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Interesting list of Mini's available with prices from 'Broadspeed' in 1994......

£100k for an 'S' 20 years ago??!!

GraemeC wrote:£100k for an 'S' 20 years ago??!!

Wonder where it is now

Given the other prices, I assumed that was a typo?

Al

I think that's correct, he was selling it as the worlds oldest Cooper S

I went up there in '94 - nearly bought an Almond Green 1071.. Talked about px'ing my 850 for it but decided against it. I didn't like the look of the welding it needed (which by today's standards wouldn't very much at all)
It was the one that got away!

Anyone got pic's of the 1966 LHD Black Radford hatchback or know anymore about the car?

Empson displayed some of those cars at 'Mini 35' at Silverstone as I recall, most people fell about when they saw the price of the 'earliest S in the world', which as I understood wasn't proven. I'll have to look through some of my old photos and see if the Radford's there (there were a few, but I can't recall a black hatch). In fact that 'HAM' fake Radford with the Merc lamps was also there.

He traded under a few different company names as you can see by the header, some of which went tits up, always a sign of a dodgepot.

Cheers Peter would be great if there was another for the records.

The sheer volume of cars for sale is amazing isn't it......... a choice of 30 woody Mk1 estates
I doubt there are 30 for sale in the whole world now! I wonder how many of those "running restoration projects" ever got restored? I know that Mr Empson exported a lot of cars, so many of the cars he advertised will no longer be in the UK of course. A LOT of Mk1s must have gone through his hands back then.

Dogepot!

I like it

Old English White wrote:The sheer volume of cars for sale is amazing isn't it......... a choice of 30 woody Mk1 estates

Even back then i would say that was a very large volume.

Or was it more a marketing ploy. portraying a high profile image.

I think many of the woodies are in Japan now.
I talked with a friend, who has been in Japan at the Japan Miniday.
He was impressed of the lots of restored top condition Woodies there.

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Or was it more a marketing ploy. portraying a high profile image.[/quote]

That possibility did cross my mind too but there's no doubt that he bought and sold large numbers of these cars and that many were sold abroad. A "woody" Mini estate is a rare thing here in the UK now .

Found another Broadspeed 'bargain' price list in my archives....not sure what year?

0 My guess is late 1996 for the date

0 And is this the one that the watch bloke is always trying to flog?

surfblue63 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 20, 2021 9:10 pm 0 My guess is late 1996 for the date

0 And is this the one that the watch bloke is always trying to flog?

Yes same one been discussed in another thread somewhere
i see it had dropped £50k between the two adverts posted


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From my own collection the colour borshure 1995

Kees.

I reckon that the 1990's incarnation of "Broadspeed" must have been contortionists. They spent that much time blowing their own trumpet I am surprised that they didn't do themselves permanent back damage!

The company is still functioning, but they moved on from Minis to doing "Grey Imports" now it isn't clear exactly what they do, they describe themselves as "middle men".

Looked up the postcode on google maps

There is still a Mini specialist at this post code "TWR Mini Specialists"

Their phone number is same number as Broadspeed one