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The saga continues. New Bargain Mini, some details found here; https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...rgain-r56.html
Bought from my next door neighbor, threw the belt, [bad idler pulley] he had it towed home where it sat in his driveway for about a year. I couldn't stand it any longer and gave him $500 for it.
And I take in stray dogs as well.
Anyway after a thorough look, I ended up ordering about $2600 in parts, [and climbing] The last tow job broke the bottom of the bumper cover, the radiator support and the belly pan. [and crushed the bottom of the radiator, [Rock Auto] After spending all that on hard parts I was reluctant to spend a bunch on plastic. About $300 after market, who knows, OEM?
As my current big project it restoring a 30' ChrisCraft, I thought I'm pretty familiar with epoxy and F.G., I can fix this.
A large chunk of the spoiler was missing and what was left had sooo many scars from bottoming out. I live with country roads with a high crown so 2 - 3 inches of clearance is not the way to go.. I could see me making that worse with parking lot stoppers, etc... so I cut the spoiler off and epoxied 3/4" plywood plates for support where the cover bolts to the frame as the spoiler was part of the attachment.. The result was stronger that OEM.
So, epoxy and mat works if you would rather buy hard parts than plastic.
P.S. The inside of the bumper will get painted flat black before installation. Outside will be gloss black with a blue body. Maybe folks will think it's carbon, ha! Plus I had some gloss black on hand., The roof and mirrors are black some it almost seems intentional!
After all it is/was a $500 car, [now 3k] but who's counting...
Reinforcement to attach to frame. The spoiler that I cut off had the part that attached to the frame.
Center section, previously broken in half repaired. Really broken in half with chunks missing.
Radiator support repaired. Again chunks missing. Good as new, and it won't be seen anyway.
Radiator support. Opps, duplicate photo...
Top left corner was broken off as well. I'm wondering if it was "fender hit" in the front. No other evidence of that though.
I use this along with mat F.G Scuff the plastic up well, wipe with thinner, a coat of epoxy, stick the mat down, then saturate.
