What year is this Norm?

 

The chassis #, body #, wiper motor stamping, accessories/fittings, etc all pointed to an April build 1962 997 Cooper. Production date was confirmed by BMHT as 4/19/1962

 

I am not sure if they continued to stamp the chassis in 62, but the brace that goes from the crossmember on the firewall up to the left wing on top of it they used to stamp the production number for the chassis there. if there is paint take some brake fluid or paint thinner and wipe away the paint on top of that brace, it was hand stamped so dont use sand paper, but those numbers should match the last numbers of your VIN tag.

 

yeah we already got it all figured out.....

 

good deal.. my bad.. I said left.. thats left looking under the bonnet.. did they stamp that panel in 62?

 

nice color Norm!!
i give it the

 

i think it will work nice......now i just need a set of Joltfreak front discs set up's, so i can help promote and help sell to my customers

 

You're probably a good person to ask about this...
How difficult is it to replace the crossmember that the seats mount to?
It doesn't seem too bad, however looks can be deceiving.

I imagine it's just a matter of removing the old one and welding in the new one.

 

p'm sent with explanation!!!

 

also tacked in the new floor pieces today......fun....lol....i'll take pics when im done....

 

floor pan replaced

....still got some more work with it, and i'm gonna replace the rear seat damage area's tomarrow

 

Come to think about it I enjoyed welding the same piece in. It was like having a flintstones car with that part of the floor cut out.

 

You don't mess around.

 

email me off site!

 

email sent jolt !!!.......yeah, the floor wasn't out for long...lol...i'm trying to get this mini knocked out....and since i work late nights at a radio station now, my days are open.....pan came out pretty easy....gotta go get the seam sealer tomarrow and also gott pick up some metal to rebuild the center tunnel.....gonna tackle the rear bench seat tommarow....only problem is to replace the seat you have to get the pan from the seat to rear of the boot...it's a one piece panel.....think i'm gonna create something because that whole panel is not bad, it's just 6 inches from the edge lip of the seat back.....i have a pretty cool idea on how to do it but wanna try it before announcing my creativity solution...lol....if it fails which i doubt, i wont have to tell anyone what i tried to do....lol

 

I bet 7 ent. has just this piece laying around. They say right on their site that the will cut the seat part of the boot floor off if all you want is the floor to save on shipping. It might be worth a call to see what they say.

 

just shot them a email...thanks......hopefully my idea will work, if so it only cost me $3?.00 dollars to do ......i'm also looking for the tunnel where the shifter comes through.....worse case scenario we can make it, but it would be easier if someone had one lying around

 

Nice old cooper you got there If your finding diffaculty finding some parts give me an email and I'm sure I can find for you over here as I'm close to england and I ask frends to source them for you...................This is My old 1964 Austin Cooper S 1071cc wich took me 5 years to restore 1993 but had to sell as I was building My family home 1997....................



thats not Me standing by mini sadly its a good friend who is no longer with us passed away in 2001 will miss him ..............

 

I always wanted to get some cheap metal working equipment from harbor freight and give a go at making my own panels. But I can't seem to get around the fact that I'll have $400 worth of junk to climb over and still have to buy a $200 panel cause I failed miserably.

You won't know how it turns out until you try though.

 

thats my though on it...lol....worse case, i tear it back out and put the new expensive pan in.....

 

still gotta do some work around the seam, got all the dents out of it, but that wing is about ready for paint !!!.....the primer even has a reflection

 

Nice work!!!

sent reply!! norm

 

ok, well we didnt get the rear seat done yet...lol.....ended up having to do repair work to the underside of the cross member (qskapunk jinx'd me)......since i didn't get the half floor I had to cut out some more floor and put new metal in......hopefully within the next few days, the main rust issue will be handled, fortanetly there really isn't much more rust issues.....

 

so color is gonna be surf blue with old english white roof with a cream color interior

 

sorry bout that - i'll let you know how my repair when I tackle it in a couple months