MINI Classic Cooper CHELSEA ONLY 16.000 KILOMETERS SINCE NEW
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| colour | | Targa Red | | interior colour | | Grey | | drive | | LHD | | type | | Saloon | | year | | 1986 | | price | | 7.057 GBP | | VAT | | No | | city | | 1190 AA Ouderkerk aan de Amstel | | country | |  |
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Mini Chelsea Originally delivered in Holland 16.000 kilomters since new As new condition The designer of the Mini, sir Alec Issigonis should have never realised what impact his little car would have on the world when the car was introduced in 1959. The design requests for mister Issigonis were simple. The car had to be affordable, needed four seats for adults and had to be small enough to travel relatively comfortable. Nobody ever thought that the Mini should become an icon which everybody in the world recognizes. In the 1960?s the Mini get from a housewives shopping car to the must have fashion accessory, via international stardom onto the rally scene. Mister John Cooper was able to make the Mini an absolute dream to drive and this was confirmed by the Works spec cars which won the Monte Carlo rally in 1964, 65, 66 en 67. Everybody wanted a Mini, and indeed everybody who was anybody in the 60s had a cooper, from The Beatles and Peter Sellers to Graham Hill and even Enzo Ferrari! But as I learned at my first economy courses. The price of a product is determined by the demand and the availability of a product. So the succes of the Mini became also a weakness in the second hand market. Mini?s have became wortheless and were used for all sorts of autosport. Big trucks drove over the roofs, rally races were done on big fields of farmers and lots and lots of Mini?s have been destroyed. Nowadays the amount of Mini?s available have been completely changed. It is almost impossible to find a Mini in a nice condition and it is even more difficult to find an example in a pristine condition. The costs of the restoration are overruling the value of the car, although the prices are currently rising very quickly. This specific example is a very rare original Dutch delivered Austin Mini Chelsea. From 1984 on, the Mini has been sold in a number of Limited Editions that usually included a special combination of trim and badging. The first limited edition available was the Mini 25. Afterwards, the 30, the 35 and the 40 were introduced. This specific Mini is a Mini Chelsea. This was a limited edition which was built from 1985 on. The car is delivered in Targa Red with Gray bumpers and door handles. The interior is also grey with red piping. On the first look just an ordinary Mini but the specialty on this car is that the Mini has only driven 16.000 kilometers since new. The Mini is very well maintained and approximately 1 year ago, the former owner did a big service on the car which costed him ? 2.000,-. Nowadays the Mini is driving as it was new. It is a unique example and off-course superb to find with such a low mileage. For more information or an appointment, please call Rutger Houtkamp+31625098150 or send an e-mail to Rutger@Houtkamp.nl. Please feel free to contact us by phone during evenings or in the weekend. The Houtkamp Collection is centrally located near Amsterdam and only 10 minutes from Amsterdam Schiphol Airport.
Sold on the 21.09.2012 |
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