Practically Classics Forum

fairway1 wrote:Upon returning it from Holland in October 2012, it was immediately SORN'ed and stored in my garage. I have begun stripping it down and as I'm planning a thorough nut & bolt restoration to how it was when it left the showroom when it was new. I've also started some welding to the drivers side floor pan / sill.

That'll be an interesting project. Are repair panels easy to come by?[/quote]

Hello sir!

I seem to have been lucky with regards to pannels as the 205 pannels are far more available than the 309 ones. The only pannel I could not source are sills for the 309. I had to make a new one myself for the drivers side using the old one as a pattern. The passengers side sill has been patched in the past and looks ugly so I'll be looking to create a new one for the passengers side in the near future.

fairway1 wrote:.....Thats great, is this chap a member on here? I'd be interested about where he is sourcing spares for his bikes from.

I know theres a few Minsks kicking about out there but I've yet to actually find another that is tax'd, MOT'd and on the road.

He's not on here but is a member at THIS SITE which evolved from the old R3W and Zen13 boards.

He works part of his year out in Russia so doesn't post often however I'm in touch by email and Skype so will ask him whether he ever has spare space in his hand luggage and whether he'd be prepared to offer up his contact details to help out a fellow sufferer of the classic iron curtain bike disease as Shelagh, his long-suffering woman, calls his tinkering habit.