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cooperess
PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2018 12:21 pm 
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2018 12:25 pm 
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MiniMat wrote:
Doug, is there any formal documentation saying our Cooper S's were body colour on the A pillar?

Apologies Mat for not replying earlier. :oops:

There's nothing in writing saying the pillars were body colour, but the whole metal shell inside and out was painted body colour and the places vinyl was fitted is listed in the trim guide, which says "parcel tray and dash rail upper and lower". No mention of A pillar.

See trim guides for Mark 1 and MK II S here - viewtopic.php?f=25&t=96010

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winabbey
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... and here's my Sept 70 MK II dash rail.

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cooperess
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MiniMat wrote:
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Maybe it was only in the UK
http://www.somerfordmini.co.uk/eshop/in ... ts_id=7477

Yes.

BMC Australia made its own trim and the A pillar is not included.


Doug, is there any formal documentation saying our Cooper S's were body colour on the A pillar?

Cheers Mat

I am wondering the same thing.
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winabbey
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iansmini67 wrote:
I too am in the same boat. My car had its original vinyl removed years ago. I bought the material from MKO and in my opinion its nothing like the original. Saying that I have searched also and it seems to be the closest match. Below is comparison. The pic is from a mates original mk2 lower rail.

I wonder if anybody else has found something closer.....

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Ian - I've been talking to John Smidt this morning about this and he advised that the vinyl you bought is for the Mark 1 Cooper S and early MK II's. The later MK II's had the grainier style as per your mate's car and other photos posted by others today. He is updating the description on the shop website to highlight this fact.

You can return the vinyl to MKO for a full refund.

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iansmini67
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Thats probably good news for me as mine is an aerly mk2....june 69. I bought the material when i was down at the show n shine so was probably not the best time to talk to John about it.
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MiniMat
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winabbey wrote:
MiniMat wrote:
Doug, is there any formal documentation saying our Cooper S's were body colour on the A pillar?

Apologies Mat for not replying earlier. :oops:

There's nothing in writing saying the pillars were body colour, but the whole metal shell inside and out was painted body colour and the places vinyl was fitted is listed in the trim guide, which says "parcel tray and dash rail upper and lower". No mention of A pillar.

See trim guides for Mark 1 and MK II S here - viewtopic.php?f=25&t=96010



Thanks Doug, mine (6/70) has the original dash vinyl too and matches the previous images for the grain type. I was only asked the other day and I too thought the A pillar was painted but wanted some backup. Cheers for your reply

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winabbey
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For those needing the later MK II S dash vinyl I should have a sample in the next few days to compare to mine. If the same or very close to original, MKO will have it cut to pattern and available on their website.

This is what it looks like.

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mini210
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Great work Doug!!!

I will be contacting John @ MKO in the coming weeks for this exactly for my 7/70 S.

Fingers crossed its a good match!

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Awesome.....thanks Doug.

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iansmini67 wrote:
I too am in the same boat. My car had its original vinyl removed years ago. I bought the material from MKO and in my opinion its nothing like the original. Saying that I have searched also and it seems to be the closest match. Below is comparison. The pic is from a mates original mk2 lower rail.

I wonder if anybody else has found something closer.....

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Do we have a good example of the original Mk 1 dash vinyl? Or is the stuff shown here pretty close?
When I got my Mk 1 painted a while back (around 20 years or more) I had them remove the vinyl so we could get a good paint colour match with the instructions to keep it so it could be put back on and they threw it out! - excuse was that it was looking a bit old and they thought it would be better to use nice new vinyl to match the nice new paint!
The replacement stuff i got for the Mk1 is pretty close to the grain in my 69 Mk2 (around car 330) and looks close to the other Mk2 examples shown here as well?

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I have a mate who has an original mk1 but wont see him for a couple weeks. Will get some pics when i can.


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Rodmac, what is your car colour? My car is 321 from memory and is mono jet red.

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rodmac wrote:
iansmini67 wrote:
I too am in the same boat. My car had its original vinyl removed years ago. I bought the material from MKO and in my opinion its nothing like the original. Saying that I have searched also and it seems to be the closest match. Below is comparison. The pic is from a mates original mk2 lower rail.

I wonder if anybody else has found something closer.....

Image

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Do we have a good example of the original Mk 1 dash vinyl? Or is the stuff shown here pretty close?
When I got my Mk 1 painted a while back (around 20 years or more) I had them remove the vinyl so we could get a good paint colour match with the instructions to keep it so it could be put back on and they threw it out! - excuse was that it was looking a bit old and they thought it would be better to use nice new vinyl to match the nice new paint!
The replacement stuff i got for the Mk1 is pretty close to the grain in my 69 Mk2 (around car 330) and looks close to the other Mk2 examples shown here as well?


I posted this a while back, to me the Mk1 dash vinyl pattern is identical to the Mk1 seat vinyl

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Theres a discussion here with more pics....

http://www.ausmini.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=92900&hilit=+vynal

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iansmini67
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Just to back up phillb's pic....i found the photos i took of my mates mk1 s.Image

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