How is the conversion kit................!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We will all need a coffin someday......I drive mine.

I also drove a 850 Morris to college. Engine bored .060 Power Max pistons, 510 Cooper S cam, 295 head surfaced .125, twin 1 1/4 SUs, S dizzy and exhaust. Still had single leading shoes no heater but it was mine. With a 1100 4.10 CWP it was quick and hard to stop. Our 85 1000 E with 1360 Cooper S power is much faster and has plenty brakes. Running late yesterday I found myself among a pack of cars running 80 mph. In the hammer lane following a SUV passing 18 wheeler the SUV hit the brakes and faded toward the center break down lane. I squeezed the truck and kept going. I have not tried a full panic stop at 80 mph with someone tight on my rear bumper. It is possible to make these cars fast and reasonably safe but we still need to be alert. Steve (CTR)

Ian,

That's hilarious...back in the day late 50s-early 60s, we had no traffic volumes at all, 70 mph freeway (newly built) with no traffic...one had 1, 2, 3 miles to brake to a stop.

I had a '51 Hillman 4-door sedan with side valve, flathead 4 that would cruise at 70 mph (after it got there) and we would see almost no traffic on a Sunday night returning to Vancouver.

Things are different today, far more vehicles, fast vehicles, often clogged freeways at times and aggressive drivers.

I like more get up and go and more stopping power in today's traffic conditions.

Rick

Here the license plates are issued to a car when imported. They stay with the car forever, no matter who owns it. Every 20 or 25 years they end up reissuing plates to everyone. The last reissue was in 1999-2001.

It doesn't matter how you drive it or what it is as long as you pay the taxes, insurance, and inspections

"Short answer...when it is modified.

My MK I Countryman will have 1293cc power unit, pot joints, Cooper S brakes, HD adjustable suspension, relays for headlights, alternator, negative ground...non-standard paint, carpet & interior etc. etc."

Naaaah  .. its still a Mk I - just slightly updated (like mine

"However with B.C. introducing a Modified Collector Plate extension from 1958 to 1974, the early Mini can be included with lower insurance rates (no driving to/from work or school)."

We have collector plates for anything over 30 years old (provided you can find a Club to "authorise" it.. This allows unlimited use for "Club events"... and an unspecified amount of on road use for "maintenance and testing".  Recently the politicians must have had an extra good lunch because they signed off on what they call the "Log Book Scheme".  Once you sign up you get a log book (a pice of paper actually) with 60 slots in it.  You fill in one of the slots (date, sign etc) and you are then allowed one day of "personal use".  When I queried the meaning of "personal", the official response was "well....whatever". I'm sold

"IF the Mini had an 848, single leading shoe drum brakes, standard paint & interior from Newton, was positive ground with generator etc. etc. it could get regular Collector Plates...and I'd be afraid to drive it...like to MMW or across the continent to MME."

Don't know why...As college student I use to drive my 850 (same as described above...except we didn't need a Newton interior as the original was only a couple of years old ) home for the holidays (3500 mile run trip .  Slow, painful (standard seats were (are?) a pain in the b^tt ... but cheaper than an air fare.  

Cheers, Ian 

Short answer...when it is modified.

My MK I Countryman will have 1293cc power unit, pot joints, Cooper S brakes, HD adjustable suspension, relays for headlights, alternator, negative ground...non-standard paint, carpet & interior etc. etc.

However with B.C. introducing a Modified Collector Plate extension from 1958 to 1974, the early Mini can be included with lower insurance rates (no driving to/from work or school).

Of course, having some go power and braking for the modern age, it will be safer on the road too.

IF the Mini had an 848, single leading shoe drum brakes, standard paint & interior from Newton, was positive ground with generator etc. etc. it could get regular Collector Plates...and I'd be afraid to drive it...like to MMW or across the continent to MME.

Fitting later doors/windows into an MK1 shell (or in this case pickup) can be done, but is not easy. The roll-up window is narrower than the slider and the lower door portion is wider than the MK1.
I put the 91 front on my 75 rear.

Yes, a lot of work went into backdating this Mini so it would look like a Mk1. And there is nothing wrong with that until someone tries to pass something like this off as a genuine early Mini. Living in California when someone asks me advice on selecting a Mini one of the first things I tell them is to look for external hinges and sliding door glass. Someone looking at this Mini with only a basic knowledge could very well be fooled by it's appearance. 

Probably not in his world Paul.

Ever heard of cell phones?

Is this Winston Coffin from Key Largo by any chance ? Big AL

In the world of mini NOWADAYS, there is no more such thing as MK1,2,3,4 etc, one can always slap an external door hinges and tiny oval tail light on their MK3/4 and edit the numbers Mk3/4 written on the title to make it MK1. And also they already come up with a adaptor plate for the MK3's tailight to custom fit the oval lens. everything is pretty much interchangeable. after all ,and also the sliding doors can be easily installed, the railings fits just easily inside the mk3 doors, the body dimensions of mini from 1959 thru 2000 remains exactly the same., only the engine power varies tho. 

But im no Purist, im an open minded classic mini lover, open to all sorts of modifications.

When it has the larger rear window. TBH i imagine making sliders into MK III> door frames is no easy feat and apart from a couple of easily remedied issues it looks nicely done.

Maybe it's just been "brought up to later car standards" mechanically?  

wow, for that asking price they could have bothered to replace the broken fender flair and installed the missing mustache end pieces

They are MkIII+ doors with a sliding conversion.

May or may not be functional exterior hinges….I think there are pretend hinges out there made to appear functional.

Tail light panel conversion as wel as grille/hood

When it is actually a Mk3, Mk4 or ?

This one has external door hinges and sliding door glass but is really a much newer Mini. 

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I would not have highlighted this Mini if it was not listed as 1967 Austin Cooper.