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vulgarandmischevious says...

Buy as late a non-fuel injected model as you can find over here and have
it shipped with the engine/box out as "spare parts" in two shipments. If
you can acquire a very early log book then you'll have far fewer
problems getting it registered over there, because import was halted for
safety reasons some time in the late 60s IIRC and consequently they
won't allow the personal import or registration of later models.

Bringing in spare parts though is easy, all you then have to do is
assemble the spare parts into a complete car, and you've done that
before. Getting a chassis plate stamped to match the log book is a piece
of piss, any of the big Mini parts suppliers here can provide that as
long as you have a log book - that means you can take your newly
assembled from spares 'old' car to your local licensing dept and go
about getting it registered.

--
Lozzo
Triumph Daytona 955i SE (Black with added black bits)
Suzuki Bandit 600S (Green with added shit bits)
Yamaha SR250 Delusion (It's "Special")
Homefucking is killing prostitution.

 

vulgarandmischevious says...

It seems to be the way of doing it, or at least it was when I was
heavily into buying and selling Wood and Pickett converted Minis about
10 to 15 years ago.

<looks in office drawer>

Look no further young man. Would a nice 1972 K plate Mk3 Mini Cooper S
1275 suit sir?

--
Lozzo
Triumph Daytona 955i SE (Black with added black bits)
Suzuki Bandit 600S (Green with added shit bits)
Yamaha SR250 Delusion (It's "Special")
Homefucking is killing prostitution.

 

vulgarandmischevious wrote

Go on - it'll be lots of fun and will gobble time and money
effortlessly.
(My brother owned a very late Cooper S MkIII and now owns one of the
very last trad body Coopers. He also had close acquaintance with a
Tickford Cooper (with electric windows!).)
My previous neighbours son rallies Minis and owns an outrageous machine
with twin Webers and straight cut wossit gears that one can hear coming
half a mile away.

 

Lozzo wrote

hlu 758k, by any chance?

 

Roger Hunt says...

No, not that one. I won't publish the details here, I've said too much
already, but I've owned this particular car since I was 19 and I'm 45
next month.

--
Lozzo
Triumph Daytona 955i SE (Black with added black bits)
Suzuki Bandit 600S (Green with added shit bits)
Yamaha SR250 Delusion (It's "Special")
Homefucking is killing prostitution.

 

Roger Hunt says...

Pah, Tickford Schmickford. I used to buy and sell Wood and Pickett
conversions when I were a lad. I owned one of Jeffrey Archer's old ones
at one point, a really well looked after and maintained car that was -
it's in Japan now, probably gathering dust and rust in the corner of
some collector's garage now he's lost interest in the Mini boom of the
mid-90s.

I saw photos of some terribly neglected E-Types that had ended up in
Japan when Jaguars were the car to buy over there. Japanese fads come
and go, and these cars just weren't the latest thing to be throwing
money at, so they'd been left to rot outside. Some of them had obviously
been the subject of expensive restorations over here, before being
paraded for a few years in the land of Nippon, then almost thrown out.
One of them was a 1961 flat floored external bonnet-lock model, one of
the very first off the line. I could have cried when I saw the state of
it.

--
Lozzo
Triumph Daytona 955i SE (Black with added black bits)
Suzuki Bandit 600S (Green with added shit bits)
Yamaha SR250 Delusion (It's "Special")
Homefucking is killing prostitution.

 

Lozzo wrote

That would have been something ... 758k was my brothers, as you probably
guessed, in the late Seventies/early Eighties IIRC.

 

In

My dad had three E-types at once when I was very young (he owned a large car
showroom at the time, which I think was '74), one of those was a flat floor,
external bonnet lock roadster, one was a 4.2 fixed head, and one was a V12
roadster.

I remember being disgusted when he swapped the V12 for a nearly new Opel
Commodore GS/E and cash.


--
Pete M - Using the Scouse Side of the Force -
Golf GTi,
Mercedes 190E Auto
OMF#9

Currently listening to "The Dead Class - Boo"

 

Mollys School for Psychics?

 

I forgot what I was going to say. It will come back to me, eventually.

 

"Herrow my name is Blen Bwaney. I interested in shiny mini car - you
have one in your slowwoom?"

 

Not forgetting my CB100N that I had re-bored to 125cc.

Lasted all of 200 miles it did before bashing a hole in the piston... Oh
happy days!

 

in message

Also, XR125 and CLR125 (Cityfly),

 

Ooooh, indeed.

 

The Older Gentleman wrote

Zzzzzzz .... , or rather ZZ125z

 

I've recently been taken with the urge to get a Mini Moke.

I hope it passes soon.

--
ogden
sv650 (slow)
cg125 (dead)
zx7r (in bits)

Last few 7R bits: http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQsassZdr.daifQQhtZ-1

 

Be seeing you.