hey.. first in, best dressed

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1975 Leyland Mini: 1060cc - resto/ ex-hsc project.

But it's an auction isn't it

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fine i guess the moke will do

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1975 Leyland Mini: 1060cc - resto/ ex-hsc project.

I bought a 1967 deluxe in 1976 for $200 ,one owner, drove it till it died, actualey I think I killed it It took nearly a year to do it. I was seventeen at the time. I traded it in on a V8 Torana that cost me $5000.I eventualy killed that too.

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Thank GOD the arse has falled out of the scrap metal game. These farmers were sending all their minis to the scrap, but now I find them and rescue them.
Once I have all my sheds sorted out then I am going to pick up the cars I have bought. as long as they are still there
My idea is to rescue as many as I can and then pass them onto caring ,loving mini people. All I want to do is cover my costs.[except for the S]
I am amazed just who many poor minis are laying around the country areas of SA. neglected. There are quite a few that are beyond help, but they are always good for bits. Most of these farmers have no idea what they are worth and the least they know the better.
My wife is going to divorce me but, as I told her"tell some one who gives a sh*t"

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Research is the difference between speculation and investment. Anyone who copys some one else will always be second
www.minisprintgt.com

I gotta head west to find me some bargains

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1975 Leyland Mini: 1060cc - resto/ ex-hsc project.

Thats right"head west young man" That's how I found the S. The farmers kids had used it as a padock basher until the hydro collapsed. They pushed into a lean-to with a tractor and left it to rot.
That one was about 250km's past Ceduna
I have found two that were buried under a pile of old wool bales and fertilizer bags. The rats have eaten all the up-holstery and left a pile of sh*t

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Research is the difference between speculation and investment. Anyone who copys some one else will always be second
www.minisprintgt.com

Sorry not a mini - but I bought a matching numbers 1968 Holden HK GTS 327 Monaro in 1983 for $3,900 (and still have 26 years later)!

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Dave K.
1979 Moke Californian + 1981 'Coke' Moke

brand new red Mini Cooper S, $2,469.85, in 1969, Dents in Mount Alexander Road, Essendon, that was more than a years pay for a poor little apprentice Fitter and Turner working at Massey Ferguson in Sunshine.

Farkkk I was happy.....

what does an apprentice fitter and turner make these days? $30k?

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did I tell you that I won a trophy?

Sold my 850/1275 Castrol Green `Pretend S' for $600 and bought a new Fiat 124AC Sports coupe in January 1969 for $3,648. I was only making $65/week as a fitter machinist with NSWGR.
That seemed dear, but an Alfa 105 GTV was $4,995 back then. Loved 'em but couldn't afford one.

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

When I started my apprenticeship in 1968 my weekly wage was the princely sum of $11-50. for a 40 hr week I use to earn more money working in a service station filling cars on the weekend
but then a pack of smokes was 20 cents and a gallon of petrol about the same.

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Research is the difference between speculation and investment. Anyone who copys some one else will always be second
www.minisprintgt.com

if an apprentice fitter today makes $30K, you would have been making around $41K - your Fiat would have been like a $45k car - that's a new Golf GTI, Audi A3... nice cars

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did I tell you that I won a trophy?

Ist year wage at Massey Ferguson in 1968 was $19.60
Bottle of beer 26cents
Used to walk 5 miles to work and back every day,
Packet of smokes 29cents

and a full tank of petrol for a mini, $1.26 and she was overflowing.

Who owns that one?????

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