Hey guys, I've had my car for about a year now and I love it! Got a 57 mini one as my first car (after a fair amount of persuasion!) and I couldn't be more pleased. It brilliant for beating my friends 59 Ibiza and for other general teenage driving. :camera:
Anyway, I am looking to customise it a bit. :nerd: Nothing too fancy or too expensive but I am planning to save up a bit, to help out, but nothing above a few hundred pounds! I wanna change the looks (not the inside (inside as in engine not inteiror) because i dont think it's worth it on small cars like this (pluss - insurance :eeksurprise: )) but I don't want to act like I don't have a mini one, I want it to be that I have a cool mini one!
It's currently Red with a black roof :redblack: , both paints are peeling and flaking (mainly the red on the bonnet - someone told me to spray clear lacquer over these points to prevent it getting any worse and although it's not beautiful its worked well for until I get a new bonnet) I am hoping to get it wraped, does anyone have any cool ideas? My current idea is going matte black roof with and orangey/yellowy body :gldblack: and there is at the moment the possibility of de-chroming it (to gloss black) and adding gloss black shelby stripes. What do you guys think of that? too far for a mini one? I see it looking cool but I might be biased.
I have interior lights which I love and were so simple to wire in and look awesome (they flood light the footwells) and were pretty cheap. Is there any other simple changes on the inside I could do? (I got matching floor mats straight away cause it came with rubbish ones) I am tempted to wrap the light grey interior dash trim (only the big grey bits like behind the wheel) in carbon fibre! I know it's tacky but I think it'll look cool.
I need any cool ideas and things I could do! Like, is there a way to change the aerial, cause I never use the radio! (I am tempted to just make a small metal semi-circle almost and screw a threaded bar into it and swap that for the aerial) Should I get new wheels or spray mine!? anything you wanna do to your car let me know. We can get a load of good ideas going.
Thanks for the help! Sorry for the long post, I got a lot of ideas and questions. :big_grin:
Anyway, I am looking to customise it a bit. :nerd: Nothing too fancy or too expensive but I am planning to save up a bit, to help out, but nothing above a few hundred pounds! I wanna change the looks (not the inside (inside as in engine not inteiror) because i dont think it's worth it on small cars like this (pluss - insurance :eeksurprise: )) but I don't want to act like I don't have a mini one, I want it to be that I have a cool mini one!
It's currently Red with a black roof :redblack: , both paints are peeling and flaking (mainly the red on the bonnet - someone told me to spray clear lacquer over these points to prevent it getting any worse and although it's not beautiful its worked well for until I get a new bonnet) I am hoping to get it wraped, does anyone have any cool ideas? My current idea is going matte black roof with and orangey/yellowy body :gldblack: and there is at the moment the possibility of de-chroming it (to gloss black) and adding gloss black shelby stripes. What do you guys think of that? too far for a mini one? I see it looking cool but I might be biased.
I have interior lights which I love and were so simple to wire in and look awesome (they flood light the footwells) and were pretty cheap. Is there any other simple changes on the inside I could do? (I got matching floor mats straight away cause it came with rubbish ones) I am tempted to wrap the light grey interior dash trim (only the big grey bits like behind the wheel) in carbon fibre! I know it's tacky but I think it'll look cool.
I need any cool ideas and things I could do! Like, is there a way to change the aerial, cause I never use the radio! (I am tempted to just make a small metal semi-circle almost and screw a threaded bar into it and swap that for the aerial) Should I get new wheels or spray mine!? anything you wanna do to your car let me know. We can get a load of good ideas going.
Thanks for the help! Sorry for the long post, I got a lot of ideas and questions. :big_grin: