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OK, looks like a few are in favor of a GT thread. Will kick it off.
Mine is an Oct 70.
Has the silver displacers....
6K rev counter.
Plastic air box.
Bonnet prop on LH side.
No large holes on the inner wings.
Cut out box on the RH side of the firewall....dynamo
Remote shifter with the correct gearbox. ...Don't know what ratios are inside.
Not sure if the seats are original....they do have double stitching if that helps.

Hi

its great to have a 1275gt tread , love them

mine is a 1972 December built / January 1973 registered

I brought it out my local paper in 2002 (Hereford times) from Ludlow , for £275 ! I went to buy a mk3 s but that was already sold once I got there

I finally finished it 3weeks before our wedding in 2019

Here's the old dog of an early 1275GT I had in the mid 80's. I think it was registered in January 1970. It crabbed badly and was brush painted and had nice pink buttoned draylon interior with nasty must coloured bucket seats, no pictures of that unfortunately!
Can't remember if it had a left hand bonnet prop or holes in the inner wings. It had 7.5" discs, fat S steering arms, servo was missing but brackets were still there, hydro suspension, black vinyl covered A pillars and rear bins, tapered chrome remote gear stick, toggle switches and central ignition key, chrome rocker cover.
It was a dog back then but I wish I'd still got it.

Nice set of B&W Photos from Brands Hatch.
(Photos: Paul Judge)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pauljudge ... 204658976/

1275GT Brands Hatch paddock April 1981 (My photo copied over from the 1980's Mini racing thread)

Almost makes me cry now,but about 12 years ago I scrapped a genuine 1978 GT.
It had sat outside my mother in laws house for a long time and she wanted it gone-they were not sought after then obviously.it wasn’t even that bad.
What an utter bloody fool.
It was actually fitted with a round nose because the previous owner didn’t like Clubmans,and had a mg metro lump fitted,but was a genuine gt reg no.
ACA 200S. My father passed away this year ,and clearing his garage out I actually found the HIF44 that was fitted to it!!

Here is a picture of my 1275 GT from South Africa.
We seem to have had a few different things compared to the UK Model.
Mine is a 71 model, number 120 off the production line and we only had 935 GT, from 71 to 73, then the GTS took over from the GT with higher performance specs.

Popular Motoring Feb 1972 on the early 1275GT:

My brothers 1275GT before and after....

I for one have learnt loads reading the 1275 GT thread - maybe admins could move some of the posts over here ?

Especially the stuff that helps in identifying genuine GTs and the changes by years....

I agree with that.

Mark or mods., could you move some of the recent relevant 'WTH' posts to this thread please ?

The following will help with colours and trim for all 1969 -1980 Minis, including 1275GT. You should read it in conjunction with the paint cards to get some idea of the dates. If you look at the options there you will see when certain colours and trims were available with what other BL car models.

https://mk1-performance-conversions.co. ... _chips.htm

There's more colours

And the final batch

Thanks Stu.

Also on the main site are a couple of earlier listings of GT colours and trims


October 1969 List https://mk1-performance-conversions.co. ... Models.pdf


September 1976 https://mk1-performance-conversions.co. ... tripes.pdf


Also I do have most of the brochures for 1970s cars scanned somewhere. When I find them I will post them up.

From the E Bay thread
a) wrong servo and brackets
(b) wrong inner wings (should be no holes)
(c) wrong bonnet prop and bonnet prop position - it is on the wrong side for a 1970
(d) wrong washer bottle - shouldn't have Tudor on it
(e) wrong engine colour - should be green on a 1970 without any rocker cover sticker other than a leyland logo sticker on the front.
(f) wrong rocker cover - early 1970 1275GTs had a spout
(g) no hydro
(h) carbs are twin HS4s - an option with the "Pluspac"
(i) wrong wheels - should be 10" rostyles
(j) wrong seats - later type recliners fitted. If it was a 1970 with recliners the lever would come out of the side of the base with a cream knob
(k) wrong seat covers - it should have the early more thickly padded stitched type not the later, flatter electrically welded type
(l) wrong heater - an early 1970 has a plastic cased heater with a bright metal edge to the control panel
(m) wrong eyeball vents - they should be chrome and of the early type (with the small "toothpaste tube" type knob in the middle)
(n) wrong carpets - should be veltone
(o) rear bins should be covered in black vinyl)
(p) wrong seatbelts - should either be Kangol magnet with BL logos or early Kangol arrow static with the central floor mounted twin buckle
(q) wrong interior light - an early 1970 would have a late Mk2 type interior light mounted at the side
(r) wrong boot handle - an early 1970 generally has a MK2 type boot handle
(s) wrong rev counter - an early 1970 has a 6000 rpm red lined rev counter - the 6500 came in when the final drive ratio was changed later in production.
(t) no body number or FE number
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Andrew1967 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 09, 2021 12:31 am

Noted the comment about rev counter … I thought the early ones were 6500 red line with the early diff and went to 6000 with the higher ratio diff.
I always understood that to be the case too, the 6.5k ones are certainly rarer and have the older style PCB connections etc
I think you are right - got my numbers the wrong way round! My car is in bits at the moment so hard to check!


Also, would a mid 70 have a metal or plastic air cleaner casing ?
Mine (March 1970) has a metal one - not sure when the changeover happened (or indeed if there was the usual Longbridge randomness with some later cars being fitted with earlier spec items found in the stores! My July 1967 built Mk1 850 was a classic example - it had chrome piano hinge rear side windows rather than the stainless ones....

Some time in mid to late 1970 as far as I can work out. It is rather like the bonnet hinges. 1969 built cars had bonnet hinges that bolt up into tapped threads in the bonnet framework. By the beginning of 1970 this had switched to the usual arrangement - bonnet hinges with threaded studs sticking out and flanges with oblong holes welded to the bonnet framework. Not sure why - perhaps there were problems with threads stripping, the bonnet slipping in the open position or it was just very hard to adjust! Its another of those early production quirks. My GT built early March 1970 has the conventional arrangement.


1128 all synchro close ratio box...

Yes the displacers should be silver banded.

Early cars had a dynamo with cut out box on the firewall.

Austrian Brochure from 1975

AA Road test from May 1972

Some useful information on the 1275GT 'sidewinder' stripes here:-
'Prune' 1275GT Stripes?
http://mk1-forum.net/viewtopic.php?p=139076#p139076