Mk1 project in Southport

[ACourtney]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mini-Midas-K ... Swu4hapXgn

Complete car in need of total rebuild.

[ACourtney]

I see that this car OVC 86W was recorded in the club records as having a 1380 engine (other details are there such as the owner in 1999). One photo shows a number stamped on the cylinder head: MSR 148 005 - I was racking my brain to work out who MSR are/were? MiniSport, or Minispeed perhaps?

[benofbrum]

In the 1994 TGT supplement, it was also listed as 1380 and the owner lived in London

[Geoff Butcher]

Last tax due 1996, so the present owner has never had it on the road...

[ACourtney]

Sold for £1242.22!

What would it have fetched a year ago?

[Stuart]

Slowly going in the right direction, unfortunately I think they may also be getting seen as cheap donors for Mini parts too.

[benofbrum]

That is what is happening with Quantums based on the Fiesta XR2

[ACourtney]

Slowly going in the right direction, unfortunately I think they may also be getting seen as cheap donors for Mini parts too.

That may have been true a couple of years back when Mk1/Mk2 'project' cases were selling for £500-600, but at £1200 there are plenty of Mini donors around.

The fact that the engine could be a 1380 (I would be investigating the MSR number if I was buying it) did not seem to have been picked up by the seller (must still say 1275 on the V5C), so he evidently did not visit the forum!

[Stuart]

I have an engine with just MRT on it, 1275 A-series, mine's nothing special though. I wonder if they're from the same company. That one might have an S or 1300 GT engine though given the 11 stud head.

[ACourtney]

The good engine builders (Longman, MED, Avonbar, etc) will keep a record for each engine they build and would be able to give you the build spec for the number that they stamped on it. This one had the number MSR 148 005 stamped on the head, so the engine was clearly given a build number by whoever MSR were.