Just some scanned Mini Ute Pics

to be honest i know nothing about van to ute conversions but how cool is this.. and that sticker is awesome......

Proper ones look the goods.
Conversion ones look funny.

Hmm please explain!

As far as I would expect the conversion should look the same. What areas do you pick the conversion at.

For a start real utes had no grille, the front panel was perforated instead. Like the real one in Marvin's pics.
Real ones are rocking horse manure here in Oz. If I was real serious about getting one I'd check out NZ, at least some got officially sold there.
Shouldn't be real hard to get one put on the road here?

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

Yeah the inserts for the "no grill" are available at Northern. I'm really looking for suggestions on where the chop job cuts corners (pun intended) to make it look like a converted panelvan as opposed to a ute.

The most obvious one is the sloped rear panel (on a chopped).
The ridgey didge ute had a flat back panel.

The roof area is also a tell tale. I'm not too sure of what is original, but every ute chop i've seen have had different designs to the next one.

I reckon one day it would be sweet to get a sedan and cut the back off completely, and make a tray for it - no rear panels at all, not like some you see where they have cut them at the waistline and just stuck a tray on top of the rear guards - must do a photoshop job on that one day

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did I tell you that I won a trophy?

You could buy this one for parts as it's borderline restorable in my opinion, and there was a Clubman ute (i.e. a ute with a Clubman front) on Trade Me last week which was in tidy condition but didn't sell (from memory).

that is cool an i think you guys are down 20 cents in the dollar against the aussie dollar ?:)

makka

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Anonymous moderation means the agro that is built up towards the mods isn't aimed at an individual (fewer "Makk" attacks). Less stress for mods means less moderator "retirements".

Nope it used to be, now it's just 8 or 9c less.
A$1 = NZ$1.08 or so.

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

My uncle had something very similar when I was a kid. The sedan's rear window was cut and slid forward to just behind the front seats. What was formally a back seat and boot area had a tray put in it. The petrol tank was moved foward to beneath the new location for the rear window. Even the original boot was modified to still work.

I thought they would have junked it years ago, but I saw it just before Xmas, sitting at a 45degree angle under a tree!

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72 Clubman and a 75 Van.

There was a one tonner style conversion running around Sydney years ago. Mini Sedan chopped in half with a fabricated chassis at the back holding the rear subframe and a little aluminium tray on top. Looked cool.

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Brett Nicholson
Greendale (near Ballan) VIC.
1971 Morris Mini Moke
1966 Austin Mini
1965 Morris Mini Traveller
1973 LR Series 3 88
2007 LR Freelander 2