How much should one be expected to pay for a Mini?

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A proper mini I mean.

Really want to get a second car, purely as a track fun car. A guy on the Zed forums used to do the racing and is getting back into it so can mechanically guide me all the way. But I just need to find the car first :p


So, a proper mini, providing its mechanically sound I don't care about the condition of the bodywork.

How much should one pay?

Many Thanks,
Jake
 
peterattheboro said:
I take it you prefer to be on the track rather than behind the barrier taking photos? :)
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:p I like both! But I'm going to do as much track time as possible this year, and I'd rather not knacker a car I care about in the process!

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Got quite a good shot when I went the other day though...

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And that was shooting at 40mm and then severely cropped \o/
 
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mini prices have rocketed, a decent doer-uper £1k a decent cooper £4k.

expect to £5k for a ERA turbo or a twin engined 800bhp per tonne hyabusa.
 
Saytan said:
saxo VTS? early ones around the 1k-1500 mark now and that's dealers. even less privately i'd imagine
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There were a couple of stripped out Saxo's going round and one of them was absolutely flying :D - Would like to know the spec of that!
 
I have a 92 cooper I paid a little over the odds for back in..july? Paid £1700 then. Just had £500 or so work done to make the entire "shell" solid and free of rust. Unforutnatly 2 small holes in the bodywork have appeared while the welding was occuring, but they are a easily resolvable issue. Need a new coil now but otherwise she's good to go, when I manage to pass a driving test :(

I'd say you could easily get a good early 90s cooper for £2k, and a pretty mint early 90s cooper for £3k.

You may not care about bodywork but if the bodywork is bad it's likely the underside and other points are bad, which can easily cause an MOT failure.
 
Hxc said:
You may not care about bodywork but if the bodywork is bad it's likely the underside and other points are bad, which can easily cause an MOT failure.
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Its a track car....it's not even going to be road legal. It needs to be MOT standard just not have one :p

Plus I've got a workshop with all the tools so I can maintain it myself.
 
Saytan said:
my delivery maybe glib, but my point about mk3 supras is solid.

i believe lopez had one that went pop
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Well the zed doesn't get the HGF. I don't know anything about Supras though so I'll take your word for it :p
 
Prices have dropped a bit since I last looked as well. On TMF a guy is selling a John Cooper Works 1997 MPI for £2150, with a brand new MOT and just some exterior work needed! Admittedly it's probably the hardest pieces of bodywork there is to repair, but you know...

Sorta wish I had waited now, but what the hell :p
 
Hehe, I'm not looking to spend that much really. Just a few hundred for something track worthy and fun I can run into the ground - I thought a Mini would have come under that category....unfortunately not :(

Ah well, Japanese and RWD it is then :D
 
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