LEYLAND Mini find and resto

Capri

Tasmania Shed find - Aussie Mini

mattroche

I was in Australia in 2001, I went to Tasmania to look up the history of the Young Irlanders, particularly Smith O Brien. While I was there I saw quite a few old cars. One that sticks in my mind is a Mercedes 170D, hand painted in a very vivid green. The owner wanted what amounted to £ 10,000,+ £ 5,000 to ship it to the U.K. I never knew that they existed, would love to have had it, but it was to expensive for me.

The Big Red Fella

Thats a very unusual mini it has the mk1 mini door outer hinges on the mk3 doors???
nice though i like minis!

Capri

The Big Red Fella wrote: »

Thats a very unusual mini it has the mk1 mini door outer hinges on the mk3 doors???
nice though i like minis!

And fly windows and later on, flush door pulls

Morris Mini K (March 1969 – August 1971, Australia only)

Morris Mini KBuilt in the Australian British Motor Corporation factory at Zetland, New South Wales, using 80% local content, the Morris Mini K was advertised as the "great leap forward".[43] The Mini K ('K' standing for Kangaroo) had a 1098 cc engine and was the last round-nose model to be produced in Australia, originally priced at A$1780. The Mini K was offered in 2-door saloon [44] and 2-door van body styles.[45] It was distinctive in having wind-up windows and a swivelling quarterlight in Mk.I-style externally hinged doors. A small round sticker with a kangaroo logo was placed on the triangular panel between the door and the front body seam

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Morris_Mini_K.jpg


For the Australian market, all Minis including the Van gained the Clubman front in 1971 although the car was still basically a Mk I behind the A-Pillar.[56] The Australian van thus became the only Clubman Van produced anywhere in the world.[56] From mid-1971 to the end of 1972, a Clubman GT version of the saloon was produced.[57] This was essentially a Cooper S in Clubman body, equipped with the same 7.5-inch (190 mm) disc brakes, twin fuel tanks, and twin-carburettor Cooper S 1,275 cc engine. Australian Clubman saloons were marketed under the Morris Mini Clubman name when introduced in August 1971,[58] and as the Leyland Mini, without the Clubman name, from February 1973.[59]

To end Mini production in Australia, a limited edition runout model was produced − the 1275LS. Fitted with a pollution control 1,275 cc engine sourced from Europe, the LS had a single 1.5-inch (38 mm) carburettor and 8.4-inch (210 mm) disc brakes. Production of this model commenced in July 1978 and concluded in October 1978 with an approximate total of 810 vehicles produced.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Leyland_Mini_LS.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1973-1978_Leyland_Mini_van.jpg

John Maguire

I learned to drive in a car like this one