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Yes that is Bridego Bridge, the scene of the Great Train Robbery.

Here it is with the train that got robbed.

Looks like the white van on the left is the same van too.

An old Standard 10, probably pale grey.

This is not exactly a period picture but rather a charming old 8mm cine film taken of an old Wolseley 1500 being taken to be scrapped at Meadway Spares in Birmingham in November 1969. It was certainly a different period before Health and Safety legislation.

The film can be viewed on Youtube by clicking here

Bodge wrote:This is not exactly a period picture but rather a charming old 8mm cine film taken of an old Wolseley 1500 being taken to be scrapped at Meadway Spares in Birmingham in November 1969. It was certainly a different period before Health and Safety legislation.

The film can be viewed on Youtube by clicking here

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Great period film of its time, good that people sometimes filmed everyday things like this for future reference......thanks for posting!

1275GT on Dunlop rims, some were in the Ntherlands

Kees.

Mini VAN & Ford Cortina location DELFT the Netherlands

Kees

Here we have an Britsh Mk1 on the canals in Delft in the Netherlands

Kees

Cartoon Translation let's go circulate before I inspect this soap box in detail

Kees.

BOO911F Ore is it B00911F

That's Terry Kaby and Bob Freeborough on the 1975 Lombard RAC






And here they are on the 1974 Lombard RAC

Great pics Stu. On the first pic you can see the tartan red paint under the bonnet and on the front panel....and the red / grey brocade rear seat from it's previous life as GRX 5D. Does anyone know where BOO 911F is these days ?

Less visible is the bulkhead mod from its previous existence, most definitely not compliant with the Gp2 category it is running in here...

BOO 911F was of course built from the discarded ex Works Mk1 GRX5D shell when GRX5D was re-shelled as a Mk2 by Abingdon - hence the Tartan Red and brocade...

More pictures

Two different cars there of course. I took the underbonnet shot at Mini 35 at Silverstone but it's not been seen many times since!

as Pete says two different cars. hat happened to TK's car?

Love it 'discarded shell' !!!! as if.

Well... in this case yes. GRX 5D did lots of hard events including the 1966 Monte. In 1967 it was quite badly damaged by Mike Wood and Tony Fall on the Gulf London rally. The Comps Department built an all new version for the 1968 Shell 4000 (the car which still bears the registration mark). Bob Freeborough had a close association with the Comps department who supported him as a privateer when he did the Monte Carlo Rally and other events. Presumably he was able to buy the old shell of 5D from the Abingdon scrap man for it to be rebuilt as BOO911F...

davidnutland wrote:as Pete says two different cars. hat happened to TK's car?

Love it 'discarded shell' !!!! as if.

I'd guess there was much more from one of the GRX 5D's than just a 'discarded shell' in TK's second incarnation of BOO !
So.….where is BOO 911F now ??

5 or 6 works cars that carried the GRX5D reg no. (see works cars section of MiniCooper Forum).
But for the poor original design of the inner idler gear bearing, the 66 RAC GRX5D might have become one of the most famous of all works cars, although Timo Makinen learning not to drive a car into the ground when leading by a large margin would have helped too...

Terry Kaby had an earlier car to the first BOO911F and did LCAMC road rallies in it. I think I have the reg no somewhere (whether as driver or navigator I can't recall now, although I was next car on at least one LCAMC rally - they were just a couple of young unknowns then, like us). Not clear whether his BOO was a rebuild of that car or a new build for CCC Clubmans Championship.

Freeborough probably got the (ex-Nurburgring??), ex-Corsica, ex-Lydden rallycross Gp6 GRX5D for a song, maybe as a rolling shell.