Hey all this is my first post sorry if it's in the wrong section, I just bought a 71 clubby for my wife and it came with 4 original Mamba wheels and we are thinking about selling them. Any thoughts on what they might be worth.

Thanks in advance

Dan

I would like to say you will get X amount of $ for them and sell them to me.
But Clean them up and enjoy them..they are a brilliant wheel and most of want them

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Stop Licking the Dog...I Don't Care Who Started It

Welcome Dan, i have a set of Mambas on my car, and personnally , i think they are one of the best looking period style mags around, ( my opinion only ). Enjoy your car, put whatever wheels that you like on it, but depending on the condition of the Mambas, they can bring fairly good money.
Colin.

Yep,

Nicest wheels I reckon - but I'm biased - I have a set of black originals and they really make the car look special......

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ex Cooper S Mk2, various Morris 1100s, 1300s, 1500s, Leyland Sherpa!

G'day Dan

What width are they? And what are you looking at replacing them with?

Hi I paid $800 for these with new Tyre's 10"x6"

Noice!

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Cooper S Mk1
ex Cooper S Mk2, various Morris 1100s, 1300s, 1500s, Leyland Sherpa!

Thanks for all your replies, they look like they are the 10 by 5's, i hadn't really thought about what to replace them with. When we bought the car we got told that they might be worth something to the right person so we have been considering the sale to cover the cost of a possible hydro to dry conversion. Nice car Mr moke, very nice.

Dan

Hi Dan

Just wondering why you want to convert from hydro to dry

There have been a couple of people on here lately that have talked about doing this. The replies are always the same, don't

Hydro is by far better for a road car.

Cheers
Steve

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1964 998cc Cooper
1971 Mini K x 2
1972 Clubman GT

Ill back Steve on this also... You will be making two mistakes here..Getting rid of the Mamba and also converting from Wet to Dry. My wifes daily is Hydro and my Van I have been building for the last 6 years is Dry. With the short time I have driven my van I will be converting it to Hydro. Do yourself a favour and get behind the wheel of a Dry suspention. You will keep Hydro

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Stop Licking the Dog...I Don't Care Who Started It

Thanks for the advice, the only reason i was thinking along those lines was because being new to minis i am following advice of others and as you know everyone has a opinion, my hydro is shot in the front drivers side and the nearest person i can consult about fixing it is over an hour away. And my mini isn't registered yet, so i was thinking of getting the spanners out and buying a conversion kit, you can see where my thinking is going I'm sure. As to the mambas my wife has decided to hang on to them until the mini meet at sunshine coast later in the year and make a decision then

Dan

Oh the person i was talking to about fixing my hydro was the one who convinced me i should look at converting.

I fixed up my hydro in Oct last year (one bag had seized solid) and it is schweet! My mini has a more comfortable ride than my missus' Lancer. I'd say that the person you were talking to doesn't want the trouble of finding and dealing with 2nd hand bags etc.

If restoring a car from the ground up, I would choose hydro every time. I just wish someone would re manufacture hydrolastic bags! I only have 6 spares sitting in the garage to last me!

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"In two years time your car will be like a lady's clothes, out of date, my car will still be in fashion when I am dead" - Sir Alec speaking to Pininfarina

Hey Dan

If you are ok with the spanners you would be able to change the bag yourself. The problems you may encounter are locating a bag (although this shouldn't be as hard as I make it sound ) and getting it pumped up.
Presuming you find a bag and fit it then you just have the pump up to do. A car with "flat" hydro can be driven, albeit slowly which may not be suitable for a normal 1 hour trip. I see you having 2 options then, take the car to the pump up person on a trailer or bring the pump up person to the car.

Either way, I am 100% sure you would be happier with hydro than dry if you were to go to the trouble.

Cheers
Steve

PS. II'll see you on the Sunshine Coast and we can discuss the Mambas

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1964 998cc Cooper
1971 Mini K x 2
1972 Clubman GT

thanks everyone, Is it hard to make your own pump out of a grease gun, does anyone have instructions for doing that. I am already looking forward to sunny coast
Dan