Just a nice period picture

[Old English White]

Optimistic going off on a caravan holiday at that time of year He must be a Yorkshireman, tempted by an off-peak special offer

[Costafortune]

Looks like late 1977. That was a bloody harsh winter.

Meanwhile, GSV650 in Glasgow or Edinburgh around 1985/6. It's still on the road.

[irlmin]

Pic from March / April 1964 'News Exchange mag the 'in-house' mag for the Nuffield group of companies , Radford on its way to Bahrain .

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[irlmin]

Singer Rosemary Squires takes delivery of her Mini Cooper from Stewart and Arden London ( From Nov/Dec 1963 News Exchange mag

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[irlmin]

Another from the period , the new showrooms for Morris distributors TR Page and co LTD in Bexhil on Sea

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[irlmin]

Again from March / April 1962 News Exchange mag , a picture of a Major Buckley holder of the world Hydroplane speed record taking delivery of his Mini Cooper from a representative of Appleyard in Huddersfield.

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[Simon776]

Another from the period , the new showrooms for Morris distributors TR Page and co LTD in Bexhill on Sea News Exchange 3.jpeg

Almost inevitably, and the fate of many a BMC garage, now the site of a sprauncy set of flats.

[Pandora]

Meanwhile, GSV650 in Glasgow or Edinburgh around 1985/6. It's still on the road.

My pal Stephen owned GSV 650 in the mid 90s. From memory I found it in the yellow paper and having all my cash tied up in whatever mini I had at the time (mini 25 and the van, I suspect), gave him the details and he bought it to get to and from Uni. It was in colinton, quite a posh bit of town, and was an early '60.

In retrospect, he shouldn't have fitted the big engine, works arches, bigger wheels (only cause they had decent tyres off a pals scrapper....) etc, but we were young and it was just a cheap old mini, albeit we knew it was a bit special being so early, but hey, it wasn't a cooper and so worth very little.

He had it quite a number of years, and sold it down south, I think.

I'll try to dig out some photos of it

Edit:

As found

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And taking part in an Autotest at Doune classic weekend, upholding the honour of 'Team Pentland Classics', all of whom were suffering horrendous hangovers, yet still beat the Triumph club in the gymkhana thing

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Al

[Costafortune]

Excellent!

Meanwhile: Scrap Minis and Mini donors. Centre pic from 1983, the other two are circa 1970.

[irlmin]

From Popular classics July 91 .

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[surfblue63]

[irlmin]

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John Aley in action at Brands Boxing day , another from News Exchange April 62 .

[IanD1965]

A Mk2 Austin smoking it's way well into the 1970s

That is Stoke bridge Ipswich. My studio is next door to the bell. I’ll post a pic of it now.

[WMU 211G]

From Popular classics July 91 . News Exchange 5 2.jpeg

Related bit of trivia... The Beatles split up fifty years ago today when Paul announced he was leaving...

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[surfblue63]

Just found this great driveway shot on Flickr

Thorne Southwood Drive Easter 1975 by loose_grip_99, on Flickr

Come from an interesting album of old Mini pics

https://www.flickr.com/photos/loose_gri ... 0261234582

[Time Bandit]

This one was in the local paper last year (forgot I had it). Dodgy scan sorry but I couldn't get it any better.

[mab01uk]

The BL Safety Research Vehicles:-
https://www.aronline.co.uk/concepts-and ... -vehicles/

[olddave]

Such a lovely car Like the boot space though.

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[olddave]

I know the feeling!!

[Tim]

Such a lovely car Like the boot space though.

The exterior 'flappy' door handles, latch and inner release appear to be the same as used on Australian Mk2 Minis and much of the Leyland Australia range in that era.

Tim