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Re: At The Auctions

Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2018 9:23 pm
by Pete

Re: At The Auctions

Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2018 10:17 am
by nick@dunsdale


I like that woody :)

Re: At The Auctions

Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2018 12:44 pm
by App K
bill773mini wrote:
Polarsilver wrote:CCA @ Practical & Resto Show have a 1964 x 970 in Surf Blue with Southam Engine at £28 to £32 estimate .. looks good?
https://www.classiccarauctions.co.uk/mo ... i-cooper-s
That estimate is surely just to draw the punters in.
It’ll exceed the estimate for sure.

Re: At The Auctions

Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2018 9:16 pm
by Pandora
Non Mini, but a racy push me - pull you for Rich. 'Unsafe at racing speed'

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/24874/ ... =50&page=2

Al

Re: At The Auctions

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2018 8:25 am
by mk1
Jeebus Al!

DON'T ENCOURAGE HIM!

My shed is already filling up with rusted out overgrown Hillman Imps :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Re: At The Auctions

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2018 9:17 am
by Pandora
My conscious is clear - I'm helping with a one in/one out policy!

:lol:

Al

Re: At The Auctions

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2018 10:00 am
by rich@minispares.com
Pandora wrote:Non Mini, but a racy push me - pull you for Rich. 'Unsafe at racing speed'

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/24874/ ... =50&page=2

Al
thats a nice looking beast - price is er, MENTAL

Re: At The Auctions

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2018 10:05 am
by mk1
rich@minispares.com wrote:
Pandora wrote:Non Mini, but a racy push me - pull you for Rich. 'Unsafe at racing speed'

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/24874/ ... =50&page=2

Al
thats a nice looking beast - price is er, MENTAL
Comparative "cheap" FIA historic though.

Re: At The Auctions

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2018 10:12 am
by rich@minispares.com
mk1 wrote:
rich@minispares.com wrote:
Pandora wrote:Non Mini, but a racy push me - pull you for Rich. 'Unsafe at racing speed'

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/24874/ ... =50&page=2

Al
thats a nice looking beast - price is er, MENTAL
Comparative "cheap" FIA historic though.
i agree

actually, i was speaking to someone just last week who was talking about investing some money into a rear engined classic race car, i wonder if they would be interested in it....

good to see that no matter how good (or bad) a corvair is, they always need front floors fitting to them! :lol:

Re: At The Auctions

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2018 11:11 pm
by Pete

Re: At The Auctions

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2018 11:27 pm
by minimans
Pete wrote:Unipower's bigger brother...

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/24874/ ... 10&page=11
Now theirs a piece of crap.................And built at the Thames Ditton factory?? Maybe Brooklands?

Re: At The Auctions

Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2018 2:15 pm
by Pete
Low end of the market of Mk1 S ownership...

http://online.handh.co.uk/m/lot-details ... 3Fpage%3D2

...or you could build a mint S replica for so much less and be just as genuine??!

Re: At The Auctions

Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2018 2:30 pm
by rich@minispares.com
Pete wrote:Low end of the market of Mk1 S ownership...

http://online.handh.co.uk/m/lot-details ... 3Fpage%3D2

...or you could build a mint S replica for so much less and be just as genuine??!
is the back seat made from duct tape? :lol:

Re: At The Auctions

Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2018 9:32 am
by dave henricks
It doesn't seem worth it.

Re: At The Auctions

Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2018 3:54 pm
by surfblue63
A handful of Cooper S models are coming up in the H&H Duxford Auction on the 21st

https://online.handh.co.uk/m/view-aucti ... log/id/84/

Late Mk2 S, a usable car with a bit of patina.
https://online.handh.co.uk/m/lot-detail ... 3Fpage%3D3

'68 Mk2 S. Needs the sills cleaning!
https://online.handh.co.uk/m/lot-detail ... 3Fpage%3D3

'67 Mk1 Cooper tarck day car. Has FIA cage but not Appendix K power plant
https://online.handh.co.uk/m/lot-detail ... id%2F84%2F

'66 Mk1 S, looks quite nice
https://online.handh.co.uk/m/lot-detail ... 3Fpage%3D2

'64 Mk1 S with some comp history
https://online.handh.co.uk/m/lot-detail ... 3Fpage%3D2

A couple of other notable offerings include

'68 Moke. It says it has a 1275 engine, but the head looks like a 998 to me going by the thermostat housing.
https://online.handh.co.uk/m/lot-detail ... id%2F84%2F

'73 Vanden Plas 1300, with only 16,000 on the clock.
https://online.handh.co.uk/m/lot-detail ... id%2F84%2F

and finally a Bert One Inno De Tomato
https://online.handh.co.uk/m/lot-detail ... id%2F84%2F

Re: At The Auctions

Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2018 7:45 pm
by Old English White
8-) Some variety there. Isn't the control box in the wrong position on the 1966 "S"?? Perhaps a tell-tale of it's past?

Re: At The Auctions

Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2018 11:06 am
by GrahamWRobinson
 
Stuart, amongst the vehicles you list as being for sale at the auction is:
surfblue63 wrote: '68 Moke. It says it has a 1275 engine, but the head looks like a 998 to me going by the thermostat housing.
https://online.handh.co.uk/m/lot-detail ... id%2F84%2F
The DVLA details have it on SORN (2015) with an 848cc engine which it would have had when new back in 1967. Quite a few other things under the bonnet do not appear to be of 1967 vintage e.g. master cylinders, alternator.

Putting all that to one side for a moment what I am curious about is the chassis number. The auction website quotes the registration number followed by the chassis number as:

Registration No:MWG423F
Chassis No:M15B008019L

The registration number would appear to be correct for the year and as they state within the description, that is a Stirlingshire number, unless it is an age related issue of course. (Unused Scottish numbers have always been favoured by the DVLA for age related plates.)

They say the chassis number is M15B008019L but this doesn't look like a 1967 Moke number to me. In fact it doesn't look like a chassis number of any type of Mini c. 1967. I'm no expert so perhaps someone on here with more knowledge of Moke chassis numbers has the answer? Maybe it is correct for 1967? Within the number, M makes sense as Morris and B as Buckboard. Does L at the end mean LHD and if it does how does that tie in with it being a UK and therefore RHD Moke?

Graham

Re: At The Auctions

Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2018 11:43 am
by Vintage to Classic
Graham, if you look at the photos there’s a picture of a painted over chassis plate that begins M-AB1.
The 15B is normally a commission number.

Re: At The Auctions

Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2018 2:32 pm
by GrahamWRobinson
Many thanks, it makes sense now. Although they photographed the painted over chassis number plate they then picked up on the commission number to quote as the chassis number! All in all it seems to be a legit 1967 Make save for it having a few mods done to it over the years.

Graham

Re: At The Auctions

Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2018 1:47 pm
by Costafortune
The FUM740D car looks okay, maybe a few details to be sorted. It may well be a logbook job, who cares? It's never bothered me. These cars all have a story or two.

H&H have used the word 'Beemer' when describing a 635CSi. In any country I ran, that would be tantamount to a death sentence. :lol: