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Last one for the moment, & this is still one of my favourite Mini photos of all time.

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Notice the padre in the pic above the last........... hovering nearby hoping to get a glimpse of something nice when she struggles to get in the back of that mini.........
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Polarsilver wrote:So its official that i have got my GT Grill Badge in the wrong position .. or have Leyland in this photo got the GT Grill Badge in the wrong place?
Brochure shots show that BL couldn't decide which position was correct!

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I think the red brochure picture is MFC442H (the one in the black and white press pack picture). So the badge would be in the upper part of the grille.

Aside from that car I have only ever seen GTs with the badge in the lower black bar when installed by the factory.
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1980.
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Careful where you drop your load!
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And there was me thinking it was a mobile hod...
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Sheffield Star 1st February 1983: David Howitt with his Mini after [force 10] gales damaged a [pub] wall in Nottinham Cliff, Pitsmoor and it collapsed on to his car.
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I don't know anything about this! one of the local Scrap guys had it on theirF/B page.
sometime ago.
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1HP :lol:
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iain1967s wrote:Sheffield Star 1st February 1983: David Howitt with his Mini after [force 10] gales damaged a [pub] wall in Nottinham Cliff, Pitsmoor and it collapsed on to his car.
It was reshelled, and lived on until 1992. :lol:
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Getting a lift?

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Mind That Chopper Eugenie

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THAT's what I call a mini........
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:lol: Here are 3 Mini's on the picture :arrow:
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:o Bad luck :roll:
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