SHED RACING - 1959 Mini: Carlos Fandango Wheels
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- Опубліковано 18 кві 2024
- Apologies to followers for the lack of footage on the '59 Mini. We've had a lot on in the Shed.
Anyway Ivan finally got the tyres for the Speedwell wheels and gets them fitted.
The new tyres and wheels are wider than standard hence the Carlos Fandango reference (a TV advert for Panama cigars in the UK in the 80s I think) - see • Panama Cigars - Carlos...
We're waiting for a few new parts for the carbs, and the wheel centres - plus the dynamo isn't behaving but we're getting there. - Авто та транспорт
I’m sure I speak for everyone here, we absolutely love Ivan and the shed racing channel and Suzie is the icing on the cake. Just fabulous, keep the videos coming, top job !
David Vizard is still alive with his youtube channel 😉 👍👍👍👍👍
It is about time that Ivan was invited by the King to be presented with his knighthood, this man is an absolute legend.
A guy always has all the parts he needs, except the one the book calls for. Cheers from a shed in Iowa.
If I ever throw anything away, I need it next week.
Just after getting our first peek of Tanya, she seems to have disappeared. Looks like Suzie has superseded her behind the camera. Not complaining mind you, Suzie is always quick to fill in the gaps when Ivan pauses to scroll through his vast mental library trying to recall the right word, and she'll provide the occasional correction or clarification either in real time or in the edit. Anyway, am wishing Tanya and her besieged homeland better days ahead.
I remember putting those Carlos Fandango commercials out on Anglia TV!
Its always a pleasureable experience watching your videos. You have fun while you learn a thing or two. The three of you make a great team. My best to Tanya.
I spent the whole of the 70s tinkering with minis. You bring back the memories of those happy days.
Suddenly it is Saturday morning in 1967….always filled with Lucas, Castrol and Belco😀😀😀. Nowadays when the car gets serviced I have to sit in a luxury lounge with hand made croissants and free newspapers……waiting with people being important but only good at paying by phone. I miss the oil and dirt…not completely as I still have a workshop for older things!!😀😀😀
@@HQBProductions Yes, my Volvo gos to main dealer but my 27 yo Land Rover needs my attention regularly. Love the dirt, the smell of it and its build, but 50 miles is the limit.
Nice wheels they match your clean overalls 👏😂😂unlike Suzi’s eyes 😂😂dodgy ground there😂😂
was funny !
Entertainment at it's best. This is my favourite channel now.
Mini Magic for me:- Mini was foreign territory a mechanic checked one thoroughly on a second hand buy from lady owner and gave it a satisfactory report:- but when I saw him in the pub later he said, "trouble is Mini's fall apart" , this was 1983. I ended up with a much cheaper and much much older Morris Oxford series 4, 1959 like my uncle had had years before.hahaha.
I had already had a Morris 1000cc.
He's right, they DO fall apart...and the faster you drive, and the more mods you make, the faster they shake themselves to pieces. But until they do, oh what fun they are! They remind me of late-60s Alfas and Fiats in that respect - always kicking you in the nuts and running off with your wallet, but really worth it.
Ivan.
Don't give up on the generator just yet. Assuming the field and stator windings are good.. Put some new brushes in and have John clean the commutator on the lathe, very often that's all they need to get them charging again.
Love your channel, always very entertaining.
Good luck
This is going to be a real tribute to the early Mini boy racer brigade, it is great to see a fully restored one but people forget these were cars that people had a lot of fun in as well.
Ivan, Suzie and John just get better and better. Love this channel.
Lovely jubbly, I could watch Ivan, Suzie and John all day long, I'm from the same age period as Ivan, when you made comments in good humour and no one was offended. We three in happy drome....
I am enjoying the fun from Manitoba, Canada.
That knocking on your door is the HSE inquiring as to why John is not wearing safety glasses.
Carlos Fandango! There's a name I haven't heard in a long time.
Also: Zebedee!
Instant Six Appeal: four from Julian, Young John, plus Ivan equals a sure winner! Just keep 'em in order as best you can, Suze...❤
It will be fun showing up in a 100 yr old family saloon is going to be great fun. ❤ the blue wheels on the MIni. Dare to be different.
Ivan’s young niece from Canada is 70! - priceless 🙏👍😁
Great video as usual .
Carlos Fandango ! Ah yes , I remember him well , the only driver to win the Monte Carlo Rally and the Monaco Grand Prix in the same year .
Red is the colour of danger , by the way .😮
Clean the contacts in the cut out with a nail board and if it still doesn’t charge check for corrosion underneath the cutout, and check continuity through the ballast resistor also under the cutout.
Good luck!
Phil
'Carlos Fandango Super Wide Wheels' I remember that from the early eighties. 'Happiness is a cigar called......' Great video team and I love the wheels. I spent Saturday at Stafford rifling through rusty old motorbike tat. Heaven.
Best wishes, Dean.
Gold wheels as John suggested, would have looked the absoulute trick. Blue wheels will be destinctive.
Been years since I've seen a good knuckle skinning when spinning the rear wheels of Minis and 1100s. You dodged a bullet there Ivan old mate!🤣
Another great show, and much appreciated.
Wonderful bits and pieces, this entire video.Hope the visit goes brilliantly.
I have always used Castrol oils in my cars because my Dad did in his and only today I had my XJR MOT'd and the oil changed. Have a great weekend.
Oh Ivan you're going to get pulled over by the style police with those questionable blue wheels!
It's all about what he had on hand. Lol. 1959 all over again!
@@christianmccollum1028 I don't suppose it would have mattered much in 1959 as everything was in black and white!
WOW Ivan you’re so brave as your cruising for a bruising from Susie . saying “ she has red eyes matching her eyes” & and she needs the bigger Castrol jacket “WOW” then no way your niece will fit in the Mini . Your a legend mate 😂😂😂
Don’t imagine we let him get away with it - just don’t kick off when the camera is on !
I agree, that blue looks quite good with the red. 😎 Very much looking forward to see them turning !
Loving the teal and red suzie.
Even has the period-correct valve stem caps with rubber-topped Schrader valve.
Looking forward to seeing this going, also Great to meet you and Susie briefly at goodwood I’ll let you know how I get on with the Amilcar and Salsom engine project.
Another great watch, sympathise with any modification especially when its something so basic,the hour's I've spent doing what you think will be a 10 minute job,We used to check dynamos that way as we'll.. looking good in the Castrol jacket.
I used to modify my own SU needles. Started with a weak (thick) one and thinned it down by putting it in a pillar drill and carefully using fine abrasive paper and metal polish until it ran right.
Oh yes...i remember that tweak.....great fun getting it right.
Such a pleasure watching these videos. Very practical and such mechanical knowledge. And that John, how good he is. Always good to hear Susie chiming in.
Always a joy to see you all in the workshop
I remember livening up an early 848cc mini by just fitting a blue spring and an AO needle. Enjoying your videos too.
You could definitely use Bad Obsession Motorsport's tyre stick out gauge.
Absolutely brilliant, the reality of fixing cars. Many thanks team.
I worked for castrol in Australia for 25 years, great to see them get a moment.😁, great work on the wheels, they will certainly stand out
Great content as usual , with my ' anorak ' hat on the wheels were originally ' Devon Cream ' not ' Old English White ' as is generally thought .
The wheel color is outrageous and I love it. What does channel clearly needs is more Susie!
Been waiting for this... I love Minis.
I learned to drive in a 1964 850 Mini with the starter button on the floor and sliding windows. Love them.
@@pashakdescilly7517 My first car was a Mini... Well, my first car after getting a licence.. I'd had a Vitesse convertible.. I had two more Minis after my GF crashed the first one.
I'd quite like to find one of those Reece-Fish carburetors that David recommended in one of his really old books. I haven't even seen one for sale on Ebay they're that rare, and when they come up for sale they don't last long either. They don't actually use an accelerator pump, they are kind of like that Miller Carb that Ivan put on the Special. They have a hollow throttle shaft with discharge nozzles, and the shaft has an arm that lays against a circular groove cut into the float chamber, and the groove gets bigger towards the end of the shaft travel and picks up more fuel the more the throttle is pushed open. I was going to try and be tricky and use an old plane pressure carb on my special engine, but I forgot that aeroplane carbs you need the adjust the mixture at all throttle openings, and I can't really see myself doing with that. I did see a Zenith two barrel carb from a 700 cubic inch tank engine that I might try to adapt. What I want to do is make the best power, using secondhand or swapmeet parts and using no exotic parts, save maybe the camshaft.
Is there a specials category for the mid to late 50's? as I would like to build something inspired by what an American backyarder could build with junkyard parts after seeing Ferrari 250 TR and 500 TR's and Maserati 250 racing in Mexico and the US in the mid to late 50s. Using probably a Chevy 283 V8 engine and 4 speed transmission and axle from a passenger car in a junkyard and a handbuilt monocoque body and chassis.
Did you also know that Vizard has his own channel on UA-cam ,he does mostly american V8 stuff as hey, it's the best bang for your buck. But his '5 Golden Rules of Porting' can be applied to any overhead valve engine : www.youtube.com/@DavidVizard
The standard Cooper would have a 1/2" on each side extra width added in the track. Where as the Cooper S would have a full 1 inch added over standard drum braked mini. When fitting 5J rims as I would assume your Speedweel exampels are. I would go for the Cooper S of 1 inch offset if the arches will accept that.
Carlos Fandango.. Ha, ha, ha, ha.. I remember that from somewhere in the seventies....
Good choice of colour for the wheels - Speedwell used exactly the same colour on their cylinder heads and engines on Minis and Speedwell Sprites.
o Ivan how do you get away with them quips at Suzy , such a real charmer any way , thanks for the new video your really spoiling the viewers now with very regular updates thanks for videos have a great weekend
Have a great weekend! Mine's off to a good start
"'How's your father? Tickety-boo, tickety-boo." 🎵🎶
Nice to hear that Vizard's book is still the bible. Incidentally, David Vizard now has a youtube channel also, but its mostly talking about SBC engines these days. Still, it's good to know he's still dishing out the good oil.
👍
Perhaps not ironically, the turquoise colour looks very much like BMC Speedwell blue.
I had Cooper S drums on the rear of a Moke I owned. They had that built in 1 inch spacer. And from memory the Cooper S wheels were 4.5 inch rim width. If that helps, at all.
great show,thank you
THAT MINI TO ME IS THE BEST . UNLIKE WHEN THAY CHANGE THEM BACK LIGHTS FOR SQUARE ONES AND SAME FOR PUTTING THEM ON THE FRONT AS WELL .
As always my good man (and his good woman Friday).
good show by all shed gang look after him Suzie hes a top man love to all stay safe
The car is certainly looking great but I must add some comments. Firstly BMC never recommend fitting spacers to a standard mini or cooper, I know that a lot of people do though. When I worked in BMC special tuning/competition department this was the thing that annoyed us most. Standard mini hub bearings will not stand up to the extra strain that spacers put on them for long, so keep a close eye on them. A correction, mini coopers did NOT have spacers built into their rear brake drums, this was something that was only done on the cooper S and they had entirely different hubs and bearings to take the extra stress. Nevertheless you're getting there, was surprised to hear how much SU needles cost nowadays, they used to be very cheap.
Not sure about differing hubs, but my old Leyland Clubman 1000 ('78) came with small arch extensions from the factory, along with drums with a built-in spacer running somewhere around 1/2 - 3/8 inch thick or so. Never had a problem with the rear hubs, but I can't imagine Leyland using a superior part back then, as their last Mini in Oz was assembled that year. Presumably the stock hub could handle the slight added stress.
@aussiebloke609 Those cars that you're talking about were much newer ( by 20 years) Leyland ones, not original BMC ones. Lots of the parts developed in BMC's competition department were incorporated in later production vehicles.
Superb jackets
In my many years of playing around with Minis, I found the 10 " tyre/ wheel size for a road going Mini is 4.5j or 5j rims with 165x70x10 tyres Were best
Only a spacer wide enough to keep the tyre from protruding beyond the bodywork.
Weirdly i was going down the same lines, but 155 were easier to get 30-40 years ago, and fitted perfectly
as ever amazing video!
I wish I could subscribe again, Thanks again.
Shed racing should be on TV
Great video as always. Cheers from OZ
legend
Ivan the wheels are awful, Suzie you need to keep Ivan in check ! - stay safe!
That would be an impossible task
If you lower the Mini by sawing bits off the trumpets and go too far then sealing washers from Champion spark plugs are just the thing to lift it up a bit.
G.d I haven't heard that for I don't know how long. Brings back memories of taking the p..s out of some people.
They usually put soapy water to bed the tyre on the rim. Gpx
I'd forgotten all about motoring the dynamo to test it. That brings back some memories.
Great jacket….More like 70s I recon….
Fabulous video as always, looking forward to final touches and finished mini!
I think the Carlos Fandango car was a Ford Anglia 105 ,same car was used in Harry Potter ,flying and smashed through a gate ,hard life.
You must have good roads over there, the tires are so small. We have pot holes in are roads, that will swallow the hole car.😊
What no Minifin brake drums the spacer is built in 🙃
You said it yourself , If the dynamo motors on a battery it's ok. It is ok, sort out the regulator. Do not waste money on a new dynamo.
No on the blue rims.
👍❤️ paint the wheels finger nails red after Suzi’s 😂
Put Super Minifins on it!
But only if they're free ;-)
Is there an update on the little Austin A35 on the horizon?
Superb car
We'll see what we can do....but we're flat out busy as usual...
The auto-feed looks a bit aggressive when parting off the spacer - crikey!
Thought the speed was a little too fast listening to the chatter?
Oh my god - what have you done to those lovely wheels with that terrible colour?
Just some stripper and it's aluminum again, not to worry. Once it's yours you can do as you like.
maybe its the voltage regulator ?
That Jacket is class, have you got any left over, as i would wear one,
Paint the roof white and wheels green match the castrol colours
I know Jon is very careful, but would be nice to see him use some safety glasses when operating the lathe and milling machine. Would hate to see him get a chip in the eye.
Ummm BLUE !! 😂😂😂
Work it out by using the two different ET from the wheels..
Ferrari red / blue, maranello concessionaires!
I'm old enough to remember the Carlos Fandango ad: ua-cam.com/video/nqqZ28m8uCo/v-deo.html
20:56. my god, what a colour. With a red body colour?! 😞
Hahaha and your red dress matches your eyes darling! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I bet Suzy is really looking forward to wearing that goddamn awful 80s jacket, particularly if Lemon Burton's oil can has rubbed up against it ☹
To save the apparent "palava" with the back wheels you could have fitted Minifin alloy drums or even the Super Minifin which has a built-in spacer.Perhaps,though I'm thinking along racing lines & weight saving?
Slightly amused to see you worshipping at the alter of Mr Vizard;back in the days of CCC Magazine for whom he wrote,some of the prevailing comments re his supposed "A" series engine etc wisdom were less than complimentary!!
Hi Ivan, don't buy one of the new dynamos, they are absolute junk and will only last a very short time. I work at a classic dynamo rebuilder and we get loads sent in, the quality is so poor we won't touch them. We can supply you a fully rebuilt Lucas unit or rebuild one of yours for you. Give Pete at Classic Dynamo and Regulator Conversions a call and we will sort you out.
Thanks great idea
Not gonna support Goodwood again with all the blatant politicism and Ukraine Flags flying around the place there. As much as I love all the old cars and banter with their owners. Will just support local club racing and car clubs.
enjoyable video as always, but could do without the writing to "explain" what is being said all the time
Got to love a gold wheel.
Why have I only just noticed the flying ducks after watching most of Shed Racing’s videos?🙄🤣
Prove positive the color choice of the wheels confirms Ivan is smoking his sweat socks and Suzie is allowing him to do so…!