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Author:  lil-ute [ Sat Jun 30, 2007 6:38 pm ]
Post subject:  Special order minis
Is their such a thing,I was told about a mini today thats supposed to be a special order mini its supposed to have power steering and air con and it was for a well known public figure here in my city, its in a shed been there for years and its cheap have not seen it yet hoping to go there sunday,(pity its a clubbie) but got to buy it anyway
Author:  speedy [ Sat Jun 30, 2007 7:33 pm ]
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Yep, call brickworx and put in for a special order mini, a few months later *presto*, a mini with air-con shows up. :P
Author:  drmini in aust [ Sat Jun 30, 2007 7:57 pm ]
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Never seen power steering on a Mini here, but there is/was a crowd in Hong Kong years ago that did them. :wink:
Why?? No idea, unless you have a physical handicap I guess.
Author:  Bubbacluby [ Sat Jun 30, 2007 11:47 pm ]
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i heard that there was a GT mini panelvan that was produced?

I also saw a picture of a mini panelvan shell (in aus) once that was a high top van?

is this right/ original???


Brenton
Author:  slinkey inc [ Sun Jul 01, 2007 10:34 am ]
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There's a hightop van parked on the side of main north road. Or there was at least, and I saw another at Newport Motors a year or two ago.

High top vans did exists, I've seen a few in person, and a few in pictures. But who built them??

Also, something interesting.

Pg 37 in, "Spotlight on Mini Minor Downunder"

Quote:
Yet another super Mini, this time from Australia. Built in Sydney and based on a Cooper, it featured a fridege, filing cabinet, cocktail bar and phone. Power came from a Morris 1500 engine; an air-conditioning unit was also crammed under the bonnet. This one-off effort was named Mini - Garton after the owner, John Garton.


No power steering, but still, a very intereing mini. Has two pictures, a side on and an under bonnet pic.

And I just noticed something, I can only see one master cylinder. Which hints at the car also being an auto, but the bonnet is crammed packed, so not much can be seen, oh and it's got hydro. Very comfy mini indeed.
Author:  mr moke [ Sun Jul 01, 2007 11:08 am ]
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there is a high top mini van parked out the front of mini central here in perth contact AL at mini central if you want pic's 8)
Author:  rehab1964 [ Sun Jul 01, 2007 11:26 am ]
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slinkey inc wrote:
There's a hightop van parked on the side of main north road. Or there was at least, and I saw another at Newport Motors a year or two ago.

High top vans did exists, I've seen a few in person, and a few in pictures. But who built them??

Also, something interesting.

Pg 37 in, "Spotlight on Mini Minor Downunder"

Quote:
Yet another super Mini, this time from Australia. Built in Sydney and based on a Cooper, it featured a fridege, filing cabinet, cocktail bar and phone. Power came from a Morris 1500 engine; an air-conditioning unit was also crammed under the bonnet. This one-off effort was named Mini - Garton after the owner, John Garton.


No power steering, but still, a very intereing mini. Has two pictures, a side on and an under bonnet pic.

And I just noticed something, I can only see one master cylinder. Which hints at the car also being an auto, but the bonnet is crammed packed, so not much can be seen, oh and it's got hydro. Very comfy mini indeed.


can you scan the pics in Mr Slinkey??
Author:  cush [ Sun Jul 01, 2007 2:37 pm ]
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drmini in aust wrote:
Never seen power steering on a Mini here, but there is/was a crowd in Hong Kong years ago that did them. :wink:
Why?? No idea, unless you have a physical handicap I guess.


power steering... it's called a bigger steering wheel.. :)
Author:  slinkey inc [ Sun Jul 01, 2007 5:27 pm ]
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Image

<edit> Right side of the page
Author:  Morris 1100 [ Sun Jul 01, 2007 6:19 pm ]
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Just a couple of things about the Mini - Garton...
1) The Morris 1500 motor only came with a manual gearbox.
2) The Morris 1500 was an OHC engine and looked nothing like the one in the photo! 8)

The High Roof vans were built by BMC in Sydney.
Author:  slinkey inc [ Sun Jul 01, 2007 7:34 pm ]
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Ohhhhh...hehe. Dodgy. John Garton, he's probably still alive, look him up in the phone book, :lol:

The book has all it's info from Modern Motor magazine. So blame them for the dodgy info! (if it's not a 1500, even though it says it is. :roll: Then I think it's a Morris 1300 A series motor, doesn't look big enough to be a sideways B series or anything else.)

The book is just all the mini related articles and photos crammed into one book.
Author:  64cooper [ Sun Jul 01, 2007 7:53 pm ]
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Qld. Health used to own a few high top vans and used them as utility vehicles for carting laundry items around some of the hospitals in Brisbane.
Author:  1071 [ Sun Jul 01, 2007 8:51 pm ]
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"Never seen power steering on a Mini here, but there is/was a crowd in Hong Kong years ago that did them.
Why?? No idea, unless you have a physical handicap I guess."

Should have asked Doc. I could have shown you pictures of a power steered auto cross car in Chicago - big tyres, lots of caster, quick changes of direction.

Remind me next time.

Cheers, Ian
Author:  brickworx [ Sun Jul 01, 2007 8:57 pm ]
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I have got a power steering rack and column used to put into a mini...
if anyone wants to try a conversion...
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