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68AUTO
PostPosted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 7:12 pm 
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Im sure that the original colour of the engine should be that metallic green BUT the paint on my engine looks to be that gold colour.

It is the original engine so.... (numbers match).

I just want to confirm what it should be. It's an Aussie 68 Mini.Matic.

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My car is a 1970 and the 998 `matic engine had the same light green metallic paint as a Mk2S did. (not the gold that Mini K got).
But, it had a darker green underneath (all the `matics engines/boxes were imported assembled from UK)

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My understanding is that the 68 mini.matic took after the mini deluxe. The mk2 took after the mini k.

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Your thoughts?

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hey JT

my 68 Mini Matic is a metallic type gold colour too - hard to tell from this pic maybe, but the engine number matches with the compliance plate etc - the head tho is an aqua blue

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Sorry I don't have any pics- the mighty `matic is now in a blue `76 Clubby somewhere, complete with hydro suspension and Cooper 998 discs with servo.. :shock:

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Is that number 99h? I thought that is a later leyland mini 998cc manual number??

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Bubbacluby wrote:
Is that number 99h? I thought that is a later leyland mini 998cc manual number??

99H is a UK 998 number.
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buggered if I know

but the number and compliance plate all match and she's deffo got no clutch pedal :)
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It is the right number.
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Morris 1100 wrote:
Bubbacluby wrote:
Is that number 99h? I thought that is a later leyland mini 998cc manual number??

99H is a UK 998 number.


Ahh ok,thanks Morris, i learnt something today. That means the later leyland mini engines came from the uk as well?

Sorry im sidetracking the engine colour.

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Bubbacluby wrote:
Morris 1100 wrote:
Bubbacluby wrote:
Is that number 99h? I thought that is a later leyland mini 998cc manual number??

99H is a UK 998 number.

Ahh ok, that means the later leyland mini engines came from the uk as well?

Yep. They stopped producing motors in Australia at the end of 74 and stopped fitting them in mid 75. All power units came from the UK after mid 75.
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From my reading on some models the UK engines were repainted to an aussie specific colour so... I cant remember the specifica.. Hence this post

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The engine color for the 1275 auto is 222 Light Bronze Green , the engine colors used on the 998 and 1100 autos,s was 223 Middle Bronze Green and 224 Deep Bronze Green , all three colors were listed in the BMC British Standard color chart , having said that if in the workshop they had made a batch of 1275 auto,s and they also had 998 and 1100 auto,s there to be painted I,m sure they might have used 222 Light Bronze Green on all of them rather than switch to a different paint

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74snail wrote:
The engine color for the 1275 auto is 222 Light Bronze Green , the engine colors used on the 998 and 1100 autos,s was 223 Middle Bronze Green and 224 Deep Bronze Green , all three colors were listed in the BMC British Standard color chart , having said that if in the workshop they had made a batch of 1275 auto,s and they also had 998 and 1100 auto,s there to be painted I,m sure they might have used 222 Light Bronze Green on all of them rather than switch to a different paint.

And what did they do in Australia?
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The last of the 1275 autos were still BLMC and painted with the BMC paint , Leyland Australia never built auto engines but they would have serviced / rebuilt and probably resprayed auto,s in Leyland Australia colors post 1971

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