1971 LEYLAND MINI 1000

998cc, manual. This Leyland Mini 1000 has been registered to the vendor since 1985, and is being sold as a restoration project. She is the 3rd owner from new, and in her tenure the car received a complete rebuild in 1997-99 before being taken off the road again in 2006 for more work to be carried out, but the project was never completed. The car has been kept under a cover ever since, and we're told that any parts removed are stored inside the car.

The vendor has given an honest appraisal of what is here, and advises that the body requires work in the usual Mini places: sills, rear valance, front scuttle, wings and front panel. A new rear valance and valance ends are inside the car, plus an offside-front wing. The seats and trim are from a later Mini Mayfair and should just need a good clean. The engine is the original 998cc unit and has been fitted with a duplex timing chain, a modified 850 head with hardened exhaust valve seats, and electronic ignition. The dynamo has been replaced with an alternator, and the gearbox is the original but the synchromesh is worn an the case may be cracked.

The paperwork file consists of a few parts receipts from its original rebuild, MoT certificates going back to the 1980s, an old photo of the car mid-restoration, V5C showing 2 former keepers, and a careful hand-written record of all work achieved on the car since 1997. It returned to the road after its previous rebuild at 68k miles, and today the odometer shows 83,212.

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