elansprint72 Posted January 11, 2008 Share #1 Posted January 11, 2008 Advertisement (gone after registration) Nice to see that this little car survived. Action shot was taken on 10th July 1978 !!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted January 11, 2008 Posted January 11, 2008 Hi elansprint72, Take a look here 30 years apart!. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
sisoje Posted January 12, 2008 Share #2 Posted January 12, 2008 My kind of wheels... I still miss my silver "My Fair 1000".... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
azzo Posted January 12, 2008 Share #3 Posted January 12, 2008 Amazing !!! ... ...to have captured it 30years apart. Pete, Nice colour one and a perfect action capture in the 2nd. Azzo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
meatboy Posted January 12, 2008 Share #4 Posted January 12, 2008 Pete, very interesting images - they sparked a memory in me. I have a book by Rob Golding called "MINI After 25 years" and it shows a photo of Richard Longman leaning on Mini #60 as above with a trophy cup on the bonnet with him. The caption says he won British Saloon Car Championship for that year I assume in this car? His win was on 29th September at Oulton Park. I myself owned a dark orange Mini Clubman GT for a number of years - the 1275 had been bored out to 1310. It was a fun car to drive. Cheers and thanks for the Mini memories. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cocker Posted January 12, 2008 Share #5 Posted January 12, 2008 Superb to be able to do this! What happened to poor Ferodo? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest flatfour Posted January 12, 2008 Share #6 Posted January 12, 2008 Two good pics Pete. Mini -the car that finished off British Leyland - with Donald Stokes able assistance. We sold the little horrors. They were so badly designed and manufactured. Mind you if you spent a fortune in putting right the design and production faults they could work very well. Leyland never made a profit on the Mini so it dragged them down. I was at Ford when the car was costed and I saw a report that said that the car would have to be sold at too high a price to be economic. Sadly that proved so true. Still many people loved their Mini - it had a certain cache. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert_parker Posted January 20, 2008 Share #7 Posted January 20, 2008 Advertisement (gone after registration) Pete I remember the Clubman front used to lift as you brought in the clutch...I had two minis myself and it's great to see this one made the trip !! Tony They always used to say that if you found a BL car with good panel gaps it had been in an accident... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Henry Posted January 20, 2008 Share #8 Posted January 20, 2008 Pete Very nice ! 2 "Mini" cars in action with one "Golf" GTI i like in b&w ! Good shot of 1978 ! Since this time,Mini belong now to BMW ! but the design is not the same a little bigger ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob_x2004 Posted January 20, 2008 Share #9 Posted January 20, 2008 Great shots, Pete. Thats keeping your files in order managing to find stuff thirty years apart. I was gonna post Robbie McKewen shots of when he had the yellow jersey in the Bank Classic...But I couldnt find em. Or find em in time. And wow...my ignorant perception, probably like many, that they must have been a gold mine. Maybe in Aus they sold for four times the price they rolled out the door in pom. Was it all the minis were a liability or just this model? Id never suspected. Mini -the car that finished off British Leyland - with Donald Stokes able assistance. We sold the little horrors. They were so badly designed and manufactured. Mind you if you spent a fortune in putting right the design and production faults they could work very well. Leyland never made a profit on the Mini so it dragged them down. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
elansprint72 Posted January 20, 2008 Author Share #10 Posted January 20, 2008 Was it all the minis were a liability or just this model? I never had any problems with the ones that were in my keeping although I guess that, like everything made in that era, rust was going to surface sometime. The very early cars let water in through the floor, but that was soon fixed! Please find the Robbie shots! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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