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Mk3 Mini Marcos for sale in France
A particularly good looking Mk3 Mini Marcos has just made it to the market. It's a 1967 car (with the pretty dashboard layout) and correctly registered as such. The car has been restored in the last...
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Mini Mouse of Chuckles the Clown found
Now this is a find of a different kind! A Mini-based three-wheeler that was used by a clown! Maximum Mini fan extraordinaire Tony Bucknall, whom I visited earlier this year (click here and scroll...
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This is a special announcement from Maximum Mini towers. Tomorrow it will be 10 years since I started this weblog. Ten years! I started it after I didn't know what to do with the photographic archive...
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Solved after 10 years - the mysterious Gnat
10 Years ago today I made the first posting on what would become the Maximum Mini weblog and it was about a mystery Mini derivative named Gnat. See the article here. Imagine my surprise when the...
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Le Mans 1966 - Mini Marcos
This is Maximum Mini's 10th anniversary present for you, dear reader. All the film footage I have managed to find of the Mini Marcos at Le Mans in 1966 put together to make this one video. There were...
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W&P tailor model confirmed to be John Paul
A while ago I got confused over a well-known Wood & Pickett publicity photograph. I always thought it showed actor Richard O'Sullivan but later learned it was Twiggy's manager Justin de Villeneuve...
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Original 'Dutch demonstrator' Biota found
When I found out recently that the missing first Biota imported to The Netherlands in 1971 resurfaced, I was very eager to see it. The car had been long lost and I soon learned that its second owner,...
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Coombs' coachbuilt Mini de Ville
One very interesting article was dug up for me by reader Peter Camping. It's a piece from a 1969 issue of Motoring News and is about a coachbuilt Mini that was totally new to me. The car was built by...
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Deep Sanderson 'Twini' at the drag strip
Ever-enthusiastic fellow-Biota owner Tim Harber sent me some material related to the illusive Deep Sanderson 105 'Twini' or 'Twinny'. What struck me most was a clipping from a 1972 issue of Cars &...
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Dutch demonstrator Biota - history unraveled (1)
Since I posted about the little orange Biota Mk1, also known as the Dutch Demonstrator Biota here last week (click!), I have received a number of lovely messages from people who know more about the...
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Dutch demonstrator Biota - history (2)
More history of the orange Biota Mk1 known as the Dutch Demonstrator Biota! (original post of it's discovery here and history part 1 here).René Sontrop, son of the car's builder and Dutch...
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Dutch demonstrator Biota - history unraveled (3)
Over to the final episode in the Biota's history. For now at least, as the car is now reunited with the son of the car's original builder René Sontrop after 49 years! (parts 1 and 2 here and here)I...
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Maximum Mini - Find of the Decade
2020 has been a remarkable year so far. And not just for virus-reasons, but also for finding back forlorn Mini based cars. Up until now more remarkable cars have made it to the finds list on here then...
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Buckle Monaco wins 'Best Restoration' title
When I heard about a Buckle Monaco being superbly restored in Australia recently, I was eager to learn more and got in touch with the car's owner David Wallis. David was kind enough to tell me all...
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Happy Thanksgiving 2020
A happy Thanksgiving to my American readers! Maximum Mini has a loyal following with readers coming from a wide variety of countries, but the UK and the US have been well ahead of other nations since...
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Dutch Twini scrapped - but picture emerges
Years ago I was told about a one-off twin-engined Mini special, built in The Netherlands in the early 1970s by the late Jan Slotboom. Arch Mini enthusiast Sipke Blom was the one to tell me about it and...
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Excess all areas - right up our street
Some books are announced so long in advance that, when they finally arrive to still your hunger, they can almost only be disappointing. The very opposite goes for 'Excess all areas', the latest book by...
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Unique 3-wheeler will be resurrected: Thomas Special
Over the years, Richard Hawcroft has been a superb informant here on Maximum Mini, and I can't thank him enough for always being such an enthusiastic supplier of wacky stuff. Richard was in fact, the...
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Unique Radford Estate coachbuilt for Jack Heinz
I was contacted from Germany by Lupold von Wedel last month about a very special and unique coachbuilt Mini. It's a rare Estate that was built by Harold Radford back in 1964 and it's a stunning car in...
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Whatever happened to Lady Di's Mini?
The late Diana, Princess of Wales, is very much in vogue once again, or so my wife and daughters tell me. It made me wonder whatever happened to the convertible Mini she was supposedly given by Prince...
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