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Author:  Dave68Mini [ Wed Mar 11, 2009 9:14 am ]
Post subject:  History of my car - 68 mini Deluxe Vic Reg KAM 306
Hi,

I'd like to find out some history on my mini.

I obviously know the previous owner who I purchased it from but was hoping i could find out some more.

She's a white with red interior 68 Deluxe with Vic Rego KAM 306.

It has a Brown Murphy Decal in the back window.

Thanks
Dave
Author:  simon k [ Wed Mar 11, 2009 9:38 am ]
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sorry, don't know anything about your car, but I have some trivia related to it.

When I initially saw the number plate, I thought "that's a bit too late to be original", but looking at the Vicroads website, the list shows the first plate issued in 1969 as KEB 500, KAM isn't long before then, so you'd assume the car is late '68 - which I'm sure you know already

Vicroads issue their plates in batches to the local offices, each office gets a whole heap of plates, and it can take the small offices a long time to use up their current stock before getting a new batch. I'd reckon in 1968 it could have easily been 6 months for a small office to use up their stocks of J**, before getting the K** series. So I think it would be safe to say that your car would have been registered at a Vicroads office that had a high turnover of plates, so would most likely have been sold by a big dealer in Melbourne

:D

here's the Vicroads link -> http://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/Home/Reg ... berPlates/

also, keep that detail in the back of your mind for when some 'expert' says the number plate is too late for the car to be the original rego.

It's gotta be the original rego, so please keep the plates on the car, don't get a personalised plate, and keep the actual plates, because the re-issued ones we get these days don't look right. If the plates are ratty, just repaint them yourself
Author:  moustache [ Wed Mar 11, 2009 10:21 am ]
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i was told when i had mine registered in january that i wasn't allowed to keep the original plates and had no choice but to be issued new ones.
was not happy!
Author:  simon k [ Wed Mar 11, 2009 12:52 pm ]
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moustache wrote:
i was told when i had mine registered in january that i wasn't allowed to keep the original plates and had no choice but to be issued new ones.
was not happy!


grrrr... sometimes it's a good idea to lose the original plates before you take it to vicroads
Author:  rehab1964 [ Wed Mar 11, 2009 1:48 pm ]
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we had "new" plates in black and white with the appropriate sequences for our cars issues (by chance our intitials are coughly contempory with the build years of the cars) and reckon that the black and white plates (in Vic) look so much better on classic cars.

Sure the current characters are a little small but overall it takes a "nerd" to pick that :wink:
Author:  Wombat [ Wed Mar 11, 2009 2:33 pm ]
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Interesting link that - My first Mini was a '64 model and I got it secondhand in March 1966 and it was JKK --- so it must have been reregistered by the dealer ( The number is available for reissue - just waiting for $300 odd spare to buy them and hang them on the wall :roll: )
Author:  rehab1964 [ Wed Mar 11, 2009 2:53 pm ]
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Wombat wrote:
Interesting link that - My first Mini was a '64 model and I got it secondhand in March 1966 and it was JKK --- so it must have been reregistered by the dealer ( The number is available for reissue - just waiting for $300 odd spare to buy them and hang them on the wall :roll: )


why don't you just get one of the display plate places to make you a set up? If you're only planning to put them on the wall they don't need to be real/legal
Author:  simon k [ Wed Mar 11, 2009 3:11 pm ]
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Wombat wrote:
Interesting link that - My first Mini was a '64 model and I got it secondhand in March 1966 and it was JKK --- so it must have been reregistered by the dealer

in Vic?

Wombat wrote:
( The number is available for reissue - just waiting for $300 odd spare to buy them and hang them on the wall :roll: )


more like $500 now
Author:  Wombat [ Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:03 pm ]
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simon k wrote:
Wombat wrote:
Interesting link that - My first Mini was a '64 model and I got it secondhand in March 1966 and it was JKK --- so it must have been reregistered by the dealer

in Vic? Melbourne born and bred. Only moved to Qld 16 years ago so I'm still considered a Mexican
Author:  Flute [ Thu Mar 12, 2009 8:37 am ]
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I wrote to Vicroads (Manger Archive Section, Kew) and had an archive serach done to find out my original plate number giving them the engine and body number. It cost about $30- and they sent me back a copy of the original rego papers from the Northcote Police Station in 1969. The only info they blacked out was the orginal owners name and address. I then asked them if the plates were in use and they weren't so I got them back as an historic re issue (this cost about $300- two years ago) and the car now has its original plates on it. The rego papers even show the model as Cooper S which adds to all the info on my car to help confirm it is genuine. They also included a letter showing the other four different number plates the car had over the past 40 years.
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