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[mk1leg]

There is not a rarest mini as I think mine is that as its a one off built to the way I like it.....................but if I had to choose then Earnest Marple's hatch back

[A362 TTU]

1983 Mini Sprite?

Nice try but there is atleast 50 in existence!.

[thebullet]

Close to rare then?

[Jake Didsbury]

Twin engine Cooper S prototype?

There could be some small metal particles still left in the side of the road where mr cooper became an aerobatics pilot for a few moments

[MaxAndPaddy]

What about the BAC M-30?

Bernie Ecclestone sold one a few years ago...went for about 30k I think?

£2.50 ticket price ......amazing car


Win this ultra-rare Mini





10 December 2009
How would you like to win a super-rare Mini previously owned by F1’s head honcho Bernie Ecclestone?


Well check out this BAC M-30 Mini Thirty Special Edition – which could be yours for just £2.50 via a charity raffle.
Built to celebrate Mini’s 30th anniversary in 1989, this model is production number two.

[surfblue63]

I entered that raffle a couple of years ago. Didn't win it.

http://rogavi.com/raffle/A%20rare%20collectors%20Mini%20the%20BAC%20M-30!/

[STRIPEY]

Wood & Picket ! do any of those still exist. ?

http://www.google.co...=1t:429,r:3,s:0

[mickeyd515]

Wood & Picket ! do any of those still exist. ?

http://www.google.co...=1t:429,r:3,s:0

there must be some out there i dont think any mini model is extinked yet

[surfblue63]

Wood & Picket ! do any of those still exist. ?

http://www.google.co...=1t:429,r:3,s:0

there must be some out there i dont think any mini model is extinked yet

Saw this one at Mini Cooer Day at Beauleiu last year



and this one at Mini United in 2009



Check out this web site for lots of Wood and Pickett info

http://www.eurods.eu/wp/index.html

[Steely]

one with no rust

had cross my mind as well

a reliable rust free one! now thats a rare one!

Sounds abit like mine then :)

[surfblue63]

Footage of Ralph Broad at Oulton Park in 1966 putting a Broadspeed GT through its paces.

http://www.macearchi...ntry/30648.html

[matty...]

You can't call a mini 'rare' because it is the first or last etc, because the only uniq thing about them is there production number, which is uniq to any mini/car?

I'd say on a ratio of cars that were made of a particular model to the amount still in existance has to be the super!

The beach cars are rare but were never a production model so they don't really count.

[STRIPEY]

The Mark I was produced between 1959 and 1967........How many members here have one of these from 1959 ?????. Are there any still around .

 

I still have a 1976 Mini `special

 

http://www.theminifo.../page__st__1635 

 

I know of only two others ! . That makes 3 from a production of over 3,000

[pdaykin]

I bet there are fewer supers than there are coopers that were made from them.

The ERA has to be the my favourite of the rare production models - isn't it something like only 99 UK vehicles made. Can't think of any models sold through Rover/official dealers where they made fewer than that

[spraybeater]

As there seems to be a thread revivable on this! wonder how mine fairs on rare minis

I am just about to start restoring it after having owned for over a year.

Coachbuilt by Oyler in Halifax West Yorkshire  as far as I can find out they apparently

converted 7 don't know how many if any are left,

 

 

will be starting a thread on its restoration soon