Thinking of selling my 1380 as i'm just not using it (around 500 miles a year). What do you think its worth?
In 2017 received a fresh coat of Black paint with Old English White roof after some welding work, including: cross braces to properly support side mounted Sparco bucket seats; plating beneath the roll cage feet; welding up the screw holes which previously fixed wheel arch extensions, new wings to suit the 4.5x10 Minilites as the old ones had been cut to accommodate wider wheels. There was also an earlier light restoration approx. 15 years before when sills, front and rear valences, door skins etc etc were replaced. A very solid and rot free shell. Always garaged.
Engine is a Slark 1380, 296 cam, Weber DCOE45, straight cut box, 3.7fd, big valve head, ultralight flywheel, wedged crank and 1.5 high lift roller rockers. Lumpy at tickover and doesn’t get going until 3000rpm , but when it goes, it goes! Fully adjustable suspension, AVO dampers etc, 4 pot calipers, 7.5" discs, so cornering and stopping to match. Roll cage, harnesses therefore only 2 seats. Very quick, very noisy, not for the feint hearted but great fun.
MOT til October. Based in Dorset.
Full spec below the pics:
Bodyshell/ Interior
1991 Rover Mini Cooper
Black with old English white roof
Old English white door roundel decals (can be removed)
Fiberglass removable bonnet
Lightened boot door
Modified bulkhead with air box
6 point Safety devices bolt in roll cages with removable rear diagonal
Strengthening plates welded in.
Sparco Sprint side mounted bucket seats on welding in cross bars
Luke 3” drivers harness and 2” passenger harness
John Cooper leather steering wheel
John Cooper alloy gear knob
Drilled alloy door furniture
Engine
Build by Slark Race Engineering
1380cc Omega pistons
Kent MD296 camshaft
Slark large valve 11 stud head
1.5 roller rockers
Ultralight flywheel and backplate
Wedged and bladed crankshaft
Modified distributor, Aldon ignitor electronic ignition and sports coil
Maniflow LCB and 1 7/8 twin box side exit exhaust system
Weber DCOE45 carburettor on 5” Maniflow steel manifold, K&N air filter
Boot mounted facet fuel pump
Minispares 2 core radiator
Oil cooler
Transmission
Tran-x straight cut close ratio gear box and drop gears
3.7 final drive
Cross pin diff
Centre oil pick up
Rally spec pre-verto clutch
Suspension
Adjustable height suspension
Rose jointed adjustable bottom arms
Adjustable tie bars
AVO lowered height shock absorbers
Modified rear brackets
4.5x10 Minilite wheels
165/70/10 Yokohama A032s
Brakes
7.5” coopers grooved discs
Minispares gold 4 pot calipers
Cooper S master cylinder
No servo , single circuit system
ABC black stuff pads
Minifin style rear drums
