Needs a bit of TLC...

Mini Cooper S Mk 1? Never was such a badge. In fact, has anything ever had a "Mark One" badge? It isn't Mk 1 till it's been replaced, is it?

No idea about the badge, a MK1 Cooper S would have just said "Austin Cooper S" or "Morris Cooper S".

Nice to see there is a car out there worse than mine!!

Willy Eckerslyke (oss108no snipped-for-privacy@bangor.ac.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

"Near" future, absolutely - but new bodyshells are available from BMIHT.

Well yes, but if I were reshelling a car I'd want to reuse more than just the logbook from the original. It's hard to see anything worth retaining from that one.

Bloody hell! I've just seen what it sold for. A mere 1800 quid.

bloody hell....

Willy Eckerslyke (oss108no snipped-for-privacy@bangor.ac.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Excuse me, that sounds like my mobile. No, wait, I haven't got the soddin' Crazy Frog as a ringtone.

So where's that "ring-a-ding-ding" sound coming from?

Anyway - are those rear lights right for 1964? '64(B-reg) does seem to have been the first year for Mk 1 Cooper S, with those lights seeming to come in on Mk2 in '67.

Something iffy.

Could that ring-a-ding-ding sound be an echo from some point in it's history?

"up dated in the 1980's" - with a later shell? Wasn't there an early Cooper that had been rallied, wrecked, rebodied, rotted on fleaBay a little while back? Same car?

Not in the MK1 style they're not...

Nah, it is certainly a MK1 body, the rear window was enlarged for the MK2 onwards, and this car has the smaller rear window of the MK1. It was a common modification to change to MK2 lights to "update" your car.......

And according to the Cooper Guru on the Specialist Mini Forums, this car "started life as a Tweed Grey/OEW 1071 despatched to Stewart & Ardern Acton but not sold by them. Last taxed 1991."

Howard Rose ( snipped-for-privacy@lycos.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Are there big differences? Or just lights?

Howard Rose ( snipped-for-privacy@lycos.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

What's the feeling there on the sale price?

I think so. I've definitely seen this one on Ebay before, so it looks as though this buyer has made a packet out of it.

Needs a reshell, and although BMIHT do new shells, they don't do Mk1 so it will need some altering. Though it does look to have at least a few Cooper bits!

The main difference is the size of the rear window, but there's also the A-panels, both inner and outer. To reshell a Mk1 to original spec you have to cut those off your new shell and replace them with the Mk1-style panels, which are available. The A-panels are easy, but the whole rear panel is not a job for the faint-hearted! In terms of cost of parts and labour you're talking silly money to do it - but it looks like someone has already paid silly money for this wreck anyway. Does Malcolm Glaser like Minis too?

Chris Bolus ( snipped-for-privacy@FARINAb0lus.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Odds on the buyer thinking it was a BMW Mini?

Pope John Paul I apparently chose "John Paul I" as his papal name.

Ian

"Ian Johnston" realised it was 10 Jun 2005

But he wasn't a Mini Cooper S, was he?

I think he comes under the general category of "anything"!

Ian

the complete construction of the car is different...

not much of the original mk1 body tooling exists - and since the mk1 was an almost entirely differnet construction to the later cars (mk4>) it is not possible to "reverse engineer" the later tooling.