Morris Mini Cooper S Mk2
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Price history
The verdict
Recorded sales
Every row, with its price and note (5) ↓
Score breakdown
The working behind each factor: baseline and drivers ↓
What it costs to own · about 2,500 km a year
Specification
What moves the price on this model
Condition, history, originality, ownership, delivery and modification multipliers apply to every car in the library. They are applied automatically when an advertisement is analysed, and the schedule is set out once, on the analyser page.
Projected value in five years
The case for and against
Five published Australian prices, four of them genuine cars, running from $50,000 in May 2018 to $60,000 in November 2020, which is the best-evidenced record in this tranche. It was built here at Zetland with Australian-specific engineering - wind-up windows years ahead of the British cars, Hydrolastic suspension on the Deluxe from 1965 - so a genuine car carries a local identity trail a clone cannot cheaply fake.
A declared replica sold for $25,000 in December 2019 against genuine cars making $47,000 to $53,000 in the same period, a published clone discount of roughly half, and fakes probably outnumber genuine cars in the classifieds. The published run stops at $60,000 in November 2020, so the figure carried here is that trend extended rather than measured.
Known faults and risks
Similar cars, and what they cost to run
Shannons sold a Morris Mini saloon catalogued openly as a 'Cooper S MkII' replica for $25,000 at Melbourne Summer on 9 December 2019, lot 61. In the same period, through the same house, genuine cars were making $47,000 to $53,000. That is a published clone discount of roughly half, on the same auction floor, within weeks, and it is the clearest statement anyone is going to get of what authenticity is worth on this model. Cooper S clones are endemic here and fakes probably outnumber genuine cars in the classifieds. The rule this record recommends is unsentimental: treat any Australian Cooper S without register verification as a clone for valuation purposes and price it at $25,000 to $40,000.
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Four genuine Mk2 saloons sold through Shannons - $50,000 in May 2018, $53,000 in March 2019, $47,000 in November 2019 and $60,000 in November 2020 - and a Mk1 made $69,500 in February 2022. Those are real published prices and they are also four to eight years old, because Shannons left the auction business in November 2023 and its lot pages have been taken down, so the published series simply stops. Every figure was read off a results sheet through a summarising layer rather than audited lot by lot. The value carried here continues that rise at a slower rate, which is a judgement about a trend and not a measurement of one.
This was built at Zetland in New South Wales rather than imported, which is the defining fact about the model in this country. The Australian cars had wind-up windows years before the British ones, Hydrolastic suspension on the Deluxe from 1965, an ignition-key starter and improved trim. A car built on a British shell and presented as an Australian Cooper S gets those details wrong, and they are checkable in an afternoon by anyone who knows to look. Cars were also supplied to Australian and New Zealand police as pursuit vehicles, and documented ex-police provenance adds materially.
No public source reached gives an Australian Cooper S production figure, so the built count here is zero rather than a guess; closing that gap needs Leyland Australia records or the Mini Car Club of Australia registry. A genuine full restoration - subframe mounts, floors, sills, A-panels, heel board, boot floor - is $67,500 against an $80,000 car, so a sound original shell is most of what the money is buying, and correct S-specification trim, badges and instruments at $6,000 are heavily scrutinised by this market.
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Backed by 4 recorded Australian sales of this model. Read a complete one on a real car first. Seventeen sections, no account, nothing to pay.
One line of email when this desk publishes a call on a Morris Mini Cooper S Mk2, or records a new Australian sale of one. Nothing else, no schedule, and on a quiet model you may hear nothing for months, which is itself worth knowing about a car you are chasing.