Heritage Mini

[PeterH]

If only they made a Spitfire shell.

 

[Pete Lewis]

Back in the 90s they put heritage body shells through  our   E coat tanks ,primer  sealer and  ovened 

Of i knew then i would have a classic some may have been misappropriated audit samples

Pete

[rlubikey]

They did TR6 body shells about 15 or 20 years ago. I spoke to Heritage about 10 years ago when I wanted a spit shell and they said that the TR6 used what they called "soft tooling" for the panels where the original tooling didn't exist. But soft tooling has a limited life - you can only press so many panels before wear makes them unacceptable. He wasn't hopeful at the time about them ever doing a Spit. But you never know - they've presumably done the tooling of unique panels for the Mk1 Mini from scratch, so why not? I'm guessing advances in 3D scanning helped keep costs down with their Mini project.

Cheers, Richard

[thescrapman]

They didn't do Spitfire shells due to no tooling for the rear "hump" over the diff.

would have cost too much to tool apparently.

I think most of the other tooling is worn out now having seen the piss poor fit of some recent panels.

[dave.vitesse]

They are very BMC centric, this maybe due to available tooling.

The TR6 tubs didn't sell, the reason was said to be due to quality issues. Probably due to the non availability of original tooling. 

Dave