Supercharged Rover Classic Mini Cooper Sport 500
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Hey Chaps
Sadly the time has come for me to sell my 500

Spec is as follows....... Rover Classic Cooper Sport 500

1 owner from new...Me and bought from Evans Halshaw (Macclesfield on January 18th 2001)

Body
Original Sportspack shell in Mint condition only ever been used at the weekends, in fine weather etc. Finished in Anthracite with Platinum silver roof and door mirrors. Arc angels Carbon fibre bonnet (with original bonnet pin so no holes or screws in the front panel) Original bonnet also provided.

Interior
Have full black and nickel silver leather interior safely stashed for fitting back in when required. (In as new condition). Presently fitted with Cobra Monacos finished in blackrock on tailored subframeswith Sabelt Harnesses. Standard 500 dash (3+3 in turned aluminium) Rover CD player, 500 plaque in glovebox etc. Nothing ever fitted which meant drilling or markin anything in any way. Original Rover tailored mats in black with black carpets etc. Central locking (operated from original rover remote)

Engine
Genuine 27300 miles from new. Vmax mpi supercharger kit installed at 22,000 and gbox rebuilt to full straight cut with straight cut drops, central oil pick up etc by Stuart Gurr. Rebored at 25,000 to 1293cc. Hardened and balabnced crank, Conrods lightened, polished and balanced.Omega Forged 18cc pistons. centre main strap, Rob walker stage 3 head giving CR of 8.1:1. SW5i Cam. Swiftune lightened vernier duplex timing gear, MED LD 1:5 Roller rockers.Eaton m45 5th generation supercharger. Custom inlet manifolds. Stainless LCB and exhaust system, Playmini Titanium back box (1 off) Vmax scart charge cooler kit. Custom charger pulley to put the boost where it should be (10psi) Emerald m3dk ECU,LC1 wideband lambda. MAP sensor, Inlet air temp sensor, TPS. Fully mapped by Dave Walker of Emerald. Mocol 13 row oil cooler. 3.1 final drive. 130bhp. Specialist Components engine steady. Minispares additional gearbox stabiliser kit. Devils own water injection kit (ready to be fitted, just never got round to it) recently fitted FSE fuel pump.

Brakes
Brand new minisport 4 pot alloy calipers with vented discs. Minisport Superfin rear dums. Alloy handbrake quadrants braided hoses. Standard MPI brake servo

Suspension
Spax ltd edition dampers, Red coil spring conversion, Minisport Adjusta Ride Kit, Competition top and bottom shock mounts. Fully polybushed all round. Heavy duty adjustable tie bars. Mini spares 1.5 degree neg camber bottom arms. KAD fully adjustable rear camber brackets.

Wheels/Tyres
Genuine Sportspack with v.good Yoko tyres

Other
Full 500 goodie pack (unopened) Full history including reciepts etc and file of cars history.

Standard 500s with higher mileage and showing more wear are fetching circa 8-12k, this car could easily be put back to standard if required but it really is a fantastic and very driveable car with lots of power to go with it.

A beautiful limited edition Mini

£10,250

Will post some pictures ASAP

Please contact me on andysparry@hotmail.com

Thanks
Andy

Edited by Andy500 on 1st Feb, 2012.

Hi chaps here are some pictures
Thanks
Andy

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Forgot to add...Also included is the unique plate.

M2NY S I did of course want M1NY S but i had to get the next best thing! as that had already gone and was a ridiculous amount of money no doubt

Now sold, I hope the new buyer keeps in touch on this forum!

Whats next? Anybody know of any nice GTM Coupes for sale?

Beautiful example!

She was a honey!