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Landar R6 in full Technicolor
While I am working on Maximum Mini 3, messages about cars that have been featured in the previous two books continue to come in, too. And the one I received today from Graham Nevill is a particularly...
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Who converted Françoises Mini?
French novelist Françoise Sagan had a soft spot for big dogs and fast open top cars. The web is full of pictures of her in droptop Jaguars, Aston Martins, Ferraris, ACs, Lancias and Lotuses, often...
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Maximum Mini 3 is on its way
You will have noticed that it's been very quiet here in the last few weeks. But there's a good reason for that - it's called Maximum Mini 3 and should be available this May or June. Earlier this week I...
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Back on track (literally!)
May is here and the season has begun. But before I start telling what's happening a little explanation may be needed. I haven't posted here for over six weeks and that was mostly due to the new book...
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Stimsons shine at Stoneleigh - other are less fortunate
A string of Stimsons was supposed to come over to Blyton Park this year, but hey, they didn't make it. Fortunately two of them - Philip Lyons' Stiimson Scorcher and Paul Wylde's Stimson Mini Bug found...
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Visit Maximum Mini at the IMM
Only just back from the UK, Maximum Mini is getting ready for the next big show coming weekend: the International Mini Meeting in Belgium. And I will have a nice stand in the trader's area from where...
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Maximum Mini 3 is here!
It's there!The final book in the Maximum Mini series, already now referred to as the Mini's 'Trilogy of Terrors'...So, what to expect?Another 128 pages full of Mini based cars, in a hardback similar in...
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IMM 2016 - Marcoses, Midases and a Jem
What a weekend it was! Selling books at the International Mini Meeting was an experience on its own. From a very humble gazebo tent, which only just managed to keep itself standing in the frequent...
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IMM 2016 - all of the rest
After yesterday's flood of Mini Marcoses and Midases, now over to the rest of the Mini derivatives that made it to the International Mini Meeting in Lommel, Belgium. Quite an eclectic mix of Mini...
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Last week I got in touch with Nick Beaumont who used to hill climb a Cox GTM. The car appeared to be a very early example and rather then all fiberglass, some of the upper body (front bulkhead, half...
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Belgian Heerey turns out to be familiar car
It's GTM week at Maximum Mini, now with more about a Heerey GTM that was seen by several (but not me) at the IMM in Belgium. Thanks to Rolf Roozeboom and Benoit Rebetez I now know more about it. In...
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A Japanese Cox GTM - or is it?
It's still GTM week here at Maximum Mini, now with a little stunner from Japan. Our Japanese reporter Eiji Watanabe visited this year's (24th) Japan Mini Day at the Tsukuba circuit. In between tons of...
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Whatever happened to JDB 260E?
One story leads to another, here on GTM-week. Richard Hawcroft wrote to me regarding yesterday's Cox GTM: "I think you are getting old Jeroen. The Japan red Cox - it's an early one. Flat back,...
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Martini Mini - 50 years ago
This month, 5 decades ago, spelled the end for the Martini Mini ASC - the only German Mini based car dating back to the 1960s that I know of. And as I have so many historical pictures of the car in the...
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Wading a ford? Let's try a Scamp
You know you're in trouble when the floods cannot even be waded by a Scamp! Note the Mini that's definitely got a wet distributer, but the Mk1 Scamp appears to be in trouble too. You just be careful...
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Beyond the Books (A)
Now that my final book has come out (order here if you haven't yet) the time may just be ripe to have another look at the Maximum Mini archives, with thousands of pictures still unseen. Let's have a...
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Swiss Beach Car is - erm - different
Christian Chapalain of Switzerland contacted me about a car that he saw for sale in his home country. He wrote: "Hi Jeroen, I came across an unusual Mini Variant. It seems like a Beach Car with chopped...
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Really! A four-door Mini Marcos
You thought a convertible Mini Marcos was a daft idea? Well, how about a four-door version? Regular contributor Richard Hawcroft sent in this intriguing shot. Unfortunately with no more information...
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Not a Moke, but where is it?
Reader Tom Aldrian wonders if his mock-Moke is still around. He wrote: "Hi Jeroen, lots of fun reading the books I bought from you, bringing back some distant memories like the Nomad I took to the IMM...
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Broadspeed GTSs galore
It's not every weekend that a freshly restored Broadspeed GTS makes its entrance to a show at Beaulieu in the UK, while another GTS is raced on the other side of the world at Eastern Creek, Australia....
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