A collection of 1959 Minis which are on the register.
This Austin Seven Mini is owned Mr Koji Sugiyama of Owl Garage , Fukuroi, Japan. 4 Photos Steve Gregory in Christchurch NZ found an early Mini in a barn that had been laid up for 30 years. It had turned up on the back of a borrowed trailer in 1980 and with nowhere to keep it the guy asked the owner of the trailer if it could be looked after until he got some storage sorted out. 8 Photos Ray Holmes - November Old English White Morris 11 Photos Built on 15th May 1959 and dispatched to Car Mart in Colchester 31st July.
Only two earlier Austin’s are so far known to exist, HUE 627 and KEG 77 are both in Japan so 108 could be the earliest Austin in Europe. 10 Photos UHR 850 an August built 1959 Austin the most famous of the Downton tuned cars, competed at Spa and set the scene for the giant-killing works Coopers of the early to mid-sixties. It now resides in the British Motor Heritage Centre in Gaydon.
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10 Photos Massimiliano Terragni from Milano, Italy - Clipper Blue Morris. A marvelous example with much attention to detail. 27 Photos William Fairney - Cherry Red Morris 9 Photos Dave Sparks - Clipper Blue November built Morris 2 Photos Tero from Finland - Tartan Red Austin. 9 Photos John Simister - Cherry Red 29th September built Morris. 7 Photos BMW owned - Cherry Red Morris. 9 Photos Peter Kronsell from Sweden - Speedwell Blue Austin. 3 Photos Kate Perrins - Clipper Blue 10th December built Morris. 9 Photos James Parker - Cherry Red 1st December built Morris. 6 Photos Stuart Keeping - Tartan Red 3rd September built Austin. 3 Photos Craig & Ian Matthews from Ireland - Tartan Red Austin. 8 Photos David Savage - Speedwell Blue Austin. 2 Photos Michael Elsberg from Denmark - Clipper Blue June built Morris. 5 Photos Andrew Mc Shane - Cherry Red Morris. 12 Photos
For some time it was thought to be a March 1960 vehicle. However to the owners surprise it turns out to be a genuine July 1959 Farina Grey basic number 602.
To it's credit too it has a tremendous amount of historical paperwork with it too.
That was the last he saw of the Mini owner.
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Previous to the current owners, this historic example of an Austin Farina Grey De-Luxe, has had two owners from new and been in the second ownership since 1986.
Off the road since 1985 it is in very original unmolested condition but requires a full restoration.
It came with the original registration number and a host of paperwork including the heritage certificate, what a find!
108 is now (2011) in the ownership of a consortium of people headed up by Richard Bremmer.
We will be very interested to see this historic Minis restoration.
Hopefully showiing the restoration progress here, please come back from time to timefor a look!
The restoration and the car being used for a wedding car, brilliant.
Kate bought this car just in time for the 50th year celebrations.
She has attended many of shows this year (2009), and driven the car to and from them.
James recently purchased this car (September 2009) and is making the most of it by attending shows.
At present restoration in progress, shown here at the IMM/Mini 50 2009.
A show stopper at the IMM/Mini50 celerbrations.
