thanks for your input cush

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i'm on your side here... not that there are any, anyway

the discussion will be going around in circles as long as you both have those differing opinions....

using this logic that's floating around, i may not have either a Morris or a Mini...

I would have a BMC 850

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And i would have a 1997 BMW mini

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what a shame i can't shake the stigma of my Honda Cr-v

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i went to have a look at a mates mini and his 10/71 and his only says its a mini

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Thanks Kev, i was at the end of my 2nd bottle of wine at that time, my reading & comprehension skills were lacking

Doogie

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Hay, it's not about the car, it's not about the venue, it's about the people that come here. Peter Dwyer, Mayor of Hay NSW.

We had a similar debate about this on another forum.

One knob was insisting Clubmans after 1973 were "Leyland Mini" and therefore the term "Clubman" should not be used to refer to them.

He shut up pretty quick when someone pointed out that a Mark 1 Cooper S does not have "MINI" on it anywhere, so using that logic, a Morris Cooper S is not a Mini.

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Brett Nicholson
Greendale (near Ballan) VIC.
1971 Morris Mini Moke
1966 Austin Mini
1965 Morris Mini Traveller
1973 LR Series 3 88
2007 LR Freelander 2

My clubman is a 7/71, body number 841 (171 cars after yours) and it says "MINI YG2S7", So maybe they did have a couple of hundred Morris id tags left to get rid of..

Andrew

The guy who sited and recorded my engine number at the transport department, mistook 4 as a 1, and 7 as a 0. So it's all a bit dodgy and could rear it's ugly head in the future, but I didn't realise until I got home and read through all the stuff.

I wonder if this was delierate as maybe someone rebirthed the Cooper S it came from using the original engine number (without original motor, d'oh I own it!) and registered it before me. (The S was burnt in a fire, but motor was being rebuilt at the time, Probably a rebodied faker going around......)

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1964 Morris 850, 1330 Supercharged - 81.8hp atws.
1975 Leyland Mini S 1100S powered - Nice and reliable.
1977 Leyland Mini LS - Project LS-T

Funny thing is the knob was right! The Clubman name was only used for two years in Australia.

Would you refer to a Mini K as a Deluxe?
Would you refer to a Deluxe as an 850?
Why refer to a Leyland Mini as a Clubman?

The Clubman has the right gearbox, the right suspension and the right engine unlike the inferior Leyland Mini with the oil leaking gearbox, the rough suspension and the 998 motor. (do not take this too seriously!)

Yes, agreed, but CLUBMAN has become a generic term for the square fronted cars, and that's what they were called in the UK too. So I reckon it's acceptable to call a "Leyland Mini" a "Clubman".

Cheers,

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Brett Nicholson
Greendale (near Ballan) VIC.
1971 Morris Mini Moke
1966 Austin Mini
1965 Morris Mini Traveller
1973 LR Series 3 88
2007 LR Freelander 2

Agreed.

What gets me is the way that every pommie mini built after 1970 is now a Rover.

One of the Rover Mini owners on here got abused in the street one day for sticking Rover badges on his Mini!! He couldn't believe it, but the average Fred out there knows nothing about Mini lineage after 1978.

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Try the USA where every Mini is a Cooper (even if it has an 850 engine).

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Brett Nicholson
Greendale (near Ballan) VIC.
1971 Morris Mini Moke
1966 Austin Mini
1965 Morris Mini Traveller
1973 LR Series 3 88
2007 LR Freelander 2