•  9 October
On this day i went to VenGmini's to watch for a Van. He advertised with it on his home page with the description that it was idial for building a trailer. But i was thinking that it was a shame to convert a 1980 Van into a Trailer. When i was there and see the Van i was thinking what a rusty Car but, that was what i wanted. I cheap Van to rebuild it from scratch. After talking a while we agreed with the price he wanted to have. So i decided to buy it.
  •  30 October
 The big day. Today i was going to get my Van in enschede. At 6.30 in the morning we leave. I arranged a trailer for the car and together with a friend of mini (he has a Mercedes Vito) we leave to Enschede. VenGmini's. When we arrived there was nobody. So i called Gerard (the founder of VenGmini's). When he arrived we put the Van on the trailer and he overhanded me the papers for the Van. After that we are ready for the trip back to Neerkant. The place where the Van is stalled for the rebuild.
  • 4 November
 The first day to do something on the Van. First i started to clean it up from inside. there was such a mess inside the Van, old carpet etc. Also i take out the doors and the windows. This was a whole evening work. And a bin full of crap.

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  •  18 November
Another day to do something on my Van. I'm going further with the clean up and also started to unbold and unscrew many things. Like the dashboard (??). There was kind of self made shelf made with carpets. Also the chairs where removed. And the camble loom for the back lights. Also the backlights where removed.
  •  2 December
Another day to work on my Van. That day nothing special happened. I removed the heater and the water from the cooling system. I also started to remove the engine. But because all bolts are very rusty i didn't finish it. This is for the next time.
  •  22 January
On this day i removed the engine. This was a hell of a job because all the bolts are very rusted and therefore they are difficult to get lost. but at the end of the evening the engine was besides the car. Pffffff.
  •  14 February
Now i will start with the last things to get the car ready to go to the someone who wants to weld the car so there is no rust anymore. Excuse me for the englisch but i'm not in the mood the check all this. :) Maybe when i update my page again i will type this in better english. See ya.........
  •   16 March
 On the evening we transported the van from Neerkant to Kessel. This because the Van is stripped and know it can go to somobody wo can welt the bad pieces. Because he has lots of bad spots. Maybe there will follow some photographs in a few days.

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  •  Juli 1998
 I'm went to Mini Centre Huissen to look for a nice second hand cooper. this because my little brother have had a little accident with my Mini 1000. This car was total loss after the accident because it not road ready on the moment he has had the accident. When i was at MCH I saw i nice red Mini Cooper from 1991 with a nice wooden dash and Revolutions. I decedided that i wanted that Mini. After talking with somebody from MCH i decide to buy it. But it was an imported mini from germany so there was no license plate for it. It must still be imported. So i had to wait a few weeks before i can drive it.
  •  August 1998
I got a phonecall from mini centre huissen that the car was ready for pick up. So i went as fast as possible to huissen to get my cooper. When i drove the first time in it i thought this was a very fast car. I can't compare it with a mini 1000. A few days after i had it i decided that i want a sportsseat in it. This because the standard seats were very bad. Especially the driver seat. So i bought 1 (one) cobra sportsseat and mounted in in the Cooper.
  •  August 1999
 In this month i made the decision to put in a new engine a 1380cc because the i drive already 50.000 km with it. And the engine has no oilpressure anymore. When i take of the cilinderhead i saw that one cilinder was badly damaged. That's why i decided to put in a new engine. And not to repair the old one. Because this was the first time i did such things. Many went wrong. But at the end everything is fine. And a 1380cc engine is still more fun than the standard 1300cc of the cooper.
  •  May 2000
This was a terrible month because i crashed my mini into another car. The other car was not jast a car but another englisch car. A brand new Jaguar XK8. Oops. And i was fault because i crashed him at the back. So now my Cooper is in the garage for a total new front. As soon as that is ready and painted i will put some pictures on this page.

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