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PostPosted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 5:16 am 
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Hi
Anyone know about this car on carsales under morris
I am on My IPhone so cannot cut and past a link ( yes I know it's possible but I have yet to learn)
It's a paddy hopkirk special
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 5:55 am 
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Makes that 50 grand Cooper S a real bargin!

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I'd want it to be in a bit better knick for 65g's.
And its a 74 UK model


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Looks good, but for $65,000 I don't think so.
http://www.carsales.com.au/all-cars/pri ... &silo=1011
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I'd have said he'd hit '0' too many times, but then it'd be too cheap...


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It's a bit of a ????????

It's advertised as a 64 model cooper S but appears to be a UK MK III then John Cooper got his grubby hands on it in 74.....

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GT mowog wrote:
It's a bit of a ????????

It's advertised as a 64 model cooper S but appears to be a UK MK III then John Cooper got his grubby hands on it in 74.....


If you read the add it says it's a 74 but Carsales wouldn't let him choose a 74 Cooper so he used 64.

It's a John Cooper conversion, so it's interesting, but nowhere near worth $65,000 IMHO.

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bnicho wrote:

If you read the add it says it's a 74 but Carsales wouldn't let him choose a 74 Cooper so he used 64.

It's a John Cooper conversion, so it's interesting, but nowhere near worth $65,000 IMHO.


Thanks for that, but didn't they stop making Cooper S's in 71?

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GT mowog wrote:
bnicho wrote:

If you read the add it says it's a 74 but Carsales wouldn't let him choose a 74 Cooper so he used 64.

It's a John Cooper conversion, so it's interesting, but nowhere near worth $65,000 IMHO.


Thanks for that, but didn't they stop making Cooper S's in 71?


Of course they did. That's why he couldn't list it as a 74 Cooper.

The car is a humble Mini 1000 Mk3 that happened to visit John Cooper Garages. It didn't leave the Leyland factory as a Cooper. Although JC might have sold it new as a Cooper and log-booked it as one.

I had to laugh at the Miniworld (or was it Mini Magazine?) article on "the World's only Cooper S Traveller". The car was built as a normal Traveller, then the 850 was removed and a Cooper S engine and various other S bits were fitted. It was then registered as a Cooper S Traveller by BMC. But it didn't start life as a Cooper S really, did it? The chassis number says it all. :)

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