As a few of you know I had my taxi test this week and had to change the window mechanism on my car. My good mate Paul opened up his garage for me to use and I thought I would show you around his garage. His son is a mini fanatic and they have several in the garage with chopped down roofs and suicide doors etc, none of them I may add are finished lol but getting there slowly, as they do vehicle repairs to pay for the garage there time is limited to do what they want to do.



The mechanism was riveted in place and had to be drilled out, the door actually comes in 2 parts


And here he is Paul the mechanic, he is always there to help anyone out, he is a taxi driver and Ive seen him pull off the road to help other taxi drivers out.




Well got the old one out and the new one in place waiting to be riveted in, you can see the new rivets sticking out, for this we used Pauls windy rivet gun






Look at the mini in the corner this is the one thats been chopped down, it also has suicide doors.










I would love to own a garage of this size.

Many thanks goes to Paul for being there yet again for me.

Nice little story & photo's mate, Paul sounds like a good lad as well.

Is the pickup on the market, what kind of price to put it on the road, I can arrange transport to Soller
I think Jesus would be impressed for once (he's more dour than WS on a bad day, and his wife Maria only
has to look at Donkey and the Whippets and they go away)

Dads I dont know when your serious and when your not lol, if your interested I can always ask them for you

Genuine enquiry, I swear on Donkeys breath
(no I am interested)

It must be true Daryn, swearing about Donkey's breath.

LOL, Ill have a word for you matey

Just spoke to him mate and he said its not for sale unfortunately. But he said he will ask the son to ask around for you as he knows many that have minis

Nice review daryn and pics yes he ll do anything he can to help you hes a nice guy.

Well I managed to understand the thumbs up sign from Paul, but not sure what a suicide door is?

Its a door that is hinged from the centre pillar and opens the opposite way to the normal way, if you know what I mean lol

Yes that makes sense mate lol

Not sure why that would be done though?

Its customised and different lol

Oh I thought you had a suicide door Daryn, the one the passengers use to do a runner and not pay for the ride

It has been known mate

He has got an ejector seat as well, if the punter gives him grief. I know, he tried it on me in March.