Anyone help me identify the mini I just bought? Here are the numbers!

Type YMA2S1
Car No. 9/54780/1276
Engine No. 8AM/U/H/116312
Colour. 1/INCA YELLOW/3

Actual Engine No. 9ya/Ta/H29680
Morris Mini 850 on the back.
Anyone tell me what all these numbers mean?

Thanks, steve.

The engine is a 998 out of a Morris Mini Deluxe.

The body is an 850 (so the badges are right) and the orig engine is consistant with that.

8AM/U/H - 848cc
YMA2Sl - Morris Mini Saloon (Australia)

Thanks hotbricks! http://www.hotbricks.org.au/files/engine.txt

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what a MONSTER!!

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with the body number and If it has the sliding windows in the door, it is definitely an 850. It should also have floor mounted starter, single speed wipers, and flecked upholstery on the seats.

but body numbers aside, does it have a narrow (6 digit) number plate holder on the boot, or is it the wide (UK) sort. does it have the two piece snap in headlining, or the one piece glued in one. does it have flecked upholstery on the doors and sides or is it a plain colour?

We have found a couple of 850s recently (like mine ), late 1964 cars that were late in the production run of the ones assembled from UK kits, but prior to complete local production. These cars have some of the local content like the narrow number plate boot, glued in headlining and plain upholstery on the doors and sides, but retained the rest of the gear from the imported kits.

where are you located/ would love to have a look and help identify!

michael

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Mine (well.. it is, soon will be was) is a `64, has the wide bootlid, but the later glued in headlining. And it has the full front panel, no cutouts- so must have been mid `64 I reckon.

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cool

was talking with the pirate on the weekend, and he tried to tell me that there was a definite "changeover" from the assembled kit cars to the full local production cars, and the bits could not have ended up mixed up. What a crock. facts are that any continuous manufacturing process will have gradual changeover unless the stock management, and the project management of the installation of new process is perfectly timed. Still happens today.

the real shame is the diappearance of all the manufacturing records from Enfield and Zetland, so you just don't know what it is you have got

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mooman10_0 told me in a PM that it has roof gutter slots instead of the Aussie holes. Is that consistant with one of those english kit ones?

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yeah slots is more UK than holes.

Mine has holes

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Only cars I've seen with slots have been UK made. Even my 1st `61 850 had holes..

OTOH our late `78 Clubbie didn't have either, at the front. Some bastard forgot to put them in! So, I drilled them..

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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.

is this the glued on headlining?


flecked uphostery?


wide plate holder


so when would mine be?

car num 46891... what's that compared to your doc?

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Car # 57857.

Bit hard to see your roof liner in that shot- if 1 piece it's stuck in.
Early ones were moulded in 2 pieces, and slid in on top of the cant rail. Bloody easier to get out than later ones..

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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.

how long do you reckon it would take them to make 11000 mini's (including smoke breaks.. )

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i can see the rail above the rear windows - looks like a two piece snap in headlining.

i can see the flecked upholstery thru the torn seat cover and on the door.

yep its the wide plate holder. Yours looks like a fully imported or local assembled from kit depending on the year.

but you have a remote change gearbox in it. lift the carpet up so you can see just below the high beam switch on the floor. i'm willing to bet there is a butchered attempt to cover the original gearbox hole there. And you will probably find that there is a butchered hole around the gear lever now.

michael

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i thought about mentioning the engine change but couldn't be bothered... so yes... it did have a pudding stirrer... and it's actuall quite neat

the plate says bmc australia so does that mean it's a pommy kit 850?

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not necessearary BMC Australia was the importer, which then turned to manufacture. this was because of the huge tarrif incentive on assembling a kit locally compared to importing whole cars. Nearly every manufacturer was doing it at some time or another - Chrysler, Ford, VW, Renault are some.

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