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

[111Robin]

Yes the current dealer has clearly changed those to make it look more sporty - they were standard Tex or Desmo ones when the car was originally sold last year - See photos in this listing. The mirrors must be very expensive (approximately £5000 each!) judging by the price of the car last year as compared to it asking price a year later....

http://car-from-uk.com/sale.php?id=89833

Hmm, so was it under priced then, or over priced now ?. Pity it's ended up with a dealer.

[66Traveller]

I agree - I was very tempted last year but just didn't have the money at the time. It really is a fantastic timewarp car. For me - despite its originality -it is now overpriced given that it is a 997 Cooper. Others might disagree!

[Pete]

Rarity and originality are important but only add so much to the value , it's a run of the mill bog standard 997 at the end of the day and even in JCs own words were nothing really special, If that was an S it'd be a £40k+ car! Having said that we've seen the odd '59 fetch crackers money and ultimately it WILL sell at that price to someone who really wants it!

[UHR850]

Advert Speedwell Countryman

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MINI-SPEEDWEL ... 3aa1b15cec

[UHR850]

Advert Speedwell Countryman

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MINI-SPEEDWEL ... 3aa1b15cec




Is it still alive ?

[surfblue63]

Advert Speedwell Countryman

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MINI-SPEEDWEL ... 3aa1b15cec

You can buy the whole magazine for a few more quid

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Autocar-7-8-1 ... 5423a99d64

[Pete]

Or you could just right click and save this:

[surfblue63]

Just like buses, here's another Speedwell article, this time for an Elf

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/291544488851

[Pete]

That's Gerry Braithwaite's , so it came off this:

It did come off GRX 195D but it is the owner before Gerry who is selling it.

Featured on this video, anyone speak Finnish?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fV6fUR ... e=youtu.be

[gs.davies]

Or you could just right click and save this:

Interesting engine configuration. Over bored small bore block with a 1275 crank?

Presumably on drum brakes too. Must have been fun!

[timmy201]

Or you could just right click and save this:

Interesting engine configuration. Over bored small bore block with a 1275 crank?

Presumably on drum brakes too. Must have been fun!

The article mentions "Cooper" but not "S", so possibly 997 Cooper (and the article is 1964 so there would probably be more spare 997 engines than 1275 to take cranks from)

[gs.davies]

81.3 is the Standard 1275 stroke. 997 was 81.28. Unless I'm wrong?

[Tupers]

Vortz Airbox

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Classic-Mini- ... 4d36e55b00

Wow £243!

I guess I'll go fetch my tin snips.

[UHR850]

Alexander Mirrors

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NOS-ALEXANDER ... 43e1ba822c

[UHR850]

Well here it is again !

[timmy201]

81.3 is the Standard 1275 stroke. 997 was 81.28. Unless I'm wrong?

I think that could just be a rounding thing? Two of the original brochures list the stroke as 3.20" for each engine (and 81.33mm). There is also one of Mark's brochures here from 1963 with the same speedwell engine, which is before the 1275 engine was used in the mini

997
http://www.minipassionmini.50megs.com/p ... %20997.pdf
1275
http://www.minipassionmini.50megs.com/p ... e%2066.pdf
Speedwell
http://mk1-performance-conversions.co.uk/spd_elf.pdf
Although this one Austin lists the 1275 as 81.28mm
http://www.minipassionmini.50megs.com/p ... 65%20j.pdf

[Rocket]

10x5 GkN Silverstones

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/231669784781? ... EBIDX%3AIT

[UHR850]

Very sad looking VAN

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1979-AUSTIN-M ... 419be7326c

Kees

[rich@minispares.com]

Very sad looking VAN

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1979-AUSTIN-M ... 419be7326c

Kees

scraps making £60 a ton at the moment.....


......only sayin'

[Pete]

Holy shit.....

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/WOLSELEY-HORN ... 4aef741139

The owner needs sectioning, not the car!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1967-Wolseley ... 2101c69369