Pea green Gold convertible in Cumbria

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Pea green Gold convertible in Cumbria

Postby ACourtney » Thu Oct 30, 2014 5:17 pm

This one is a bit of a project for somebody - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MINI-MIDAS-/201204944033?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item2ed8bfcca1

But it looks to be properly registered, so it should be a good starting point.
I think it is fair to say that only our Scottish owners wouldn't describe the location as being North.
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Re: Pea green Gold convertible in Cumbria

Postby Hans Efde » Thu Oct 30, 2014 5:22 pm

This car has a few strange mods, one of them is a big box behind the seats (at least it looks like this, there is no room behind the seats). I wonder how many surprises the new owner will find.
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Re: Pea green Gold convertible in Cumbria

Postby 8386nw » Thu Oct 30, 2014 9:20 pm

It's got the Rover 200 style dash which was an expensive extra cost option.
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Re: Pea green Gold convertible in Cumbria

Postby Rich » Thu Oct 30, 2014 10:39 pm

Not that far from where mine came from, I quite like it in that green.
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Re: Pea green Gold convertible in Cumbria

Postby Jin » Sat Nov 01, 2014 3:43 am

Looks interesting, nice colour
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Re: Pea green Gold convertible in Cumbria

Postby wolfie » Sat Nov 01, 2014 12:12 pm

At first I thought it may be worth a punt but scrutinising the pictures I think it would be a full stripdown and rebuild with some nasty discoveries to be made along the way. I notice there's no heater and it obviously needs a new interior. Call me paranoid but that rear bulkhead box makes me suspicious because the roll bar looks higher than the factory 1 so there could be some poor sleeving extending it upwards
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Re: Pea green Gold convertible in Cumbria

Postby DavidL » Sat Nov 01, 2014 12:41 pm

Jin wrote:Looks interesting, nice colour

I'd say "interesting" rather than "nice", myself!
I have a fondness for various shades of BRG, though, which it looks like was its original colour...
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Re: Pea green Gold convertible in Cumbria

Postby Jin » Sat Nov 01, 2014 8:05 pm

DavidL wrote:
Jin wrote:Looks interesting, nice colour

I'd say "interesting" rather than "nice", myself!
I have a fondness for various shades of BRG, though, which it looks like was its original colour...


Its a new shade, "British racing pea" :)
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Re: Pea green Gold convertible in Cumbria

Postby benofbrum » Sun Nov 02, 2014 12:52 am

Runs on Shell, does it?
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Re: Pea green Gold convertible in Cumbria

Postby mikeeskriett » Sun Nov 02, 2014 3:55 pm

That's a blast from the past, the weight of paint on that must be impressive Charlie had it painted when he had it. It also had a centre console fitted when I last drove it which had hidden a really nasty assembly mistake. The seat belt stalk captive nut plate had been pop riveted to the inside of the car so the only thing anchoring the seat belt were two pop rivets!!! I think it was a 4 point mounting subframe setup on the front.

The roll hoop is higher because it's an earlier car (Corby) the roll bars were different I think the design changed to allow clearance for the hard top, the earlier ones had a cross bar going across the middle.
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