'Period' Photos of a 1960's 'Mini' family!

[mab01uk]

Some very nice period photos below of a couple of Mk1 Mini's that were posted on the 'Surrey New MINI' forum by a fellow New MINI owner and SNM member 'Roger34'.
Roger has been kind enough to give me his permission to share these 1960's family photos with Mk1 Forum members
The Austin Seven Mini 485 CUW was his dad's first Mini that he raced & also used as a family car in the early/mid 1960's. The photos were taken when they went on holiday to Belgium & Holland. Roger is the smallest of the three children in the pics.
http://surreynewmini.forumotion.com/

The white/black Mini 850 (RLB) with the boat that they towed as well, was another family Mini, the photo was taken about 1968.
Also Roger learnt to drive & passed his driving test in the White 850 Mini "RLB" and will be interested in any comments or info...and of course to find out if they are still around?

[rich@minispares.com]

that's a cracking set of photos

[bpirie1000]

Awesome. Love the history of old cars.. Especially when they are part of a family...

Hope my kids enjoy the mini as much..

[InimiaD]

Great stuff. Thanks for posting.

[JC T ONE]

Nice pictures

Good with some history to the car(s)


CUW looks well "blinged out" cool.


Thanks for posting.

[Pete]

Great period shots. Nobody'd been caught sticking that Ritmo dash padding on nowadays but I love all that old tat.

[Tedwong]

Like the Moss steering wheel!

[111Robin]

Brilliant photo's. Nowadays this sort of family trip doesn't appear possible without a huge MPV, just goes to show how practical the Mini was in its day.

[Chris64]

Just fantastic!

[mk1]

You can't beat a pic nic by the side of the road. Try it nowadays & I reckon you'd get moved on by the traffic wombles

Seriously though, this is a fantastic set of pictures that really give an impression of the time they were taken.

Thanks for sharing,

M

[minitravellerman]

Some cracking pics there - thanks for sharing. Mini looks awesome with the black roof.

[nickacb]

I love the color combination the first car ended up with, the black roof goes really well with that smoke grey/speedwell blue or whatever the color of the body is.

[rich@minispares.com]

I love the color combination the first car ended up with, the black roof goes really well with that smoke grey/speedwell blue or whatever the color of the body is.

all it needs is a pair of stripes on the side and it would be a '850 tc' tribute

[UHR850]

SUPER those pictures, thanks !!

[nickacb]

BTW, how do you get that ambar look in the front lights like in the second pic?

[nick rogers]

Nick, those are clip on beam-converters/diffusers which were needed when driving on the right .

[mab01uk]

Deflected the headlamp beam for continental driving and yellow lights were preferred in France at the time.