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[Dr.Wylde]

Hi TMF people!

 

Ive not long bought a '71 mini 1000 here in NZ . This is the earliest mini I've owned. All my previous cars were rod shift cars

however this '71 car has the round tunnel floor but a rod shift is fitted, poorly mind you.

 

question is, although that the early Mk3s were round tunnel pans. would that rod shifter be a factory fitment?

 

I ask this as some of the Aussie assembled minis rollled off the line like this. even though I'm in NZ kiwi minis are Identical to the UK counterparts. (unlike them Blardy Aussies Mayte! )

 

cheers for your time!

 

here is a photo of what I'm dealing with

 

 

[MiniLuke]

They'd have been remote not rod gear linkages I think.

[nicklouse]

looks like an later make fit job.

[Dr.Wylde]

I thought as much.  

Just wondered as some Aussie minis were done like this

[nicklouse]

if they were it would not so crap.

[Dr.Wylde]

if they were it would not so crap.

 

Um.. Excuse me bro. I dont get what your saying.

[Spider]

It looks a bit of a bodge what you have there.

 

The Aust made Minis basically retained a MKI floor from 1963 through to end of production in 1978. The Rod Shift of course was fitted from 73 on and apart from a slight relocation of the hole in the floor and it's shape, the tunnel etc was the same.

 

When I get on another PC, I'll post up photos of the shifter from the later Mini.

[Spider]

Now I look again, I think you're originally had a Magic Wand!

 

Australian Rod Shifter Bracket

 

 

 

These had the shorter exhaust type cotton reel mounts to the tunnel and floor on the ears of the bracket.

[Dr.Wylde]

alot of early mk3 Kiwi Minis had holes both for the wand and remote/rod 

 

I had another mini 10 years ago that had a mk4 floorpan but had a mgic wand shifter in it!

[The Matt]

I'm not sure about the differences with an Antipodean spec '71, but a UK spec '71 would have had the magic wand hole (with blanking plate as yours has) and would have been fitted with the remote gear lever setup.

 

I'd suggest that someone's done what I did to mine when I first had it and just fitted a later rod change setup due to them being much easier to find second hand.

[Spider]

Dr Wylde can we get a better / cleaner pic of the floor?

 

A very very small number of our local cars also had the Magic Wand hole in the floor with a screw on plate too.

[Dr.Wylde]

I dont have one at the moment but ill get a clearer picture tommorrow (also ive cleaned the decades of rat and bird poo out of it now too)

[Spider]

I dont have one at the moment but ill get a clearer picture tommorrow (also ive cleaned the decades of rat and bird poo out of it now too)

 

But what about the bottle tops?

Don't throw them away - I collect them    

[Dr.Wylde]

 

I dont have one at the moment but ill get a clearer picture tommorrow (also ive cleaned the decades of rat and bird poo out of it now too)

 

But what about the bottle tops?

Don't throw them away - I collect them  

 

just a rusty speights cap no different from todays ones