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How to bring your new rally car shell home. The 1300 has long since gone, the shell is a 1275GT clearly not very old but been on its roof. Year about 1975 I guess.

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Costafortune wrote:How to bring your new rally car shell home. The 1300 has long since gone, the shell is a 1275GT clearly not very old but been on its roof. Year about 1975 I guess.

I wouldn't say that is anyone's "new" shell. More like the "old" shell I reckon. It looks to me as if it had collected some road rash to the roof

A quickie from Gaydon this morning...

Anglia mounts a mini , the Anglia had brush with another and ended on a parked mini , Wellington NZ

Looks like a Morris Cooper going by the grille, what a waste!

WMU 211G wrote:A quickie from Gaydon this morning...

DSCF5709. Mk2 and Mk2 Ss M60th.jpg

And this afternoon!

Old English White wrote:

Costafortune wrote:How to bring your new rally car shell home. The 1300 has long since gone, the shell is a 1275GT clearly not very old but been on its roof. Year about 1975 I guess.

I wouldn't say that is anyone's "new" shell. More like the "old" shell I reckon. It looks to me as if it had collected some road rash to the roof

It's a shell used to build a rally car in the seventies - the owner/builder posted it on FB.

Costafortune wrote:

Old English White wrote:

Costafortune wrote:How to bring your new rally car shell home. The 1300 has long since gone, the shell is a 1275GT clearly not very old but been on its roof. Year about 1975 I guess.

I wouldn't say that is anyone's "new" shell. More like the "old" shell I reckon. It looks to me as if it had collected some road rash to the roof

It's a shell used to build a rally car in the seventies - the owner/builder posted it on FB.

Ah, I see. The roof and pillars are quite well bent aren't they!

Nothing a portapower can't fix, or the roof from the old shell....

From t'internet.

617AOG was always thought to be a Tartan red Austin (it was later) but clearly isn't here. I'm told the Austins were prepped at Longbridge and not Abingdon - any truth in that?

No 18 means it's Nancy Mitchell driving 617 on its first rally, the 1960 Monte - it retired.

Cracking find!

I am also interested in the history of the AOGs that ran on rally between 1959 and 1961 as well as vintage photos about the Austin Seven engaged by private
Here some photos of two well known AOG

I had 618, bought as a shell in 1985 from a Mini breaker in Reading. It was built into a Mark 1 Coopalike and sold in 1987, for 500 quid.

It was absolutely mint, all original panels and never welded. Not bad for 30 quid. It was on a Q plate but had the original AA2S7 7045 VIN. I couldn't be bothered with the re-registration rigmarole so used an ID from a scrap 1960 Mini instead. If I remember rightly, I took the VRD515 number plate off and got VSV605 in its place That's now on something else so the trail is lost. The car itself was hoovered up in 1987/8 by a Japanese buyer (Kuwahara iirc) and shipped out. If there was any way of finding the Mini Minor VIN, it might be able to be traced but that's just impossible. It's out there somewhere, the current owner unaware.

It was Farina grey or Speedwell blue, hand painted BRG when acquired.

In red:

Thanks a lot for sharing this story

Costafortune wrote:I had 618, bought as a shell in 1985 from a Mini breaker in Reading. It was built into a Mark 1 Coopalike and sold in 1987, for 500 quid.

It was absolutely mint, all original panels and never welded. Not bad for 30 quid. It was on a Q plate but had the original AA2S7 7045 VIN. I couldn't be bothered with the re-registration rigmarole so used an ID from a scrap 1960 Mini instead. If I remember rightly, I took the VRD515 number plate off and got VSV605 in its place That's now on something else so the trail is lost. The car itself was hoovered up in 1987/8 by a Japanese buyer (Kuwahara iirc) and shipped out. If there was any way of finding the Mini Minor VIN, it might be able to be traced but that's just impossible. It's out there somewhere, the current owner unaware.

It was Farina grey or Speedwell blue, hand painted BRG when acquired.

An ex Abingdon MG1100 made it as far as 1992. It was bought by mechanic Nobby Hall when the Works finished with it and his Mrs ran it until the mid 1970's when it rusted out. It was then garaged and left for years. A guy I know bought it, broke it up and the 3 synchro straight cut gearbox went into my Cooper S - it was a Mini Cooper casing with the solid remote, not the 1100 rubber sandwiched type. I don't know what happened to the engine but it was apparently pretty special.

A bloody shame the car never made it.

Our local doctor's surgery in the '70s, the 998 Clubbie was last taxed in '89, nice Britax / Webasto sunroff....

'61 Alpine