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Mystery Special still unnamed
Yesterday I posted another Mystery Mini derivative. It wasn't on its own as the picture of the thing showed several other Minis, of which many of you knew more. And so the messages about the orange and...
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Lovely advertised Hustler Hellcat
A Hustler Hellcat is rather rare. The blue one below is for sale in Moreton-in-the-Marsh, which happens to be the village where William Towns created his whole Hustler range, so it won't get closer to...
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Le Mans Mini Marcos: roll cage goes in
I cannot praise my body shell restorer enough. After all the troubles he went through in order to restore the car's floors to their original state, with balsa wood moulded in between two layers - one...
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Rotting GTM is not for sale
Just like with this Mini Jem that is slowly being returned to nature (click), every now and then I receive a picture of what is a Cox GTM or Heerey GTM that is standing, seemingly forgotten, on a...
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The European GTM Coupe that never was
The so-called Baumann Coupe, said to be a French version of the Midas Gold (which turns out to be a hoax - story here) prompted reader Paul Beradi to write me about another European version of a...
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As hot as a Unipower
Boy, it's hot here today.Just like that november day in 2007 when I shot this photograph of a Unipower GT in Tokorozawa, Japan. A lovely car. Note the unusual rear light. But I'm off for a jump in the...
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Broadspeed GT in lovely 8mm footage
Michael Wignall recently posted some interesting film footage, taken by his uncle in 1967. It shows the Tamsworth hill climb in New South Wales, Australia and one of the cars seen in action is a...
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Brand new Mini ice cream van made by Whitby Morrison
The time is certainly right for ice cream vans right now. And the good news is that Whitby Morrison's, who have been creating ice cream vans since 1962 and Mini based ones just a few years later, have...
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Minus Maxi - another survivor
A Minus Maxi is a rare thing and back in 2012, when I was looking for a proper example to photograph, I had some difficulties to find one (article here). I did find it in the end, but never came across...
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Codford Mini glamour photos still missing
When I found what seems to be the only Codford Mini remaining back in 2009 (three were built between 1966 and 1967 - full story in Maximum Mini 2), the owner told me some amusing tales about the car,...
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Boxer prototype back in the hands of its designer
Remember the Boxer Sprint, dreamt up in the mid-1980s by Nimbus Coupe man and great Maximum Mini enthusiast Ian Shearer (seen here at the Maximum Mini action day in 2015)? Well, the sole surviving...
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What on earth is a Rollerscamp?
Recently, I came across a Scamp brochure that I'd never seen before. And it remains a total mystery to me to this day. I have asked some people of the Scamp Owners Club for more information about it,...
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Local Mini Bug leads to more Mini derivatives
It pays to always look around for interesting stuff, even if it is in your own hometown where you think you know all. Reader Armando Loni proved it last week, when he walked into a local garage in...
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Mini based Paola GT survives as Alfa based Paola Spyder
Well, well, Armando Loni certainly triggered my imagination when he wrote about a mystery CanAm racer with Mini engine... The only car that I could think of , which somewhat resembled his description...
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Mystery Mini derivative (51)
Anyone who's been to Malta in the last couple of weeks? Kees Plugboer did so in the 1990s, when he spotted this unusual converted Mini. It looks to have started life as a Van, Pick-Up or Estate. But at...
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ABC Tricar prototype back to its original owner
And another original prototype has found its way back to its original owner! After the story of Ian Shearer and his Boxer Sprint proto some two weeks ago (click here), it's now time for the prototype...
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Derelict kit car collection finally up for sale
I have written about a bunch of Mini based kit cars that is looking really sorry for itself in Great Harwood some times before (here). I was also told more than once that the owners weren't interested...
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McCartney's Mini makes top money
Hammered down at $215,000 dollars, the ex-Paul McCartney Radford Mini Deville eventually sold at $236,500 with the premiums, when brought to auction last weekend in the US. That makes it the most...
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The Twini Ranger by ex-Broadspeed man John J Thomas
While the infamous Twini Scamp, built by former McLaren engineer John Hornby, is now restored (seen here on a Maximum Mini display in 2016) and the Deep Sanderson 105 Twini still for sale (all about...
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Euregio Meeting 2018: Belgian Ardennes
The loveliest things about the Belgian Ardennes region? First of all there are the stunning forests with all those winding and twisting roads leading towards a mountain of some sort. Then there's the...
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