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Christmas puzzle 2014
It's time for the traditional Maximum Mini Christmas puzzle!Last year there weren't too many of you giving it a go, and so I decided to make this year's puzzle easier. Now with questions rather than...
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Season's greetings
Merry Christmas and a happy New Year with lots of Mini (based) motoring to all readers of this blog and other Maximum Mini fans. Thank you for your support in 2014.
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2015 is here and we have two winners
Happy new year!Let's start 2015 with the announcement of the 'Best Find of 2014'.You voted for the Mini engined Méan Sonora, which resurfaced last year in a Belgian garden. The car is currently under...
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Early coachbuilt Cooper resurfaces in Spain
Rare derivatives and coachbuilt Minis continue to be found in 2015 and this year's first find goes to my Spanish colleague Francisco Carrión, who recently stumbled upon a collection with quite a few...
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Cars & Car Conversions resurrects in NEC
Good news for fans of that great late magazine Cars & Car Conversions (I am a fan). The Mini Cooper Register has announced to celebrate the magazine's 50th anniversary with a stand at this year's...
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Another ex-Deep Sanderson owner calls in
I am a sucker for Deep Sanderson stories, and so I was eager to track down a man named Richard Graham, who'd owned the Deep Sanderson 301 with chassis number 6 (more here and here) in the late 1970s...
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Car and Car Conversions display is fabulous!
Now that's what a display should look like! Pete Flanagan sent in some images from last weekend's Autosport show at the NEC in Birmingham, where a Cars and Car Conversions magazine display was...
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Stimson's stories (1)
Okay. How about a new series? Regular readers out here know I've been doing more of them - on Le Mans cars (Minis at Le Mans), on my Camber and Maya GT researches (The Camber / Maya files), on...
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Mystery Mini derivative (40)
This mysterious Mini based six-wheeler hauls from France and was spotted in an ad by reader Vera Domnick. She wrote: "I just ran across this advertisment in France. Did you ever see this car before?...
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More Broadspeed GTS pictures emerge
You may know by now that the Broadspeed GTS spent most of its life in The Netherlands, where it was raced between 1967 and 1971, mostly on Zandvoort, before it languished in Amsterdam for another few...
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Mystery Mini derivative (41)
This is not a Land Rover. Oh yes, it looks like one, that's for sure. But in fact it is quite a lot smaller and what's more: it is believed to be based on a Mini. The 10" Cosmic wheels do indeed point...
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Freewheelers Mini Bug found
Before we have our man Barry Stimson himself dish up some more tales here, have a look at this. A Stimson Mini Bug, which feels rather sorry for itself, oh yes. But according to Barry Tilbury, who...
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Pictures of Peter Sellers Hooper Mini emerge - but where is it?
A string of unseen (to me) pictures of Peter Sellers' very first coachbuilt Mini - built by Hooper (Motor Servives) Ltd. in late 1962/early '63 - have been posted on the Stilltime pictures website....
View ArticleGet ready for the 2nd Action Day!
After last year's first track day for fans of early Minis and Mini based cars, the time has come to get ready for the 2015 edition! The second Mk1 Performance Conversions / Maximum Mini Action Day will...
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Mini Jem left rotting is not for sale
Every now and then I receive a message from someone who has spotted this orange Mini Jem Mk2 looking very sad for itself. One of the chaps who photographed it some years ago published his picture and...
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A plane, a bird? No it's a Mini based sports car
The Ibis is a bird, right? Not necessarily. There have been planes, bikes and hotels named Ibis. And a Mini based car hauling from New Zealand. It was initiated by Wallace McNair who restored classic...
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Jem Marsh dies at 84
The sad news of the passing of Jem Marsh reached me this morning. Marsh, co-founder of the Marcos cars company, died two days ago at his home at the age of 84. Marsh certainly was one of the great...
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Stimson's stories (2)
It's Barry Stimson's birthday today - have a good one mate! - and also about time to share another of the many great tales he told me. This one is about a Mini based sports car that never was. But also...
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The Latin Landar
It appears that Spain has had its fair share of Mini derivatives. We know there was this Unipower which also appeared in a funky movie, there have been some Broadspeed GTs; about a year ago we reported...
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Philip Young dies at 67
Endurance rally mastermind Philip Young died yesterday in a hospital in Bangkok after the injuries from a motorcycle accident during the Road to Mandalay classic rally. Young started his impressive...
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