Wanted - 1969 Mini Pick-Up

[cheftay]

Please find me one!

 

[xjwmx]

British? 1969? If you want a little rusty truck, get a Chevy LUV.

 

[cheftay]

well it doesn't have to be a 1969, that's just what the one in the picture is.

i do not know very much about them, what do you mean by british?

 

[xjwmx]

I thought its name was "Mini" like the Morris Mini car, that the current Minicooper is roughly based on. That was British. And it has that look.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini



Old little (tiny) British cars got popular in the U.S. around '80. I had a '69 MGB around '80, myself. All those cars were rust buckets! They would just plain rot, like the bottom of a bucket. Something about the British metal just didn't cut it. And hoo boy the Lucas electronics in them. Spoked wheels held on by a big nut in the center that you used a hammer on. I think they all used SAE tools at least, not Whitworth. That was the first car I ever worked on. Anyway, the truck looks British and you called it a "mini".

 

[cheftay]

Oh i gotcha and yessir it is a mini cooper pick up, I just forgot to put in the "cooper" I would love to find a body in perfect condition and put a new motor in it and restore everything else, but they are hard to come by in kansas i believe

 

[xjwmx]

Here are two for sale. Lots turn up if you google "mini cooper truck" in quotes. Some of the people could turn you on to a restorable one.


http://www.oldcar.com/Vehicles/Details.cfm?VID=142210&Year=1964&Make=MINI&Model=COOPER

http://www.minicooperwholesaler.com/cars/07/1980-austin-mini-copper-95-pickup-truck-for-sale.htm


The trucks I love though are mid-50s Fords. They look just a bit tiny to modern eyes somehow which is so cool.

 

[cheftay]

Yeah tiny is very cool. A buddy of mine just finished putting a new motor in a 71 chevy half-ton pickup. Still a very tiny truck but it's in almost perfect condition.

Thanks for those links, i'll see what comes up!

 

[Earz]

I'm 6'6" so It would be a little cramped for me, but here's another link

http://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/cto/1796400317.html

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[xjwmx]

Another cool truck is the Kosovo Harley, in its many variations...

http://travel.webshots.com/photo/1215531756061402913bzqMmJ

 

[royfisk]

WOW someone finally found something usefull for the american v-twin, congratulations, I always beleived it was anteaqued farm equipment.

 

[XS1961]

...Thats far in advance of an HD.....

 

[txpowdercoater]

I have a wicked 46 chevy truck I'll sell ya. fairly small in size as far as trucks go.
http://houston.craigslist.org/cto/1815538557.html

 

[pyrocentric]

I wish those japanese microtrucks were street legal in my state.

 

[cooltouch]

I wish those japanese microtrucks were street legal in my state.

You mean like one of these little Daihatsu's? What state are you in, where it isn't legal? I've seen these in California, and if there be any state where something like this would be illegal, I'd be thinking it would be the PRC.

Hehe. Check out this mini Suziki pickup doing a stoppie:

http://www.wow-tube.ru/view.php?vid...itle=Suzuki+Carry+Kie+Mini+Truck+Nose+wheelie

 

[inxs]

- i used to have one of those mini pickups when i was a teenager...lotsa fun but no back seat ... we even chopped and channelled a cooper s, put a tunnel in it and using a minor gearbox turned it into rwd ...i have a 55 studebaker pickup today with a 350 chevy in it-i luv this wagon but the mini pickup was more fun per lb