Just a nice period picture

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surfblue63 wrote: Thu Feb 17, 2022 6:08 pm My Inno Mini Minor Mk3 has opening vent windows in the doors.

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Really like that Stu.
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surfblue63 wrote: Thu Feb 17, 2022 6:08 pm My Inno Mini Minor Mk3 has opening vent windows in the doors.

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Your Mini Minor has an different "mk1" grill.
The Mini Cooper mk3 has the MK3 shape grill.
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goff wrote: Thu Feb 17, 2022 12:34 pm Just a nice period picture :D :D :D
I like the curtains in the back!
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surfblue63 wrote: Thu Feb 17, 2022 6:08 pm My Inno Mini Minor Mk3 has opening vent windows in the doors.

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That's lovely. :)
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Lovely colour. What is it? Is that a parking ticket on the right side, front screen?
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UHR850 wrote: Fri Feb 18, 2022 10:36 am
surfblue63 wrote: Thu Feb 17, 2022 6:08 pm My Inno Mini Minor Mk3 has opening vent windows in the doors.

Inno Mk3 4.jpg
Your Mini Minor has an different "mk1" grill.
The Mini Cooper mk3 has the MK3 shape grill.
All the Mk3 Inno Minors appear to have the same grille as mine

https://www.autobelle.it/it/a/Vendo_Inn ... 3221.xhtml

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Peter Laidler wrote: Fri Feb 18, 2022 11:58 am Lovely colour. What is it? Is that a parking ticket on the right side, front screen?

The colour is called Amaranto, which is Italian for Amaranth, a plant with purple coloured flowers

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:roll: O my what did happen with my Cooper mk1

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If there was a club that used these as buggies I might be tempted to take up the game

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Bit of a mishap on the Lickey incline at Bromsgrove c.1965....

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Dutch rally driver Maus Gatsonides with his Farina Grey 1959 Austin Basic.....he also invented the Gatso speed camera! :o
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:roll: I did post these pictures not so long ago already :|

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UHR850 wrote: Tue Feb 22, 2022 8:06 pm :roll: I did post these pictures not so long ago already :|

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Don't worry that often happens, you have re-posted some of mine before :roll: , I saw the Gatso photos over on the F.Book 1959 Mini Register...it's not easy to check back through 236 pages of this thread or remember every previously posted photo as you get older! :lol:
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:roll:
mab01uk wrote: Tue Feb 22, 2022 8:08 pm
UHR850 wrote: Tue Feb 22, 2022 8:06 pm :roll: I did post these pictures not so long ago already :|

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Don't worry that often happens, you have re-posted some of mine before :roll: , I saw the Gatso photos over on the F.Book 1959 Mini Register...it's not easy to check back through 236 pages of this thread or remember every previously posted photo as you get older! :lol:
I know it happens very sorry to mention it.
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Leeds Rd Huddersfield football ground early 60s
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Not so nice period picture.
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Probably perfectly preserved below the mudline. New trend "canal find" a possibility ?
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:D A very classic comic.
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I thought this looked abit staged but is apparently Sidmouth, early 70s..
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