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A Mini Flamefest

Steve Swanson
CarClub 18-30, CarClub 18-30 - The Cars
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Meet Monty and Gigi, two Minis that are candidates for an ASBO thanks to a modicum of shed tinkering that’s made them obnoxiously loud and a lot of...

Mini Coopers in the 1965 RAC International

Darryl Sleath
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The Pathe News archives are a gold mine for car bores like us, and hark back to a time when gravelly-voiced toffs would bring tales of derring-do...

The Little Austin on the Prairie – Classic Mk1 Mini Barnfind

Steve Swanson
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Are you tired of hunting down a classic project only to find your quarry is nothing more than a rusty turd? Don’t give up hope. Canadian, Al...

The Murky History of the original Italian Job Minis

Darryl Sleath
Articles, CarClub 18-30 - The Cars
In 2011 the Mail Online ran a story about how three of the original Italian Job minis, or what remained of them, had finally resurfaced from a lock...

Meet the Moke, the Mini’s Simple Country Cousin

Darryl Sleath
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Crude, gutless and rejected by the military, this is the unlikely story of how the reinvented Moke charmed civvy street to become a 60s style...

British Leyland – Half-Arsed PR and The New Avengers

Darryl Sleath
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This is the farcical story of British Leyland's press department and how they managed to cock up their primetime product placement on some of the...

The Last of the Giant Killers: the Longman Mini 1275GT

Darryl Sleath
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Everyone knows that I have an unnatural fondness for British Leyland. But I’m not deluded; I know they were mostly poorly built, unreliable and...

Recreating the 1964 Monte Carlo Rally: a Mini tribute to Paddy Hopkirk

Darryl Sleath
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Eight Facts about the classic Mini that you probably didn’t know

Darryl Sleath
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We love these little buggers, even though our rally project is still sitting, a little unloved, under a tarp'. Restoring a rotten one, like ours, is...
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