Here is the link to the Tilling wind up window conversion in the early 60’s

mk1-performance-conversions.co.uk/pdf/tilling-flier.pdf

Hoopers, Radfords and Wood & Pickett also did electric windows with brass chromed 1/4 lights made by James Young for the mk1 or 2 minis, the system and motors taken from Aston DB5’s.

I suspect these parts largely still exist to some degree, but as owners pass on, the car may be sold, but parts collections hit the bin. A chrome window catch, or stainless wheel arch looks like so much trash to the family. I ended up with a Jaguar Radiola head unit from 1956, just because I couldn't see it go in the trash, what else was there that I couldn't identify is hard to say and now gone.

I had a pretty special MK1 while living in Florida, It was Miniworld magazines cover car with the title Ultimate MK1, I could not bear the heat in florida with sliders so I popped the windows out when it got hot.

At one point I had two pairs (or was it one?) of Aussie roll up window doors and brought them to a mini meet and they sold before I could get them out of the vehicle I was in.

It was rather special 20 or so years ago. I could come to the UK and at shows there would be every part you can imagine, Sport packs were being parted like mad and you literally could buy a whole car in parts from any one of several breakers at the shows. I bought every set of Sport pack seats, arches and wheels I could lay my hands on. Even bought 2 NOS MPI short blocks.

Great memories.

Peter

Good luck finding them !

Yes I do but, I do have someone waiting for them.

Joltfreak...Do you still have the Aussie doors available?

1. Hi George...i sent you an email about your doors for sale...are they still available...are you in LA?

Thanks.
I'm fortunate to have a body guy who can follow my dreams and challenges and does not mind waiting for me to be alongside him or redoing things to my desires if necessary. 

And also that I still have the patience and skill to do the mechanical things myself.

Not exactly easy is right!  But what a beautiful job, the nicest I've ever seen!  Those skills are above what most people have, certainly way out of my league, and the cost to pay to pay someone who does have the skills is more than most can justify! 

Richard, You've built one of the nicest pickups in the world! 

I replaced my pickup doors with MK V doors with the roll-up. Not exactly easy, but nice.

Since the lower half of the doors is wider than the original pickup, we channeled .75” (19mm) vertically out of the side panels (fenders) of the pickup. The top half of the saloon doors is narrower than the pickup, so we stretched the cab about 1.2” (30mm).

Pm sent!!

There was a pup (pickup) owner on Facebook and eBay that was looking to swap Mk1 Aussie doors with roll up windows. Until he found out how much they are worth. Now he wants to swap for doors with a lot of money coming his way also in addition to your doors.

Last I heard he was selling parts off the pup whilst trying to sell the pup. Believe his name is Fred Leanne. Dimitris, Is that correct ?

I would advise caution with dealings with this guy, something doesn't feel "kosher " with this guy. Just a heads up about the doors. The pup keeps coming up for sale on eBay UK. Have a look there or contact him through Facebook.

@joltfreak

I'd be very interested in Aussie doors for my New Zealand Elf! PM or email me when you can!

Daniel

I think that Ian was just correcting misinformation. Don't take it to heart. Life's too short.

Breaking news... Ian has roll up window conversions for MK1 & 2 Minis!!!  Lets all beat a path to his door!  He's a very argumentative fellow however, and seems to be the type to look to get in your face and show off his shrimp on the barbie lingo wherever he can find
or imagine something to contradict!  I'm going to guess that George Dubya was one of the presidents.... just get that feeling!

Amazing how a thread can lie dormant and unloved for years, then come roaring back with such passion!  No Dan, don't bother looking up weasel speak..... I don't care!

Maybe you're also familiar with the term "weasel words" Jamal??

Having worked in the US under three Presidents I think I can speak "mercen" quite well.

As the Sisters will tell you ... No means no..  and "no such thing" just ain't so...

Cheers, Ian

Ha Ha Ha! Excellent Dan!  More than anyone could ever want to know!  I still like "Brilliant" said in a Monty Python-esque manner!  For some reason Ian fails to understand my plain ol' amrikun inglish!   Let me try this.... with no accent whatsoever,  I know about your roll up window MK1 doors!   The "kit" I'm talking about is the nonexistent one that people with 1985 Minis registered as 1964 Minis imagine is installed on their car!  It's the one folks who have a sliding window Mini in a hot climate WISH they could get

Replied to pm!

"codswallop"

Etymology

Unknown, attested from 1959 episode of UK TV series Hancock’s Half Hour. The writers (Galton and Simpson) state that the phrase was in general use when the show was broadcast.^[1][2] A national TV appeal in the UK in 2006 failed to find earlier references.^[1] Originally written (1963) codswallop, spelling cod's wallop is later.

Various etymologies are proposed from some sense of cod, such as from cod (“scrotum”) (as in codpiece), from cod (“joke, imitation”)^[1] + wallop (“beer (slang)”), hence cod + wallop “imitation beer” (with interconsonantal -s- to ease pronunciation of -dw-), or from cod (“fish”) (some part of the fish, as from fishing industry).

A frequently given etymology, although widely rejected as a folk etymology, derives it from Hiram Codd, British soft drink maker of the 1870s, known for the eponymous Codd-neck bottle, with the suggestion that codswallop is a derisive term for soft drinks by beer drinkers, from Codd’s + wallop (“beer (slang)”) “Codd’s beer (sarcastic)”. There is no evidence that early uses had this sense, the slang wallop (“beer”) comes later than Codd’s lifetime,^[1] initial spellings (1963 in print) do not reflect such a derivation (*Codd’s wallop and *coddswallop with -dd- are not found), and there is an 80 year gap between proposed coinage and attestation.

This is also the name given to the wooden device placed over the neck of a codd bottle and given a push (wallop) to dislodge the marble in the neck of the bottle. The word has also been used to describe the process of opening a codd bottle.