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[roberts]

thanks mark!

[mini mark]

i also have a few others if your intrested but only in the same location

[roberts]

well I've updates the original post and included one of you pics, if you think you have a better one post it and I'll update it!

Thanks
Roberts

Edited by roberts, 16 May 2009 - 02:30 PM.

[Ferretboy221]

Clubman estate any good??? (or just estate)



only non standard part is the sets of cobra wheels.

(spot lights are dealer fitted lucas units)

Edited by Ferretboy221, 16 May 2009 - 02:38 PM.

[scoticus]

1977

MK4 (?)

the day i picked him up

[roberts]

mm maybe.. is it an 81? I'm after an original Mini estate as well

[liirge]

Heres a Mk1 British made Mini Moke, Only produced in Spruce Green, until 1967, in 67 a few other small upgrades where added like a second windscreen wiper. Mk1 64-66, 67 to 68 last of the UK prduction slowly gaining upgrades as standard

Edited by liirge, 16 May 2009 - 03:15 PM.

[Ferretboy221]

yup clubby estate is 81 reg....i believe they stopped making them in 82?

[taffy1967]

yup clubby estate is 81 reg....i believe they stopped making them in 82?

If it's a 1981 Mini Estate, then doesn't that make it a 'Mini HL Estate' instead of a Mini Clubman Estate?

Okay I know BL only changed the name after the Mini Clubman saloon and Mini 1275GT were axed during late 1980, but the Mini HL Estate also got the 998cc engine as standard as opposed to the 1098cc unit that the manual powered Mini Clubman Estate (& the manual Mini Clubman saloon) got fitted with around 1975?

[taffy1967]

And yes the Mini HL Estate was also then axed sometime during 1982, with the Mini Van and Pick-Up following suit a year later.

So it's amazing that the Mini survived beyond the 1980's since they were killing it off slowly at that time.

Edited by taffy1967, 16 May 2009 - 07:13 PM.

[roberts]

or perhaps it survived because they did decide to kill everything but the roundnose saloon off now there a thought...

[taffy1967]

But the Mini Van and Pick-Up were also round nosed variants too. I imagine they didn't want them to steal sales away from the Metro as my late dad worked for SWALEC (or 'The South Wales Electricity Board' as it was known back then) and just about every year they'd order a new fleet of Mini Vans in the corporate blue. The very last being on an 'A' reg plate.

To be honest the Mini was set to face the axe completely by 1987, but with a change of managing director (i.e. Graham Day) came new thinking. He was something of a Mini fan and at the Paris Motor Show around the mid 1980's, the boss of a French Austin Rover dealership approached him and asked why he was killing off the Mini. The French boss looked quite baffled when Graham Day explained how he wasn't aware of that fact, but he promised to look into the matter when he returned to Britain and yes the Mini was set to die during 1987.

But Graham Day worked out that since the tooling was all paid for, the Mini was actually a good little earner and with a massive army of fans around the world who loved it to bits, he decided to derail it's imminent termination.

Then he introduced it to Japan and the rest is history and here's my take on the events: -

http://z11.invisionf...p?showtopic=214

Either way it's still amazing that it outlived it's so called replacement, the 1980 MiniMetro.

Edited by taffy1967, 16 May 2009 - 07:38 PM.

[roberts]

so any more photos??