Kansas City MINI Enthusiasts

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Met up with some interesting MOMO's along the way....

"MINI Owners Of Mid Ohio"

Awesome!!

^^What Seth said!!^^ Can't wait to see it!

Seth, same carb as yours, I'll be tearing it down this week, maybe bring yours down to my shop and we can check it over too - I think that's where your problem is - I think you have a sticking float.

A few more pics....

Couple more....

Beautiful!

Now we have a tool truck for the trip!

That is sweet David. Good luck with it.

Pretty sweet! Will it make the donut run?

Unless it's down for parts, that's the plan......

I have a number of things I need to do to it before the Classic Mini Fun Run on the 20th.

Very nice and clean!

Alrighty then, after only 3 hours of jousting with officialdom, Buzz is now a duly inspected, licensed, taxed, registered and plated member of Kansas society.

Today it's 75* and the temp gauge actually got up to the middle of "normal", without the fan kicking on.....the fan does come on a few minutes after I shut it off tho, as it should.

The alternator light has quit flashing at me completely, don't know WHAT that was all about, and I have parts on the way to fix the most egregious oil leaks. Things are moving forward for our first event this weekend - the donut run.

Then next week we leave for the Missouri Ozarks and a weekend of hooning about the hills with half dozen other classics. Should be fun!

So you now own

2 Clubmans, a Jag, and an Audi.

Yes.

Your point is......?????

No point at all

Very cool. I definitely want a ride in it at some point. Never been in a classic Mini.

Very cool !

My parents had 2 different Travellers(Clubman) from 1963 to 1968! One was a woodie. Very cool!

Awww

Stephie, would you consider donating your Classic Cooper Bentley manual to the club? I still have it BTW......

Ready to go!

The driver's seat was really beat down, like a 400 lb person had been in there so I stripped the cover off, bought some new foam and re-padded the seat, it sits much better now. When you watch ol Wheeler Dealers, Edd China's always installing a nice set of seat squabs and covers on whatever little English car project he's working on, but I could not find anyone in the states who sold just the foam parts, so I had to make my own.

Now on to the wood dash repairs and wiring issues.....

Next challenge, now that the seat is done - dash rattles - which is how Buzz got his name!

I made some new clips to replace the missing ones on the wood dash insert, I also shimmed the glove box door catch and put felt along the edges where it contacts the plastic covered dash......just to make sure I put a dab of epoxy on those tabs to give a tiny bit more strength. We'll see if it makes any difference....

Next I'm going to do a little straightening out on that wiring mess.....

Looks like you are having lots of fun!

If you remove too many of the rattles and other noise makers, Buzz might have to be renamed Purr. You could give him a proper last name, like Pudwell from Yorkshire. I still can't get over the fact that your car came with a notebook full of maintenance records and proper UK registration docs spanning it's entire lifespan--how normal! Only thing I know about my frankenmini is that it began life dressed in green.