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I have to say I used Tim at minimail for the first time this week . What a excellent service Tim provides , super quick turnaround . Thanks tim

He has always been good to me, probably for nearly thirty years, obviously we were buying and selling bits to each other at pre-school!

Tim is one of the few real good eggs in the Mini game, a genuine enthusiast who is always happy to help.

If you get the chance to pick your purchases up, it's a great place to visit as well.

Minimail and Tim are great.....he often has used or reconditioned parts that no one else has in stock as well as the new stuff. Minimail was once a short drive away for me in his early Putney days in the late 1970's, also trading at the Mini shows, + via mail order/internet. I also enjoy following Tim's Mini column and his racing exploits in Mini magazine!

mab01uk wrote:Minimail and Tim are great.....he often has used or reconditioned parts that no one else has in stock as well as the new stuff. Minimail was once a short drive away for me in his early Putney days in the late 1970's, also trading at the Mini shows, + via mail order/internet. I also enjoy following Tim's Mini column and his racing exploits in Mini magazine!

Putney? was this the shop on Putney bridge road? I lived in Putney from 64 till 84 there were a few good places back then for mini guys anybody remember Andy Judge?

If memory serves there was two shops, not at the same time and I,m sure one was Lower Richmond road and the other in Putney but I don't think Putney Bridge Road. I used to pop in most weeks to see what little gems Tim had turned up, I miss it
Cheers Tim

When I see Tim tomorrow I'll let him know your all talking about him. He's out at the HSCC season opener at Donington, practice at 10:50am, race at 3:30pm.

Entry list :

http://www.hscc.org.uk/images/Provision ... .03.14.pdf

I agree.....Lower Richmond Road, Putney SW15 but I can't remember the number....

From Minimail website:
"I moved into proper premises in 1981 in Putney in South West London and then to Gloucestershire in 1989 . We moved to the current premises in 1997."
http://www.minimail.co.uk/about-us/

Thankyou for all your kind comments. I have to say though that if there was a prize for the most inefficient Mini shop in the early 1990's I would have won the prize outright by now as being keen on something does'nt guarantee a clever business sense. However I have had some good help over the years (particularly at present as my racing toy has just spat a diff gasket out). I can remember pissing off MAB at one stage due to non delivery of a mail order item, so I can assume that you have either forgotten Martin , or are being kind

I have been fortunate to meet plenty of lovely folk over the years. I can well remember from when I was in Putney , we had two brothers who worked at the dance studio in Putney and lived down the road. They never had any real money to spend so I tried to help where I could and I can remember scrapping a Metro Mayfair which had delightful (!) light blue velour seats with split rear seat that I more or less gave to them as I felt sorry for them. They did a lovely job of getting the rear seat sorted to fit and although the car was always slightly sad due to lack of funds it was full of enthusiastic effort.

Later they came good in another area. Names : Richard and Fred Fairbrass. Right said Fred!

Recently I seem to have come across a couple of old timers who have close Mini racing history and aren't known to many folk at all as the early pre Mini7 club racing at club level does'nt seem to be well documented. I can remember going to club races at Brands in the mid sixties and getting bored at the sheer quantities of them and turned to Escorts and such. I shan't spill the beans in order to get two more people to buy Mini Mag, but will try to elaborate at some stage in the future as and when by which time I may be able to get them to divulge a bit more .

Tim Harber wrote: I can remember pissing off MAB at one stage due to non delivery of a mail order item, so I can assume that you have either forgotten Martin , or are being kind

Recently I seem to have come across a couple of old timers who have close Mini racing history and aren't known to many folk at all as the early pre Mini7 club racing at club level does'nt seem to be well documented. I can remember going to club races at Brands in the mid sixties and getting bored at the sheer quantities of them and turned to Escorts and such. I shan't spill the beans in order to get two more people to buy Mini Mag, but will try to elaborate at some stage in the future as and when by which time I may be able to get them to divulge a bit more .

I remember.....(chasing up Tim for delivery of that particular order of parts was on my 'things to do' list for quite a while), but then you probably had far more fun things to do on your racers at the time!

It would be good to get more of the Mini 7 club racing history documented while some of the 'old timers' are still around to ask......there must also be some great old photographs and cine film tucked away in private hands that would be worth sharing to a wider audience.
I know an ex-free formula Mini racer who has most of the late Chris Tyrrells Mini 7 trophy collection tucked away in his loft but he is not sure what to do with them all........

Topping up the tank on Sunday

looks like Tim been ploughing by the state of those tyres.

A slight excursion onto the grass coming onto the start finish straight during practice.

Fresh mud on last corner of last lap in attempt to do a good time .

However

Still enjoying odd things that appear in clear outs.

Due to fresh influx of NOS we are able to offer for this week only , with every purchase of over £2/6d :



We have stuff that Mini Spares can only dream of