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Who is going to save this Siva Mule? (Updated)
I hadn't seen a Siva Mule being offered for sale for a long time and was happy to see one being advertised from Lancashire this week. Well it wasn't much more then a rough chassis plus body, but wasn't...
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Cool Maya GT shot - but who is that man?
Another great shot of the Maya GT 'HPN 13D' was found recently in a 1967 Dutch motoring magazine. I am not sure but suspect the man standing proudly next to it is the boss himself: George Holmes -...
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Racing a Stimson Mini Bug - not without trouble!
You think buggies are for posers? Think again as some were raced. Stephen Lawrenson got in touch recently to tell he owned a Landar R7 at one stage and carried on about his adventures with a Stimson...
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Miss Tilling calls in
MiniSprint owner and author Keith Mainland had a little surprise for me this week, as he brought me in touch with Suzi Grant-Fernyhough. Suzi is the girl in the 1975Â Tilling Mini de Ville...
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Euregio Meeting 2015 - the people
It was a particularly sunny day, yesterday, when the Marcos Eurgio Meeting took place in The Netherlands, attracting a flock of Mini Marcoses and a handful of other Mini and Metro based cars. Due to...
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Euregio Meeting 2015 - the cars (and a train)
Some more views on this year's Marcos Euregio Meeting - as promised. Now focussing on the cars rather then on the people. Enjoy it!Starting location was the beautiful estate of the Institute of...
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Ruud's restoration
Ruud de Leeuw has just finished the long-term restoration of his Mk1 Midas and got in touch. Unfortunately he wasnt able to bring it over to the Eurgeio Meeting last weekend but he may be there next...
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Greenwood's 'sidecar' at its prime
Thanks to an observant reader I was sent over these great pictures of Owen Greenwood's infamous 'sidecar' creation. They are all pictures I never saw before and I quite like them. It also struck to me...
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Unipowers meet up (in 1984)
When I caught up with Unipower GT owner Tim Carpenter last year (more here) he told me he had a stash of pictures somewhere of a meeting he attended with his car back in the mid-1980s. If only he could...
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More about the Unipower meet
As you may have known, there was a little group of devoted Unipower owners in the south of the UK back in the 1980s, who regularly met up. Tim Carpenter was among them: "The first Sunday of the month...
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Mystery Mini Coupe getting less mysterious
Michael Nahar of Connecticut, USA got in touch as he'd seen a Mini Coupe. This Mini Coupe. And he wondered if I knew more about it by now as he was offered the car recently. Well, I didn't know more...
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Japan Mini Day 2015: Derivatives theme
The 23rd Japan Mini Day will this year take place on November the 1st at the Lake Hamana, west of Hamamatsu (where well-known specialist Dinky Inc. is based). What's more: this year's theme is Mini...
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Unipowers for sale
I get often asked if I know of a certain Mini based car for sale. Mind you: I'm no dealer and am not too much interested in the buying and selling side of cars. But now all of a sudden no less than...
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The end of the Martini Mini
I often wonder why there are so little Mini based cars from the continent. Italy, France, The Netherlands, Belgium - there have to be more cars built then the handful that I know of. Or how about...
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Today 50 years ago: Mini Marcos debuts
On 25 September 1965 an unusual new car made its debut at a very wet Castle Combe. It was the Mini Marcos which was not even yet officially launched until January 1966. But the car, built by Jem Marsh,...
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Castle Combe celebrates the Mini Marcos
What a lovely day at Castle Combe to celebrate the Mini Marcos' debut of 50 years ago (updated story here)! A photographic report with excellent pictures by Stuart Watson. Thank you very much...
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Mystery Mini Margrave looks indeed like Omar's toy
You may remember the Wood & Pickett Mini Margrave spotted in an underground car park in Cannes two years ago (see here). The question was: is it the same car as '50 MAR'? That's the Mini Margrave...
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Gerry Anderson's rather special Mini Moke
Let's have a little sneak peek at the content of Maximum Mini 3, which will include some intriguing Moke based cars, too. How about the film car commissioned for tv producer and director Gerry...
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World's only car with transparant seats?
I came across some nice shots of the Quasar Unipower lately and simply had to share them here. The car was the idea of former model Emanuelle Khahn who ran a fashion and accessories firm in Paris and...
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It's Castle Combe again
Castle Combe surely was the place to be for us folks, last weekend and the weekend before. First we had the Mini Marcos' 50th Anniversary party (Stuart Watson's lovely picture report here); then Gary...
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