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The early GT's are fabulous.

You've seen one Mark 1 S and you've pretty much seen all of them. Bitsas with invented history and a thick layer of bullshit - it's bordering on tedious.

But these GT's......you can almost taste the history. They're the real thing.

tweedy998 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 20, 2023 11:38 am Good Lord, that 1275GT with freshly applied 'barn dust'! I've seen it all now!

Last weeks 'Bangers and Cash' auction episode on TV said 'barn find' cars fetch more money if they have a good layer of dust on them.

They also said sometimes they come back to auction a few weeks later cleaned up and sell for a lower price.....

Costafortune wrote: ↑Wed Sep 20, 2023 5:34 pm The early GT's are fabulous.

You've seen one Mark 1 S and you've pretty much seen all of them. Bitsas with invented history and a thick layer of bullshit - it's bordering on tedious.

But these GT's......you can almost taste the history. They're the real thing.

I know what you mean, my Dad’s had a slightly mouldy Iced Gem stuck on the parcel shelf.

Seems odd how there's so many 1275gt's up for sale at the moment, always seemed to be slim pickings.

I can only assume that now they are sort after behind early Coopers, people are taking the opportunity to cash in!

mini_surfari wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 2:33 pm Seems odd how there's so many 1275gt's up for sale at the moment, always seemed to be slim pickings.

I can only assume that now they are sort after behind early Coopers, people are taking the opportunity to cash in!

They’re just catching up on desirability. You couldn’t give a Clubman type Mini away years ago. There’s probably not many left. I bought a yellow 69 in the 1990s. We took the engine out with a torch and threw the rest in the bin.

Now thee have been a couple of examples of Clubman GT's making Cooper S type money, it is inevitable that a few owners will choose to cash in.

Will they ever be as desirable as a good Cooper S, personally, I doubt it, but each to their own.

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Anybody know anything about this one, other than its shell looks like its been well filleted before lots of new panels have been let in to rebuild the it.
Looks a nice one on the face of it
https://www.historics.co.uk/buying/auct ... mk-ii-mrp/#

bryan wrote: ↑Fri Sep 22, 2023 4:05 pm Anybody know anything about this one, other than its shell looks like its been well filleted before lots of new panels have been let in to rebuild the it.
Looks a nice one on the face of it
https://www.historics.co.uk/buying/auct ... mk-ii-mrp/#

"Work carried out to the highest standard" "A matching set of Camac tyres". Two sentences seldom placed together
Tyres aside, that looks a decent car. Nice to see one with Hydrolastic retained too. Quite a fan of the Mk2.

Looks like a Mk1 type pointed speedo bezel too. Or is it camera angle.....?

Yes, I agree it could be the wrong bezel - good spot .
The actual speedo is right though. The rest of the car looks pretty correct I think, and skilfully restored

Old English White wrote: ↑Fri Sep 22, 2023 6:05 pm

bryan wrote: ↑Fri Sep 22, 2023 4:05 pm Anybody know anything about this one, other than its shell looks like its been well filleted before lots of new panels have been let in to rebuild the it.
Looks a nice one on the face of it
https://www.historics.co.uk/buying/auct ... mk-ii-mrp/#

"Work carried out to the highest standard" "A matching set of Camac tyres". Two sentences seldom placed together
Tyres aside, that looks a decent car. Nice to see one with Hydrolastic retained too. Quite a fan of the Mk2.

Probably just auction bull**** blurb but interesting that it had a full nut and bolt restoration in or around 2015 and after purchase of the freshly restored car in 2017 it had a full engine rebuild and a refresh of the hydrolastic suspension . Doesn’t sound nut and bolt to me.

As for the Camacs .. they’d be the first to go !!

Very nice car though, just a shame the auction houses don’t actually read what they put in the blurb !!

bryan wrote: ↑Fri Sep 22, 2023 4:05 pm Anybody know anything about this one, other than its shell looks like its been well filleted before lots of new panels have been let in to rebuild the it.
Looks a nice one on the face of it
https://www.historics.co.uk/buying/auct ... mk-ii-mrp/#

I’ve not seen one of those steering wheel centres before!

Would a f plate 68 mini have the later style wiper motor? Not really being picky just curious

Yes, I was quite taken by the steering wheel centre.

A blast from the past for me . sold it back in 2012

https://www.iconicauctioneers.com/1968- ... 558&pp=100

At least somebody has been looking after it all this time

STG95F wrote: ↑Sat Sep 23, 2023 2:46 pm A blast from the past for me . sold it back in 2012

https://www.iconicauctioneers.com/1968- ... 558&pp=100

Now that IS a cracking motor ..

bryan wrote: ↑Fri Sep 22, 2023 4:05 pm Anybody know anything about this one, other than its shell looks like its been well filleted before lots of new panels have been let in to rebuild the it.
Looks a nice one on the face of it
https://www.historics.co.uk/buying/auct ... mk-ii-mrp/#

Absolutely miles out with that estimate though, really nice restored Mk2 Ss are about ten grand less than that estimate nowadays.

STG95F wrote: ↑Sat Sep 23, 2023 2:46 pm A blast from the past for me . sold it back in 2012

https://www.iconicauctioneers.com/1968- ... 558&pp=100

That was at castle Combe last year, looked immaculate there!

Non of the Cooper S’s sold at todays Historics auction.
Huge number of unsold lots in general, as there were at H&H’s Duxford sale last week.
I don’t thing sellers (and auction houses) have clocked what classic cars will actually realise just now. Interest rates finally catching up with asset values I guess amongst a lot of other factors.