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New Olde Skool Mini owner

outoway

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Ok, I know I have been slack at posting lately!! I probally did the unthinkable by most people and sold my 1960 Austin Healey 3000 BT7-- But on a brighter note, I am purchasing a 1975 Mini 1000 with some of the $$$!! It will be my 1st mini, but definately not my first british car. I'm susposed to drive to South Carolina to pick it up on tuesday (12/16). It will be kinda like a B-day present to myself!!
 
Congrats and safe trip to you...definately need pics when you get a chance.
 
Since that car is 8 years newer than the last Issigonis Mini sold in the US, will there be a registration problem?

What country did it come from?

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Did you buy it from Turky's or Classic Core? I've been dreaming of a Mini for years and I know that they sell some down that way.
 
Super 7....Outoway will have no trouble registering his car. There's a 25-year exemption on DOT & EPA regulations, and cars up to model year 1978 may legally be imported and sold in the U.S.

His '75 Mini 1000 (if LHD) was probably originally a Canadian car. The last Minis sold in the U.S. were '68s, but Canada continued to import them for about another 10 years.
 
I got it from Classicore. He was working on a yellow panel when I got there. converting to disc's and 1300. Trip took 14hrs total. And the mini was the talk of I95 on the CB!!

When the weather clears up, I will get some pics of it!!

Stephen
 
Nice ride. Did you trailer it back or drive?
 
Rented a trailer and trailered it back with my Frontier. Nice quiet long drive from here in Virginia to Charleston SC. Too approx 7 hrs each way!! Fun none the less, with a lot of chatter on the CB on the way back about the mini!

Stephen
 
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