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#46 Ol timer

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Posted 08 April 2021 - 11:49 AM

Lol

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Posted 18 April 2021 - 11:40 AM

 

Also features his 1959 Mini towards end of video.


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Posted 18 April 2021 - 10:35 PM

He has bought the twin cylinder prototype 2 stroke mini engine now, so looking forward to the next series of videos 



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Posted 19 April 2021 - 07:54 PM

Enjoyed this series so far.

 

Doubt the 2-cylinder A-Series would have been suitable in a Mini, maybe in a smaller model akin to the Honda N360 (that shared the Mini's gearbox layout) that was to the Mini what the Fiat 500 was to the larger Fiat 600. 

 

Innocenti did look at a Mini-Mini project sometime in the mid/late 1960s as a domestic challenger to the Fiat 500 after a downturn in Lambretta sales, however with the Mini-Mini project soon drifting away from its original brief as a sub-Mini model into a Mini replacement under Issigonis and BMC doubting the car's prospects, nothing became of it when it was cancelled with the exception of its engine and gearbox soon being carried over to the 9X Mini project.  



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Posted 20 April 2021 - 04:15 AM

What carburettor are they using?  I've rewound loads of times but can't catch what they're saying in their funny southern accents ;-)



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Posted 20 April 2021 - 05:16 AM

What carburettor are they using? I've rewound loads of times but can't catch what they're saying in their funny southern accents ;-)


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Posted 20 April 2021 - 06:00 AM

 

What carburettor are they using? I've rewound loads of times but can't catch what they're saying in their funny southern accents ;-)


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Really?!  Me and my mate have been trying to work out what Ivan said the carb is for days!



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Posted 20 April 2021 - 06:04 AM


What carburettor are they using? I've rewound loads of times but can't catch what they're saying in their funny southern accents ;-)

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Really?! Me and my mate have been trying to work out what Ivan said the carb is for days!

Yeah Zenith, says it clearly as a southern softy at 47s

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Posted 27 April 2021 - 06:04 PM

Watch as we take Ivan's lightly restored 1959 Mini out for a drive on a lovely English summers drive through the country side. If you've seen the initial walk around in the previous video just skip to 10:10

 






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