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Project X, where are you?
Today 50 years ago Project X was finished. This was a car built by some of the editorial staff of Australian Sports Car World magazine in 1964 and 1965, using a Mini power plant at the back. The...
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Brookwell Trifid prototype saved
Another little piece of Mini derivative history has just been saved, with the prototype of the Brookwell Trifid (6 built in the early 1990s) fully restored. The three-wheeler was originally built on a...
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Remembering Le Mans
Congratulations to Porsche for winning this year's Le Mans 24-hours race. A bit of a break from the ubiquitousĀ Audis! Next year it will be the 50th anniversary for what I believe to be one of Le Mans...
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Boxman's Broadspeeds
Remember the Mini Marcoses that reader Boxman (who's real name is Francisco and who is a Palaeontology student from Portugal) virtually drew for a computer game last year? See here if not. And Boxman...
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An ABS Freestyle down the street
I would never have believed that a Mini based buggy has been lurking in a barn about a mile from my house, but it turned out to be just so! Some years ago I came across a local Mk1 Mini Marcos and...
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An early Mini Marcos in Rotterdam
I am a sucker for an early Mini Marcos and so when I came across the pictures below I became intrigued. What we see is a Mini Marcos parked in front of the Speed Centre in Rotterdam, The Netherlands...
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Collecting Mini specials
It's good to hear of people who have been involved with Mini based cars much longer than I have and Tim Harber clearly is one of them. Tim runs MiniMail in Gloucestershire and is 'An oddball Mini-based...
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Euregio meeting 2015 on its way
It's been almost a year since the Euregio Meeting for Marcos cars and anything Mini based was given a new lease of life, and the organizers have decided to continue the meeting on a yearly basis....
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Maximum Minis at Shelsley Walsh
Several Mini derivatives are expected at the Shelsley Walsh Classic (click here) on the 18th and 19th of July and Unipower GT owner and fan of this blog, Pete Flanagan, is one of them. In fact Pete...
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Two Stimson Treks reappear
Stimson Treks are like London buses: just when you decided there was no use waiting any longer for one, not one but two come along together... I hadn't seen a Trek for years when a yellow project car,...
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Today in 1962
This could well be my favorite photograph of all time. It was taken 53 years and shows the mysterious Gitane GT on the right hand side. It is pictured on its way in France to a race that took place...
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MiniSprint shells back in production
Good news from ABS Motorsport's Tony Bucknall, who writes: "Hello Jeroen, I am sure you are aware, but just in case you are not, the Sprint shells are now back in production. After a long drawn out...
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Sun seekers come from the south
A couple of years ago I did an article for Mini Magazine on some of the Mini based buggies. Now, when I had a better look at their histories put together it suddenly struck me that all of them were...
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More about the German Landar R7
In May this year I heard about a forgotten Landar R7 that was supposedly found in a lock-up in Germany. I wasn't able to find out much about it at the time, but wrote this little feature on the find...
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Enzo Ferrari's Mini Cooper gets feature in Ruoteclassiche
And we have something about the mysterious coachbuilt Mini Cooper S owned by Enzo Ferrari!Italian magazine Ruoteclassiche has the car featured in their July issue, with pictures by Massimiliano Serra...
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Prisoner Moke makes it to the market
Remember the amazing discovery of a supposed genuine Wood & Pickett converted Mini Moke, used for legendary tv series The Prisoner? The car was found by Olivier Bos in Holland four years ago now,...
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Derivatives display produces new Unipower info
Two weeks ago - while I was enjoying a holiday in France - Pete Flanagan and friends organized a Mini based sportscar display during the Shelsley Walsh hill climb event. And Pete came home thrilled. He...
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The Bee Gees Broadspeed (2)
I found a few more pictures of Bee Gees drummer Colin Petersen and his Broadspeed GT, taken in what appears to be his London garage. See the earlier ones, taken outsideĀ here. Another little search came...
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Not one but three Ranger Cubs!
Reader Ian Whitehead just finished the restoration of his Scamp Mk1 (this one) and now has a healthy appetite for Mini derivatives! He presented himself a Ranger Cub as the next thing to return to its...
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A Hrubon holiday
Have you returned from your holiday, or are you going? Whatever it is and wherever you go: enjoy the summer while it lasts!This is going to be very cozy - a Hrubon Schmitt towing a miniature...
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