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You’re right, if I’d thought on earlier when we bought the car I should have documented a bit more to build up a better time table of restoring the car. I’m on it now though so hopefully from now on it will be much easier to follow the build. When I bought the mini I knew it needed quite a bit of repair work but I have to say it turn out a little worse than expected. The good thing is with these classic mini’s, almost all of the panels are available. We live in the north of England where winters can be quite long and a lot of road salting is done.
It's interesting that these Mk1 autos used uni-body construction much earlier then I've seen with any US manufactured car. It was well into the 70s before this was the common manufacturing method. I recall seeing steel frames on a 1972 Pontiac station wagon. The OPEC fuel crisis is what drove our auto industry into manufacturing light weight autos.
I have a 1965 Datsun Fairlady SPL310 to restore, it is a copy of a Austin Healey Sprite 2dr Convertible right down to the SU carburetors. It has a full frame under the body.

I would recommend you get a wireless microphone to improve your videos audio quality. That seems to be the evolution path of folks that post on youtube. I know that editing is a major bit of effort, and I appreciate the effort to document the restoration of these antiquities. You are fortunate to be able to do this with your Dad.