Well said

I'm currently building a replica, when finished I'm sure I'll get everyone's opinion but who cares it's what I love and it's my car and money

The popularity of "Cooper" bonnet stripes is more a retro thing than anything else...many racing and street Minis had these stripes in the period....my mate had them on his 997 Cooper in 1966.

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Ah thats the guy to blame

Steve

Nope....he was just a slave to fashion like everyone else....I'd like to know who really was the first to come up with Cooper bonnet strips....I suppose it would be too simple to say John Cooper himself himself when first introducing racing variants

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The stripes were used by Cooper way before the Mini was first built. Our Jack had the Cooper stripes when he won his first two world championships.


It was probably Charlie Cooper (father of John) that came up with the stripes.

This takes balls and is far less common and has my respect fanfarkintastic



Steve

Or you could do something really unique and paint it red with a white roof and stick some stripes on the bonnet.

i reckon, originals should be kept original and replicas should be customised to the hearts content, and then some. that way you don't feel guilty cutting up a classic, casue it isn't really the real thing, it just looks like it i.e cool.

thats why i bought a mini which didn't know what part of here was original and what was whatever it was. so i could do what ver and not feel guilty.

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This reminds of that awesome 'twini' in QLD. It's great but according to THE it's a genuine MK1 Cooper S..to me cutting side vents in a cooper s is totally disrespectful but to my car (dodgy 850) would be fine! BTW at least my roof ain't white, and the bonnet striped do make the car look so much better, without them it looked boring body wise.

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1975 Leyland Mini S 1100S powered - Nice and reliable.
1977 Leyland Mini LS - Project LS-T

You is probably right....a natural progression....will be good to get some confirmation of that

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There would be more genuine and original Clubman S than Cooper S so who cares, the point is that you make it what you want.

I've got a Mk1&1/2 S that had the original block replaced by a Mk11 but still got the Mk1 head, does this make it a Mk1 replica or a Mk11 replica, can't be original Mk1 can it now?

Daniel

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This makes me think and laugh at all the ricer's of jap imports. They (they pay someone else to do it) paint crazy colours, put weight adding bodykits and huge rediculous wings on the back to be 'custom' but infact a stock 180sx or silvia is original and differnt a riced up jap machine is like red with white striped and roof (which looks awespme i must say!) just not new and the same as everyone else.

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1964 Morris 850, 1330 Supercharged - 81.8hp atws.
1975 Leyland Mini S 1100S powered - Nice and reliable.
1977 Leyland Mini LS - Project LS-T

"and a new manufactured compliance plate"

I guess this is the nub of the problem. There's nothing at all wrong with dressing your 850 up to look like a Cooper but once you start changing its identity you stray on the wrong side of the law. In NSW you are not allowed to change ID numbers. The fact that the system has no idea what the numbers should be makes it easier for the less than ethical. My own Traveller uses the FE number because RTA refuse to accept the real ID because the factory installed it on a "removable" plate.

Why on earh would you want fake Cooper numbers other than to fool someone that your car is something it isn't.

Replicas are good; fakes are not.

Cheers, Ian

[quote="Morris 1100] Or you could do something really unique and paint it red with a white roof and stick some stripes on the bonnet. [/quote]



Is this unique enough?

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Is this unique enough?

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