mk1 restoration

okay guys so iv had my uno turbo for a few years now and have and had full intentions of restoring it until recently that is and im now goin to reshell it. kinda gutted to have to scrap the shell but its just to far gone i took all the horman kit off and the shell was a disgrace to say the least i have purchased a red uno turbo shell and am picking it up this weekend from mintys mk1 from on here i have all the parts ready to go on so once i pic it up hopefully the rebuild goes smoothly and hopefully it can be mot ready within the next 2 to 3 weeks tops so here r a few pics of the old shell al put plenty new pics up of the new 1 once the build starts














the driver side was far worse when kit came off and u could wiggle the rear chassis leg around and i put my hand through both rear turrets lol off the scrappy with it

its not all bad though all the parts r good and with a bit of elbow grease they will look great on the new car


some of the stuff i have done that i have pics of






all keep the pics and the progress coming once the cars up

look forward to the progress mate been doing a bit more towards getting my reshell ready to start the rebuilding today

a cany wait to get started but that will probs last about 20mins b4 i wana pull out the hammers lol when r u hoping to get her ready for

hoping to get mine ready for the summer but october latest i hope as goin on hols for the kids and i want to take the uno down there all bein well and me kids keep askin to go out in it

lol am doin the same with y 2 kids there wanting to go to a caravan park and we have to go in the uno cos reds her favourite colour lol ma 2girls r 6 and 7 quality age they r getting into there cars well chuffed

lol same here of to haven my lad is only 4 and he really gets interested when im working on mine he knows most bits of it already and he keeps saying to me it goes really fast dont know where he got that from tho lol but when were all in the missis car he allways tells me to put my foot down so does my daughter they love goin fast theyll get me pulled one of these days

lol uv got it made then

Looking good Bill cant wait to see this all going together.

cheers ben it feels good to see light at the end of the tunnel cant wait to get stuck in to it

Thank fcuk you chucked that blue thing in the bin before I became cheeky lol

Good luck with the new one mate

lol am glad to b4 a went insane lol

and plus dnt think i wana get on the wrong side of ur words of wisdom lol and cheers m8 the new shell look like a we cracker

am i wrong here but i'm wanting a horman kitted uno more and more

defo not ad love a horman kitted 1 they look really cool but i wouldnt go putin on on a mint turbo shell no way ad go all out and put it on a 45 shell and go with a 1.6 or 2.0 litre lump or just buy that white one that was on ebay that car had me drewling lol

unot190bhp wrote:defo not ad love a horman kitted 1 they look really cool but i wouldnt go putin on on a mint turbo shell no way ad go all out and put it on a 45 shell and go with a 1.6 or 2.0 litre lump or just buy that white one that was on ebay that car had me drewling lol

do you mean the white one with red abarth stripe?
the thing that spoilt that for me was the massive intercooler up front.

yeah it defo could of had something more hidden up front it was the price that spoiled it for me lol ad make my own at a fraction of the price of that car

Cor she was rusty
Think it is for the best the reshell mate,but atleast it a reshell into another turbo shell.
I look forward to see it coming together,although i would be amazed if you can do it in 2-3 weeks!

fortunatly im self employed fixing car buying and selling at the moment from my garage so am going to have to say no to work in order to do my own car which is top priority as the uno will be my daily car and my garage is at my back door as long as the woman keeps the cups of t coming al do fine lol infact i might just move into the garage

Haha sounds like you are sorted then,still 2-3 weeks that will be good going

Oh and make sure you save them rad coolling panels of the front cross member off your old shell in the piccy,i hate seeing stuff go to waste and they look in good shape

yeah will do and yeah they are pretty much perfect they are off now must admit im getting pretty sick of cleaning up parts

well there is my gearbox gna hate scrubbing that lol


and my injectors r they standard??

okay so my blue shell is now scrapped here is my new chappy :)just got it home late last night so here is day 1 not to much done just a little cleaning and started welding the rear jacking point area back up and getting the floor back into its proper shape and also cleaned the engine bay






put my steering wheel and column nd pedal box in




























okay so thats what iv got done for today the plan is to get all the welding done in 2morro and start preping the shell for a full respray and clean up that mountain of parts yeehaa   

nice welding mate bet your glad to have your new shell so you can get cracking on the resto

thanks i kinda messed up at the bottom of the plate as it was bout 5mil to short lol easy fix but. nd yeah i would still be out there the now but its all grinder work at the min so gotta keep the neighbours sweet roll on tomorrow  

unot190bhp wrote: i would still be out there the now but its all grinder work at the min so gotta keep the neighbours sweet :(roll on tomorrow  

i know that feeling my nieghbours work nights so there in bed in the day time so i cant start that sort of work till 3 ish then cant work to late as the other side have kids in bed early