Just a nice period picture

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Seen on Face ache page :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Haha. What a neat trick. You'd have to be pretty accurate with the controls though and not leave the braking too late.....
A lot of work went into that Mini didn't it. Note the Australian (possibly S.African) doors? So possibly the whole conversion not UK?
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In fact, it LOOKS like the former SA president, Pik Botha driving it!
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https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/kevi ... ort=oldest
One of the big attraction's at this year's Caravan and Outdoor Leisure Show is a hand-built Mercedes mobile home that carries a mini van in its boot. The mobile home is the creation of Newcastle body builder Wilton O'Neill.

Photos: Mr. Wilton O'Neill backing the mini van out of the "boot" of the mobile home.
June 16, 1976. (Photo by Kevin John Berry/Fairfax Media via Getty Images).


Also found some background on the company, Newcastle NSW Australia, which still exists today:

https://www.oneillsnewcastle.com.au/about-us.html
At the turn of the last century, blacksmith and wheelwright DJ O’Neill had set up in the tiny township of Burraga, NSW where he manufactured and repaired horse-drawn vehicles. He later moved to Blayney and then to Newcastle – and by then, the work had shifted to automobiles. By 1962, his grandson Wilton O’Neill was the director of O’Neill’s Body Works Pty Ltd and the company employed eleven people who
specialised in motor body building and smash repairs.
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1968 G plated Mark 1, London 1977.
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Do you know where this is?
Salzburg maybe?
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goff wrote: Thu Apr 22, 2021 4:45 pm Seen on Face ache page :lol: :lol: :lol:
And don‘t forget to open the back doors before driving into the boot! 😂
Looking for Morris Mini Minor 1960 parts... (master brake and clutch cylinder, lower dashtray panel)
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Chewie Baker wrote: Wed Apr 28, 2021 7:15 am Do you know where this is?
Salzburg maybe?
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Definately not Salzburg - rather somewhere in Switzerland or Italy (at least the Mini) as they used to have tiny front registration plates.
In Austria we had normal sized black plates with white numbers.
Yes I am a nerd: I am researching the Austrian Mini-racing scene of the 60s and 70s :ugeek:
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It is Vipiteno Bolzano, South-Tyrol / Italy

I checked, the Mini is not standing there any more. :D
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I took this picture in the beging of the 80th.
The owner had also an 1973 Innocenti Cooper 1300.

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If Batman drove a mini this could be it :shock:
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How to spoil a mini in 3 photos. Not-so-bonnie Charlie owning one and the Batman variant!
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UHR850 wrote: Sat May 08, 2021 3:05 pm I took this picture in the beging of the 80th.
The owner had also an 1973 Innocenti Cooper 1300.

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😅 wow, tastefully modified !
"Get the wheels in line, Get the wheels in line with it! ..... and then slam your brakes on or we'll be in the cabin ! "

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jay weinstein wrote: Sat May 08, 2021 3:24 pm If Batman drove a mini this could be it :shock:
Great minds think alike :!:
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8-) I knew the owner back than, he was together with his wife a big Mini nut. But as always lost contact so I know nothing more about the Bat MoMini.

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