Project Binky 14 now live!

Released 31 minutes ago.

Came here to post this.

BINKY BINKY BINKY OMG BINKY

As a person who needs to fabricate his own fender flares and was looking for ideas, I was a little disappointed by his method. The results look great and if there was any aftermarket or OE flares to base mine off of I would have done it the same way.

"Make the noise!"

BINKY!

Disappointed that none of you people linked the episode.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/mB4NXA_vNWs

I need one of those faxed holes from Acme. That was great.

Keith Tanner wrote: I need one of those faxed holes from Acme. That was great.

Yup. The whole episode was great. I just wish they were longer... or came out more frequently.

I was going to say something similar. Considering the length of time between the episodes, why is the sum total of the work completed only 4 flares and two hoses?

In reply to jstein77:

I vaguely remember they tend to work on the car in spurts when they get extra time from working on paying projects. Plus, you can tell they put effort into what they're going to say and setting up shots. That takes time.

I figure it was just because they were getting past the first 90% of a project and getting into the last 10% that takes 90% of the time.

Also, I figured they've probably been running short of funds. The last few episodes have been much more expensive than the first half-dozen or so, by my reckoning.

They are also doing a LOT more short-cutting. Instead of showing each individual bracket and brace they fabricate, they just show finished products getting welded in to the car, if not wholesale "Since last time we did this this and this" fifteen second between-episode recap.

It wouldn't surprise me if they had a few setbacks that just aren't shown, or they didn't get useful footage.

It's hard to do this stuff to a schedule, and probably all that was cleanly usable was the flares and fuel tank and stuff like that. I bet the next episode will be a lot longer as they resolve some of the hanging threads.

Love that yellow. Those flares are just at the right amount of obscene.

I think it's just a matter of time to work on the car. This is not Bad Obsession's main source of income. Binky probably sits a considerable amount of time in between bursts of activity.

Another great episode with just the right amount of cocking about.

Have we established who the actual owner of the car is?

Assuming that this is a side-gig, and they are still running a business, then I imagine they are getting tired of the whole thing. Or their families are. The whole thing looks like great fun to us, but it is a lot of time-consuming work.

Unless something has changed, the owner of the car is Nick. I don't think it's a side gig, but a side project.

I liked the joke at the beginning about them just rushing through and putting out a lot of episodes. I also noticed that in the patron list at the end there is a person named "Fake Name" who is a patron.

Once they are finished with Binky I would buy a DVD of the entire series.

Jumper K. Balls wrote: As a person who needs to fabricate his own fender flares and was looking for ideas, I was a little disappointed by his method. The results look great and if there was any aftermarket or OE flares to base mine off of I would have done it the same way.

It doesn't do anything to dissuade my idea for American Trabant panels, either - wax the hood/fender/whatever of the part you want to duplicate, cover with dollar store bedsheet, add resin. Two, maybe three layers.

Mostly, glass fibers are horrid things that I don't want to work anywhere near. I see they came to the same conclusion I did

Nik owns both the mini and the celica.

EastCoastMojo wrote: Nik owns both the mini and the celica.

Brings up an interesting topic: How are they going to register the finished product?

Been watching the travails of this guy as he tries to get the car past the "IVA" process so he can register the car. 89 page thread and counting. No wonder Brexit is a thing!

http://retrorides.proboards.com/thread/36896/1953-anglia-iva-rebuild-on?page=86

Well, IVA is something that's uniquely British and Brexit isn't going to fix that. Overall legislation in the UK got a lot less kit car/modified car friendly over the last few years, but it's still amongst the most friendly in the EU.

Nick should be able to register it using a so-called 'Q' plate, which is specifically intended for kit cars and cars built from multiple donor vehicles in such a way that it might not be retain its current identity as a Mini. There is a points system, and the fact that the bodyshell is heavily modified and the whole drivetrain has been changed means it can't retain its identity as a Mini, but - you get enough points if you retain the suspension, drivetrain, axles and steering from the other donor. He's also using the engine from the Celica, so there is a chance that it actually scores 9 points, and only 8 are required for a radically altered car to retain its identity. So depending on how closely the inspectors look at the build and some of the mods to make some parts fit the Mini shell, it's possible that Binky can be registered as the donor Celica, which would avoid the need for an SVA/IVA.

In reply to BoxheadTim:

That's a remarkably good reason to do all of the hard-parts reuse they did instead of fabricating, say, new front and rear subframes, since the Toyota parts probably outweigh the Mini shell.

At the very least, one couldn't argue that the vehicle is poorly documented.