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foxy52 wrote:

WMU 211G wrote:Another shot of 'the Shrimps' black Mk1...


Nesmith's...


...yes I know the car well





Twiggers!


Leather / vinyl covered early Rokee style dash...?


Snapped at Stanford Hall a few years ago, nice bespoke dash and Tilling window conversion (same as yours foxy)...

...yes I know the car well.. same vintage as mine .. short Britax Weathershield sunroof and Tilling with Door cappings.. Waso,s to .. nice pics foxy52

Cheers foxy - I'd imagine there's quite a bit of work involved in fitting the Tilling kit, for a start you'd need to remove the metal drainage channel below the glass area. Was yours done when the car was new or later on...? I think you mentioned some time ago that you might be tempted to change the colour of your car too.

Some Radfords today.

surfblue63 wrote:

isn't is great to see a period car on a pair of old white / yellow plates

looks miles better than a cheap modern set of black and silver 'stampies'

rich@minispares.com wrote:

isn't is great to see a period car on a pair of old white / yellow plates

looks miles better than a cheap modern set of black and silver 'stampies'

I'm uming and ahhing as to wheather to fit some on my GT.

surfblue63 wrote:

rich@minispares.com wrote:

isn't is great to see a period car on a pair of old white / yellow plates

looks miles better than a cheap modern set of black and silver 'stampies'

I'm uming and ahhing as to wheather to fit some on my GT.

as long as they are the plastic letter type or a correct period font they will look ace

its the horrid Charles wright 2 shite that people fit that spoils it!

I think Roy's Radford 'GYH 251C' had those reflective plates from new, it was one of Radford's demonstrators and he usually has a photocopy of the period motor mag reviews in the window at shows showing those plates on it in '65 or '66. Must have been one of the earliest appearences of that style of plate.

(It was up for sale a few months back).

WMU 211G wrote:I think Roy's Radford 'GYH 251C' had those reflective plates from new, it was one of Radford's demonstrators and he usually has a photocopy of the period motor mag reviews in the window at shows showing those plates on it in '65 or '66. Must have been one of the earliest appearences of that style of plate.

I've got a copy of that, I'll post it up later, it's pictured outside Radford's with a For Sale sign on it.

I think '67 was the year refelective plates came in? Here's that shot of GYH with the number on the bonnet...

WMU 211G wrote:Cheers foxy - I'd imagine there's quite a bit of work involved in fitting the Tilling kit, for a start you'd need to remove the metal drainage channel below the glass area. Was yours done when the car was new or later on...? I think you mentioned some time ago that you might be tempted to change the colour of your car too.

...Well Nidge..they used to say it was an easy conversion to fit ??!! I dunno ..the draught proofing schlegal type weather seal needed re sticking/fitting on the internal door capping..the winder is a bit tight on both windows.. the Tilling kit was a very early mod on my car but it was re fitted to new doors later in its life ..quirky product glad I have it tho jus nice to be a bit diff...also I have noted some are colour coded/painted but others such as the 00X car are left in their natural state .....I have only ever seen 3 in the metal and only a few more in print .....................colour no ?? I have been tempted by island blue or even black .. but !!! nah !!!...unless of course I have a complete respray to get rid of some of the rust bubbling up these days lol !!! foxy52

Pete wrote:I think '67 was the year refelective plates came in? Here's that shot of GYH with the number on the bonnet...

Lovely shot Pete thanks for sharing that. I see it didn't have the arches fitted then but still has Mk1 Cosmics - nice. The pic would have been taken in the yard round the back, the showroom fronted onto the pavement in King Street. Would love to get a shot of my car parked out the front but it's double yellow or red lines these days (one-way only too, never used to be when I lived there).

foxy52 wrote:

WMU 211G wrote:Cheers foxy - I'd imagine there's quite a bit of work involved in fitting the Tilling kit, for a start you'd need to remove the metal drainage channel below the glass area. Was yours done when the car was new or later on...? I think you mentioned some time ago that you might be tempted to change the colour of your car too.

...Well Nidge..they used to say it was an easy conversion to fit ??!! I dunno ..the draught proofing schlegal type weather seal needed re sticking/fitting on the internal door capping..the winder is a bit tight on both windows.. the Tilling kit was a very early mod on my car but it was re fitted to new doors later in its life ..quirky product glad I have it tho jus nice to be a bit diff...also I have noted some are colour coded/painted but others such as the 00X car are left in their natural state .....I have only ever seen 3 in the metal and only a few more in print .....................colour no ?? I have been tempted by island blue or even black .. but !!! nah !!!...unless of course I have a complete respray to get rid of some of the rust bubbling up these days lol !!! foxy52

Aside from yours and 'OOX...' I don't recall seeing any others with the Tilling conversion - nice to know at least a couple of modified cars survive though. The day will come when the rot will outweigh the good metal so you'll have to decide which colour to paint it!

Not a Radford but close enough... the one off Bertone Cooper S, I think some (or all?) of the mods were done at John Cooper's place, pity the orders never flowed in but I read somewhere that George Harriman wasn't best pleased about JC doing something on the side while he was still being paid two quid per Cooper sale by BMC... there's a two page spread on the car in the Brooklands road test book on Coopers showing the interior which looks well plush for the time, the rear headrests are hung from the roof...



Had this lurking in the hard drive for a while, can't remember where it came from...

Great photo Pete here she is when new with R1000

Eckland's Hatchback (21st birthday present) here...(at 4.30)

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/out-t ... llers+mini

Hek, what is that in Brits right hand ? she looks a little shocked . looks to me like a Rampent Darthvader !!

There is a whole collection of them on the parcel shelf.

WMU 211G wrote:
Had this lurking in the hard drive for a while, can't remember where it came from...

Looks like the November 1968 issue of Hot Car to me.

Pete wrote:Eckland's Hatchback (21st birthday present) here...(at 4.30)

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/out-t ... llers+mini

Fantastic Pete, nice footage of Britt's hatchback... October '65 so I'm wondering if Lennon and Harrison's Radfords were being done in the workshop out the back while this was being filmed... LGF 695D and LGF 696D both being registered on 8th Feb' 66. I know they were both '65 built but they must have been at Radford's gaff for quite a while with all the work they had doen to them...?

My hatchback was built on 27th september 65 and went straight to Radfords and looks virtualy the same as Britts car and the same colour so was probably in the workshop at the same time,but i have not got any of those strange things in the boot cheers Bri.

So I presume this was Eckland's birthday prezzy...?



Was that the first to have the Beetle rear lights?

Ringo's car did :



Original incarnation:




..and it wasn't all Minis..



I think that's a very nice shape!