Irish Mini Owners Club

Front windscreen has a shamrock but none of the others do.

It's strange they don't start with the normal three letters. I read that Reg Armstrong built minis right at the end and they were built in '77. Only what I read on a forum so can't confirm that. I think I'll just bite the bullet and get a heritage certificate.

Yeah I thought of the shamrocks on the glass alright, there are none. That's interesting about the 'E' at the end. It was suggested I could apply for a heritage certificate from the uk, that would tell me. Still nobody who has seen the serial has said that they've seen that configuration before.

Unfortunately the car was resprayed at some stage and the vin above was the only one on the car. Any English vins I've seen from that era start with three letters and end with an 'A' for longbridge. It looks totally different than my Uk clubman vin which is typical of what I've seen.

Hi lads, I'm new to this club, almost finished restoring my first mini, I've had an interest in them for a long time as my dad served his time in Lincoln and Nolans and my grandad was a manager there too. My question I'd love to get answered is whether my '77 mini is an original Irish built CKD or n...