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Well if we're going down that route...

Oké I got it

Kees

my eyes, my eyes!
What is that - a Marcos glued to a Reliant ?

iain1967s wrote:my eyes, my eyes!
What is that - a Marcos glued to a Reliant ?

It's a Mini Jem estate

mab01uk wrote:

That's exactly how I remember so many of the Minis round here when I was growing up in the '70s, nobody gave a monkey's about originality or values back then!

Clubman launch, October '69...

WMU 211G wrote:

mab01uk wrote:

That's exactly how I remember so many of the Minis round here when I was growing up in the '70s, nobody gave a monkey's about originality or values back then!

Me to....also many of the Minis around here at that time......I still love the completely deseamed look on a Mk1, despite the water running in the tops of the doors, not a problem today as I try to never drive a classic Mini in the rain!
When I was a kid I bought the Airfix kit below of a standard Mk1 Mini to create something like I had seen in my older brothers Triple C magazines, I filed all the seams and roof gutters off the plastic bodyshell moulding, cut the front wings/bonnet off to make a removable one piece front, there was no detailed engine in the Mini kit so I fitted a B-Series engine transversely (from an Airfix MGB kit I think, and cut the down the MGB gearbox/flywheel housing to suit the Minis transverse fwd layout), glued 2 sets of standard Mini wheels together to create some 6x10 steels, painted it with Humbrol metallic paint and finally added some water slide transfer go-faster stripes .....I may have it still stashed away in my loft somewhere!



Morris Mini-Minor
[M4C]
"Taking it down even smaller in size, but to an exact 1/32nd scale, is this remarkably detailed 46-part kit of the revolutionary Mini-Minor. In addition the kit contains two extra parts for conversion to the equally famous Austin Seven, if desired. Complete with a selection of four different number plates and suggested colour scheme."
- From 2nd Edition Airfix catalogue (1963)
Airfix Catalogue information:
Series: 1
Rarity of early version: Scarce.
First Issued: 1961
Catalogue Ref - 2nd Edition (1963): M4C
Catalogue Ref - 3rd Edition (1964): M4C
Catalogue Ref - 4th Edition (1966): M4C
Catalogue Ref - 5th Edition (1967): M4C
Catalogue Ref - 6th Edition (1968): M4C
Catalogue Ref - 7th Edition (1969): M4C
Catalogue Ref - 8th Edition (1970): M4C
Catalogue Ref - 9th Edition (1971): M4C
Catalogue Ref - 10th Edition (1973): 01404-1
Catalogue Ref - 11th Edition (1974): 01404-1
Catalogue Ref - 12th Edition (1975): 02414-1
Catalogue Ref - 13th Edition (1976): 02414-1
http://www.vintage-airfix.com/airfix/13 ... p-432.html

MGB
[M203C]
"The kit features an opening bonnet with a fully detailed engine, transparent headlights and detailed suspension."
- From 5th Edition (1967)
http://www.vintage-airfix.com/airfix/13 ... p-442.html

Plenty of nostalgia with all the old Airfix Construction Kit catalogues to flick through here from 1962 onwards:-
http://www.vintage-airfix.com/airfix_catalogues

Thanks for the links Mab excellent stuff

Here's my half hearted and not very accurate attempt at George Harrison's Radford S based on the Tamiya kit, the sunroof is made from duct tape...!
I wish someone did a large scale kit of the Mk1, I'd have another go and do it properly this time.

WMU 211G wrote:

mab01uk wrote:

That's exactly how I remember so many of the Minis round here when I was growing up in the '70s, nobody gave a monkey's about originality or values back then!

Clubman launch, October '69...

MINI CLUBMAN 1969 ADO20 Clubman_launch.jpg

I think that's Tony Ball.....? He was a BL/BMC PR guy for many years, still alive I think.

I can recall a couple of spotty herberts in Somerton (Zummerzet) driving around in a really rough red/black 1071 S in 1979. It vanished, and reappeared having been resprayed a mauve colour. I wonder if that one made it?

Bit wet at Himley Hall a few years ago - a lovely Mk3 S.... is the owner on here...? Always wondered where the tinted glass came from...

1974


Oct 1963 Minivan
Tax Due: July 1994

Amazing, the blue minivan YVS 874. I registered an ex Army Land Rover (35 CL 21) in the early 90's and was allocated the number YVS 878. I suspect that the mini van was an ex RAF one by the colour

The van is VVS not YVS

Oh yes....... Just making sure that you were on the ball Graeme!

667 VJH must have had its number robbed plate still exsist's now on a Xantia

I also remember many mini's sitting in gardens in the 70's and 80's, they were part of the landscape back then, now when you see one you do a double take and stop for a look

The last but one couple of photos are a reminder of how cars rusted in those days.

My father had a Hillman Super Minx estate bought new in 1963. It was as I recall a very nice car but within 5 years or so the fronts of the sills had pretty much disintegrated and we were getting busy with the Isopon. Not long after my father considered replacing the Minx with a Hillman Hunter and related how the Rootes salesman told him "body rot has been eliminated in the new model !" Luckily he didn't invest in a Hunter.

My own '61 Austin 7 lasted quite a bit longer than the Minx though its foam filled sills became a nuisance rust wise. But that Mini, and nearly all the other cars from those days, was not a patch on my current daily drive a 10 year old Suzuki Swift with 130,000 miles on the clock and pretty much no corrosion at all.

If only our beloved minis had been built that way.