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[lulu85ritz]

Has anybody ever seen one or heard of one somebody has asked me to find info on it. It is a S reg 1977 red mini with blue roof and decals on it saying queens silver jubilee special with the British Leyland logo on. Any help would be great I can't find anything on it on the web.

[mininuts]

Don't think there was ever an official BL Jubilee mini. I may be wrong but, I've just had a quick flick through some of my Mini and BL range brochures from '76 and '77 and there is nothing there. The only special edition I know of from that period was the 'Stripey' mini from 1976 which was green with orange striped seats and orange door cards. The next was of course the Mini 1100 'Special' from 1979.
Sounds like a home made 'special' unless it was made for the commonwealth market and has been imported at some point???

Some pics would be good

[whitecliffsmini]

There was a jubilee model launched in 75 but only sold in holland so someone may have just altered the graphics on one of those

[roofless]

if its the mini I've seen elsewhere the reg starts BAB ? its a dealer special done to commemorate the Jubilee, the rectangular decals are almost definitely done by the dealership rather than from the factory as they're quite clumsy in shape relative to the bodywork. At that time there were several special editions, all that had far more complex profile cut graphics, but non had screen printed graphics like we see on the 'Jubilee'.

 

At that time there was a chap called Gerry Ellender who worked between the concepts and the marketing side at the factory, and he was a fussy sod at the best of times, he wouldn't have signed off on a graphic detail like that without it being profile cut to tie into the body work properly, and he wasnt keen on screen printed graphics, he preferred the style of graphics you see on the 1275GT, Clubman estate and other similar late 70's cars.... after he left and in the early 80s screen printed graphics did come through on the 1100 specials and similar, but nothing in the 70's.

 

now....just to make life difficult, in the late 70's in the Netherlands there wss the mini 'Lady' which had stripes down the side just like the 1100 specials, but Ive never seen one close up to ascertain if these stripes were screen printed of coloured polyester graphics.... so I could be totally wrong....and in which case ignore all of the above 

 

but Im pretty sure this is a dealership special done to shift a few more minis at a time where people would buy anything if it featured the silver jubilee

[lulu85ritz]

Thank you roofless it was for someone who asked me on my Austin mini facebook page.

[Jase]

I have a silver decaled large corgi mini from that era I can dig out, pretty sure that was a jubilee model?

[silver_toes]

This one ?

http://www.carandcla...uk/car/C461285#

[lulu85ritz]

That's the one! Lovely looking mini.