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[Mini-Mad-Craig]

Its very cool!. Ive got a few muddled up models too, Pick-up with an elf front end, and vice versa

[captainjack15]

Ummmmm ew!?

[mighty mini jack]

Looks lovely!

[taffy1967]

will this one do?



regards

Andy

Yes that's the very one I was describing from many moons ago: -

Well I seem to recall there was a prototype of a Mini Clubman with the Elf/Hornet rear end.

But back in the late 1980's, such a hybrid looking car used to appear at the Mini Shows (especially the NMOC day at Stanford Hall). It had a Clubman front, Elf/Hornet rear (wings and boot) and a Wolseley Hornet grille badge.

It also had Dunlop Denovo run-flat tyres too, so I doubt it got used much and it must still exist somewhere?

And I always liked it, complete with the Dunlop Denovo wheels/tyres. But where did you get that photo from?

Edited by taffy1967, 18 September 2009 - 06:27 PM.

[less is more]

It's on the tinterweb Google "wolseley hornet clubman" in images there's even a rear shot aswell


Regards

Andy

[modified90]

i actually love the look of that !

[Asphalt]

It's on the tinterweb Google "wolseley hornet clubman" in images there's even a rear shot aswell

Life can be so easy Bless the internets!

[leaky]

Looks really cool. For my next project iv been looking at getting a pickup and putting an elf front on it as I haven't seen that done before. Its just trying to find the right pickup as I don't want to cut up a perfectly good pickup to make it.

[taffy1967]

It's on the tinterweb Google "wolseley hornet clubman" in images there's even a rear shot aswell


Regards

Andy

Cheers Andy, at least it proves I hadn't dreamt about it then.

I'm pretty sure it also appeared in a Mini book around 1989, but all my old Mini book collection are packed away for the moment.

[taffy1967]

Its very cool!. Ive got a few muddled up models too, Pick-up with an elf front end, and vice versa

I can remember a member of the Pembrokeshire Mini Club owning a blue pick-up that had a Wolselely Hornet (or it might have been an Elf) front end.

[jay30]

Here you go!

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[taffy1967]

Fantastic. Zooming in on the rear badge, I think it says 'Wolseley Hornet MK4'?

I've done a search and I can't find the Pick-Up with the Hornet/Elf front end, plus the Pembroke Mini Club website isn't working now.

But I did find this which looks the same: -




This is another Mini oddity and an actual production car, or at least it got made in South Africa: -

The Wolseley 1000 it's a rare Mini. It was made in South Africa was made in South Africa between 1967 and 1969. It was basically a crossover of the front of the Wolseley Hornet and the body of the Mini 1000. This model was replaced by the Leykor Mini Mk3, which was a crossover of a Mini Front and the body of a Wolseley Hornet.

The actual car: -

Edited by taffy1967, 18 September 2009 - 11:30 PM.

[Hughes]

Is it me, or is Mark Fowler from Eastenders in the pic posted by jay30 of the rear of the clubby hornet? In the brown leather jacket! LMAO!

[huntface]

Without any doubt that is the coolest thing I have ever seen!

Does anyone know where it lives? I assume its a museum piece

[leaky]

Fantastic. Zooming in on the rear badge, I think it says 'Wolseley Hornet MK4'?

I've done a search and I can't find the Pick-Up with the Hornet/Elf front end, plus the Pembroke Mini Club website isn't working now.

But I did find this which looks the same: -

Dam it. Well thats that idea stolen. How about a Mini van mini an elf front.