about Minis for longer than he cares to remember, starting with MiniWorld, before the Rolling Stones looked like raisins, and moving over to Mini Magazine while the Mini was still in production. Of the 1000 or so motoring magazine articles he has written, a good percentage have been about Minis. He has driven a Mini ... Read more
Reviews for The Ultimate Mini Restoration Manual: How to Choose, Restore, Paint, Trim, Overhaul, Update, Upgrade, Grossly Overpower and Generally Have Fun with a Classic Mini (Restoration Manuals)
Many books of this type, while offering a boot-full of practical advice and guidance, often end up being as enjoyable to read as your granny's shopping list - however, Ayre's dry sense of humour is present throughout, and I even found myself laughing out loud as I absorbed one or two of his eminently valuable lessons on Mini restoration. New ... Read more