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Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2019 2:23 pm
by r.tec
I always say with a repair bench and a dozer one gets everything straight but in this case I had to admit that the body is lost.
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2019 6:28 pm
by mab01uk
jay weinstein wrote:mab01uk wrote:Anyone remember the Mini below which occasionally featured in the CHiPs TV show (1977-1983) about the adventures of two California Highway Patrol motorcycle officers? Here in the UK as a young Mini enthusiast it was a big surprise at the time to see a Mini driving around in California on a US tv show.
I seem to remember Ponch (Erik Estrada) used to call Jon Bakers (Larry Wilcox) Mini a shoebox!
I wonder if that Mini still exists?
CHiPs Opening Themes 1977 - 1983:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U66ehjdayeQ
I was slightly envolved with that one.
I'll "think it out" and get back later.
jw
Any further thoughts on the Mini jw?
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2019 7:33 pm
by jay weinstein
mab01uk wrote:jay weinstein wrote:mab01uk wrote:Anyone remember the Mini below which occasionally featured in the CHiPs TV show (1977-1983) about the adventures of two California Highway Patrol motorcycle officers? Here in the UK as a young Mini enthusiast it was a big surprise at the time to see a Mini driving around in California on a US tv show.
I seem to remember Ponch (Erik Estrada) used to call Jon Bakers (Larry Wilcox) Mini a shoebox!
I wonder if that Mini still exists?
CHiPs Opening Themes 1977 - 1983:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U66ehjdayeQ
I was slightly envolved with that one.
I'll "think it out" and get back later.
jw
Any further thoughts on the Mini jw?
We serviced the mini at my shop for the guy Larry Wilcox purchased the mini from. I think he worked for Warner Bros. film studio.
The car was painted in dark bronze with a black roof,5 inch Mk. 2 Cosmics,no sunroof or flares. It might have been surf blue/white originally.
It might have had a 1071 in it with a light flywheel as it really revved easily. Also had a 28/36 Dcd Weber and a loud exhaust.
The car was at my shop when Larry and his friend stuntman Bud Davis came to look at it prior to purchase.( Those guys were a lot of fun).
Mike Fennel's body shop probably added the flares,sunroof and paint as they could do that kind work in a day or two.The Benelite grill and driving
lights were on the car prior to LW's purchase.
I think that's about it.
jw
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2019 8:48 am
by mk1
You know some very interesting people Jay
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2019 9:22 am
by Pete
Bob Eaves in a very worksy looking rally car
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2019 3:40 pm
by jay weinstein
mk1 wrote:You know some very interesting people Jay
50 years of owning minis.......you meet a lot of people.
jw
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2019 11:50 am
by goff
Don't know if this one has been on before .
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2019 7:33 am
by UHR850
Yes more than once
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2019 8:55 am
by goff
UHR850 wrote:Yes more than once
And this one also URH850
although it is a baby Austin , would love that lube bay
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2019 9:25 am
by mk1
goff wrote:Don't know if this one has been on before .
In the days before she turned into "Leatherface" from the Texas Chainsaw massacre & started spouting total bollocks.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/0 ... al-hatred/
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2019 10:09 am
by mario abreu
Here are a few nice ones from Portugal.
You can find them on the internet in much higher resolution.
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2019 10:11 am
by mario abreu
some more...
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2019 10:12 am
by mario abreu
a few more
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2019 11:47 am
by AndyB72
Great photos Mario!
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2019 1:05 pm
by UHR850
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2019 7:05 pm
by r.tec
The black Mini in the background is by the way Leopold von Bayern on a Wooding Cooper S.
http://touringcarracing.net/Pages/p%201 ... Donau.html
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2019 7:37 pm
by goff
Another one URH850
, NZ , in a shopping mall
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2019 9:03 am
by UHR850
Thanks, looking great
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2019 9:10 am
by goff
UHR850 wrote: Thanks, looking great
Do i see a Mini Van with a clubman front ?????
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2019 8:29 am
by UHR850