Just a nice period picture

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Pete wrote:
WMU 211G wrote:
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Great looking car wasn't it for the '69 Tour de France , one of my favourites, shame it ended up a crumpled wreck a few years after that photo was taken.
Spot the difference, Looks like they ran both 10s and 12s on the '69 TdF Auto

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Must have been the first appearance of 12s on a Mini then Stu..?

Nice tidy Mk1 Austin 850 in an early episode of 'The Champions', 1968...
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mab01uk wrote:Image

Cowley Technical Publications Department - 1965
Love that pic, as a tech illustrator I thought I'd be doing that for life... at least I still have my lamp. Weighs a ton ;-)
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WMU 211G wrote:Must have been the first appearance of 12s on a Mini then Stu..?
12" alloys were homolagated on 1st July 1969, TdF was in September, so it was pretty close.

Page 28 here http://mk1-performance-conversions.co.u ... 20MINI.pdf
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12" Roses were fitted to both Downton and BMC racers in April 1969.
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Great Pic Pete.....note the BL badge on the wing....
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I think those massive BL badges came from the JU vans.

Still my favourite badge of all time - the silver on blue flying plughole!
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WMU 211G wrote:Looks like a Radford here outside Rod Stewart's gaff in Windsor in the early '70s...
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That Radford looks to be Sand over Sable in colour (gold over brown!) (my Radford's original colour!). Have you got the original photo Nidge? Looks to be Rod's 1970 Lambo, he also had a '71 aswell! He wasn't with Britt until '74 ish and she didn't have a Radford in this colour as far as I know, she still had her W&P Mk2 at this time. I'd guestimate this photo was taken around '71 and he was with model Dee Harrington at that time (from '68 to '74) so was the Mini hers. or even Rod's? He made a mint in the Summer of '71 when Maggie May was a big hit single so splashed out on this 36 room mansion in Ascot and another Lambo!
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Looks like the yellow '72 SV to me. The other was a metallic blue S.
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surfblue63 wrote:Looks like the yellow '71 SV to me. The other was a metallic blue S.
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Minilite Magnesium were advertising in June 1969 with the headline .."Minis Go 12Inch"
2/D 228.. 12x5.5 for Rally Cross with 175 Section Tyre Fits front & rear.
2/D411.. 12 x6 for Rally Cross Front with 175 Section Tyre.
2/D 486.. 12x6 For Rallying using wide homologated wing extensions, or on the rear for Circuit Racing.
2/D 471.. 12x7 for Circuit Racing using low profile tyres on front & rear with wide homologated spats , or on front only in conjunction with 2/D 486 on rear and low profile Racing Tyres.
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surfblue63 wrote:Looks like the yellow '72 SV to me. The other was a metallic blue S.
The other one (JLL 831K) was white when Rod bought it new Stu and was featured in Car magazine at the time, I've been chatting with the lucky chap who bought it from Amari's recently (it had been painted blue just before Amari got their mitts on it) and he's had it put back to the colour and spec Rod had it in.
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surfblue63 wrote:Looks like the yellow '72 SV to me. The other was a metallic blue S.
The other one (JLL 831K) was white when Rod bought it new Stu and was featured in Car magazine at the time, I've been chatting with the lucky chap who bought it from Amari's recently (it had been painted blue just before Amari got their mitts on it) and he's had it put back to the colour and spec Rod had it in.
Didn't he also own the H registered white one?
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Pete wrote:
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surfblue63 wrote:Looks like the yellow '72 SV to me. The other was a metallic blue S.
The other one (JLL 831K) was white when Rod bought it new Stu and was featured in Car magazine at the time, I've been chatting with the lucky chap who bought it from Amari's recently (it had been painted blue just before Amari got their mitts on it) and he's had it put back to the colour and spec Rod had it in.
Didn't he also own the H registered white one?
Yes he did Pete...
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This was his SV, 'LUC 38K'...
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Meant to add this... Rod's white S 'JLL 831K' was delivered in October '71...
LAM MIURA ROD Automobili invoice Ch.4863.jpg
Stu you're right - the SV was / is yellow...
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So he had 3 Miuras.

I should have looked up older pictures as I only found pictures of the White/Blue S and the yellow SV as both have been through auctions in the last 5 years.
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Yep - I thought he only had two until someone sent me the yellow SV pic. When he bought the SV he joked about having ''a ten grand car parked outside me six grand house!''
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Ooooffff...!
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I told em to take off their Stilettos! :cry:
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WMU 211G wrote:Ooooffff...!
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I never had that happen to a Mini but my MG Metro met its end when the 20ft high car park wall at the local boozer fell over one windy night... :shock:
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