The GB Mini Garage - Traditional Classic Mini Specialists
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1999 Rover Mini 1300cc MPI Manual Sportspack - The Ultimate Specification - 15,000 Miles - Two Elderly Keepers - £10k Restoration Last year
A beautiful example, super low mileage, two elderly keepers, the ultimate specification and possibly one of the best recent maintenance histories you will find. Owned, restored and driven daily by ourselves (Mini Specialists) for eighteen months. Details below.
(a) Super Low Miles
She has covered just 15,000 miles, making her one of the lowest mileage examples.
(b) Two Elderly Keepers + Ourselves (Classic Mini Specialist).
Having been owned by just two elderly couples who’m covered an average of 6 and 16 miles per week, its the sort of provenance what you want to see.
Ourselves, a classic Mini Specialist, purchased her 18 months ago (not a registered keeper) and we have used her as a daily driver.
(c) Exceptional Maintenance History
Throughout the last six-years, she has been maintained by a garage more akin to the restoration of classic super cars who’m charged eye-watering sums for general work, last year alone over £10,000 was spent on perfecting her. This Mini has been loved. She has a huge folder featuring various leading garages to include Cambridge Mini Works and Arun Jaguar (a leading classic Jaguar Specialist).
More recently, being a Mini Specialist ourselves, we have renewed most braking and suspension components, bushes and mountings, just this week fitted a brand new clutch and new tyres all round, new alloys, a new exhaust and new window seals complete with a new windscreen to remove the usual scratches. We’ve replaced chrome-work and electronics, upgraded her to Halogen classical styled lighting for better use-ability. I couldn’t give you a full list, we just went over and above.
She is supplied comprehensively serviced to include her engine and gearbox, cooling and brakes, we’ve even fitted a new Lambda sensor (a tricky maintenance job some garages charge unto £500 for, usually ignored). It’s had whatever it needed and more.
(d) The Ultimate Specification
One of the rarest colours (Platinum), one of the most sought after interiors (Beige Leather x Balmoral) and the ultimate factory mechanical and interior package specification (1996-2001). This includes:
(i) More Power
Driving 50% more horse-power than the 1000cc, 20% more horsepower than the standard 1275cc, these late Cooper engines with the MPI technology were the most powerful, which, when combined with minimal weight and that iconic, Monte Carlo rally winning classic Mini handling delivers a terrific and/or terrifying drive.
(ii) More Reliability
The Mini was brought into the modern era, most of the renowned troublesome components were upgraded and made reliable, the carburettor and the coil, the distributor, the power generation system, as was the cooling systems, break-downs became no longer frequent, but rare.
(iii) More Safe
Transcending their sardines in a tin-can reputation, the Mini was claimed to be the safest small car on the road at the time, you now had air-bags, door-crash-beams, modern seatbelts and SRS, you and your family could feel safe.
(iv) More Useable
Things had changed since the original Mini was launched, for a start the M1 was built, and this model aimed to make the Mini not just more reliable, but more useable, a daily driver, a commuter, fourth gear was re-designed for motorways, third gear allowed slip road acceleration, cockpit road-noise was claimed to have been reduced by 50%, Mpg was increased, an almost bulletproof immobiliser was fitted. Everything became a bit more luxurious, better materials, the seats have bolsters, actual comfort.
To fund all of these improvements the Mini’s purchase price rose by 63% (1995-1996), general prices today have a similar differential.
(e) Excellent Condition
Beautiful bodywork, much metalwork was recently replaced, lovely underneath, see the pictures. If I was being critical, her carpets could do with a good clean or replacement as theres some small marks (£40 standard, £250 moulded). Like just about any classic Mini, factor in for a small oil leak, we’ve just changed some seals and she doesn’t seem to be leaking, but she’s a Mini and she will develop a minor drip.
She is HPI clear and has no history of accidents, theft or mileage discrepancies.
History
Rolling out of McDonald’s, Glasgow’s main Rover dealership in June 1999, Britney Spears and S Club 7 would have been on the radio, Star Wars The Phantom Menace 1 and Austin Powers were in the cinemas, the new owners, Mr & Mrs Wotherspoon would be looking forward to the millennium.
At the time, from 1996 onwards, there was two Mini variants available, the Mini and the Mini Cooper. Both were mechanically identical, both fitted with the nineties Cooper engine and specification and both had an identical price. The branding has become a factory option only, mainly stripes and seats. Originally she was the Mini, opposed to the Mini Cooper, hence she has the best interior and the stripes have been added after the fact and could be removed (we have just renewed them, there is no damage underneath).
Mr Wotherspoon, her first owner, would drive her for eleven years until he sadly passed away in 2010. During those 11 years, he would average just 16 miles per week.
Mrs Wotherspoon, then faithfully kept her hidden away in storage but never drove her, right up until she also passed away in 2018.
Following Mrs Wotherspoon’s passing, a small fortune was spent recommissioning her at one of the leading Mini specialists (Cambridge MinI Works), then she went on to one of the leading Jaguar Specialists (Arun Jaguar), before another elderly couple purchased her from said Jaguar Specialist for £10,000. Throughout the last six years, that elderly couple have covered just 6 miles per week, whilst faithfully spending huge amounts of money with a high-end classic car specialist to ensure that she was cared for and perfected. Ultimately, they grew older and decided it best to purchase a classic SL500 from the same dealership.
We purchased her 18 months ago from said specialists and have driven her daily, covering 3000 miles. Being a garage, we did not need to register as a keeper, maintaining her two previous keepers (Mr Wotherspoon, Mrs Wotherspoon and Mrs Wilkinson).