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WMU 211G wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2024 4:25 pm Manchester in 1975...


BMC MANC 1975.jpg

That was turned into the GMex exhibition space in the 90s which used to host classic car shows at one time! Saw U2, Public Enemy, New Order and The Smiths in there too! Not all on the same night obviously! Absolutely surrounded by glass skyscrapers now. It’s like Noo Yoik down there!

Mini above and those thinggies on the wings. Look like those big American speakers or or air horns from a train!

I wonder if the owner is still around - and realises what a total wally he looked like!!!!!

Earls Court. London 1966.

Look At Life - Putting Up a Show:-
https://www.tptvencore.co.uk/Video/Look ... 74e3fe70da

Mini Clubman bodies being produced at Castle Bromwich 15th May 1970.
http://www.motorgraphs.com/heritage/pro ... 57435.aspx

A 70-year history of the Castle Bromwich assembly plant.
"By the end of the war, Castle Bromwich had developed world-beating expertise in building metal-skinned aircraft, an asset that was to be tapped by sheet metal manufacturer Fisher and Ludlow which turned the plant over to manufacturing car body panels.
It has been a centre of car production ever since, under the ownership first of British Leyland then Jaguar.
In its time, it has produced Mini sub-frames and bodies for Rovers and Jaguars and painted Triumph TR7 sports car bodies."
https://www.business-live.co.uk/manufac ... ly-3940359

Fisher & Ludlow:-
viewtopic.php?t=37826

1968, ish.

A screen grab from the 1967 Pete & Dud film 'Bedazzled', nice bit of period S&A advertising...

1972, and during a power cut a Minor 1000 is used via a belt drive to generate enough electricity to power the pumps.

Actress Sarah Lawson (married to actor Patrick Allen) picks up her new Mk2 Morris Mini Estate from John Sprinzel in London...

Gutted I never got chance to talk to Sprinzel (well I did briefly), the stories he must have had!

Mk2 Minis in Mk3 colours at Longbridge in late 1969, no Coopers but they were certainly made in monotone Mk3 colours

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Pete wrote: ↑Wed Sep 25, 2024 7:33 pmAnother..

Didn't Ringo Starr have a very late Mk2 Cooper in monotone white in 1970 Pete...?

Yes he did!

There could be Coopers among them Pete. Duo tone roofs ceased as soon as the Mk3 colours were introduced. If yo wanted a white or black roof, you paid afterwards!

A Cooper would still have the stainless trim around the door windows though and overriders on the bumpers I think I owned a late Mk2 Cooper (H reg) in the late 1970s which had the Mk3 bootlid and wiper holes in the bulkhead. That car had those "extras". Not sure if it was originally monotone because it had been resprayed black all over by the time I bought it.

Yep, you're dead right about the window chromes OEW. Apologies Pete! I also had a very late December '69 Glacier Mk2. In fact I'm still hassling someone locally for his April '70 bit-of-a-dog mk2

I have a November 68 built cooper s in monotone black. Coud you get other colors in monotone at that time?
Thanks Alan