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Another Ogle SX1000 find in the USA

November 13, 2023, 5:33 am

Another Ogle SX1000 turns up in the USA, where it has been left deteriorating for many years now. I'd heard about an Ogle in Pennsylvania and had even seen some pictures of it in various states taken...

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Ranger - the haunted Pick-Up

November 23, 2023, 8:15 am

Still a great little hummer - the Ranger Pick Up. The way to 'transform your old, rusty 1100/1300 into an exciting all purpose road car' in the early- to mid-1970s. Initially the car was made at an old...

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Meeting up with Julien Vernaeve

November 28, 2023, 1:12 am

I just drove 500 kilometres to pick up one single photograph. Have I gone mad? Probably! But then it wasn't just anybody who handed the picture over. I got it from Julien Vernaeve, the 1960s BMC works...

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An announcement from MAXIMUM MINI

December 1, 2023, 6:56 am

MAXIMUM MINI is going to change.The Maximum Mini blog was started in 2010. Some 1,600 articles have been published since. It has always been free to read to anyone, and all the stories of the past 13+...

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Now in Maximum Mini Newsletter #2:

December 11, 2023, 5:04 am

Celebrity owned Mini JemsIs this the sole surviving Status RR Mini front end?...And that's a period picture of it...Famous Foley Broadspeed GT restored Down Under

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Brand new Ogle badges now available

December 15, 2023, 4:26 am

After I found an unused original Ogle antelope badge earlier this year, there was finally a template to have quality badges remade. And here they are. They are the exact same size as the originals and...

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Find of the Year 2023: the candidates

December 19, 2023, 1:59 am

Ho-ho-ho, it's that time of year again! The time to traditionally decide which has been the best find of a Mini based car in the past 12 months. We've been doing it for the last 13 years, but this is...

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Happy Christmas 2023

December 21, 2023, 2:31 am

The year is almost over with the last days of 2023 being spent in festivities by many. It's been a good year for Maximum Mini. The Le Mans Mini Marcos project is finally seeing progress after a long...

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Now in Maximum Mini Newsletter #4:

December 28, 2023, 3:08 am

New series starts: 'Minis at the 'Ring'Part 1: the Deep Sanderson 301 PrototypeNew Ogle badges now available Mystery MiniSprints in Japan

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Now in Maximum Mini Newsletter #5:

January 2, 2024, 2:48 am

Biota Mk1 from its 1st owner: Find of the Year 2023And yet another Biota barn find!Story revealed: Why the last Biota built still has just 80 kms on the clockA present from John Houghton himself for...

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Now in Maximum Mini Newsletter #6:

January 10, 2024, 10:41 am

A photographic look at the DART's launch in January 1964Richard Oakes and the 1977 Midas prototype Warwick Mk2 racer - a Mini derivative..?Yes, that does look very much like a Mini engine ...but...

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Now in Maximum Mini Newsletter #7:

January 15, 2024, 2:28 am

Wild Heerey GTM found in FranceUnipower GT goes continentalButterfield Musketeer at Racing Car Show '62

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Now in Maximum Mini Newsletter #8:

January 22, 2024, 1:56 am

The ongoing investigations into Lady Di’s MiniPicture proof found: WM Scorpion really did existAnd yet another New Zealand Twini found

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Now in Maximum Mini Newsletter #9

January 30, 2024, 12:58 am

Minis at the 'Ring (2): Deep Sanderson 301 at 1000kms race, May 1963A comprehensive look at the car number 97 and its preparation Late 1960s Scamp Mk1 - unknown, unbuilt and... unregisteredJem Marsh...

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Now in Maximum Mini Newsletter #10

February 6, 2024, 1:03 am

Lawther GT lives: a sign of life after 18 years of searchingThe one-off Mini based car in 1968Chambers Special still lives, too. Spotted by readerAnd that car, also in 1968Le Mans Mini Marcos project:...

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