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Could this really be the 1967 Le Mans Mini Marcos?
An interesting picture was posted online this afternoon by a classic car enthusiast from Macau. It shows a Mini Marcos that was supposedly raced there during the Macau Grand Prix of 1969. According to...
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1967 works Mini Marcos: an update
Thank you all for the comments coming in on last week's article about the Mini Marcos, believed to be the 1967 ex-works racer and Le Mans car (click here when you have missed it). Well, it seems it is...
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Forest find: Reptune Gullwing
These moody pictures were sent years ago to me by British ex-pat George Allen, who lives near Toronto in Canada. They show a rare Reptune Gullwing - the Canadian Mini based sports car designed and...
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Dennis Prophet died at 87
Sadly, I am far behind on obituaries sometimes. And Rachel Nelson prompted me about one I should not have missed yesterday. I wrote about a Canadian Reptune Gullwing (here) when she contacted me to...
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Spectrafloat Special - an update
In last week's Quasar Unipower piece (click here)Â I wrote 'I'd love to hear from the new owner'. Well, as it turns out now the car wasn't sold but was on its way to Austria for a revamp. Wolfgang...
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Beep-beep Yeah! Unique Beatles motoring document sold
A most remarkable Beatles related automobilia item was sold last weekend through a website called the Beatles Marketplace. It was a well-used and pretty scruffy 37-page sales ledger of Brydor Cars –...
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RRS Wasp survives... and can be yours
Remember last month's Mystery Mini Derivative, known as the RRS Wasp? (click here if not). Well, I have been sent some pictures of the car taken very recently in a showroom in the Midlands. It looks to...
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Maya GT is star of Japan Mini Day 2018
Unlike other years, it seems that not so many Mini derivatives made it to the 26th Japan Mini Day, held in Hamanako last weekend. But fortunately there was Masato Kida's fully restored Maya GT, the car...
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Le Mans Mini Marcos project: update on the mechanicals
My engine builder, Philippe Quirière of Mini World Center in France, is a man of little words. But he did send me a couple of photographs recently on what he is working on at the moment: the gearbox...
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Landar R6 at Croft
Sabre Sprint owner Ron Palgrave already shared an image of a Cox GTM at Croft circuit in the 1960s (click here), and he has this one, too. As with the Cox, Ron has not much information about the...
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Swedish Ogle remains a mystery, as its importer
It's been almost five years that I wrote about an Ogle SX1000 in Sweden (click here). And I haven't found out much about it since. The article in Technikens Varld magazine dates back to 1965 and does...
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Mystery Mini derivative (54)
This is strange. It's not a car, but a model for one. You can see it was parked on a curb, giving away something about its size. The photographer forgot his own shadow, which is prominently visible...
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Lovely provenance found in Le Mans Mini Marcos' sill
Just a tiny little update about the Le Mans Mini Marcos before I come up with a more extensive news report on the car's restoration.I picked up the shell from the body restorer yesterday and must...
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Holmbarth Special survives
Remember the Holmbarth 1100, as seen in Maximum Mini 3? (also here). Well, Martin Andresson, who contacted me about the Swedish Ogle SX1000 (here) brought in a grand update on the car. He wrote:"I...
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The many wanderings of an Ogle SX1000
Australian Ogle SX1000 owner Neil Griffin (more here) dropped me another enthusiastic line. He wrote: "Hi Jeroen, one of the outstanding articles on Ogles that I have been trying to track down is a...
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Mystery Mini derivative (54)
Well well kiddies, what have we got here? I do not know anything about this one myself, so please come in with your comments!Mini based mystery motor has hints of several other designs...Picture Jeroen...
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Christmas offer 2018
When Christmas nears, it has now become a tradition to offer Maximum Mini books with a discount, to all of you who haven't got them yet, or who'd like to give one to somebody else. You'll get 25%...
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Holmbarth / Automec Special fully restored
Thanks to reader Martin Andersson we know that the Swedish Holmbarth 1100 survived at least until 2008 and was actually known as the Automec Special using the front end of an Ogle SX1000 as a rear......
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Scamping in the 1980s
Chris Westgate shares some photographs taken at Scamp Owner's Club meetings in the 1980s. Enjoy!That's a Mk1 in all its simplicity, a Scamp as it should be!Picture courtesy Chris WestgateBut this is...
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Le Mans Mini Marcos: back home (but not for long)
Almost exactly two years after finding the Le Mans Mini Marcos in Portugal and bringing it to my home, it's back there once again! And although things didn't always go as planned and time schedules...
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