Hi all.
I’m hoping someone can help with this.
It’s probably an easy question and I may have answered it myself already, however.........
In a lot of odds and sods salvaged from a now demolished garage where my Deluxe was living for most of its life I have found a threaded rod and round dished cover/plate.
It looks like a securing 'pin' for the spare wheel and seems to fit the threaded 'support' in the boot floor, even though the support thread is full of old wax type anti-corrosion stuff (the boot area has a complete rubbed rubber mat going from the seat back to the top of the boot lid so I never see the spare or battery box).
It’s no longer painted (rusty) so hard to tell if it was ever part of the car and what I think it is. (If not mini, it might have belonged to the 65 Wolseley that also shared the garage).
Were early Deluxe fitted with a securing pin/plate for the spare tyre?
