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David's Deep Sanderson is now for sale
Back in 2007 I came in touch with David Ramsbotham, an avid classic car enthusiast and former financial director at Aston Martin. David had bought a Deep Sanderson 301 some years earlier and had just...
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Stimson's Stories (3)
It's always good to speak to Barry Stimson, who is never short of a story. But this time he's started to upload moving images he found somewhere in his attic. And so you, too, can hear and see him tell...
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Mini variants at Montlhéry
Shows with Mini derivatives in the spot light are everywhere now, and France had its share last weekend, too. Close to the famous Montlhéry track some 30 Minis and a few Mini based cars gathered under...
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HRDC racing welcomes Mini variants
In the ever increasing popularity of Mini based cars, the UK's Historic Racing Drivers Club (HRDC) has now decided to broaden its accessibility to all pre-1966 sports-, GT- and touring cars using the...
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Who knows more about the cars of George Davis?
I've been hoping to get in touch with a man named George Davis for ages now, but so far without any luck. Why? Well, Davis built a couple of Mini and Metro based utilities in the spirit of the Mini...
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Market round up
Let's make a little round-up on what is on the market at the moment. Quite a lot Mini based vehicles to choose from, ranging from plain weird to pretty wonderful. At your service!PS: You know where to...
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Robin Statham passes away
It is with regret that I understand that Robin Statham died unexpectedly last week. Robin was the man who made the majority of MiniJems after he'd taken the project over in mid-1967 from founder Jeremy...
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5 Years of Maximum Mini - the weblog
Well, well. It's 5 years ago today that I decided to do something with the archive and start a weblog. In that time I have posted 595 articles and a multitude of photographs. Some great, some perhaps...
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The first Camber GT now becomes a 4x4
Some years ago I found out that the very first Camber GT made (click here)Â survives. But not as we know it. The car, of which beautiful film footage survives, had a Maya GT nose section fitted in its...
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Colour coding
Some Mini derivative manufacturers made a brochure for their car - only the ones that had real confidence in their products I guess, so they are quite rare. I have collected several of them over the...
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Chopping the Mini's roof: front or back?
There is a lot of work involved in chopping the roof and waistline of a Mini in order to turn it into a MiniSprint or Sprint replica. But there are easier solutions, as the two examples sent over to me...
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Another Japanese Unipower GT
Recently spotted at a Japanese meeting - another Unipower GT. It looks to be a Mk2 and comes with 1968 or 1969 'G'-registration, wide bodykit and 13 inch wheels. The number plate tells us it was...
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More Unipower GT updates
Unipower news keeps on coming in here after last week's Japanese wide bodied GT. It supposedly is not an ex-works car but one that was modified by the Lenham Motor company in the late 1990s. What's...
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Christmas offer
Make a start on your Christmas shopping with the perfect gift: Maximum Mini 2, of course! Now you can take advantage of a 25% discount. This offer starts on Friday 20th November 2015 and runs until...
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Biotas in Japan
Reader Eiji Watanabe contacted me earlier about an Ibis in Japan (see here) and now he found out about not one but two Biotas over in Nippon. The first is a Mk2 and has been spotted before with other...
View ArticleAdd-A-car is the Mini based 6-wheeler for 2025
The BP Buildacar Competition sprouted a whole range of Mini based cars between 1972 and 1986, some of which have been seen here before. Click here for the 1974 Cranleigh entry and here for the Phoenix...
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Mk1 Mini Jem found in Shropshire
Richard Proudlove of Wrexham recently found a Mk1 Mini Jem in his native Shropshire. The car looks to be well-rotten but seems complete and is believed to have had just one owner from new....
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Taylorspeed at speed
Thanksgiving lies behind us and Christmas is on its way: ice and snow will now be soon approaching. Well, they are when you are on this side of the world. Over in the Antipodes Spring is slowly turning...
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Action Day 3 is coming!
Good news: Maximum Mini will again be at the 3rd Mini Action Day, held at Blyton Park Circuit in Lincolnshire and I've got some groovy plans for the weekend on April 30th and May 1st 2016. I cannot say...
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Guy Buckingham dies at 94
Guy Buckingham made a name in motor sports in Australia, but had begun racing earlier when he lived in the UK. In fact he was a clockmaker in Buckinghamshire who became an engineer for the RAF in WW2....
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