Hey - there is a guy on Gumtree selling a Mini K, reporting it is 1 of 500 built. That seems low to me.

Does anyone know how many Mini Ks were built? Or perhaps whether there was a special edition produced that could explain this?

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Almost 13000 built from 69 to 71. Sounds like an old car salesman trick trying to add something special to it. That car is YG2S1 1752 so its a mid 1969 car.


1969 Morris Mini Car Barn Find 1 x 500 made in Australia,
https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/colyton ... pp_android

Thanks - hmm it's a 1969 so I'm not sure.
I messaged him and he suggested I ring him. His sig links to a mini specialist.
Thanks again GTO.

EDIT: Yep that's the one - just saw the bottom part of your post with the link to the ad

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Sounds like a used car saleman that doesn't know much about minis.

PRICE DROP
WAS $5,700 & NOW $4,998
Price Excluding Engine - $4,998
Price Including 1100cc Engine - $5,598
1969 Morris Mini K Rare Barn find of this Classic and rare car (1 of 500 Mini cars build with round nose in Australia before Clubman production by Leyland Australia)... which is the nearest car to Original Classic Morris Mini Cooper S Mk2 (production of 3,642 cars)...
Body is perfectly straight all around, comes with original 90 miles centre gauge in place with other 2 gauges..
front 7” factory discs brakes included..
complete car excluding the engine... (Optional)
I also have 1100cc engine (running) ...
... which is currently inside another Mini car.
Happy to sell it with this Mini K for an optional price. This is an Awesome project for people who already understand the value of these Classic Mini cars. Inspection available only via an appointment.

If it was a lift-up door handle K it would be another story!

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Its on Ebay as well if you missed it. http://vi.raptor.ebaydesc.com/ws/eBayIS ... spheader=1

I spoke to the seller by phone. He acknowledged that there were thousands of Mini Ks produced "but there was only 500 built with the round K badges on them. If you try to buy these badges they are almost impossible to get and I saw a badge for sale for over $400 and if I took this on a trailer to a a car show I'd get........"...etc etc etc

So...yeah I don't know anything about that but according to the seller it's tres special. I'll look around a bit.

Edit: also he dropped some names in the Mini world which would be familiar to you all

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Pfft! Alarm bells ringing here...be careful...negotiate him back down to earth...price is OK but bulldust accompanying it is OTT.

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I'm looking for a mate and given the link was posted I'm remaining diplomatic about my views about the seller. We're looking elsewhere, but I agree the project and price itself actually look okay.

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The flappy door handle thing will be where he's got the idea.

Everyone knows that there weren't many Mk2 Cooper S built with flappy door handles ("less than 170" is a commonly quoted figure). Somehow, by extension, it became commonly repeated that flappy door handle Mini K's were also rare (you hear "less than 170" up to "less than 500"). This was said so often that it achieved 'fact' status. My guess is that the seller has further extended the urban legend to encompass all Mini Ks.

500 would only be about one months production. 1968-71 would have been a few lean years if the factory only turned out 500 Mini Ks, considering they were the bread-and-butter model in that period.

Tim

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1955 BSA C11G
1961 Morris Mini Traveller
1969 Triumph TR6R
1977 Leyland Moke Californian

So are the “bread-and-butter” ones even more rare ?

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No, Mini ks were built from, March 69 to December '70 with the early style of door handles, but only from December 70 to June 71 wth flappy handles. So the early style should out number the late ones by about three to one.

Tim

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1951 Morris Commercial J Type Van
1955 BSA C11G
1961 Morris Mini Traveller
1969 Triumph TR6R
1977 Leyland Moke Californian