Any ideas what this is?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290445292260&_trksid=p2759.l1259

Listing says its a Scamp but doesn't look like one to me at all, I've asked the seller what the V5 says for a manufacturer. Anyone recognise what it is? I like the rear a lot

Early Jimini?

Doubled up!! OOps.

Thats some serious metalbashing, stealth mode.

It brings us back to the old subject "When is a Scamp not a Scamp"

You get the Kit, which is a plan and a pile of metal, and put it together the best you can.
Then years later some bright spark called Blackadder has a cunning plan or was it M Caine esq.

The use of the Mini windscreen is unusual and is normally seen on Cubs or Rangers (?)

The other odd thing is a 1300 automatic engine............no good for off roading

But at the low start price with no reserve its got to be worth a punt.

As it'll come with a MOT and looks to be very nicely put together I'd say it was well worth a punt. Got someone coming to look at my Pug 306 tomorrow and if it goes I'll need something to drive

The front looks quite similar to the only picture I can find of a Jimini 1. The seller has emailed me back to say that the V5 says 'Mini Scamp'

Charlie - Who has just sold the pug and now has a wedge of cash burning a hole in her pocket

Mk3rob wrote:The other odd thing is a 1300 automatic engine............no good for off roading

Andrew MacLean's MkIII demonstrator had an auto box. It was excellent off-road, because it had power at the wheels at all times...


Charlie, go and have a look at it if you like it.

E.

MESS wrote:
Charlie, go and have a look at it if you like it.

E.

I would do if it wasn't 250 miles away in Devon

I'll see how the auction goes. I've got a price in mind of what I would pay for it so we'll see what happens next Thursday.

The same car was advertised for sale in Scampers in July 2003, and described there as a Mk1 based on a '65 Cooper, with photos showing it much the same as now but with rather tasty 10" alloys (which may or may not be the ones mentioned by the current seller). The e-Bay pix certainly show a rear subframe.

The front wings bear a passing resemblance to those on a Jimini - see picture here - but those distinctive wheel arches don't.

Interesting stuff. Out of interest how much was it up for sale for in 2003?

No price mentioned.

It's back on the bay and now it's orange!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180551847919&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:GB:1123

Only 2 months and it's had a new engine, new wheels and a vinyl wrap. Can't see the new owner making his money back on it. Glad I was outbid considering the engine apparently went pop after 30 miles

Love the pictures with the Basset Hound in....Lends a bit of scale...

Oh yes,

I think that i will just pop down to Penzance and have a look

Not

£1221 reserve not met. So that's £46 more then he paid for it and it's now up for £2250 BIN.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180556139294

Think someone's going to learn the lesson about kit cars being worth less then the sum of their parts

And his location won't do him any favours either....