Just a nice period picture

[UHR850]

Brexit Girl with the goldenbars

[WMU 211G]

Well if we're going down that route...

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[mab01uk]

[UHR850]

Oké I got it

Kees

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[iain1967s]

my eyes, my eyes!
What is that - a Marcos glued to a Reliant ?

[nimbusprint]

my eyes, my eyes!
What is that - a Marcos glued to a Reliant ?

It's a Mini Jem estate

[WMU 211G]

That's exactly how I remember so many of the Minis round here when I was growing up in the '70s, nobody gave a monkey's about originality or values back then!

Clubman launch, October '69...

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[mab01uk]

That's exactly how I remember so many of the Minis round here when I was growing up in the '70s, nobody gave a monkey's about originality or values back then!

Me to....also many of the Minis around here at that time......I still love the completely deseamed look on a Mk1, despite the water running in the tops of the doors, not a problem today as I try to never drive a classic Mini in the rain!
When I was a kid I bought the Airfix kit below of a standard Mk1 Mini to create something like I had seen in my older brothers Triple C magazines, I filed all the seams and roof gutters off the plastic bodyshell moulding, cut the front wings/bonnet off to make a removable one piece front, there was no detailed engine in the Mini kit so I fitted a B-Series engine transversely (from an Airfix MGB kit I think, and cut the down the MGB gearbox/flywheel housing to suit the Minis transverse fwd layout), glued 2 sets of standard Mini wheels together to create some 6x10 steels, painted it with Humbrol metallic paint and finally added some water slide transfer go-faster stripes .....I may have it still stashed away in my loft somewhere!



Morris Mini-Minor
[M4C]
"Taking it down even smaller in size, but to an exact 1/32nd scale, is this remarkably detailed 46-part kit of the revolutionary Mini-Minor. In addition the kit contains two extra parts for conversion to the equally famous Austin Seven, if desired. Complete with a selection of four different number plates and suggested colour scheme."
- From 2nd Edition Airfix catalogue (1963)
Airfix Catalogue information:
Series: 1
Rarity of early version: Scarce.
First Issued: 1961
Catalogue Ref - 2nd Edition (1963): M4C
Catalogue Ref - 3rd Edition (1964): M4C
Catalogue Ref - 4th Edition (1966): M4C
Catalogue Ref - 5th Edition (1967): M4C
Catalogue Ref - 6th Edition (1968): M4C
Catalogue Ref - 7th Edition (1969): M4C
Catalogue Ref - 8th Edition (1970): M4C
Catalogue Ref - 9th Edition (1971): M4C
Catalogue Ref - 10th Edition (1973): 01404-1
Catalogue Ref - 11th Edition (1974): 01404-1
Catalogue Ref - 12th Edition (1975): 02414-1
Catalogue Ref - 13th Edition (1976): 02414-1
http://www.vintage-airfix.com/airfix/13 ... p-432.html

MGB
[M203C]
"The kit features an opening bonnet with a fully detailed engine, transparent headlights and detailed suspension."
- From 5th Edition (1967)
http://www.vintage-airfix.com/airfix/13 ... p-442.html

Plenty of nostalgia with all the old Airfix Construction Kit catalogues to flick through here from 1962 onwards:-
http://www.vintage-airfix.com/airfix_catalogues

[WMU 211G]

Thanks for the links Mab excellent stuff

Here's my half hearted and not very accurate attempt at George Harrison's Radford S based on the Tamiya kit, the sunroof is made from duct tape...!

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I wish someone did a large scale kit of the Mk1, I'd have another go and do it properly this time.

[Costafortune]

That's exactly how I remember so many of the Minis round here when I was growing up in the '70s, nobody gave a monkey's about originality or values back then!

Clubman launch, October '69...

MINI CLUBMAN 1969 ADO20 Clubman_launch.jpg

I think that's Tony Ball.....? He was a BL/BMC PR guy for many years, still alive I think.

I can recall a couple of spotty herberts in Somerton (Zummerzet) driving around in a really rough red/black 1071 S in 1979. It vanished, and reappeared having been resprayed a mauve colour. I wonder if that one made it?

[WMU 211G]

Bit wet at Himley Hall a few years ago - a lovely Mk3 S.... is the owner on here...? Always wondered where the tinted glass came from...

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[mab01uk]

1974


Oct 1963 Minivan
Tax Due: July 1994

[Peter Laidler]

Amazing, the blue minivan YVS 874. I registered an ex Army Land Rover (35 CL 21) in the early 90's and was allocated the number YVS 878. I suspect that the mini van was an ex RAF one by the colour

[GraemeC]

The van is VVS not YVS

[Peter Laidler]

Oh yes....... Just making sure that you were on the ball Graeme!

[nick@dunsdale]

667 VJH must have had its number robbed plate still exsist's now on a Xantia

I also remember many mini's sitting in gardens in the 70's and 80's, they were part of the landscape back then, now when you see one you do a double take and stop for a look

[hugbilly]

The last but one couple of photos are a reminder of how cars rusted in those days.

My father had a Hillman Super Minx estate bought new in 1963. It was as I recall a very nice car but within 5 years or so the fronts of the sills had pretty much disintegrated and we were getting busy with the Isopon. Not long after my father considered replacing the Minx with a Hillman Hunter and related how the Rootes salesman told him "body rot has been eliminated in the new model !" Luckily he didn't invest in a Hunter.

My own '61 Austin 7 lasted quite a bit longer than the Minx though its foam filled sills became a nuisance rust wise. But that Mini, and nearly all the other cars from those days, was not a patch on my current daily drive a 10 year old Suzuki Swift with 130,000 miles on the clock and pretty much no corrosion at all.

If only our beloved minis had been built that way.