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[mini mad lad]

hi everyone just bought my car as a shell and when i checked for history it came back as a 1990 car that wasnt registered till 1994 and then its coming up as a rover cooper s when i was told it was just a cooper shell. probably me just being a bit of a noob but any advice would be welcomed thanks guys .ps how do you get them sigs with the bodyshopped minis the cartoony looking ones?

 

[Bungle]

got any pics ?

 

a 1990 cooper would have a carbed engine where as a 94 injection

 

Rover only made coopers the S bit was just a dealer add on kit so won't really make any difference to a shell

[mini mad lad]

yh but the car is a shell i have pics in the projects build thread under black country mini

[mini mad lad]

my bad you stated it was a shell lol early morning still and i was told by a friend it might have a carb engine and might have just sat on a forecourt for 4 years

[CityEPete]

It might have been imported from Jersey or Guernsey etc, my bini Cooper came from northern Ireland at the start of this year, the paper work is now a right mess and has a special note in the comments box on the front page even though northern Ireland is part of the UK! What registration letter does it have?

[Dan]

No such thing as a Rover Cooper S. Before the systems were standardised and computerised cars got registered as all sorts of things because the paperwork was filled in by hand by people who didn't really know the subject or care, and then transcribed by several people onto the computers.

[mini mad lad]

its on a H reg which is why i cant understand why it says date of registration 1994. 1990 is the year of manafacture on the log book and it comes up with no export or import markers. i guessed it was just a cooper its the year of manafacture and registraton that has me baffled

[mini mad lad]

just noticed on the tax reminder for last year it is down as a austin mini what the hell is going on lol

p.s it has got advisory notices that have welsh and english on if that makes any difference

Edited by mini mad lad, 19 May 2014 - 08:03 AM.

[Dan]

As I said, it's not unusual for the car to be misdescribed. There were no Austin Minis in 1990 either. If the person filling in the tax disc thinks of Minis as Austin Minis like many people do then that's what they will write.

There are a couple of different circumstances under which a car will be registered with an age related number if it's not new when registered. Does it say 'Declared new at first registration'?

[mini mad lad]

no it doesnt say declared new im just trying to find my logbook out now then i will know for definite

[mini mad lad]

should i just take a pic of the new keeper details or is that dodgy lol

[mini mad lad]

ok so just found a old post on here through google that states that my car was declared new in 1990 but overseas i believe and then it wasnt registered in uk till 1994 so thank you chief doc for pointing me in the right direction. but my logbook still says austin mini cooper ????? im thinking its a rover but the logbook disagrees grrrrrr

[CityEPete]

There you go, my bini hasn't got a marker but I'm declared the first owner of a 58 reg I bought this year! My 87 mini city is registered as an Austin, I'm not sure when the last official Austin was but by then it would have been Austin rover at least.

[mini mad lad]

had none of this trouble with my 79 clubman it was british leyland through and through lol

[cal844]

hi everyone just bought my car as a shell and when i checked for history it came back as a 1990 car that wasnt registered till 1994 and then its coming up as a rover cooper s when i was told it was just a cooper shell. probably me just being a bit of a noob but any advice would be welcomed thanks guys .ps how do you get them sigs with the bodyshopped minis the cartoony looking ones?

Personally id check both the engine numbers ad cvhassis number all match the logbook

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