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Ogle SX1000 owner looking for history
An Ogle SX1000 seen here on a picture accompanying a Unipower GT turns out to be in the hands of Maximum Mini reader Stephen Bulling. He wrote: "Hi Jeroen. I am an avid reader of Maximum Mini and only...
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What is the Best Find of 2020?
The end of 2020 is getting near, which means it's time to make up what's the best find of the past year here - a real Maximum Mini tradition. 2020 has proved to be an absolute record year for finds,...
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Status Minipowers do survive
It doesn't happen all too often that a message on here produces replies many years after being published, but it certainly goes for the little piece I wrote about Mike Wilsdon and his eclectic...
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Wittebrood Mini Special does not survive
A lovely message came in from classic car dealer and fellow Dutchman Jelle Blom, who helped me to some great stories in the past. He wrote:"I bought a Citroen DS yesterday at a garage of a man named...
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Best wishes from Maximum Mini
2020 Has been a most unusual, chaotic and strange year almost everywhere. Here, too. I wish all of my readers and other Maximum Mini enthusiasts a happy Christmas and the best wishes for 2021. Thank...
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An ABC Tricar for Christmas (1)
It's almost two years ago that I was contacted by Dean Weatherhead, who wrote back at the time: "Hi I’m sorry to bother you but I have found your email address on Google when I searched ABC Tricar...
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An ABC Tricar for Christmas (2)
I hope you liked yesterday's little Christmas story. Here's how it ended.After an ABC Tricar had been purchased by the Weatherhead family in August 1976 and used as a daily driver for several years, it...
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Fisher GT is Find of 2020
First of all: happy 2021 to you all! Let's hope the new year will be a good one for all and perhaps slightly less challenging...Unfortunately I received very few votes for the 'Maximum Mini Find of the...
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ABC Tricars - how many left?
When I was looking for a proper ABC Tricar to photograph for Maximum Mini 2 ages ago, I made a little list with cars known (see it here). But as this is some 10 years ago now (!) I thought it would be...
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Ben and the Dutch Peel Viking GT
One of the first to phone me up in the new year was Ben Konst - the man who'd imported the Peel Viking GT to The Netherlands in the 1960s, and who bought back his old demonstrator some two years ago...
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When I was looking at Mk1 Mini Marcoses with competition shells lately I came across this video in the files, which I'd totally forgotten about. What we see is Gary Marlow's incredibly original car,...
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GRV Project X is not a Hustler. But does it survive?
John B. Orson is the membership secretary of the Midas owners club, but was involved as a teacher with another one-off Mini based car 38 years ago and he was kind enough to share its story. He wrote:...
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The adventures of the happy Scamper
Over the years I spoke to many people involved in Mini based cars, but had strangely never got in touch with Scamp boss Andrew MacLean. This while the Scamp has been in production since 1969, of which...
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New Zealand MiniSprint: Crashed, rebuilt and... disappeared
Graeme Farr's messages always bring a smile on my face, and the one he sent recently did so, too. He wrote: "Did I ever send you this cool period photo of Tony Gilbertson's car after he crashed it in...
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54 Years ago - Racing Car Show 1967
Regular contributor Karsten Stelk came across another great photograph of the London Racing Car show of January 1967, this month 54 years ago, and he was kind enough to share it. In the center of the...
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Mystery Mini Derivative (71) - Ice Racing edition
So far it's not much of a winter here. In Canada it's a different story. In Huntsville, Ontario night temperatures reach -20 degrees now. Huntsville is where this Mini based ice racer was seen decades...
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More snow bound Mini derivatives
Keeping with the snow-theme (Tuesday's Canadian ice racer here) let's have a look at a few more Mini based cars which were used or meant to be used in snow. First photograph comes from Scamp-boss...
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The forgotten Midas Mini Marcos prototype
This is an exceptional story and I don't think many people will know about it. It's about a once planned rebirth of the Mini Marcos under the Midas banner, probably in the mid- to late-1980s.Fact is...
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Another Deep Sanderson survivor?
The exact number of Deep Sanderson 301s built may never be revealed, but still new information about these cars keeps on turning up. Over the years I found a few survivors in the UK, France and Germany...
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Barbados Carimoke owners needs help
Shortly after the article about Andrew MacLean's far flung adventures of building Mini-based cars overseas got published (more here), I received a message from Barbados. Charles Fuller Cowles owns one...
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