Category: Collectibles
Price: $21500
Private or Vendor Listing: Private Listing
Part fits (you may select multiples): Classic Mini
Location (Region): NorCal
Item Condition: Used

Exterior:

1972 Retromod Morris Cooper S Right Hand Drive. 12,820 miles. Mk IV body shell with new genuine sills and rear valance. Painted in Jaguar British Racing Green with OEW top and bonnet stripes right up to the windscreen, as in work cars. Colour coded Group II wheel arches and chrome trim. Chrome bumbers and overriders. Quick release grille buttons and bonnet hinges for easy service. Leather bonnet straps secure the bonnet with an internal safety latch. Halogen ring headlamps with flat lenses, chrome Works rock guards, dual Cooper driving lamps. Clear glass parking lamps with amber bulbs. Chrome external mirrors and dual Monza fuel caps.

Interior:

Newton biscuit leather with green piping on reclining seats and door panels. Bins removed and rear seat metal modified to allow more front seat room. Minimal custom rear seat and back in matching biscuit leather. Burl walnut 6 clock dash and door cappings, Magnolia gauges, chrome hardware, polished Cooper doorsill trim. Newton wool carpet and Cooper mats. Astrali polished 3-spoke and leather steering wheel, column drop bracket. M-Machine RH gas tank allows for 15 gal. total for extended cruising. Fuel pump, fuel and brake lines, battery cables, washer lines all internalized from the boot through the cabin for safety and protection from the elements.

Running Gear & Suspension:

Rebuilt rust free front and rear subframes, reinforced rear crossmember to allow single point jacking. Solid front subframe mounts, competition grade bushings elsewhere. Genuine 5” x 10” Minilite wheels Yoko Ao32 Aqua Tusk tires. Front brakes: 4-pot calipers and new vented rotors machined to fit the 10” wheels, EBC Greenstuff Kevlar pads, braided steel lines. Rear: Superfin alloy drums on KAD alloy hubs with EBC Kevlar shoes, braided lines. Tandem brake master cylinder with front-mounted pressure regulator. Rose-jointed (Heim ends) camber-adjustable lower arms with poly rebound pads. Heim end tie rods with boots up front, KAD ultralight alloy swing arms and 4 way adjustable rear brackets. Front and rear anti sway bars with all poly bushings and Heim end adjustment rods. Polished Hi-Los for adjustable height with Red coil springs, cupped and greased seats; AGX twin-tube gas-filled 8-pt. adjustable shocks. Corner weighted and tuned from optimal handling.

Engine & Powertrain:

Swiftune, UK-built “Road Rocket” 1380 A+ base motor. Heat treated, lapped and polished, dynamically balanced crank, con rods aligned, balanced end for end. New ring gear on 8.6 lb. lightened flywheel and backplate. Orange spec clutch diaphragm and new turbo plate, balanced again as an assembly. New SW5 hi torque camshaft, vernier double row timing chain, new hi cap oil pump. Romac polished vibration dampener/pulley with timing marks. Large-valve ported and flowed cylinder head. 1.5 ratio roller tipped rockers. ARP 12 pt. fasteners, flat top polished and finned valve cover. High-cap water pump, 11 blade fan and 2-core radiator. 3-row Mocal oil cooler, braided oil lines. Additional auxiliary thermo-switched electric fan with dash-mounted bypass switch. Pertonix optical ignition and Lucas sport coil, Billet dizzy clamp with marks. 60-amp alternator. Lightweight hi-torque Nippon starter. NGK race caps, wires and Iridium plugs. Maniflow intake manifold, twin 1.5 SU carbs. AptFast 2” ram pipes with oiled filter socks. Maniflow LCB polished stainless exhaust manifold, headers, collector and all stainless RC40 twin box system. Motor is additionally supported by left and right bulkhead braces anda a lower gearbox front brace. All this mated to a Jack Knight Developments 5 speed, straight cut, close ratio gearbox with central oil pickup, and magnetic inspection plug. Reverted from a 4.1 to a 3.44 FD and removed the evolution LSD, refitted the standard differential for better street manners. All new inner and outer CV joints.[FONT=Cambria]
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[FONT=Cambria]Full restoration by M-tech in the UK. Ferried over to the states in Connecticut. I purchased the Mini from the importer in Connecticut. Only has 12,820 miles since the restoration. It has a clean California Title. I hold the pink slip.
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[FONT=Cambria]Always been garaged. Never even seen a wet street. Comes with a custom-fit Mini Car Cover.
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Cheers!

Adam Ferris
415.948.7332
adamferris77@gmail.com

 

Do you have videos?

whats this ?

 

figured it out, the roll bar mount!

 

Ahhh the things if do for that car. GLWS!

 

Hi JPMM: Love your mini. Are those gold stripes below the grill? Nice touch. I don't have videos unfortunately. Next time I take it for a drive in the mountains I'll have my copilot shoot some. Cheers.

 

thanks,,, the stripes are all the same,,, reflective black vinyl, they reflect whatever is the light at the moment , sunsets, headlights etc... otherwise they look black

 

Black vinyl, eh?! Wow! Pretty cool. Have a good Memorial Day.

 

get you did get the green Mini sold?

 

I actually comPleted the sale yesterday.