Sold £4200
Then:-
https://www.i-bidder...ef-a97d00d168f2
Sold £9350
Now:-
https://www.barons-a...stin-seven-mini
"This delightful Mk1 Mini was rescued from a dry barn last year, where it had languished for many years. It still wore the original factory Speedwell Blue paint and was almost completely original throughout. Over the last 4 months it has been sympathetically restored, keeping as much original as possible. It did need a bare metal repaint due to deterioration of the 58 year old paint, but needed no new panels apart from some patching to the inner sills, new outer sills, and a boot floor repair. It even retains the factory front panel with body number and full skirt. All FE numbers are still present, and the chassis and engine number tags are the originals. Where possible the original paint has been left, so the engine bay and most of the floors are as they left the factory.
The engine and gearbox is the original unit, and simply required new filter and fluids, and runs very sweetly. Same story with the radiator. The brakes have been renewed, saving the original master cylinder, but fitting new flexihoses, cylinders, and pads. The rear subframe is in excellent condition, and looks like it was renewed before being laid up. The interior is in very good condition given its age. Apart from a matching replacement panel in one of the seat bases everything is retained. The door cards and headlining are in excellent order, the seats also, but the carpet is a bit threadbare. The bumpers and grille moustache were too far gone so have been replaced with new. Likewise the old crossply tyres weren't much use so it sits on a new set of radials.
It does have a few period modifications, including a combined oil pressure and temp guage (working, and showing correct oil pressure and running temp), Lucas glass bottle electric screen washer, electric fuel pump in the engine bay, and an odd instrument pod above the steering column, which doesn't seem to do anything. The V5 shows just one owner and no former keepers. However the original R.F. 60 is with the mini, and shows another keeper, who registered the car in 1961 in Reading. The next stamp in the RF60 is from Somerset County Council, which is where the current registered owner lived and where the car was found. It therefore seems likely that it has only had two owners in nearly 60 years. It retains the original registration number, and even the original number plates."
