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

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Here we go.

Here’s the logbook he bought recently off EBay for ‘LOH’ which was an Austin A40 and the doctored version he’s now changed to a 1071 Cooper S and currently selling on EBay. Why are there so many dodgy b*stards in the Mini game? A pound to a penny a search of completed listings will find most of the other logbooks he’s bought recently to overwrite and it’s dozens!! No matter what buyers do with them and no matter what you think of that it’s still absolutely disgusting to alter them for profit, and what a mark up for two minutes with a rubber and a biro!
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Not Riley 1.5 unfortunately - these are the ones with the peak if you look at the reverse which would require modification of the front wings.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/185854541534
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Classic Clifford Wooden Steering Wheel :P


Seen for sale, very nice Mini fitting steering wheel :arrow: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/115764809382 ... Swl41kMvc0
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Pete wrote: Fri Apr 14, 2023 10:28 pm Here we go.

Here’s the logbook he bought recently off EBay for ‘LOH’ which was an Austin A40 and the doctored version he’s now changed to a 1071 Cooper S and currently selling on EBay. Why are there so many dodgy b*stards in the Mini game? A pound to a penny a search of completed listings will find most of the other logbooks he’s bought recently to overwrite and it’s dozens!! No matter what buyers do with them and no matter what you think of that it’s still absolutely disgusting to alter them for profit, and what a mark up for two minutes with a rubber and a biro!
If someone is stupid enough to buy one of these & think that they are going to get a new V5C for a Cooper S out of it, I reckon they deserve everything they get.

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I’m intrigued where the ID’s are coming from that are being populated, unless these are completely made up too.

Extract from the heritage registers perhaps?
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Thorp wrote: Tue Apr 18, 2023 4:28 pm I’m intrigued where the ID’s are coming from that are being populated, unless these are completely made up too.

Extract from the heritage registers perhaps?
Total fabrication I suspect....
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The ID’s were genuine log books from old cars, just not Cooper’s or S’s.

There’s thousands of them still about
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Yep the business model he uses is to buy an old logbook off EBay for an A40 or such for a about four quid, change the wording and chassis number prefix very crudely to read Cooper or Cooper S depending on the age of it (quite hard to alter date stamps) and flog it back on EBay again for £250. He’s listed dozens, all fakes, non will produce a Heritage Certificate because the numbers are wrong. As Mark says if your daft enough to buy them it’s hard to have any sympathy but it still doesn’t mean the seller isn’t a total snake for doing it. He’s removed all his logbook listings so clearly spooked by the fact he’s been outed. There’s got to be more honest ways of making a living surely!??
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Andrew1967 wrote: Tue Apr 18, 2023 6:15 pm The ID’s were genuine log books from old cars, just not Cooper’s or S’s.

There’s thousands of them still about
Sorry Andrew, yes, what I meant was is he just
picking a chassis number at random to populate on it from within the range of known production chassis numbers (that may or may not still exist); clearly as in this example the engine number is not amended so as suggested likely to be complete fabrication.
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There was a time when original blank log books were circulating. Thankfully, those seem to have dried up.
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Pete wrote: Thu Apr 13, 2023 9:22 pm Well DVLA reckon it used to be white which is a fairly serious colour change plus it’s a very late registered car for a Mk1, be interesting to see what the Heritage Certificate says. Looks a nice car but possibly £10k overpriced as has been suggested and has been for sale a while.
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'72 MkIII Innocenti Mini 1001 in RHD, I love the period colour combo... my set of gold painted MkIII Cosmics would look fab on this...!

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That Inno looks great, but the pictures are terribly dark. You can't see much.
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That looks almost identical to my Blue 850.

It's a GREAT PRICE too! I suspect it won't be around for too long.
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That is a beauty….
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111Robin wrote: Fri Apr 21, 2023 9:58 am Nice original project.
https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1574342
What a little gem!!
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No got much going for it !

Let's see if that makes £1000 like the last two scappers
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mk1 wrote: Fri Apr 21, 2023 1:12 pm Boat anchor anyone?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/325625000010 ... &media=SMS
Good Lord! That "repair"... :shock:
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