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I found this on youtube while looking for something else. It might be of interest here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX4jZUs55NQ

Amazing what turns up in a car boot sale !

Wow that's quite a find, I wonder if there any still surviving anywhere?

At least 2 of the 6 BMC built cars survive.

Ex Fibreglass Ltd. test car survives. One of 6 prototypes built at Cowley

Very interesting, thanks for posting.
Some screen shots taken from the video below:







The Mini Cord GRP Mini website:
http://www.minipassionmini.50megs.com/m ... acorca.htm

I worked with a fisherman from Chile, many years ago. He'd been a mini enthusiast too, so we got on well. He told me that GRP Minis were fairly common back then, and he'd had a few of them. He reckoned that if you could get a good one they were very good, but he said that they had developed a bad reputation because it was so easy to 'fix' them at home. Apparently there had been a number of amateur "cut and shuts" that had broken in half through the middle.

Tim

Jan 2011 Mini World.

I've seen photos of the fibre glass minis in scrap yards in Chile, and they look very similar to the photos above! a real cringe moment! I got pally with a lad from over there a few years back and he used to send me photo etc. Wonder if they sold of the moulds?

The moulds didn't last long and needed replacing quite often. I have the factory (from Chile) record stating how many shells were taken from each mould, it's printed in the MW article.