I got the email just really busy getting some ready for the 56th. Wrapping one up today. We are talking about some thing quite fragile and odd sized. I'll look at packaging. Most likely build a wooden frame and place one inside the other. Steve (CTR)

Steve,  contact me next week.  I sent you an email.  If you have a frame I sure could use it.  54235 is my zip code.  Shipping can't be that bad.

Randy

Depending where he is Steve (no pofile) it may be better to have it bought to one of the events by a fellow Mini owner and take it from there, shipping and getting it there without damage would be a pia.

I have a frame set but packaging and shipping will be rough and I don't know what to ask for it. I'm swamped this week trying to wrap something up. Steve (CTR)

Don't feel bad British Leyland/Rover felt it was the right way to do it also, all UK spec Mini headliners MK III 1970 ish on were installed the same way. It might be easier to find later headliner bows than it is to find a MK II set up, unless of course you are going for originality.

That was my guess.  A home made contraption with bend aluminum 1/2" pieces,....and the PO had no way to secure the ends so they took the windows out and glued them up tight.  I'm in the market for a Mk I II headliner frame now. 

That looks like a MK III > headliner set up with some home made bows (if the aluminum frame in the first pic is the bow), the correct bows would be round steel rod with plastic ends and fit into holes in the body which your MK II probably does not have.

Another headliner pic.

Headliner pic at front left pillar.

There are two ways to post a picture. The easiest is click on the big green button just to the left and above the box where you've typed the question and answers. The picture has to be smaller than 3Megs. If yours is bigger reduce the size with Paint.

I tried to post some pictures of the headliner here but I have not been able to post in the past either. 

post a picture of te area and it will all be clear. I may have a late 67 Mk  1 S set stored inside since mid 80s. Steve (CTR)

Bingo....

No, to the best of my knowledge it has not been rebodied.  Chassis and VIV plates match.  It has the original color El paso Beige everywhere.  All the original gas tank straps and hallmark S clues. The car has been painted three times though.  Maybe the next thing to do is find a Mk I-II headliner frame.

That's a mkIII plus setup. I've only worked with MkI head liners (and by defaut MkII). I did remove the headliner from an Austin 1800 which has the stays (strips) setup. I believe sides of the roof where the stays install are different than the sides where the MkI/II frames install. Maybe your MkII S has been re-bodied.

Post a picture of what you have.

Tim, I'm in Sturgeon Bay 90 miles from you.  I looked at the headliner more today.  It is comprised of four metal (aluminum) strips approx. 3/4 inch wide running from right to left sides of the Mini  and fitted tight to the underside of the roof.  There are loops of fabric sewn into the headliner with which the strips traverse side to side.  There do not appear to be any front to rear metal strips in the headliner as my MKI Mini had.

Hello.

What you describe is a mix of different styles of minis.  I just finished doing my 1965 Mini headliner which is two frames, one front and one rear frame that get the headliners assembled to them.  Then the frames with the headliner assembled to it is installed into the car.  I suppose the headliner could be glued into the windshield seal even with a headliner frame design.  Not the correct way to do it but I suppose it could be done.

Running wiring with the headliner frames removed, is quite easy.

I am in Appleton, WI.  Where are you located?  Let me know if I can be of help.

Tim 

That's what does not make sense a MK II should have the two frame headliner with nothing under the windscreen gasket. Running the harness down the inside of the car and covering with vinyl would look like crap, do it right even if it takes a while or you have to pay someone to do it you will soon be sick of looking at it when driving it and wish you had taken the time to do it correctly. Just my 02c.