New motoring museum in Wollongong

We went out to the opening of the new Motoring Museum in Wollongong last weekend. It was opened by Sir Jack Brabham - pretty impressive! Lots of people there and lots of great cars on display - here's a selection of the shots we took...

A nice little Morris Minor 850 - 1962

A really well presented old Falcon

Riley & a Riley!

Pretty cool Charger (even though it's pink!)

A nice sky blue classic saloon

Red clubby van

Green clubby van

A really nice looking (1275) Moke... this will have to be another project (one day!)

Found a classic mini in (something like) the right colour!

The boys, Dad & I went along to the opening of the new motoring museum in Wollongong last weekend (more on that in my next post). The best bit was that we found a classic mini on display painted in a colour that looks really close to Space Blue. This one has a silver roof (we're going for white).

Colour codes

Found a great reference for all of the new mini colour codes. Dad was able to find someone in Wollongong (Gladstone Ave) who gave us some great advice on how to prep for painting. We got a sample of Space Blue (A49) which is pretty close to Horizon Blue - the sample looks a bit dark but it should be great.

Did a few searches and found some real-world pics - it was used as part of a special edition in 05/06 which came with a silver roof...

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A whole lot of sanding

Dad's been doing a lot of work taking the paint off the mini. We've got most of it off now and we're hoping we don't have to go all the way to bare metal.

Damon is pretty proud of the finish

Sanding boys...

A "rippled" panel that was full of filler - now we know why

The rear "barn" doors

The driver's door before we pulled the glass out

Sanding boys

We've now rolled her over to take the dents out of the floor - notice the rope holding it up?