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Re: Just a nice period picture

Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2019 9:34 am
by mk1
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Re: Just a nice period picture

Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2019 9:34 am
by mk1
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Re: Just a nice period picture

Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2019 9:35 am
by mk1
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Re: Just a nice period picture

Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2019 9:36 am
by mk1
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Re: Just a nice period picture

Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2019 9:46 am
by mk1
Last one for the moment, & this is still one of my favourite Mini photos of all time.

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Re: Just a nice period picture

Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2019 10:18 am
by Peter Laidler
Notice the padre in the pic above the last........... hovering nearby hoping to get a glimpse of something nice when she struggles to get in the back of that mini.........

Re: Just a nice period picture

Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2019 10:55 am
by surfblue63
Polarsilver wrote:So its official that i have got my GT Grill Badge in the wrong position .. or have Leyland in this photo got the GT Grill Badge in the wrong place?
Brochure shots show that BL couldn't decide which position was correct!

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Re: Just a nice period picture

Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2019 11:45 am
by smithyrc30
I think the red brochure picture is MFC442H (the one in the black and white press pack picture). So the badge would be in the upper part of the grille.

Aside from that car I have only ever seen GTs with the badge in the lower black bar when installed by the factory.

Re: Just a nice period picture

Posted: Wed Jun 05, 2019 10:03 am
by Costafortune
1980.

Re: Just a nice period picture

Posted: Wed Jun 05, 2019 12:09 pm
by surfblue63
Careful where you drop your load!
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Re: Just a nice period picture

Posted: Wed Jun 05, 2019 12:14 pm
by 66Traveller
And there was me thinking it was a mobile hod...

Re: Just a nice period picture

Posted: Wed Jun 05, 2019 2:21 pm
by iain1967s
Sheffield Star 1st February 1983: David Howitt with his Mini after [force 10] gales damaged a [pub] wall in Nottinham Cliff, Pitsmoor and it collapsed on to his car.

Re: Just a nice period picture

Posted: Wed Jun 05, 2019 9:53 pm
by spraybeateer
I don't know anything about this! one of the local Scrap guys had it on theirF/B page.
sometime ago.
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Re: Just a nice period picture

Posted: Wed Jun 05, 2019 9:55 pm
by Polarsilver
1HP :lol:

Re: Just a nice period picture

Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2019 10:23 am
by Costafortune
iain1967s wrote:Sheffield Star 1st February 1983: David Howitt with his Mini after [force 10] gales damaged a [pub] wall in Nottinham Cliff, Pitsmoor and it collapsed on to his car.
It was reshelled, and lived on until 1992. :lol:

Re: Just a nice period picture

Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2019 10:36 am
by surfblue63
Getting a lift?

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Re: Just a nice period picture

Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2019 10:40 am
by surfblue63
Mind That Chopper Eugenie

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Re: Just a nice period picture

Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2019 10:54 am
by Peter Laidler
THAT's what I call a mini........

Re: Just a nice period picture

Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2019 11:13 am
by UHR850
:lol: Here are 3 Mini's on the picture :arrow:

Re: Just a nice period picture

Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2019 11:42 am
by UHR850
:o Bad luck :roll: