Does anyone know where I can get a pair of decal body stripes as used on the British Vita limited edition rover cooper sports pack cars as shown on the website below:

http://www.coopersports.co.uk/page3.htm

Any help would be great.

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Lindsay Palmer
06 Mazda SP23
80 Alfa GTV (weekend toy)
86 626 Turbo (daily drive, now stolen)
71 cooper s replica
69 cooper replica
76 clubman
62 english 850
68 Mini Auto

Have a look here:

http://www.minisport.com.au/category50_2.htm

Alternatively, http://www.minispares.com in the UK often has limited-edition stuff which you can't always get here.

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Simon

The adventures of an owner builder in the Tallarook Ranges

Looks kind of difficult to find, if there were only ever 100 made, the market for replacement/replica stripes wouldn't be strong.

Saying that, might be worth giving Minispares in the UK a call - they don't have those stripes on the website but they did buy a heck of a lot of stuff from Rover after the mini went out of production, they will have odd bits & peices that aren't worth putting on the website cos they only have 5 or 10 of them. They just hold onto them and sell them when people enquire or have them in the showroom just sitting there (I picked up a couple of body-colour wing mirrors for 10 pounds (usually 40-odd pounds for just plain white) as they just had a pile of random colours left when i was there last year)

The other option is speaking with people who make vinyl signage and getting them custom done. Find some nice big pictures and take them along. Maybe find a UK forum where someone owns one and (after asking them if they know any sources) maybe ask them to take some nice pictures for you.

Thanks all help with this project is great, I am finally getting back to my own project after it stalled 3ish years ago.

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Lindsay Palmer
06 Mazda SP23
80 Alfa GTV (weekend toy)
86 626 Turbo (daily drive, now stolen)
71 cooper s replica
69 cooper replica
76 clubman
62 english 850
68 Mini Auto

Finally doing the cooper????

How you going with theses dash?

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it's the blue car in the shed, you may not have seen it in the metal. it was in the readers cars in the 1st issue of the mini experience. colour, dashboard, front grill, some of the mechanicals, and front grill will be the only things not changed. The aim is a 998 austin cooper replica with a fast road 1100. Will keep you posted on progress as you may find the engine specs of interest. I am still going to make some dashboards I'll keep you posted on them as well as I need 2 in the next 6 months for myself and a customer I am building a car from scratch for. Do you know when the mini experience big day out is this year? I hope to have one of my projects finished for it and a customers car there as well.

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Lindsay Palmer
06 Mazda SP23
80 Alfa GTV (weekend toy)
86 626 Turbo (daily drive, now stolen)
71 cooper s replica
69 cooper replica
76 clubman
62 english 850
68 Mini Auto

Havent seen the car in the shed , glad to hear you are getting stuck in a project of your own!!!

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it may have been covered up when you last saw it. how is your car going? little bird told me you were looking at a head swap for more power.

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Lindsay Palmer
06 Mazda SP23
80 Alfa GTV (weekend toy)
86 626 Turbo (daily drive, now stolen)
71 cooper s replica
69 cooper replica
76 clubman
62 english 850
68 Mini Auto

Yep got myself a 295, still planning how to acheive it

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I'll have a look at my library when I get home to check cc in combustion chamber but should be a fairly easy unbolt, bolt on job. you'll get a lot more out of your car with extractors, bigger su neddle to suit, and a better exhaust, cheaper and easier than a head swap as well. I can put you in touch with a good engineer for the head as well.

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Lindsay Palmer
06 Mazda SP23
80 Alfa GTV (weekend toy)
86 626 Turbo (daily drive, now stolen)
71 cooper s replica
69 cooper replica
76 clubman
62 english 850
68 Mini Auto

Thanks, will be in touch soon, i got the head so beter using it.

As for tour stripe, get in touch with Andrew at mini sport, my mini rock here, he will be able to help you.

Will be at the swap meet tomorow morning, might see you there.

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I may go for a quick look, I will proberbly spend the day finishing off a tx3 project so I can sell it and clear some space, i wil also dig the mini project out and finish stripping the body.

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Lindsay Palmer
06 Mazda SP23
80 Alfa GTV (weekend toy)
86 626 Turbo (daily drive, now stolen)
71 cooper s replica
69 cooper replica
76 clubman
62 english 850
68 Mini Auto

You could always try a sign writer, That's how I got my Britax racing stripes

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Respect mine and I'll respect yours.

Any sticker or vehicle wrap business' can get them made up for you, all they need is a plotter and vinyl, and are only 1 colour so should not cost that much...

But looks like it would be easy to grab the 4" cooper logo decal from inisport them use some pinstriping from an auto centre to do the body line that looks like it just loops around the logo with both ends finishing at the front....