£1750 Copart Classic Mini Project - Banger or Bargain ? 1994 Rover Mini Sprite - PART 1

Our £1750 Classic Rover Mini Sprite arrives and we take a look around it. Will it start and run ?
Our haulage guy Omran can be contacted on 07575 736347

[@laurencefahey3132]

I will watch with great interest, it’s good George is old school and likes to dig in and get involved. I admire his enthusiasm 👏👏👏👏

[@L663]

I tried to put him off - Mrs Powerful is not keen on the old Mini from a safety point of view.... but we used to drive them...

[@laurencefahey3132]

@@L663 exactly that , I had one when I was 18 (40 years ago) 👏🤣, great little cars . He will be fine 😉

[@HQBProductions]

Well done George!!! My first car was a 1961 Austin Se7en Deluxe (63 NAE) in Speedwell blue and I did 56,000 miles in it! You will learn a lot but some jobs to check before you drive are the CV joints at the gearbox end as they come loose and the cluster can get chewed up but still works. Initial check is apply handbrake then pull away on full left and right lock…if you hear clicking then you have a fun job fitting new couplings and probably shafts! Also…the brake cylinders leak for a pastime so inspect the rears throughly. Dad will also tell you about subframe rust…check all around the mountings as the boot floor can disappear! It will be a great learning curve but once sorted, you will learn a lot about driving….and one day you can be like us doddery old men who used to enjoy three wheel cornering on the way to work and “ dancing” in the snow as the car slides along the top of the tracks…but they are wonderful like that…if we ever get snow again! George…..I envy your age…I was 19 when I had mine…it was stolen just after I sold it and burnt out on Good Friday 1971 but I had my new Morris 1300GT by then….and that is another story!!😃😃😃😃Richard.

[@skylark-sd9ic]

Great video, looking forward to seeing you work on this!

[@johnwillett4086]

Well done George, great little project car. Simon - I bet that driving a Mini after driving the Stig is like driving a moving hole in the road 😂 I certainly fould that, years ago, going from my old Toyota HiAce van to driving my sister's Mini (this was 40-odd years ago, though).

[@adriansaunders4878]

Good luck George! I'm going the same route but I'm on the other end of the age scale to you. 1980 red 1275gt sat on the drive instead of my Disco Sport! Hope you can convince your dad to front some useful ideas!

[@BentleyGT]

Not sure if anyone else has mentioned this, but the doors are the right colour. It appears to have had the ‘A’ panels and lower rear quarter panels painted/repaired. The rest might be the original paint.

[@paulnabbs9112]

Looking forward to this

[@procta2343]

Looks like its been a very light hit that, I know these little cars are very tuff, My aunty had two of them. She had a manual choke version, which was an M reg, Funny thing was my rover metro, was the same colour and the reg was very, very close! both were M platers and ended in ENL, turned out they were from the same local Rover dealer, and would have been on the forecourt together at the same time. She later put that in for a S reg injection model, sadly that one was full of filler, My cousin other half did some work on it, and he said its had a right old make up job. It had all the chrome and exhaust. She later moved on to the BMW crap. Looking at that, i recon that ones been garaged and been very well looked after.

[@chrispig7748]

Yeah! Love the original mini, can’t wait to see it done

[@paulkedwards]

A great classic to start learning the repair skills on George. Wait till you are stripping a classic RR down and screwing the loom to the spare bedroom wall … I wasn’t popular!!! Lol 😂

[@roverhaul]

Well done, that was a really fun vid!

[@jimmyquinn9639]

Good video Simon and George 🚘🚙🚗👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👏

[@adrianmassey6673]

Think I'd rather dirty oil but full, at least you might have some confidence it's not been ran with insufficient oil If clean and low, why would you change it but not refill to maximum?

[@L663]

I think it was clean and full but leaked !

[@toddsilvia6952]

I’m looking forward to this new content.

[@L663]

Part 2 is out later this week and i think there will be a few more - but we may need to wait for George to get back from univesity !

[@milesfinch]

George looks the 'full and dirty' type!! ;-)

[@roberttruman8332]

Now didn’t you have a special mini in the bat cave? I remember my mum driving us around in one of these in the 70’s 😀 Vinyl seats which were the temp of the sun in the summer! At 6 foot I don’t really fit any more 😂 Good luck George 👍

[@roberttruman8332]

Ohhh 2 post lift outside OMG 🇩🇪

[@L663]

Yes we spent a bit of time getting that fitted over the summer !

[@L663]

We do have the old Mk1 in the Batcave...kzbin.info/www/bejne/pJjanaSco62naaM

[@farmer6861]

Was the last owner Mr Bean? I reckon this was a TV show prop. Nothing like a mini car.

[@notrut]

£1750!? You were DONE.

[@johnmiddleton470]

Sadly it looks like over sills have been fitted, they could have been welded over the top of the old rotten sills which is common practice to hide the rotten original sills beneath.😒😒

[@AndyK.1]

No oil or water. But apart from that. 😅

[@L663]

Just liquids...

[@mvirdi2333]

👍👍👌👌❤️❤️🙏🙏🇬🇧

[@L663]

Evening Mr Virdi !

[@grahameroberts8109]

Give George a drive. 👍🏻🙏🦘

[@L663]

Just get it checked over first ...