I know a lot of people won't get excited about a bog standard 2001 Mini but to me this is a holy grail car. The original Mini R50 production began in April 2001 and was officially launched in July 2001. This car was built in May 2001 and is chassis number 310 so it is a very early car. What's more is that it wasn't registered until August 2001 so that probably means it was the showroom display model at the time.
Finished in Indi blue with a white roof it's still in pretty good condition for age and still has some of the original subtle differences that early 2001 Minis have to the later R50 models such as the pedals...
Sadly the car has been re-registered and I was expecting it to have an original registration that was English however it seems that it is an NI registered car from new. Its original registration is ILZ something so I now have to try and get it reunited with that registration.
Plans are to just keep it totally standard and tidy up the bodywork here and there. I don't usually do a thread on my cars because I have had 25+ Minis in the past few years but this one will be a keeper.
Finished in Indi blue with a white roof it's still in pretty good condition for age and still has some of the original subtle differences that early 2001 Minis have to the later R50 models such as the pedals...
Sadly the car has been re-registered and I was expecting it to have an original registration that was English however it seems that it is an NI registered car from new. Its original registration is ILZ something so I now have to try and get it reunited with that registration.
Plans are to just keep it totally standard and tidy up the bodywork here and there. I don't usually do a thread on my cars because I have had 25+ Minis in the past few years but this one will be a keeper.