The GB Mini Garage - Traditional Classic Mini Specialists 
 
We can deliver your Mini to anywhere in the UK at just £1.85 per mile, less on long journeys :). All we require is the delivery payment up-front with the balance upon delivery.
 
1983 Austin Mini 1275cc 
 
A beautiful tax and mot exempt example with a newly fitted high power 1275cc engine which we bought as a rebuilt unit and excellent gearbox. More than the advertised price has been spent recently on renovations. I’ve detailed these below, before discussing small improvements you may or may not want to make. 
 
(a) The Engine
 
We fitted a fully rebuilt 1275cc engine which cost £1500, this is the high power unit, it’s now done around 70 miles. I think this is the late Metro engine with the 70+ bhp. The engine was set-up by a well known engine tuner this week, it’s beautiful to drive. The gear-box reportedly isn’t rebuilt, but is tort with none of the usual synchro weaknesses and a recently new clutch.
 
(b) The Renovations
 
The previous owners spent £3-4,000 renovating her interior, the pictures speak for themselves. Another £1000 was spent on new 13” deep dish alloy wheels, wrapped around new tyres  and surrounded by Sportspack arches. She has suspension and HI Lo upgrades, a sports exhaust and servo braking. 
 
(c) Behind the Wheel 
 
Accelerating rapidly, one of the best Mini’s I have driven, it’s terrifying behind the wheel, combining 600kg of weight with the iconic Monte Carlo rally-winning classic Mini handling. 
 
Possible Small Improvements
 
Arriving with ourselves just before Christmas, we would usually make all of the below small improvements and retail her for around £10k. Our team are booked up now into the coming year and it would be good to find her a new home. She is 43 years old. The following improvements are not strictly necessary, they probably represent improvements you could make to most Mini’s, but ideally she would go to someone who would like to improve her over the winter.
 
Beautiful from every angle, a solid shell and floors, solid subframes, but a few paint chips etc around the edge of the scuttle, a small bubble at the bottom of the rear quarters where it meets the arch, these don’t really detract, see the photographs.
 
The previous owners paid £200 for a triple instrument cluster (from a later classic Mini), they the rev gauge appears not to be connected. 
 
The standard classic Mini oil leak, I think from the gear-shaft, you do get a puddle on the floor. She won’t run out of oil, but fix this if you have a nice driveway. 
 
I would MOT her despite the exemption and not needing one. I don’t know what if anything would be necessary, everything looks good. The previous keeper chose not to MOT her (mot exempt) and instead she would take her Mini to her classic car specialist and she would learn to work on it alongside them.
 
When I first started her after a period of hibernation there was a puff of blue smoke. This went away during the tuning session, but sometimes occurs on hard acceleration. This would imply dry or worn piston seals. Under normal circumstances I would drive her and see if this goes away, some car dealers would use a product like Stop Smoke to revitalise the seals, I would rather be honest and leave this up to the new owner. 
 
A HPI check confirms no previous accidents, thefts or finance, it does highlight milage which changes frequently. Her engine has done around 70 miles. We don’t know how many miles she has done. On Mini’s, this is usually due to replacement speedometers as they fail often, the most recent being fitted in 2022.
 
What we do know is that her previous engine (why we bought a new one) failed at 66,666.5 miles, don’t buy her if you are superstitious :).