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Salt & Pepper Mini Moke identified
Another photograph of the modified Mini Moke that was used for the 1967 movie 'Salt & Pepper' - featuring Sammy Davis Junior and Peter Lawford - has emerged. See for an earlier article on it here....
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Mini Marcos Le Mans replicas
This weekend, Le Mans will host their classic event and there will be some Mini Marcoses taking part. Two of them are entered by four-men strong French teams (Berthonnet / Suzat / Leclerce /...
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Where is the Sandringham 6 Mini?
It's good to have a pair of eyes and ears in every possible corner of the UK, and Gary Buesnell has been my help on the island of Jersey for some years now. When he read Maximum Mini 3 recently he...
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The Sandringham 6 Mini again
Last Thursday's story on the Sandringham 6 Mini remains shrouded in mystery. One reader suggested the car's registration may well be DD1 as as in 'Dunlop Denovo' with the car acting as a promotion...
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Portugese Marcos with a difference
Reader Alex Coreira sent in some Mini Marcos shots from his native Portugal and supposedly taken at Vila Real in the 1980s where it was raced by a Antonio Batista. Like the famous TransXL Mini Marcos...
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The many faces of António Batista's Mini Marcos
Yesterday's story of a Portugese Mini Marcos led to a whole string of photographs of the Mini Marcos, driven by António Batista in the 1970s and 1980s. The power of the internet!Francisco Costa had...
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DART at Chateau Impney
These photographs of the DART were taken last weekend at the Chateau Impney hill climb in Droitwich, where it was entered in the production saloon cars class! Last year saw the revival of the event...
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What happened to this modified Mini Bug?
This unusual Stimson Mini Bug was snapped by Rolf Roozeboom in 1999, or as he says 'the pre-digital era'. Fortunately he was kind enough to scan the images for us lot. Verifying the registration number...
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Market round up
Let's have a little look at cars that made it to the market recently, as there were some interesting offerings. Some of them can still be found online, so be quick if you are interested...This...
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Resurrection of the Sandringham Six Mini
Another mystery solved! The mysterious Sandringham Six Mini that was seen here twice (here and here) with the request for more information rung a bell by reader Kees Plugboer, who'd seen it in a...
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Another Broadspeed GT replica - now from France
Work on replicas of the Broadspeed GT is going on in several countries, and over in France, close to Lyon, Olivier Filliettaz is slowly but surely getting his car ready. Olivier has been working from...
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Repairing a Jem - by Fellpoint in the '70s
Some great period shots came in via Jeremy Harrison‎, who's restoring a Mini Jem Mk2 and found out the car had undergone body repairs in the 1970s. And what's more: this job was carried out in Penn...
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Remembering Kirsty the Flogle
Wearing chassis number FO 1 8 66 - for Fletcher Ogle number 1, August 1966 - it's 50 years ago that the Fletcher GT debuted. Speedboat manufacturer Norman Fletcher had acquired the Ogle SX1000 project...
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Another Ranger 4 reappears
In early 2014, a very rare Ranger Cub 4 appeared up for sale. Well, the body for such a car - see here. A second four-wheeler Cub has now come up on the same well-known sales website and I believe it...
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The last W&P Mini? - a remarkable story
This could start an interesting conversation. Tom got in touch about a car, which he thinks could be the last Mini coachbuilt by Wood & Pickett. He wrote: "Jeroen, as promised here some pics of...
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An Andersen Cub - but not as we know it
This is one Andersen Cub variant I'd never heard of: the Military version, named RTPV Cub, for Rough Terrain Patrol Vehicle. According to the leaflet testing by the British Army proved its strength,...
View ArticleCelebrating the Unipower GT (1)
I went to Beaulieu last weekend to have a bit of a celebration for the Unipower GT's 50th anniversary. I'll make a full report later this week, but here are already two little movie clips taken from...
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Celebrating the Unipower GT (2)
On the roads to Beaulieu, last weekend, there were some strange sightings. Ultra low Lamborghinis, revving McLarens and speeding Ferraris mostly. They were there for the first Supercar Weekend held on...
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Marcos Euregio Meeting 2016
Last weekend saw an invasion of plastic cars, little and large, in the far-East of Holland, when the third Euregio Marcos Meeting made it to that part of the world. There were not as many (Mini)...
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How a Hawaiian ex-rental became 'Worlds Quickest Moke'
This story is not so much about a Mini derivative as it is about a much modified Mini Moke, dubbed 'World's most fun and quickest Moke'. It was sent over to me by Robert Philips who lived at Hawaii at...
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