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Simon776 wrote: ↑Sun Oct 04, 2020 2:43 pm
spraybeateer wrote: ↑Sun Oct 04, 2020 1:25 pm Posted on F/B sometime ago!

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That is Wakefield, the building (largely hidden by the bus) with the Austin flag atop is Westgate Motors. More or less the same view more recently.
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Quite often in better times walk up past there on a Thursday afternoon pub crawl ;)
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Continental chic, Mini style....
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;) Good looking Mini Van den Plas :lol:
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Again :lol: Rob and Mandy :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

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I took this picture my self in 1977 ;)

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UHR850 wrote: ↑Sat Oct 10, 2020 3:53 pm I took this picture my self in 1977 ;)

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at the risk of looking stupid - what is this ? - looks like its a pouting Mini........ :lol:
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A 1965 Mini "trout" special?
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Non Mini but what a lovely pic.... a quiet corner of the Maserati factory....
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This could be us in a few weeks time !
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Old English White wrote: ↑Sat Oct 10, 2020 7:20 pm A 1965 Mini "trout" special?
Thanks, .....still a new one on me
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:o OEPS
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1966 Crooked Road Hill Climb , OPOTIKI , NZ
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Exminiman wrote: ↑Sun Oct 18, 2020 12:35 pm
Old English White wrote: ↑Sat Oct 10, 2020 7:20 pm A 1965 Mini "trout" special?
Thanks, .....still a new one on me

Rob and Mandy below were also at the Donnington 20th Mini Birthday Extravaganza in 1979.
More photos here:-
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The Ridgeway Sports Conversion:-
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Turn your silk purse into a Sows ear 2. The Mini-Scorpion
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http://mk1-performance-conversions.co.uk/3rd_party.html

Nose jobs new and old :-
http://maximummini.blogspot.com/2011/05 ... d-old.html

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Thanks to Richard Lawrence for the photos and scan of the advert:-
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Old English White wrote: ↑Sat Oct 03, 2020 10:56 am :lol: Would a company get away with that now in this PC world :?:
They didn't then.

As DT would say, FAKE NEWS!

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Another pouting mini. Frank Hamlin car from NZ. Based on a '59 I believe.

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Another photo here (1965)...long before the R50 MINI (2001).
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All about the Hamlin Special - once the Fastest Mini in the World:-
"It was built out of a blue 1959 lightweight Mini but had parts from a wrecked Cooper 'S' which Frank bought."
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NZ Hamlin Special crashed:-
http://maximummini.blogspot.com/2020/03/hamblin.html

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The Triumph Herald was launched around the same time as the Mini in 1959 so was fighting for the same customers - Not sure what this picture says about those that bought the Herald but certainly a 'period' image. Scanned from original slide C.1965.
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How many Mini's have done what this Bambino is doing ???? another from NZ.
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