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Just cleaned of the engine ID plate and the number starts 12CC! According to the Moss catalog that means a 1275cc right? Please say yes.
 
yes, made between 1966 and 1968
 
... because it has the least amount of emissions stuff attached to it, and it possibly has better internal parts too, since the bean-counters had not yet purged the parts bins of the high quality heads, cranks, pistons, rods, valves, springs etc that BMC Special Tuning had developed. In the early '70s after ST was gutted, they replaced them all with what we used to call "monkey metal".
 
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