winabbey wrote:
Rereading your post I think you looked at the back parcel shelf for the ID plate holes. The two holes are in front of the passenger seat at the left hand end of the rolled front to the shelf, the one covered in black vinyl. The vinyl may have been replaced by a previous owner as the holes looked a bit grotty so feel behind the lip of the shelf for evidence of two holes about 2" apart. The brass ID plate was screwed here so the car ID number was visible when using the two way radio. For early Minis the ID number was the last digit of the year followed by the three numerics on the car's registration plate. So a 1967 Cooper S with registration plate EVJ602 would be car ID 7602.
Ah yes, you are correct. I do in fact have these two holes through the vinyl on the left side. Roughly two inch spacing, lower parcel shelf rail.
winabbey wrote:
NSW Police used different types of Wibroc external mirrors. The main one was as you see fitted to the wrecked S on the trailer. It slid over the leading edge of the drivers door and had two grub screws that may have left a mark along the seam where the outer door panel folds over the inner above the top hinge. They also used the Sportsmans mirror (Bullet shaped racing mirror). Your holes look like the latter has been fitted.
I'll post some photos later.
I don't have any holes for Wibroc mirrors. Here are photos of the holes in the doors, plus the mirrors that were on the car when I got it. There is obviously an extra hole. On the passenger side, that extra hole is from a "grub" screw, i.e. not drilled/stripped like on the driver's side. Am I correct that a "grub screw" is what we'd call a sheet metal screw--sharp point, coarse thread, used to just make a hole and grab metal at the same time, no nut for the back?
winabbey wrote:
The tacho was a Smiths Impulse RVI-1003/00 mounted in front of the driver on the standard Smiths flat bracket screwed under the rail that runs under the windscreen.
Mine is RVC1006-00F, dated 10/99; obviously not original. But the upper mounting holes are there.
winabbey wrote:
The handbrake warning light was activated by a fabricated switch mechanism utilising a standard Linread door switch (see photo below). There's usually an additional small hole down low at the front of the handbrake bracket where this is bolted. It uses one of the existing bolts as well. Check that area on yours. The wire (blue with purple trace) ran under the carpet and up to the light and provided earth switching. A plain green wire ran from the light to the voltage stabiliser providing power.
In exactly the location in your picture, there is either a small spot weld or the end of a sheared off screw. I'm betting on the latter. Will look underneath the car another day for the pointy part (quite pointy in parts!). I do not find the blue/purple wire nor the green one, but there are four green ones to the voltage regulator if that means anything.
winabbey wrote:
SPO16 Lowered Frame Seats - about 1 1/2" was removed from the seat frame tubing and the two cut ends welded together. You'll see the circular weld just below the seat back strengthening fillet in the following photo. Normal seats are continuous tubing.
Definitely have this cut/weld on both front seats on my car.
Thanks again Doug!
Ben
If you ask a local parts house for something for a mini, they say, "Is that 2005 or 2006?" Most people here don't even know the original mini even existed.
