Le Mans Mini Marcos: body work in progress
Just back from Yorkshire to meet up again with Paul and Peter at Seventies Car Restoration. Have a look at the video below to see about the current affairs on the 1966 Le Mans Marcos project, with...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Analyzing the Le Mans Mini Marcos (7)
It was already shown to you briefly in the video I posted yesterday, but here's the story in on the radiator holes in more detail. For anyone interested I once again publish some photographs in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hrubon Schmitt restored, now for sale
I received a message from Samuel Fanouillere, who just finished the restoration of his 1982 Schmitt. He wrote: "Hello Mr. Booij, I am French and a great fan of your books about Mini derivatives. My job...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Le Mans Mini Marcos project gets ACO approval
Today is a grand day for the Le Mans Mini Marcos project as I received a parcel from France that had been eagerly awaited, putting things pretty mildly. It comes from the ACO (Automobile Club de...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Broadspeed GTs flood the market
Well, that's a bit of an exaggeration. But it's been a long time since any Broadspeed GTs were offered for sale and thats quite different at this moment. Two of them are original cars, two others are...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gyro-X wins Dean Batchelor Trophy
Now that the crazy Alex tremulis designed and Mini Cooper powered Gyro-X prototype is fully restored and presented at Pebble Beach, we'd like to see it in motion, don't we? Over to Wayne Hadfield who...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Euregio Meeting 2017
The Euregio meeting for Marcoses and Mini derivatives took place on the sunniest day of this year, last weekend. The location? The far south-west of The Netherlands, where the country rubs shoulders...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Another good Unipower tale
I like tales from former car owners and Unipower owner Pete Flanagan sent in another nice one. While I was at the Euregio Meeting, he spent the weekend at the Oulton Park Gold Cup with his Unipower GT....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Wanted: Sprinzel Rallye Two seat
I have been looking for what I believe to be the right seats for my project car for some time now: Sprinzel Rallye Two seats, made by Fibrepair Ltd. of London and sometimes also sold as the Speedwell...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Autocrossing a MiniJem (4)
I would have believed that auto crossing a Mini Jem was something unheard of of, but that proved to be a mistake. We saw a Jem in fields and on the grass track here, here and here. And that wasn't all...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Autocrossing an early MiniJem (4)
I would never have thought the MiniJem to be a suitable contender for auto crossing but, hey, I was wrong! A single photograph of a Mk1 Jem doing just that (click here) proved it could be done not so...
View ArticleClik here to view.
For the love of a Unipower GT - the story of Dennis Tarkir
Some time ago, Danny Craig dropped me a line from Virginia, USA, writing that his father in law passed recently. "So we are dealing with all the stuff that comes with it." Among it, there is a 1967...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Market round up
Time for another market round-up (previous versions here and here and here). What Mini based cars are offered for sale at this moment? I have made a selection, the majority of these ads have been...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Finally: more on the Mini milk float
When you've read Maximum Mini 3 (still available here when not) you have come across some truly strange Mini based creations. Some were in fact so strange that finding out more information about them...
View ArticleBBC footage of RTV found
It's always nice to receive a message from a manufacturer of Mini based cars, former or even current, and I was thrilled to hear from Scamp-man Andrew MacLean this week. He wrote: "Hi Jeroen, at very...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Odnik: Indeed based on a 1958 prototype Mini?
Two more pictures of 'Odnik' - the Irish built Mini special that was raced by Jack O'Donoghue in 1961 (more about it here), have come to the light thanks to Irishman Aidan Mc Grath. And I believe we...
View ArticleClik here to view.
New: Maximum Mini Heritage
I get so many requests from people who want to find out more about specific cars, that I think the time has come for a new service. I also think its fair to say that Maximum Mini is by now the largest...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Another Ogle in America
There have been several Ogle SX1000s in America, although all of the four seen here have come back to this side of the world by now, in order of appearance to the UK, Switzerland, Italy and the UK...
View ArticleClik here to view.
New images of ART Mini Marcos
Thanks to some of you, I can now share some more pictures of the Dutch Mk1 Mini Marcos that was raced by Hans Casteleyn of the ART ('Algemeen Racing Team') in the late 1960s and earliest of 1970s. This...
View ArticleClik here to view.
New books from France and New Zealand
Enguerrand Lecesne, the French author of 'Mini Cooper et 'S' de la serie a la competition' and 'Mini histories inedited', has just come up with a new title: 'Mini Toute l'histoire'. And as the title...
View Article