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Pete wrote: ↑Sun Feb 05, 2023 1:47 pm Rich making good use of the step ladders!
Bet that windscreen sticker made all the girls want to jump straight into bed with him :lol:
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Puts modern day health and safety into perspective doesn't it?
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From 'Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)'...

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Mk2 Mini range (+ Mk3 Elf and Hornet)
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Photo by Dave Ford, Sowerby Bridge, October 1969...

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Cheap Mini Pickup.....
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Cheers :D
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Cliff Smart Ltd was Cardiff's BMC dealer.

Late 50's to the mid 1960's:
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Same garage and one of the first Mini Minors has been delivered.
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Costafortune wrote: ↑Sat Mar 04, 2023 11:35 pm Cliff Smart Ltd was Cardiff's BMC dealer.

Late 50's to the mid 1960's:
Great photos , my era ;) , brings back memories how it used to be back when life was so simple .
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Is this Rich@minispares upping his horse power :o
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British School of Motoring ‘high performance driving course’ at Brands Hatch, 1965.
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goff wrote: ↑Sun Mar 05, 2023 7:39 pm Is this Rich@minispares upping his horse power :o
No way to treat a lady . . .
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From 'The pleasure girls', 1964.

An early basic Mini driven by Ian McShane. Plus another of him walking out of a nightclub at silly AM.
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Judy Geeson with her Mk2 S in 1969...

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