While polishing the Minor at the weekend I noticed that the rear window frames appear to have been added post production as it were. The joints between the frame sections and bodywork are kind of rough looking compared with the rest of the body and differ even from each other on the nearside and offside and look as if the bodyshell was originally a convertible!
I spoke to a very knowledgeable MMOC member at a local show last Sunday and on inspecting the car he advised me that the car was quite possibly a very early Series II convertible which originally had removable fabric rear side windows and sometime in its life had been converted to a two door saloon. He also pointed out the extended body moulding to which the folding roof would have attached and advised me to obtain a Heritage certificate with additional information to identify the original body style of the car.
When I bought the car there was no data plate on the bulkhead but the registration document listed the body code as EBAH/227488 which I translated to FBA11/227488 and had it corrected at the DVLA. I believe the body numbers are also to be found at the lower surface of the bulkhead and on a plate marked NMP on the nearside floor of the engine bay. Both these areas have had a very thick coat of paint so I intend to do a bit of surgical stripping to reveal the numbers and hopefully enable me to shed some light on Jethro's history.
