Hi, all just wondering if anyone knows the name of orig seat material in mk1,also where would i purchase this from? cheers!

Perhaps try the guys at www.minisport.com.au
they might be able to help.
Cheers
Peter.

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1969 Mini Cooper S MKII (1330)
1972 Honda 750/4 (his),1976 Honda 400/4 (hers)
1982 Honda CB1100RC (ours)

picture?


the mkii uk coopers had "brocade"

http://www.newtoncomm.co.uk/cars/mini/p ... 144&type=1

from newtoncomm.co.uk

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or you could mean the sort i have... but can't find...


(ooh back when i drank coke zero and used coolant.. )

the best chance is if someone finds a big NOS roll of the stuff and we all chip in...

other than that it's repro.... $$$ching ching$$$*



* i hope i didn't offend any asian-looking people with my reference to ching ching, as that term is commonly used in a derogatory manner against people of asian heritage. I used it in it's onomatopoeic sense, whereby it sounds like a cash register, insinutating that reproduced pattern cloth will cost a lot of money. Not that businesses charging for that product or service are in anyway trying to extort money from the purchaser.

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Newtons claim to have the exclusive rights to the "fleck" material - and they don't sell by the metre so you have to buy made up and at about $1000 a seat plus freight - well not this little black duck at the moment

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David L


My greatest fear in life is that when I die my wife will sell my Mini and tools for the price I told her I paid for them!

nah, normal aussie MK1 cooper s just had vinyl... same as a deluxe

like this:

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should of mentioned mine are black vinyl not sure if this was orig? cheers

i think they vinyl are orig mine are the same in mk1. thats the material im trying to find,some people say m g black but i think its a different grain!

how many blacks can there be in vinyl?

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MG black.

Easy to get, there's two kinds. Stiff and crap and soft fine and nice.

Soft fine and nice is what you are after. the whole car can use it really, not sure about the boot board material.

That's MG black in the photo above (I seem to recognise that car from somewhere....). All Mk2 Cooper S were black weren't they? I realise though that Deluxes and K's had many colour options though.

I think if you put it side by sidewith a bit of the original seat fabric, it does seem to be a little finer and softer than original, but it is pretty nice stuff to use, and 30 years may have led to it becoming stiff as well.

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All garage work involves equal measures of enthusiasm, ingenuity and a fair degree of irresponsibility.

Totally off topic - That missle in Mick's atvar ( Bloodhound if I remember right) has some interesting anacdotes. 1st - when they were fully deployed in England for the defence of the nation they were unarmed - to arm them a chap on a push bike had to cycle along the row of missiles and push the plug in on each one. Leaving the plug out was to stop accidental firing and the pushbike was used because it was thought that if a atomic bomb had gone off the electo-magnetic pulse may disable a motor vehicle. The 2nd story I have is a friend of mine as a young engineer was testing these at Woomera. First they used to just stand a couple of hundred meters away when firing them until one blew up so after that they thought they better have sandbagged trenches to stand in while firing. That was OK until in one firing the solid state fuel rockets (in the cluster around the outside) came adrift too soon and and cartwheeled themselves and the main rocket all over the place with the main rocket ending up in spitting distance of the trench - after that a concrete bunker was built for test firings

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David L


My greatest fear in life is that when I die my wife will sell my Mini and tools for the price I told her I paid for them!

Ha ha, I love that about defence, even up to this day all that awesome technology is somehow impeded by a little guy on a bicycle.

What's my favourite saying of the old dreadnought battleships?? Something along the lines of (not the specific quote); All the brutal power of twelve 14" guns able to a shoot a 1 ton projectile at range of 13 kilometers, guided by nothing more than the humble mk1 eyeball.

Sorry, back to topic...

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All garage work involves equal measures of enthusiasm, ingenuity and a fair degree of irresponsibility.