WTH??!?! Have you seen this item on ebay.

[rich@minispares.com]

If you have a load of the BMC branded ones you are in the money, if they are just old fashioned tyre pressure gauges then sadly you are not.

Its the little BMC rosette that makes all the difference.

M

its nothing a pryor stamp wouldn't sort........

[mk1]

You & your stamps, you are obsessed

M

[In the shed]

3 BMC ones, 2 not. Slightly different inserts as well.

[rich@minispares.com]

3 BMC ones, 2 not. Slightly different inserts as well.

I'd put that down as a

'KERCHING'

[mk1]

Very nice result indeed!

[Mini4Ever]

Not sure whether anybody else spotted this strange looking speedo:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/classic-mini- ... 2587578646

[ronie]

Will original steering wheels be overtaking Les Lestons soon?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... AA:GB:3160

[RockIslandMini1961]

That is interesting, I bought one about a year ago from Wisconsin for $29 plus shipping. I had a new Austin horn push.

[madaboutcherry]

very rare & sought after?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/181294789749? ... 1423.l2649

[mk1]

It's the tags that people are bidding on.

M

[Gareth Brandt]

Got loads of them.........

[66Traveller]

Not only the tags but also the bodies which don't have a vacuum advance unlike 997 and 998 carbs (which have one on the left hand carb body as viewed from the front of the car)...

[mk1]

Good point, I hadn't thought of that.

M

[Toby]

All the original S carbs that I've got do have the vacuum take off on the left one. And they are def originals, but I think this topic has come to discussion quite a number of times now.

[wolseley 1000]

now the price for two is the same as when I´ve bought my set of four nos hub caps....

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/221349419691? ... t_38wt_988

[ricardo]

Not only the tags but also the bodies which don't have a vacuum advance (...)

I would agree with you but if you look closer, the carbs do have the take off (RH carb).

850 carbs have the take off on 'the left carb' as it's the only body they have, original paired twin SUs (based on the AUC1342 & AUC870 bodies) have the take off on the the right hand carb and not on the left. All original S pairs I've come accross so far (dirty, untouched, with tags) didn't have any take offs, but I'm sure there must be exceptions. However those take offs had to be covered/blanked. How?

[mab01uk]

mini mk1 bare body shell
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/mk1-1963-mini ... 20ddf58ac3

[mk1]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/mk1-1963-mini ... 20ddf58ac3

WTF!

[Gareth Brandt]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/mk1-1963-mini ... 20ddf58ac3

WTF![/quote]


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[nick@dunsdale]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/mk1-1963-mini ... 20ddf58ac3

WTF!

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Still there, something wrong with the link in Mark's post the one above still works

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/mk1-1963-mini ... 20ddf58ac3

suspect shill bidding surely, if this is a indication of how much a hard up mini shell is worth the world has gone mad lol