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About Mini/MINI again:
I've gone through that list one by one, so it now contains only uncoded MINIs, plus Portugese-build Mini Mokes which I can't code because I don't know an applicable code. I tried to enter the MINIs as MINIS to make things clearer as I went down the list, but the new system wouldn't accept the change.
All Mini vans and pick-ups are now ADO15, which clears them off the list. There was a very short-lived and rare attempt to sell a van MINI in 2012-14 as the MINI Clubvan, but the different name should avoid confusion if we ever get one.
If we have to have a code for Portugese Mokes to get the filters to work, there's a slight argument to use the Australian YDO18 code. "Moke production moved to Portugal in 1980. Once again, there was an overlap and the early Portuguese Mokes were very much like the late Australian Mokes (in fact they were built from Australian ‘kits’)." However in 1986 the Australian kits ran out, and there was a revamp co-ordinated with UK which started supplying various Metro bits and broke the Australian link - this would have generated a new UK code, but no trace found. Another problem is that YDO18 only applied for some Aus Mokes - various Aus Mokeists have objected to its use on our pages after 78
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There were also other Aus Moke codes - YDO8, YDO30 - but they were earlier older versions so not applicable here
So if a code is needed to get the system to work, YDO18 could satisfy the filters, but it's a flimsy bodge and fairly tenuous, particularly for post 1986 Portugese Mokes.
Nothing within the list changed my comments above about having Mini and MINI as separate makes, or if they can't easily be split by the system a preference to use Mini (lower case) for the combined collection.
My brain hurts now, so I'm going to have a lie-down in a quiet room.
I've gone through that list one by one, so it now contains only uncoded MINIs, plus Portugese-build Mini Mokes which I can't code because I don't know an applicable code. I tried to enter the MINIs as MINIS to make things clearer as I went down the list, but the new system wouldn't accept the change.
All Mini vans and pick-ups are now ADO15, which clears them off the list. There was a very short-lived and rare attempt to sell a van MINI in 2012-14 as the MINI Clubvan, but the different name should avoid confusion if we ever get one.
If we have to have a code for Portugese Mokes to get the filters to work, there's a slight argument to use the Australian YDO18 code. "Moke production moved to Portugal in 1980. Once again, there was an overlap and the early Portuguese Mokes were very much like the late Australian Mokes (in fact they were built from Australian ‘kits’)." However in 1986 the Australian kits ran out, and there was a revamp co-ordinated with UK which started supplying various Metro bits and broke the Australian link - this would have generated a new UK code, but no trace found. Another problem is that YDO18 only applied for some Aus Mokes - various Aus Mokeists have objected to its use on our pages after 78
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YDO18 was the Australian Drawing office code that was used up until 1978 when a global change to how Leyland identified their vehicles saw the model number become part of the body/VIN numbers so there was never another YDO code issued for the 1978 and 1979 models There were also other Aus Moke codes - YDO8, YDO30 - but they were earlier older versions so not applicable here
So if a code is needed to get the system to work, YDO18 could satisfy the filters, but it's a flimsy bodge and fairly tenuous, particularly for post 1986 Portugese Mokes.
Nothing within the list changed my comments above about having Mini and MINI as separate makes, or if they can't easily be split by the system a preference to use Mini (lower case) for the combined collection.
My brain hurts now, so I'm going to have a lie-down in a quiet room.