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Re: WTH??!?! Have you seen this item on ebay.
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 12:51 pm
by mini5967
I'm inclined towards the latter meself - the plain green seats/trim and no chrome trim on the doors seem to give it away as an SDL (Of course, it was easy back then, as it now, to Cooperize it). Nice project actually, if you can get the V5 and buy it for a decent price. If I had the house room I'd restore that one pretty much as it is, keeping the period mods where possible. Looks like it was a fun weekend warrior back in the day!
Re: WTH??!?! Have you seen this item on ebay.
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 4:41 pm
by Old English White
mini5967 wrote:
I'm inclined towards the latter meself - the plain green seats/trim and no chrome trim on the doors seem to give it away as an SDL (Of course, it was easy back then, as it now, to Cooperize it). Nice project actually, if you can get the V5 and buy it for a decent price. If I had the house room I'd restore that one pretty much as it is, keeping the period mods where possible. Looks like it was a fun weekend warrior back in the day!
Hard to call but actually I think it DOES have the clips still on the doors to attach the stainless upper trims?
Shame there are no pictures of inside the boot to see the bootboard brackets and also, athough the chassis number is pictured I can't read it! Of course ALL these parts can be swapped from one car to another so........who knows. It looks as if it'll require a bit of work around the screen apertures so it's probably rusty in many other places too.
Re: WTH??!?! Have you seen this item on ebay.
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 4:50 pm
by smithyrc30
Looks to me like the chassis number begins A/A S which makes it a non Cooper.
Not a Mark1 but early 1275GT's are getting quite rare and I think this would worth saving.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/251871707673 ... EBIDX%3AIT
Even though quite a lot of the original car is missing!
Re: WTH??!?! Have you seen this item on ebay.
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 8:21 pm
by Pete
Old English White wrote:mini5967 wrote:
I'm inclined towards the latter meself - the plain green seats/trim and no chrome trim on the doors seem to give it away as an SDL (Of course, it was easy back then, as it now, to Cooperize it). Nice project actually, if you can get the V5 and buy it for a decent price. If I had the house room I'd restore that one pretty much as it is, keeping the period mods where possible. Looks like it was a fun weekend warrior back in the day!
Hard to call but actually I think it DOES have the clips still on the doors to attach the stainless upper trims?
Shame there are no pictures of inside the boot to see the bootboard brackets and also, athough the chassis number is pictured I can't read it! Of course ALL these parts can be swapped from one car to another so........who knows. It looks as if it'll require a bit of work around the screen apertures so it's probably rusty in many other places too.
I agree, rivets for the door chromes look original, I think I can see dash vinyl and the badge locations look right.
Re: WTH??!?! Have you seen this item on ebay.
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 11:17 pm
by mini5967
Pete wrote:Old English White wrote:mini5967 wrote:
I'm inclined towards the latter meself - the plain green seats/trim and no chrome trim on the doors seem to give it away as an SDL (Of course, it was easy back then, as it now, to Cooperize it). Nice project actually, if you can get the V5 and buy it for a decent price. If I had the house room I'd restore that one pretty much as it is, keeping the period mods where possible. Looks like it was a fun weekend warrior back in the day!
Hard to call but actually I think it DOES have the clips still on the doors to attach the stainless upper trims?
Shame there are no pictures of inside the boot to see the bootboard brackets and also, athough the chassis number is pictured I can't read it! Of course ALL these parts can be swapped from one car to another so........who knows. It looks as if it'll require a bit of work around the screen apertures so it's probably rusty in many other places too.
I agree, rivets for the door chromes look original, I think I can see dash vinyl and the badge locations look right.
Admittedly it's not an easy one to call, not helped by the shite quality of the pictures more than anything. However I've just stuck the pic of the chassis plate in Photoshop and had a play around, and the chassis number deffo starts with A/A2S7 (as mentioned above) and (as the ad description states) ends in M (which makes it a Cowley car, which rules out the prospect of it being a Cooper). I know it might sound daft (especially from a 21st century perspective) but could the SDL have actually been reshelled with a Cooper shell back in the day? Stranger things have happened…
Re: WTH??!?! Have you seen this item on ebay.
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2015 9:13 am
by wantafaster1
Had a chap tell me about putting 850 log books onto the odd cooper because the insurance was cheaper. You never know.
Re: WTH??!?! Have you seen this item on ebay.
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2015 9:23 am
by mk1
Had a chap tell me about putting 850 log books onto the odd cooper because the insurance was cheaper.
I did exactly that in my youth.
Re: WTH??!?! Have you seen this item on ebay.
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2015 12:48 pm
by In the shed
....and how they would laugh at us now. In about 05, I was running my mothers ex-pug 106D. 1.4 diesel N/A. 180000 miles, value of about £500 (if you're pushing the boat out), no mods, nothing exciting, just peasant transport. It wasn't for work, kept out in the sticks behind a locked gate
and ins was £580 TPFT.
At the same time, my full race mini, with no interior, roll cage, uprated everything was £135.
You can imagine which one got thrashed to work!
Re: WTH??!?! Have you seen this item on ebay.
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2015 1:26 pm
by mini63
Re: WTH??!?! Have you seen this item on ebay.
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2015 2:11 pm
by mk1
Ha, ha, ha. I guess there is no harm in dreaming.
Re: WTH??!?! Have you seen this item on ebay.
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2015 2:52 am
by mini63
Re: WTH??!?! Have you seen this item on ebay.
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2015 3:19 am
by mini63
rich@minispares.com wrote:
advert title....
MINI-MK1-CONCOURS-RESTORATION
reality................
PLEASE NOTE THIS WAS A PROJECT, FOR THE CAR TO BECOME A MK1 AS STATED, YOU CAN OF COURSE PUT IT BACK TO A 1989 CAR, THIS IS HOW I BOUGHT THE CAR, TO BE CONVERTED INTO A MK1 DO NOT GET CONFUSED PLEASE, IT IS A 1989 MODEL
er, ok.................
er, me too........
Re: WTH??!?! Have you seen this item on ebay.
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2015 4:41 am
by Craig
Re: WTH??!?! Have you seen this item on ebay.
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2015 5:15 am
by Spitz
Looks like a 89/90 Japanese spec car with a really, REALLY ugly nose
Re: WTH??!?! Have you seen this item on ebay.
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2015 7:53 am
by vegar
Re: WTH??!?! Have you seen this item on ebay.
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2015 8:20 am
by Jack of all trades
It's an '89 BAC M-30 car (or a look alike with all the right stuff attached)
Only 30 even made
AA2BS1283581A as the quoted VIN number doesn't sound right for a BAC-30, should be something like SAXXL2S.
Doesn't AA2B belong to a Moke??
Re: WTH??!?! Have you seen this item on ebay.
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2015 10:24 am
by mk1
"THE BAC M-30 was a limited edition of Mini Thirty Special Edition. BAC was based in North Perrott, Somerset. The interior was luxuriously trimmed - all leather and walnut veneer, while the exterior 'improved' by the addition of a KAT Designs bodykit. Motive power was provided by a 1275cc engine, mated to a Sprintex supercharger, to provide 115bhp. This propelled the car from rest to 60mph in 8.7s, and on to 111.6mph. The original asking price of the BAC M-30 was a staggering £30,000, later lowered to £23,390. "
ABSOLUTELY VILE!
Re: WTH??!?! Have you seen this item on ebay.
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2015 10:45 am
by STG95F
Once owned a 3 door Cosworth . OMG how the prices have changed
. But like the mini owners someone will buy the bottle for a 100% concours restoration . So a glass washer bottle is cheap at £600
Re: WTH??!?! Have you seen this item on ebay.
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2015 11:31 am
by JC T ONE
Jack of all trades wrote:
It's an '89 BAC M-30 car (or a look alike with all the right stuff attached)
Only 30 even made
AA2BS1283581A as the quoted VIN number doesn't sound right for a BAC-30, should be something like SAXXL2S.
Doesn't AA2B belong to a Moke??
The reason for the old/wrong no & documents, is that you cant legally import/registre any Mini into USA, after 69 (app)
Re: WTH??!?! Have you seen this item on ebay.
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2015 5:52 pm
by surfblue63
JC T ONE wrote:
The reason for the old/wrong no & documents, is that you cant legally import/registre any Mini into USA, after 69 (app)
The law changed in 1998, there is now a rolling 25 year cut off for personal imports.
Section 8 on the following link.
There is now a fast growing market for Euro spec 1980's hot hatches in the US. This could also see an increase in demand for Rover Minis in the next 10 years, so buy now whilst they are still relatively cheap.