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Ogle SX1000 racers for sale
Ogle SX1000s don't come up for sale too often, so I'd say it's worth an article when there's suddenly three of them on the market. And what's more: all three of them are fully race prepared! Let's have...
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Tony's second Jem is now finished
Reader Tony Fysh restored a Mk2 Mini Jem a few years ago but once finished considered selling it once again due to a lack of use. The car was sold swiftly through Maximum Mini but for Tony that was the...
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World's saddest Mini Jem is now saved
Is everything for sale in the end? Perhaps it is. Even the Mk2 Mini Jem left rotting in an East Suffolk front garden and notoriously not being for sale has now been sold. The car was spotted for years...
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Ranger restoration - but where's the other from Gainsborough?
John Langley is restoring a Ranger Cub and got in touch: "I build custom motorcycles and odd ball stuff, and bought the Ranger. I started last week and will forward photos of its progress. You are...
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Whatever happened to the BAL Salamander?
There are days when I don't think about the BAL Salamander but today wasn't one of those. I came across pictures of the beautifully made Mini derivative and wondered where it would be today? The car,...
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Quasar Unipower film car survives in France
The Quasar Unipower seen in the French movie 'Elle boit pas, elle fume pas, elle drague pas, mais... elle cause!' driven by the late Mireille Darc (film footage here), appears to survive in great shape...
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Ringo Starr's hatchback Mini restored
Right before the world got acquainted with Covid early last year, I was in the UK to speak to Steve Burkinshaw, the master restorer of coachbuilt Minis. Steve showed me around his workshop where one of...
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Gerry Anderson's Mini Moke camera car has a twin!
An article about the special Mini Moke six-wheeler camera car that was used by filmer Gerry Anderson for his UFO series has recently been brought under the attention. Reason for me to dig deeper into...
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Taylorspeed Jem - only 4 built says reader and Jem owner
An interesting message from Carlo Meschino of Australia, who owns a Taylospeed Mini Jem - number 5 built Down Under with only the first four cars built by John Taylor, he believes. Carlo...
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London, August 1971, Emperor Rosko, Stimson Mini Bug
About 50 years ago American-born deejay Emperor Rosko was the man to listen to when pop music was your passion. The BBC Radio 1 DJ seemed to be a real-life Austin Powers at the time if you ask me. I...
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Nimrod on its way to recovery in Austria
A Nimrod that was seen for sale in Germany has now finally found a new owner in Austria: Jan Krieger, who contacted me about the project. He wrote: "I found it by scrolling through Ebay to find an...
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Building a Broadspeed GT replica
I keep on receiving questions about how to build or where to buy a Broadspeed GT replica roof but I don't have any of these roofs available, leave alone that I have any knowledge to build them. What I...
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Sludgerunner and the Summer of '76
One of the people I've been corresponding with for years now is Tim Harber, who's owned more Mini derivatives than most of us and some of them were real oddballs - take the Sludgerunner. It's been...
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Happy holidays!
I'm off on holidays and won't be reading my messages for some time. Only call me when you've found the Lawther GT or Saga, the Killeen K16 or one of the Butterfield Musketeers. Well, okay, you can call...
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Making the Mini Shark in 1969 (1)
Back from holidays and ready to treat you to more exploits, new and old, from the land of Mini based (sports) cars. How about the one-off Mini Shark? It was built between 1969 and 1974 by Terry Lee of...
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Making the Mini Shark (2)
Yesterday you could see pictures showing the building process of the one-off Mini Shark, designed and built by Terry Lee between 1969 and 1974 (here), today some more information on that car.Lee made...
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Crayford Cameo: any survivors?
Crayford Engineering of Kent were the number one in Mini convertible converters, building them from as early as 1961 up until as late as 1983. They made a number of Mini Clubman's in convertibles in...
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Bulanti straight from the moulds
A rare picture taken in Annangrove, Australia in 1971, where Brian Rawlings built his Bulanti at the time. Rawlings' workshop Bulant Motors was located next to Amaroo Park raceway in New South Wales so...
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An ABC Tricar in France
Another ABC Tricar has resurfaced, this time in Cazouls-lès-Béziers, southern France, which makes it the second that I've heard of outside of the UK. The car comes with a massive Roadhog front spoiler...
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Hubert Giraud passes away
It is with great regret that I heard of the passing of Hubert Giraud on July 19 after being contacted by his son Alexandre yesterday.Giraud was the last of the original team members who raced the Mini...
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