Lack of information was one of the biggest hurdles of this restoration.
I only had 5 b/w period photos to work with, plus the actual car of course.
I have spent many many hours googling and emailing various people to get slivers of information.
Thankfully:
a) the car was in a sorry state but complete. Especially the chromework, bar the bumpers, was all there.
b) Jeroen along with a few very knowledgeable people in Mini Forums, including this one, gave me a lot of information about these cars that I could not find in any book.
c) I managed to track down a couple of previous owners here in Greece and retreive a lot of valuable info from them.
There were another 15 cars built around the classic mini body. One RHD prototype thaty stayed in the UK and 14 LHD ones that were sent to North America.
While researching I managed to track down a few surviving cars, so I made an unofficial register for them.
http://austinbeachcar.wix.com/register
