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Fireball Midget moulds survive
An interesting find on world's best known auction website last week: the moulds for the Fireball Midget were offered for sale from Somerset. The Midget was a Mini based racing car intended for British...
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Barclay Mini Bug resurfaces
Visitors of the Maximum Mini display at the IMM 2016 in Belgium may remember a bright orange Barclay Mini Bug. This is a rare version of the Stimson Mini Bug built under a license in Holland (more...
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Le Mans Mini Marcos: wheels and much more
Time for a little update on the Le Mans Mini Marcos project. I spent the last couple of months mainly on tracking down parts for the car, some of which proved very difficult. To start with the wheels,...
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Little Red Booster, the space framed Elf
I promised a little update on the Philip Oram Riley Special, also known as the Little Red Booster, that was bought by Scotsman Kevin Murray earlier this year (see here). I found an article on the car...
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Who coachbuilt Dame Margot's Mini?
There was some consternation lately about the sale of a Mini that was coachbuilt for the late ballet dancer Dame Margot Fonteyn (1919-1991) earlier this month. The car is an 850 Morris Mini Minor that...
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Midas to Venice (and back)
Summer is over, but we've got the memories and the pictures to look back upon. Dutchman and -woman Ruud and Thirza de Leeuw took their Midas to Italy. Ruud wrote: "We went to Venice first and then to...
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Prisoner Moke fully restored to celebrate The Prisoner's 50th
Remember the Prisoner Moke found in The Netherlands several years ago? Click here if you don't, but I'm sure many of you will recall this great find by Olivier Bos in 2011. Olivier planned to restore...
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Another Mini Bug turns up in Switzerland
Abnother Swiss Stimson turned up last week in Switzerland, after it was seen for sale there by Michael Kaufmann. He wrote: "I found this car in Switzerland for sale. It's a Stimson Mini from 1974."...
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Mystery Mini Marcoses of the Low Countries
Reader Kees Plugboer recently took a dive in his old photo-albums and out came a collection of Mini Marcos shots, taken in the 1980s and 1990s at the Zandvoort track and at a lock-up near Brussels in...
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Mini Magazine features Broadspeeds
When you read Mini Magazine, you may know that the Le Mans Mini Marcos project features regularly in the 'Our Minis' section, with the current issue publishing the third part of the series. But there's...
View ArticleThe Freewheelers and their Stimson (video)
The late 1960s / early 1970s British tv series The Freewheelers has come past here before, but only in 'screen grabs' (click here). This was a series about a group of teenagers who get caught up in the...
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Mystery Mini derivative (45)
It's been quite a while since we saw a mystery Mini derivative here. This while I still have quite a few mystery cars that could do with some more information. So here we go again. This car was bought...
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Grandson of builder is looking for an Edenvale Mini coupe
I was contacted some time ago by Vaughan Frankiewicz, who happened to know more about the Mini fastback coupes built in Edenvale, South-Africa in the 1960s (see Maximum Mini 3). He wrote: "The Mini...
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Unipower GTs at NEC this weekend
Unipower GT owner Tim Carpenter has been busy organizing a display for the Classic Car Show held at Birmingham's NEC this weekend. Tim's own car is there (chassis number 1), along with the ex-CCC racer...
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Unipowers shine at NEC
(Almost) Live from the NEC in Birmingham, I was sent these shots taken at the Unipower display at the Classic Car Show by Colin Baines. Tim Carpenter, who put the beautiful display together, tells me...
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Beach car returns to show scene
While the Unipower GTs shine at the NEC in Birmingham (click!), an original Mini Beach Car stars at the Epoqu'Auto show in Lyon, France. It has come out of the woodwork after not having been seen in...
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Vikings from the Isle of Man
Peel Viking Minisport owner John Fischer contacted me with some news on his car's identification. He wrote: "Hi Jeroen, whilst at the NEC classic car show this weekend I spoke to two people on the...
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Mystery Mini derivative (46)
Another mystery Mini derivative and yet another autocross Special. No information is known about this one, so feel free to help with anything. People, location, details. All I recognize is the A-series...
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Maximum Mini Christmas offer 2017
Make a start on your Christmas shopping with the perfect gift: Maximum Mini books, of course. Now you can take advantage of a 25% discount on Maximum Mini 2 and 3. I have also been able to track down 5...
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Japan Mini Day 2017
Japan Mini Day is always good for some Mini derivatives. And with the show in its 25th year it was bound to become a good one this year, at the shores of Lake Hamanako in the Shizuoka prefecture. The...
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