hi i'm just wondering if these seats are original or not they are in a 71 mini k transitition model

thanks nathan

dunno about the saets but the door trim isint stock! hard to keep clean?

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I thought they had low back seats????
Not 100%????

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They look like later clubby seats, originally brown painted black? Original K seats were fixed back (meaning the backrest didn't hinge the whole seat pivoted on the front mounts) and had slightly larger head rests (although I don't think they all had head rests). Same frame as early clubby seats, but different trim pattern (your rear seat is early Clubby pattern I think)

looks like it needs a shave

nath all the mini k's ive seen have low backs and are not like that.
thats a much later kinda seat

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That seat is used in the first Oz Clubbies, they may have been put in the very last K's, I'm not sure.
My mate has a real late S though, with the 2 speed wipers and Clubby doors, and it doesn't have them.

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Head rests were put into mini in 72 to coincide with the ADRs, 71 clubmans had lowback seats only, have a look at the pics from MDU of the 71 GT it has lowbacks
Jon

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I have a set of really early Clubman seats in my car, same pattern as that back seat, they have head rests but are fixed back seats (meaning the headrest hits the roof when you tilt the seat!). Interestingly they are the same pattern as 71 clubby low back seats (because I had some low back ones with the same pattern trim), so I wonder if they ever fitted head rests to cars prior to the ADRs coming into effect? I have seen a few Ks with seats like mine with head rests, but a different trim pattern, but who knows if they were original? I know a guy with a late K with Clubby doors I'll have to see what seats its got!

Simple answer is Leyland never did anything unless they had to, I have had a 70 Cooper S and a 71 Cooper S with lift up door handles and neither had headrests, Howards 71 clubman GT which he has owned from new does not have headrestsmy brothers 71 Gt did not but my 72 does have fixed back with headrests.

It was quite normal to fit clubbie seats to round nose minis as the old seats wore out and clubbie seats were cheap as chips

Jon

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i have the same seats in my K, lift up handles etc. but i dont think they wher there from factory. never know though...my k came with boot board mounting's and diagnol front brace from factory

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There was quite an inductry in the 70's of places like the minkingdom and the min factory and quite a few others buying a lot of Cooper S and removing the mechanicals and replacing with 1100 and 998s as insurance on 1275 Cooper S was dearer than the price of the car. It is a shame but a lot of cars ended this way and its not untill someone says hey my car has the boot board mountings and the diagional bar that it just might be a real S body that had this done to it, sad but true.

Jon

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all you can do feral sprint is shrug your shoulders... why would people buy a cooper then get rid of all the good stuff. why not just buy a deluxe etc.?

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well back then you could probably buy an S for $200, turn it into a deluxe and sell it for $1000.....

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those seats arent out of a 71 or a 72. seats like that first appeared in 1973 and ran
until about 1975. they are def not out of one of the first clubbies and as such i would
be my life that they are not transitional seats.

Early clubby seeats started in 71 with low backs and different pattern (fixed)
72 lowbacks with headrest fixed
73 lowbacks with headreast (like yours) with diff pattern and more padding moveable
75/76 highbacks moveable
78 highbacks with tilt and slide