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Stage rallying a Mini Marcos
Auto crossing or stage rallying can be rough sports for cars such as a Peel Viking, a Mini Jem, an Ogle SX1000, a Cox GTM or a Magenta or even a Status 365. I can't remember having seen pictures of a...
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Mini Coupe - made by Browne & Sons Ltd.
This car has found its way to Maximum Mini several times before. Last time was in 2015 (click here), when it was offered for sale in Connecticut, USA. I always thought it to be an ABS coupe-conversion...
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Stillborn Status Minnow: the 'Metrofied' Mini
When the square nosed Mini Clubman made it to the scene in the 1970s, several companies started offering fibreglass nose sections to update your classic 'round nose' Mini in Clubman style. The Status...
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Ogle versus Mini, sizewise
If you, like me, ever wondered what the differences in shape and size are between the standard Mini saloon and the Ogle SX1000: this is it. I took drawings from The Autocar of both cars, got rid of all...
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The Deep Sanderson 301 prototype (1)
Deep Sanderson 301s gets a regular mention here (click!) but how about the open-top prototype preceding the 'production' model? I found that there's not even a single post dedicated to that intriguing...
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The Deep Sanderson 301 prototype (2)
We've seen how the Deep Sanderson 301 prototype came about (click here) and LawrenceTune Engines Ltd. then took the car to the 1962 Racing Car Show. From that year's show guide: "The pride of place on...
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The Deep Sanderson 301 prototype (3)
Over to the Deep Sanderson 301 prototype in racing. It's first outing on the circuits seem to have been at Oulton Park in March 1962, with Chris Spender behind the wheel and with plenty of competition...
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American Mini Marcos sold in Germany
A Mini Marcos that was offered for sale in Germany last week was once imported and road registered in the USA. According to the seller "The vehicle stood in a garage for a long time until I freed it....
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Another North-American Marcos coming over soon
Colleague writer and Mini derivatives fan Iain Ayre will be moving soon from Vancouver, Canada to Scotland and will be doing a European tour, too. He wrote to me: "Hi Jeroen, hope all is well with you....
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Car Graphic Classic - Mini variants and Maruyama interview
When there's something about Mini based cars in magazines, they find their way to here from wide and far and wether they are old or new.The latest issue of Car Graphic Classic from Japan did, as it...
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A Canadian Ogle, and a chance meeting with Stirling Moss
Canada has a bit of an odd relation to the Ogle SX1000 with one of its distributors turning the British Ogle Mini into the Canadian Reptune GT (story here). But there were more Ogles in Canada and one...
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You choose: Heerey or Whitby?
A great number of Mini based cars has been sold in the last couple of months, I believe, and I can hardly keep up with the ones being offered for sale. But let's have a look at this duo, spotted by...
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Racing Ogles of Canada
The Ogle SX1000 of Martin Golder (this one) may have been raced previously in Canada during the 1963 season by a man named Donald Grey of Toronto. Grey entered the car in the Grand Valley Car Club's...
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Wellington DT1000 Special survives
If you have a copy of Maximum Mini 3 you may have read the following about a car seen in Wellington and named DT1000: "Another mystery Mini derivative seen in Wellington, New Zealand. This square but...
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Landar R6 at Barbon manor hill climb
Here are some great period pictures to get in the mood - we are entering a new season after all. A season in which we can hopefully get together again for some motoring action or fun. The pictures...
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Sun's out - John Cooper Ices ready to go
Spotted last month in Tokyo: that's a Mini based 'Batman' ice cream by Whitby Morrison of Crewe in Cheshire and it looks eager to get out in the sunshine. The sun will be out here this weekend....
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Unipower GT hill climber nears completion
The restoration of the Unipower GT jointly owned by Howard Darby and Bob Neville ('LTM 80G' -Â this one) is nearing completion and Howard was kind enough to contact me about it. He told me that he and...
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The future of Maximum Mini - advice needed
It's more then 12 years since this webpage was started as a spin-off to the Maximum Mini books. But now, 1399 articles illustrated with thousands of pictures later, the time has come for some...
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Flash floodings in Australia
It's all smiles for the boys pushing that Mk1 Scamp up to a higher part of the flooded road, but perhaps not so much for the people of New South Wales in Australia today. Torrential rain causes flash...
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Mini derivatives at Goodwood Members' Meeting
No less than four Mini based sports cars can be seen in action at the Goodwood Members' Meeting this very weekend and how nice to park all four of them next to each other in the paddock! All the best...
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