Mini 1100 Special
Discussion
Hi Folks, don't normal post in the Classic Mini area, but I'm hoping someone may be able to help.
Basically, I'm trying to find a genuine 1979 1100 Special for sale (pref in Silver rather than the pink). Trouble is, they are so rare.... Condition isn't too important as long as its fairly original.
Just wondered if anyone can point me in the right direction.
Thanks in advance.
Basically, I'm trying to find a genuine 1979 1100 Special for sale (pref in Silver rather than the pink). Trouble is, they are so rare.... Condition isn't too important as long as its fairly original.
Just wondered if anyone can point me in the right direction.
Thanks in advance.
They were Exacton alloys.
Mine is an 1100 special but it was too far gone to restore.
Try here www.theminiforum.co.uk/forums/
Mine is an 1100 special but it was too far gone to restore.
Try here www.theminiforum.co.uk/forums/
Good old BLMC, Austin-Morris, Austin-Rover, or whatever they were calling themselves back then. It seems that they fitted whatever they had in the stores when they ran short of the nice alloy ones.
A bit like the cams on the later carb Coopers. I was told by a guy who worked in their purchasing dept that the cams fitted to those cars depended on what they had 'on the shelf'. Maybe that's why the 1990-1 cars seem to give such different power output figures when measured. Some say the cam should be an MG Metro profile, others that is just a standard 1275 Mayfair profile. Apparently it's any 'A'- series production cam. I think it's the same with valve sizes as the 90-91 Coopers have 35.5 mm inlets listed in the book, but mine had 33.5 mm as standard.
I think Austin-Rover were so slow to pay their suppliers that they were often on 'the Stop' and just used up what they had. I know when I did business with them back in the late '80's they took up to 180 days to pay my bills which were on 'net 30-day' terms. I stopped doing business with them after telling someone there that I was not a registered charity, despite the fact that they clearly thought otherwise.
A bit like the cams on the later carb Coopers. I was told by a guy who worked in their purchasing dept that the cams fitted to those cars depended on what they had 'on the shelf'. Maybe that's why the 1990-1 cars seem to give such different power output figures when measured. Some say the cam should be an MG Metro profile, others that is just a standard 1275 Mayfair profile. Apparently it's any 'A'- series production cam. I think it's the same with valve sizes as the 90-91 Coopers have 35.5 mm inlets listed in the book, but mine had 33.5 mm as standard.
I think Austin-Rover were so slow to pay their suppliers that they were often on 'the Stop' and just used up what they had. I know when I did business with them back in the late '80's they took up to 180 days to pay my bills which were on 'net 30-day' terms. I stopped doing business with them after telling someone there that I was not a registered charity, despite the fact that they clearly thought otherwise.
I went to view one in a farm in the middle of the moors, in a pocket of fields. The farm was owned by a couple who only left the farm site was to deliver bacon to the local butcher. They were reclusive and mad (not joking). The bloke was a petrolhead (ex) and saw this car and liked the numberplate. It was a bit rusty and expensive, on talking petrol stuff, he introduced me to his "cars", all perfectly preserved. In one shed with a 8" tree growing in the path of the entrance was a 1949 S1 landrover in perfect condition, all the paint had come off it, but it was like new, also there was an Elva racing car with tubular chassis, funny tuned engine with a selection of tuning bits, like new but filled up with cobwebs. An old opel rally car in a hell of a state, a unimog, a few weird big 4x4 trucks and the biggest outdoor scrapyard and junk collection I have ever seen.
I'll try and find it on google earth. It was a weird experiencing people living like that, they had pretty much gone back to nature.
I'll try and find it on google earth. It was a weird experiencing people living like that, they had pretty much gone back to nature.
You could ask on the Mini Special Register Yahoo group:
http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/mini
If you want, I can also put a "wanted" on the homepage of the MSR site (www.minispecial.com)
http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/mini
If you want, I can also put a "wanted" on the homepage of the MSR site (www.minispecial.com)
love machine said:
I went to view one in a farm in the middle of the moors, in a pocket of fields. The farm was owned by a couple who only left the farm site was to deliver bacon to the local butcher. They were reclusive and mad (not joking). The bloke was a petrolhead (ex) and saw this car and liked the numberplate. It was a bit rusty and expensive, on talking petrol stuff, he introduced me to his "cars", all perfectly preserved. In one shed with a 8" tree growing in the path of the entrance was a 1949 S1 landrover in perfect condition, all the paint had come off it, but it was like new, also there was an Elva racing car with tubular chassis, funny tuned engine with a selection of tuning bits, like new but filled up with cobwebs. An old opel rally car in a hell of a state, a unimog, a few weird big 4x4 trucks and the biggest outdoor scrapyard and junk collection I have ever seen.
I'll try and find it on google earth. It was a weird experiencing people living like that, they had pretty much gone back to nature.
I'll try and find it on google earth. It was a weird experiencing people living like that, they had pretty much gone back to nature.
Was it an Elva Courier?
Where was this??
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