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Find of the Year 2022: the candidates
One of the traditions after almost 13 years of Maximum Mini online (!) has become the election of the 'Find of the Year'. Many barn-, shed-, garden- and field-finds have come along since day one and...
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Reptune Gullwing still in Canadian woods
Many years ago pictures of a Reptune Gullwing in a very sorry state were sent over to me (click here). The car, or what was left of it, was found by George Allen of Canada who stumbled upon it in the...
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I'll be home for Christmas in a Jiffy
Got the Christmas shopping sorted? Thought of the Christmas crackers, the candles? brandy sauce? tooth picks? You may need to get some final preparations done to the car also, before embarking on the...
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Lynton Racing's Unipower GT demonstrator
When I bought some brochures and other old paperwork recently, I was surprised to find it included a brochure from a company named Lynton Racing. That seemed a familiar name, but from what again..? I...
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Maximum Mini now in MiniWorld magazine
If you have read this month's new issue of MiniWorld magazine, you may have come across editor Karen Drury's foreword: "We welcome Jeroen Booij to the MiniWorld team with the first of his From the...
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Happy Christmas 2022
2022 Is almost over and it has been another interesting year. We've seen the return of several events, which was rather nice after a long break. Also: exiting Mini derivatives continue to be found in...
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Barry Stimson dies at 82
A real shocker on the last day of the year: Barry Stimson died at the age of 82 yesterday. Barry was the man behind a great number of designs, many of them Mini based. Best-known of these was the...
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Tom Karen dies at 96
Like Barry Stimson, Tom Karen also died just before the end of the 2022. He was 96 years old and was probably identified more with Ogle Design than David Ogle himself, if only it was because he was in...
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Happy 2023 - Unipower GT is Find of the Year
All of the best for the New Year to Maximum Mini readers world wide! This weblog is now in its 12th year and with almost 1,500 articles online an ever-growing source on anything about Mini based cars....
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Schwarzenbach's Super Mini survives
About three years ago I wondered if anyone knew more about a coachbuilt Mini shorty from Switzerland. Click here for all the pics. It took two months for an answer to come in the shape of little 1970s...
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Ogles in Japan (3)
Right! Time for some more about the Ogles in Japan now. After chassis number 1 (click) let's move over to chassis number 2 as that found it's way to Japan also! The car is registered '174 MPG' and has...
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New pictures of Nieuwenhuis Special
Four new pictures of the Nieuwenhuis Special turn up thanks to reader Michael van der Meij. Once again they were taken at the Trophy of the Dunes race at Zandvoort in 1968. When I first heard of the...
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Mystery Mini Derivative (85)
Boy, is the first Mystery Mini Derivative for this year shrouded in - er - mystery! It's only believed to be Mini powered, but even that is not known for sure. The picture was provided by regular...
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60 Years ago: pre-launch of the Deep Sanderson 301
These cool pictures have been in the Maximum Mini files for ages and I thought I'd share them with you now. They are unique photographs of the Deep Sanderson 301 production car's pre-launch - well, I...
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Looking for the Aldon-Viper BMC
Your help is needed: I am looking for a picture of a racing car named the Aldon-Viper BMC. This car was built by Aldon Engineering and raced in 1970 and 1971 by a man named Pat Ryan from Halesowen in...
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Stimson's stories (5)
I promised to write more about the late Barry Stimson after the news reached me that he had sadly died on one of the last days of the year (click here). There really is a lot of material in words and...
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John Lennon's Radford Mini: a replica is in the making
This posting about the Radford Mini De Ville of John Lennon keeps on drawing attention and comments since it was posted almost 10 years ago now. Meanwhile we know a little more about the car (click...
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A Biota in a British garden
About two months ago I wrote about the long-lost Mini Jem Estate, which turned out to be still alive (click here). And it wasn't on its own. From the article: "It's still in the UK and it's not the...
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Eclipse needs saving
Bound to be an unsolved mystery for the rest of its life, the surprise was great when in December 2019 this Mystery Mini Derivative turned out to survive. I mean, it was seen in Wellington, New Zealand...
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More Unipower GTs for sale
Many people have said to me that if I ever know of a Unipower GT for sale, I should let them know. Well, I keep on doing just that. After last year's duo (this one and this one) here's another two!Both...
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