Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2024 3:52 pm
John Surtees picking up his new Mk1 Austin Cooper at John Cooper's gaff in Surbiton...
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Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2024 7:06 pm
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2024 7:12 pm
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2024 2:22 pm
Minis with custom "wraps" as marketed in Switzerland in 1976 Including a "Jaguar - Mini" 
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2024 9:08 am
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Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2024 2:51 pm
Turin, summer 1968, Remy Juilienne during the filming of the 'indoor ballet' scene which was cut from the 'The Italian Job'...
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2024 7:26 pm
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2024 7:38 pm
And every one of them made in England! 
When we had a motor industry...
When we had a motor industry...Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2024 9:15 am
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2024 5:15 pm
Carnaby Street in 1968...
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2024 7:32 pm
The Incredible Austin Se7en.
"This is without a doubt one of the best promotional brochures ever produced for the Mini.
Published as part of the major re launch in Spring 1961 this brochure contains some of the nicest images ever produced in Mini publicity material."
https://mk1-performance-conversions.co. ... 0Seven.pdf
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2024 7:55 pm
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2024 2:54 pm
Whoops...
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2024 2:55 pm
However:
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2024 2:56 pm
Around 1970:
Bells Garage in Haxby near York.
Bells Garage in Haxby near York.
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2024 2:57 pm
Same garage as the two with the Mini and A40:
Obviously a bodyshop and possibly a BMC one. You can just see a clipper blue early Mini Minor behind the tweed (?) grey Mark 1 Minivan.
Obviously a bodyshop and possibly a BMC one. You can just see a clipper blue early Mini Minor behind the tweed (?) grey Mark 1 Minivan.
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Sat Jul 20, 2024 4:44 pm
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2024 11:40 am
You're right about that advertising picture with the lady and the light blue mini Martin. BMC had some superb advertising blurb for minis, right through to the end of production. But dear o' deary me, they were let down badly by the sales management teams.
That said, the good guys in the advertising dept were let down right to the end by the shoddy work practices and out-inspection department at the factories.
Added a bit later........ I must admit to having used some of these old BMC advertising pictures as my screen saver. In fact, I noticed several of them featuring Mini's and MG's turned into post cards for sale in a shop in Marlborough last week - including a nice red Rover Cooper Sport
That said, the good guys in the advertising dept were let down right to the end by the shoddy work practices and out-inspection department at the factories.
Added a bit later........ I must admit to having used some of these old BMC advertising pictures as my screen saver. In fact, I noticed several of them featuring Mini's and MG's turned into post cards for sale in a shop in Marlborough last week - including a nice red Rover Cooper Sport
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2024 10:14 am
Kings Road, Chelsea, 1966...
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2024 7:02 pm
Small Faces drummer Kenny Jones in his 1965 Mk1 Mini 850 with Hooper dashboard...
Actor Laurence Harvey's 1966 W&P Mk1 Austin Cooper S...
Actor Laurence Harvey's 1966 W&P Mk1 Austin Cooper S...