Austin Seven Mini

PanhardPL

This Mini has been in storage since 1973 and the mileage is genuine. Is there any other Mini around with such low mileage.
Green Mini
Speedo 9198mls.
Seats
Mini rear
Mini Tax Disc.

kasper

it will be due its 10000 service shortly looks like it will need the full works

carchaeologist

Hard to say if restoring that would be a good thing or not.Very cool.

Pagoda113

Isn't there another low milage Austin 7 mini in the Limerick area ? ?

I seem to remember seeing one at some stage in the not too didtant past..

Blue Punto

WOW what a great looking little car

I would love that

SO ORIGINAL
Would look great in my garage beside my own STOBART mini

MorrisCooper

This is a '68-69 Mk2 Mini 850. It wouldn't be badged as an Austin Seven as only the earliest cars were. It's a lovely Irish car though and I won't say no to it myself. The interior is different to earlier and later Minis. The cream switch panel wasn't used on UK-built cars. There's were grey.

There's a '00 Mini Sportspack in Mallow, Co. Cork with just 33 miles on it. OC Motors are the local Daihatsu dealers and it's sitting on view in the showroom.

carchaeologist

Pagoda113 wrote: »

Isn't there another low milage Austin 7 mini in the Limerick area ? ?

I seem to remember seeing one at some stage in the not too didtant past..

Possibly a red one?:P

Blue Punto

Yep its defo a MK 2 alright

Square rear lights

MorrisCooper

carchaeologist wrote: »

Possibly a red one?:P

I have a red '1960 Austin 7, Irish built, Dublin WZA reg and I'm in north Cork. Haven't heard of a similar car in Limerick.

PanhardPL

MorrisCooper wrote: »

I have a red '1960 Austin 7, Irish built, Dublin WZA reg and I'm in north Cork. Haven't heard of a similar car in Limerick.

This one is in Co. Limerick,
HZC 650
The Garage that supplied HZC 650

Blue Punto

WOW

Thats in great nick

(And a wee bit better than WZA)
Always regret not getting to Dave before you on that one though


scratching my head though as to were that leak is coming from underneath it

MorrisCooper

Blue Punto wrote: »

WOW

Thats in great nick

(And a wee bit better than WZA)
Always regret not getting to Dave before you on that one though


scratching my head though as to were that leak is coming from underneath it

I have actually decided to move on WZA cos it's beyond my capabilities. It was a shame it deteriorated so much but at least I've been able to preserve it for the next more capable owner (think a certain newly-restored grey van)



Something like a '59/'60 is a poisoned chalice because it has to be done correctly and there are so many unique parts to those early cars.

Blue Punto

So are you saying its up for grabs or someone else has it now

Oh right I just read the rest of you post


I was getting excited

Its gone to a good home (I missed this somehow ,ill have to check the threads)

MercMad

PanhardPL wrote: »

This one is in Co. Limerick,
HZC 650
The Garage that supplied HZC 650

..........that sticker brings back memories. My uncle worked in Esmondes for 35 - 40 years and we bought a '69 Mini 850 from him with that sticker, 811 YI, was the reg.

Hifive

Think I posted this pic before,
This was my mothers first car. Austin mini se7en (Mk 1 I think?)
XZD 697
Thats me in the shorts, about 40 years ago:o
My dad sold it for £50.00 when it was fairly rotten.

L1011

Is that Esmonde the same Esmonde that only hit the wall last year?

Thinkingaboutit

I wonder if that has the button that turns off the fuel pump.

PanhardPL

What do you mean by a button to cut off the fuel.
The starter button is floor mounted.

Thinkingaboutit

This button was on the floor in the back. Fuel I thought.

MorrisCooper

No such button ever fitted to a production Mini within the car itself.

Late '90s Minis had a fuel cut-off under the bonnet which would activate in the event of a head-on collision. It was a daft item as potholes in Ireland could activate the switch when you least expected it, as I found out in my '98 Cooper years ago. You reset it by pushing a button that it was definitely in the engine bay.

MercMad

MYOB wrote: »

Is that Esmonde the same Esmonde that only hit the wall last year?

........yes same place. It was a general car dealer, then BL, then Nissan then Ford. Also owned Murrays Europcar too.

I think they just closed the place, I dont think it went to the wall.

Thinkingaboutit

MorrisCooper wrote: »

No such button ever fitted to a production Mini within the car itself.

Late '90s Minis had a fuel cut-off under the bonnet which would activate in the event of a head-on collision. It was a daft item as potholes in Ireland could activate the switch when you least expected it, as I found out in my '98 Cooper years ago. You reset it by pushing a button that it was definitely in the engine bay.

It was in right rear pocket, behind the driver, the car was about 1977. The engine could not start with it pressed. I don't think it was a fuel pump as a car starts and then stops when the little bit of fuel available run outs with the pump off.

carchaeologist

Thinkingaboutit wrote: »

It was in right rear pocket, behind the driver, the car was about 1977. The engine could not start with it pressed. I don't think it was a fuel pump as a car starts and then stops when the little bit of fuel available run outs with the pump off.

Probably something an owner put in himself as an anti theft device id wager..;)

Thinkingaboutit

There was a pretty major amount of rust on that Leyland Mini by the time it was sold. That was probably an anti-theft device in and of itself.:)