A friend has just offered my son a 'free' morris mini that was on the road with a M.O.T. , until three years ago and has then been kept in a garage 'with nothing done to it since'.
Its of an age that still had the horizontal 'sliding' window, instead of the 'wind up' vertical window. Since it was road worthy before going in the garage and hasn't been used since, presumably it is still road worthy.
Its about 15 miles from our house. Would it be likely the engine would get us home, if we put petrol in it and jump started the battery? Or would the battery be too clapped out to be useful? Since I'm a novice any tips to help get it going would be appreciated.
My sons main interest is not in restoring it in any way, but to sell it on. What roughly would a road worthy, sliding window mini, with a small bit of surface body rust ( and it's not an estate or a cooper) be worth, if anything? Or would going over to pick it up just be largely wasted effort for reselling it? Thanks for any advice.