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Cartoon: John Stoneham (Australia)

How many Minis can you get into a corner at one time..

All of them.

That's just like the roads around most ciyies and towns were like in the 70's......... Mini's everywhere!

Or 4 minis equal todays Chelsea tractor

Birmingham , late 70s or early 80s , Facebook photo .

FAB 1 in the background I believe.

Guildford high street in the 60s, if I am not very much mistaken.

Even Lady P had to go shopping sometime!

WMU 211G wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2024 11:47 am BMC MK1 850.jpg

Excellent photo, speaking yesterday with a guy who was an apprentice at a BMC garage in the early 60's and mentioned driving the newly delivered Mini Mk 1's from the transporter to the rear for PDI and wax removal. That unique one time odour of a new car back then is epitomised by this photo...

French actor Alain Delon with his Moke...

WMU 211G wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2024 11:47 am BMC MK1 850.jpg

Period pic or a resto? It's somehow not quite 'right' - no overriders on a Deluxe, the sills look very 'thick' and are those black plastic window catches?

Don't forget, it's a LHD european spec. Hence the oddities I say. It can't be a resto....., nobody could do hair styles like that now!!!!!!!

Peter Laidler wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2024 5:31 pm Don't forget, it's a LHD european spec. Hence the oddities I say. It can't be a resto....., nobody could do hair styles like that now!!!!!!!

Definitely a period pic!

Just a nice period picture
Post by Peter Laidler » Thu Apr 04, 2024 5:31 pm

Don't forget, it's a LHD european spec. Hence the oddities I say. It can't be a resto....., nobody could do hair styles like that now!!!!!!!

Definitly a genuine press picture taken at Longbridge. I have several similar shots done at the time. This car was a " Longbridge Showroom" car along with a few others for the press launch. It was kept at Longbridge for a year on display before being exported to Portugal. Car still exists and now back in UK. - Article about it in Miniworld summer 2016 edition.

On Chorleywood Common c.1970. With Dad and his DS.

Citroen DS must be one of the most unique and fascinating vehicles ever created…

richardACS wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2024 9:14 am Citroen DS must be one of the most unique and fascinating vehicles ever created…

No car manufacturer would be brave enough to design such a unique vehicle today and I doubt many motorists would buy a car with so many unique features either....computer aided design and marketing research all now come up with the same answers (mostly based on various sizes of a generic SUV body shape), so only the badges or an exaggeration of a traditional marque grille tell you what brand or model most modern cars are.

This Bedford Dormobile conversion was taken to the US in 1966 and toured there for several weeks - it was so unusual that it was covered in the national press at the time.

Facebook photo , one for Mark Forster , it says , Acomb , York