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Le Mans Mini Marcos: Update from Pau (2)
In the world car manufacture a marriage takes place when body and drivetrain are joined and I am happy to announce that today this event will take place for the one and only 1966 Le Mans Mini Marcos in...
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Boxing Day 1967 - with Best Wishes from Checkers
A copy of this leaflet, which I'd never seen before, was sent to me by Joost van Diën. Yes, that's the 1967 Le Mans Mini Marcos works car with its modified windscreen. It's seen here during its time...
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Happy Christmas 2021
Now that 2021 is almost finished we can look back at another strange year. But when sticking to the Maximum Mini theme it's certainly not been a bad one. A record number of Mini based cars has been...
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Happy 2022 - Deep Sanderson is Find of the Year 2021
Happy New Year! We have a winner here: the Deep Sanderson 301 found in Mexico-City last year received the most votes for the Maximum Mini Find of the Year contest, so congratulations to its finder...
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Hooper Moke seen in public for the first time
Not too many Mini Mokes were coachbuilt, but a very special example has now been seen in the public for the first time since it was built in 1967. We've seen the Wood & Pickett 'Beach Buggy', which...
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Biota article gives some new insights
A whole string of articles on Mini based (sports) cars has been seen in print in the last few months and TKC magazine's Biota feature is the last in line. This is a particularly interesting article of...
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Mystery Mini derivative (79)
Mike Brown alerted me about a picture he'd found on a Facebook page atypically named 'Sitting there Rotting on a Driveway'. And although the picture in question shows a vehicle that's not exactly on a...
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The cars of Alexander 'Sandy' Fraser: AF Spider
I noticed I haven't written much about the crazy contraptions built by Alexander 'Sandy' Fraser here, so why not catch up on that. These three-wheelers were very much built in the best tradition of...
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The cars of Alexander 'Sandy' Fraser: AF Grand Prix
Over to the next step in Alexander 'Sandy' Fraser's career as a motor manufacturer. After the AF Spider (click here) came the AF Grand Prix. That car was built in the same spirit but slightly...
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Eat this! The Mini powered Opel prototype
Now this is an unusual story! It's about an Opel that was originally planned to be built in Romania under dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu's reign after a 675 million dollar investment in a new factory that...
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The cars of Alexander Fraser: Lion buses and more
Over to the third (and last for now) installment about Alexander 'Sandy' Fraser's vehicles, with some more great inventiveness from Lincolnshire. For Frazer didn't just build the AF Spider (click here)...
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Mick Jagger's Mini Margrave - shrouded in myth
Let's have a look at yet another celebrity owned coachbuilt Mini that appears to have gone up in thin air: Mick Jagger's 1967 Austin Cooper 'S'. It's a car, which received the Wood & Pickett...
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Mystery Mini derivative (80)
Mystery Mini derivative number 80 (!) comes from regular contributor Scott Barrett and it's as mysterious as can be. He wrote: Hi Jeroen, Somebody with better eyesight than me has put the registration...
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Status 365 - let's register them
When a Status 365 is being offered for sale it causes a bit of a storm in my mailbox, which was the case last week. Thanks all for letting me know! Maximum Mini-fan, 365-Owner and overall good guy...
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Faded beauty: a Mini Margrave in Italy
Palmer Caputo of Rome is a great Mini enthusiast who built a number of luxuriously equipped Minis for the Italian market under the Palmerspeed name. He told me many years ago he also owned a Wood &...
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The cars of Douglas Glover (4)
Some time ago I wrote about the cars built by Irishman Douglas Glover (part 1 here and part 2 here and part 3 here) and I intended to finish that off with a bit more about the man and his machines....
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More ace art from Japan
The Japanese famously love Mini based (sports) cars and they appreciate art, too. Combining those two has resulted in some great paintings and drawings before. Last year saw these drawings of Mini...
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The lost Micron GT Mk2 - pictures found!
After a long search the Micron GT was finally found in March 2020 (click here). But the search for the car's creator Brian Bray continued. First there were some stories from the boy next door, who was...
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What could have been: the 1960 SCG Urbansport
Some years ago I wrote an article for The Automobile about the earliest Mini based (sports) cars that are known. Both the Butterfield Musketeer, Deep Sanderson 301 as well as the Ogle Mini have all...
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Where is this Japanese Ogle SX1000?
Your help is needed. I am looking for more information about this particular Ogle SX1000. The car wears chassis number MO/62/021 and was registered '992 VWL' when it was in the UK. Last seen in a 1986...
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