Just a nice period picture

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Taken the same day as your pic above Mark, by the 'Beatles Monthly' staff snapper...
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The man him self :D
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DOWNTON Mini is what I like a lot.
Collecting 60th wooden steeringwheels.
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Not seen that bottom pic before, nice!

Random find...
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mk1 wrote:Any further info on this one.

Described as "Prince Charles arriving at Trinity College in his Mini Cooper"

Clearly NOT a Cooper.
Some Pathe footage. The year is 1967, Trinity College Cambridge. The car is a Mk1 Austin SDL, reg no. 815 FRX.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUhDXo7eEno

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Found a shot from a local newspaper

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WMU 211G wrote:Coldhams Lane, Cambridge in the '70s...
My neck of the woods - I grew up less than a mile away, in CherryHinton.
Sainsbury’s was built ~1974 and that photo looks not long after as the newsagent hasn’t yet opened in the corner unit next to the freezer center.
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Charrington House in Bishops Stortford, probably early '70s, the Mk2 Mini in the foreground looks like it has an aftermarket dash, there's also a hint of a wheel arch extension...
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in the old stations, old cars category....
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Excellent!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogNjODGn_wM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3yWib9SF18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwWasALEJyQ
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snoopy64 wrote:in the old stations, old cars category....
The roof still stands today and is part of Sainsburys car park now ;)

Francois Hardy in her Mk1 Cooper...
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Penzance Motorail Terminal

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And on the subject of cars and trains here's a still from the Motorsport Tries Motorail film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAcCzNmnY8k


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Motorail... those were the days... i'd take my car back to Cornwall if they still ran it!!! :D mind you i'd take it to Greece too if Lydd still offered air ferries!!
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Random selection..
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Is that a Morris Super or Cooper in the middle pic...?
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It’s a Cooper for sure, the van pic is great!
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Disc brakes, grille and narrower bonnet badge mean it is a Cooper ;)
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It's got disks, so Cooper.

That photo on the harbour looks like an interesting event! The guy in the seven probably thought he had it in the bag until some bugger rocked up in a bobtail Cooper! :lol:

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Any colour so long as it’s beige...
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The picture on the sea front is Odicombe hill climb at Torquay , really steep twisty climb ,done it many times In various Cooper S cars.
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The Longbridge photos are bitter sweet. All those people working there, long hours churning out cars that were sold instantly. Imagine the noise of the place.

Now it's a housing estate to be, starter homes filled with Chinese made shit, foreign car on the drive and a World of Tat superstore up the road. :(
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