Description
The Bolesworth Castle September 2024 Classic & Performance Car Auction
Sunday, 22nd September 2024
1963 Austin Mini Super Deluxe
*** NO RESERVE***
Registration - 905 SCV
Chassis No. - A-A2S7S-348259
M. O. T. - July 2025
Odometer - 51, 815
This rare example of Austin’s Mini Super Deluxe is offered at no reserve, and comes in highly original condition. Fitted with Mini’s 848cc four-cylinder engine and four-speed manual gearbox, ‘905 SCV’ is presented in Old English White with red interior. Featuring many of the desirable Mark I features of the time, this Mini includes the exterior door hinges, chrome bumpers and trim, wing-mounted wing mirrors, and two-spoke steering wheel.
The vendor is just the fifth registered keeper in more than 60 years on the road for ‘905 SCV’, and has owned the vehicle for the past nine years. In that time, it was taken off the road for a period because of Covid restrictions, and although is now MOT-exempt, has been put through one to reassure buyers of road-worthiness. When purchased, ‘905 SCV’ was taken to a Mini specialist in Gloucester for general advice, where the owner was informed that the vehicle was in largely original condition – more than 90% by their reckoning, which has been confirmed by a separate specialist at a later date. Having been off the road prior to purchase, there is no paperwork available before around 2015, but since then, documentation has been maintained. The rear subframe, radiator, brake shoes, battery, bushes, bulbs, and various seals and gaskets have been worked on, and the Mini is offered with original handbook, paint chart, heritage certificate, and headlights (boxed). Showing an indicated 51, 815 miles on the odometer, the Mini is considered in fine overall condition, with the vendor describing the engine, bodywork, paint, and interior as ‘good’, and the electrics and transmission as ‘excellent’.
• Offered at no reserve
• Highly original example of a Mark I Mini
• Desirable Super Deluxe model from the period
With the reverberations of the 1956-1957 Suez Crisis being felt worldwide, Leonard Lord lost little time in commissioning Alec Issigonis to begin work on a radical small car project. Apart from the constraint of using existing BMC mechanical assemblies, and a brief to house four adults plus their luggage within as small a space as possible, the brilliant Issigonis was given carte blanche. His response was the now legendary Mini. Featuring an ingenious transverse-mounted powertrain (with engine sat atop the gearbox), all-round independent 'rubber cone' suspension, front-wheel drive and compact rack and pinion steering, the newcomer was a packaging masterpiece; not to mention one of the most influential automotive designs ever conceived. The MkI was produced from 1959 until 1967 at Longbridge.
This Car has been entered into Hampson Auctions, The Bolesworth classic and performance car and motorcycle auction, which will be held at Bolesworth Castle, Tattenhall, Chester, CH3 9JJ on Sunday 22nd September 2024.
Viewing sessions will take place at Bolesworth castle from 9am - 7pm on Saturday 21st September and from 9am - 12:00 on Sunday 22nd September, with the auction itself commencing at 12pm on Sunday 22nd September, and you are very welcome to join us there.
Prospective buyers can bid in the room, online, over the telephone or via commission – please contact Hampson Auctions directly if you would like to arrange one of the latter two options, or if you would like to request a condition report.
The auction catalogue so far is available to view via our website.
Auction entries are currently still being accepted, if you have a vehicle which you would like to consign, please contact us.
Buyer's Premium 12. 5%
