Anyone recognise this?

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Does anyone recognise this front?
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Mr. Toad called.... wants his face back...
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Striped shirt wrote: Tue Aug 06, 2024 6:58 pm Mr. Toad called.... wants his face back...
Yeah not the prettiest thing
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I seem to think that these easy fit/fix fronts and a few other types/styles were available in the late 60's early 70's for young mini owners who had stoved the front of their mini in. Don't know who made them. But I bet that someone on the forum will.....!
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Here are some other types/styles which were available in the late 60's early 70's...

The Ridgeway Sports Conversion:-
http://mk1-performance-conversions.co.u ... dgeway.jpg

Turn your silk purse into a Sows ear 2. The Mini-Scorpion
(scroll down)
http://mk1-performance-conversions.co.uk/3rd_party.html

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

Rob and Mandy below were at the Donnington 20th Mini Birthday Extravaganza in 1979.
More photos here:-
http://mk1-forum.net/viewtopic.php?p=225500#p225500

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Thanks to Richard Lawrence for the photos and scan of the advert:-
https://www.minimarcos.org.uk/altpics/r ... index.html
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Another but a one off here (1965)...and 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."
http://maximummini.blogspot.com/2020/06 ... stest.html

NZ Hamlin Special crashed:-
http://maximummini.blogspot.com/2020/03/hamblin.html

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Striped shirt wrote: Tue Aug 06, 2024 6:58 pm Mr. Toad called.... wants his face back...
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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