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#1 Southy

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Posted 25 September 2010 - 08:04 AM

Hi everybody, just toying with the idea of selling the Mini to buy myself something modern and VAG wondering what you reckon would be a good price to put my car up for sale?

The car was originally an Austin 998, but has been changed over the last few years.
The spec of the rolling shell is:-
-fully polybushed all round
-front subframe to body solid rear mounts
-Mini Sport Adjust-a-rides
-Spax lowered adjustable shocks
-Subframes were fully stripped down 3 years ago and blasted and powdercoated
-Radius arms and front top arms rebushed
-1.5neg camber bottom arms
-Heavy Duty adjustable tie rods
-Mini Sport Mini Finn rear drums on refurbed back plates with 2 month old Mintex shoes on.
-Reconditioned 8.4" Callipers painted in EO with drilled and grooved dics's and Mintex M1144 Pads
-Safety Devices 6 Point Roll Cage with rear Diagonal painted up in EO
-F1/Bike Style carbon Fibre look mirrors
-7"x 13" Ultralite Spilt rim type wheels with Anthracite centre wrapped in Yokohama A539's
-Sportspack Replica Arches painted Black

Interior
-Cobra Clubman 2 Bucket seats trimmed in Black and Orange Vinyl
-Retrimmed rear seat to match front.
-Newton Commercial Carpets
-Newton Commercial Headliner
-Securon 4 Point Harnesses
-Black vinyl with Orange Stiched handbrake and gearlever gaitor's
-Custom Made Black and Orange Door Cards
-Custom Made 3 Piece Dash board trimmed in Black and Orange
-Digital all in one Speedo
-Sparco Alloy Gear knob and pedals

Engine
-1380cc Engine Double Offset bored (so can go to 74mm)
-AE 20659 Piston's
-Fully balanced rods fitted with ARP bolts.
-Mini Spares 1inch centre Mainstrap
-Wedged (lightened), tuftrided and balanced crank
-Block Skimmed to run 11.5:1 Compression Ratio
-Kent 286 Cam
-Kent Vernier
-Kent Cam Followers
-Turbo Oil Pump
-Mini Sport Stage 4 spec Port and Polished head
-Bronze Valve guides
-35mm Inlet and 31mm Exhaust Rimflow Valves
-Double high lift springs
-STD recondition Sintered Rockers with tuftrided rocker shaft
-Mini Sport SC gearbox
-STD drop gears
-Mini Spares Cross Pin Diff
-3.2 Final Drive
-Central Oil Pickup pipe
-MED Ultralight Flywheel and Backplate
-Orange Diaphragm
-AP racing Fast Road Clutch Plate
-Aldon Yellow Dizzy
-Aldon Flamethrower Coil
-Splitfire Leads
-DCOE Weber 45 with inlet Matched to the head
-Mini Spares 2 Core Rad with 11 blade fan and a Pacet electric fan plummed in to kick in when it gets warm in traffic
-13 Row oil cooler with Stainless Hoses
-Maniflow Large Bore LCB Manifold
-Play Mini Stainless exhaust single silencer Side exit

ICE
-Kenwood KDC-W7537U Headunit (I-pod connectivity)
-Vibe Slick 6x9's in rear MDF plated shelf
-Vibe Space 5 3D Component Speakers mounted in dash and door cards
-Vibe Blackbox 2 Amp
-Pioneer 12" Sub mounted in box in boot
-Sony Xplod XMD500X Amp
-1.0 Farad Power Cap
-306 Diesel Halfords Advanced Battery

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Can't think of much more at this moment in time but if there is anything you want to know feel free to ask and I shall provide to help sort a valuation out for it.

#2 minimalal

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Posted 25 September 2010 - 10:03 AM

wow, cant imagine how you could ever want to sell such a beautiful car :P
price would depend on finding the right buyer as its such a unique car, would see it definatly fetching at least £3500-£4000 and probably more
id keep an eye on how much this car goes for, as its fairly similar

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Posted 25 September 2010 - 10:26 AM

Sorry to be offtopic, but my friend went to a car show, and he took some pictures and uploaded them to facebook, and he tagged me in a photo of a mini he took, (because i have a mini lol) and it was your car haha.

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Posted 25 September 2010 - 10:43 AM

stunning car mate what colour is that?

#5 Southy

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Posted 25 September 2010 - 11:47 AM

wow, cant imagine how you could ever want to sell such a beautiful car :P
price would depend on finding the right buyer as its such a unique car, would see it definatly fetching at least £3500-£4000 and probably more
id keep an eye on how much this car goes for, as its fairly similar

I personally don;t want to sell it but I'm using my car a lot more and don't want to ruin it after all the hard work so it seems the right option to sell it and go over to a diesel car.
Will keep a look at at that ebay link, see how much that goes for will give me a rough idea of how much to sell it for as and when

Sorry to be offtopic, but my friend went to a car show, and he took some pictures and uploaded them to facebook, and he tagged me in a photo of a mini he took, (because i have a mini lol) and it was your car haha.

Not at all, which car show was it?Wasn't Trax down at silverstone by any chance was it?

stunning car mate what colour is that?

Thanks very much, its Ford Focus ST Electric Orange.

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Posted 25 September 2010 - 01:32 PM

Yeah it was silverstone, I dunno if it was a mini show or classic cars or whatever but he chose to tag me with your car lol :P

Heres the photo lol;

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#7 Southy

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Posted 25 September 2010 - 02:19 PM

It was Trax, its a modified car show it was on the start of this month.I'm just in the background in the grey jacket along with my mate and his missus.

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Posted 25 September 2010 - 02:36 PM

Ah right! anyway ill leave you to be valued haha, good luck :P

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Posted 25 September 2010 - 02:52 PM

i reccon about £4000+ stunning car mint mate

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Posted 25 September 2010 - 02:56 PM

sorry to go off topic but i have the minisport s/c drops and havnt fitted them yet, do you have any videos of the car on the move?

cheers

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Posted 25 September 2010 - 03:37 PM

sorry to go off topic but i have the minisport s/c drops and havnt fitted them yet, do you have any videos of the car on the move?

cheers


I'm running std drops but the Mini Sport S/C gearset so sorry I can't help out there im afraid.

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Posted 25 September 2010 - 03:59 PM

oops yeah sorry, didnt read the description right :P

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Posted 25 September 2010 - 04:27 PM

I seen your car at TRAX aswell lol I was stood there for quite a while admiring it :P really nice car

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Posted 25 September 2010 - 08:13 PM

Haha seems like it was spotted by a few people then lol Well you can't miss it really can you :mrcool:

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Posted 25 September 2010 - 08:22 PM

Nice looking car, looks tidy and well done, nice spec. I'd have advertised it at £3500 and taken about the £3.2-£3.4 mark for it.




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