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Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2018 2:40 pm
by surfblue63
Pete wrote:WMU 211G wrote:WORKS COOPER S OBL F.jpg
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
More pictures here
http://www.forum-auto.com/sport-auto/hi ... 12-140.htm
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2018 3:32 pm
by WMU 211G
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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Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2018 5:50 pm
by AndyPen
mab01uk wrote:
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
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2018 6:49 pm
by surfblue63
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
12s.JPG
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2018 9:48 pm
by Pete
12" Roses were fitted to both Downton and BMC racers in April 1969.
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2018 9:53 pm
by spoon.450
Great Pic Pete.....note the BL badge on the wing....
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2018 6:25 pm
by Costafortune
I think those massive BL badges came from the JU vans.
Still my favourite badge of all time - the silver on blue flying plughole!
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2018 12:45 am
by Pete
WMU 211G wrote:Looks like a Radford here outside Rod Stewart's gaff in Windsor in the early '70s...
LAM Miura Rod #001.jpg
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!
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2018 12:58 am
by surfblue63
Looks like the yellow '72 SV to me. The other was a metallic blue S.
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2018 12:59 am
by Pete
surfblue63 wrote:Looks like the yellow '71 SV to me. The other was a metallic blue S.
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2018 9:16 am
by Polarsilver
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.
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2018 1:26 pm
by WMU 211G
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.
LAM MIURA ROD CAR MAG DOUG BLAIN 000miura_01.jpg
LAM MIURA ROD lamborghini-miura-p400-s-183407891-9.jpg
LAM Miura Rod #002.jpg
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2018 1:31 pm
by Pete
WMU 211G wrote: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?
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2018 1:35 pm
by WMU 211G
Pete wrote:WMU 211G wrote: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...
LAM MIURA ROD OVM 8H pics#2.jpg
LAM MIURA ROD 699350671.jpg
This was his SV, 'LUC 38K'...
LAM MIURA Rod CH4818 RHD LUC 38K.jpg
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2018 1:40 pm
by WMU 211G
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...
LAM MIURA ROD LUC 38K Giallo .jpg
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2018 4:00 pm
by surfblue63
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.
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2018 4:12 pm
by WMU 211G
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!''
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2018 1:48 pm
by WMU 211G
Ooooffff...!
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Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2018 3:49 pm
by Polarsilver
I told em to take off their Stilettos!
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2018 5:43 pm
by Time Bandit
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...
