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Le Mans Mini Marcos project: the build continues
Time for another update on the Le Mans Mini Marcos project. As you may recall the car is now back in The Netherlands after a very lengthy stay in southern France. My friend Joost van Diën and I picked...
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Tracing the DART's origins (1)
I was contacted by Nigel Fraser Ker a little while ago, and while things started out chatting about the Mini Marcos, we were soon directed towards the Marcos' origins: the DART as it was designed and...
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Tracing the DART's origins (2)
Following the earlier contact I had with Nigel Fraser Ker (click here), Nigel became very curious about where exactly the workshop could have been, where Edmond 'Dizzy' Addicott built his DART. I had...
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Nick's Unipower GT - found in a barn
I lost track of Nick Gerolomou who I saw last in 2016 to celebrate the Unipower GT's 50th anniversary (click here). Nick bought his Unipower in the early 1970s from dealer Monty & Ward, drove it...
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MG Mini Sedanca on a road trip
Whilst the one-off MG Mini Sedanca came back from Denver, Colorado to Bristol in the UK in 2019 (click here), it is now touring the country or so it seems. The car was seen recently at the Lakeland...
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Wood & Picketts on BBC footage, including '50 MAR'
This lovely little video from the BBC archives, shows some rather outrageous Minis. The most interesting ones, if you ask me, are the two Wood & Pickett Mini Margraves at the start. And they are...
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The many faces of a wild custom Mini of the 1970s
After two recent articles, here on Maximum Mini, reader David Kiss decided to drop me a line. The reason was that two of the cars described brought back some sweet memories. David wrote:Â "Dear Jeroen,...
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Original ABC Tricar owner calls in
A lovely message from John Byfield: "Hello Jeroen, I have just found Maximum Mini website and spotted my old car there. I owned BFD141J from new, 1971-1974. It was bronze yellow then as you can see. It...
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Graham's mad Minis, Marcos and Ogles
About seven years ago I wrote about the mad Mini engines built by Graham Cooper (click here). In an old baptist chapel in Sedgley, West Midlands, Cooper (no relation) built some truly overbore engines...
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Barn find Unipower now sold for a very fair price
Almost forgot to mention this. I learned more about the Unipower GT that was spotted in a barn in Kent last month (click) and found out it was owned by a garage holder in Elvington named Wayne. I...
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MiniJems in The Netherlands
Back in 2020 I bumped into a genuine barnfind MiniJem in my native Netherlands. The car had been put in storage back in 1984 and hadn't moved a wheel since. It was a Mk2, complete and looking good but...
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DeJoux and Fang for sale in the Antipodes
New Zealand's best known Mini based sports car has to be the DeJoux Mini GT; Australia's the Nota Fang. And in both countries one of each is offered now for sale. The DeJoux is listed as a 1971...
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Why wasn't the MiniJem launched in 1965?
This tiny little snippet below may not seem special, but it is something particularly interesting. We know the Mini Marcos was launched before the Mini Jem as it debuted at the Racing Car Show of...
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Tom's Midas is now for sale
It's always good to keep in touch with people and cars and it was a long time I'd heard from Tom Berkouwer, who's Midas Bronze I photographed for the first Maximum Mini book. Tom now decided to sell...
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BMC's own Mini based dreams - by John Worker
There is no denying that the great British Motor Corporation itself looked sideways to what happened in the Mini derivatives scene in the 1960s and 1970s. No surprise really with so many variants...
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Ogles in Japan (5)
This bright tangerine coloured Ogle SX1000 wears chassis number #36 and was registered 'XSK 195' in the UK. The car was imported to Japan by Tetsuo Warashina in 1991, who ran Warashina Cars of...
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This is the old Camber / Maya GT factory
It's been a while since I wrote about the Camber / Maya GT, while it is an absolute favourite. Perhaps all the surviving cars have been unearthed by this time? At least most of them have been described...
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Steve owned that Broadspeed
Two years ago a Broadspeed GT changed owners and eventually found its way to the USA (click here). The car turned out to be 'WUX 421', which had previously been owned by Graham West of Burton-on-Trent....
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Meredith Mini Special goes Dutch
It's good to know that the Meredith Mini Special survives. I did receive a few pictures of it recently, showing the car on its Dutch registration '03-YD-10', which it received after it was sold from...
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Classic Motor Show 2023 - the Mini derivatives
Go to the NEC this weekend for the Classic Motor Show and you are likely to bump into the Minikits Club there. They have another great display of Mini based cars with a Siva Buggy, Jimini 2, Stimson...
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