I'm with Miniron and Sports on this one, my own investigations have shown that initially 500 was the number, but the later a model was produced, the more 'error' (or correction!) crept in, I wouldn't be at all alarmed to find a difference of 507 if it was my car!

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Sir Alec! we are not worthy!

Are we talking just Mk11's and GT's?

My snowwhite & burgundy Mk 1 has the following #'s:

Car Number 3749
Body number (surround) 3283

According to my arithmetic (admittedly not that good ) that's a difference of 466.

Sorry if that's thrown the proverbial shifter into the works

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1967 Cooper S - new front bearings to do.
1965 Cooper S shell - Slow progress. No time or money!
1966 Deluxe- next rustoration!
Mk 2 & XJ6 Jags. Less said the better.

my MK2 is 510 apart....

there was a body shop, and an assembly line - a body is produced, put into a storage area, then taken from the storage area and put on the assembly line. What happens if the assembly line stops for some reason? well, the bodies collect in the storage area, do they get taken out of the storage area in order - not a chance....

sausages people, they were just sausages getting pumped out of a factory, not individually hand built Aston Martins who have the name of the builder on the records

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did I tell you that I won a trophy?

My grandfather was born on the first day of last century, 1st January 1901 (1/1/01) Some people would say he was a year late.
Some people must count to ten with eleven fingers. (0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10)

Oh good, people were making me nervous. Back to normal viewing

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SooperDooperMiniCooperExpertEngineering

All garage work involves equal measures of enthusiasm, ingenuity and a fair degree of irresponsibility.

Mine is exactly 500 numbers apart. It's a first year production (65) MK1.

I too agree with the comments about the numbers varying, especially as production continued.

how old were you on the day you were born? were you 0 years old? or did you only start living on the 366th day after you left your mothers womb? (assuming you weren't born on a leap year...)

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did I tell you that I won a trophy?

Of course you were .00274 years old. Duh!

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SooperDooperMiniCooperExpertEngineering

All garage work involves equal measures of enthusiasm, ingenuity and a fair degree of irresponsibility.

My Mk1 body number is 2800 and the car number is 3301. Exactly 501 difference.

Maybe the first day of the year is really Dec 31st, the day before the 1st.

My late 1967 Mk1 is 490 different .....

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1965 Morris 850
1966 Morris Mini Minor
1967 Morris Cooper 'S'
1977 Leyland LS

This sorta answers a question that came to me last night...

If they do get out of sequence - shouldn't there be those that fall below the 500 mark as well ? .... and in similar numbers to those over ??? (for each over should be a corresponding "under" ...)

Yep.

My GT has 504 on the compliance plate and 002 stamped on the body.

Been told it's the oldest surviving GT in Oz.

It'd be nice to see it back on the road one day........................but we have a mortgage, school fees and at least one other Mini to get on the road before the GT. One day, one day.......................it'll get there.

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Julie.............

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