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[Kt1966]

Hello Everyone, after a lot of time, effort and money my Special s now just about finished.
 
It was previously owned by Paul Jeffries ( Oltonlad) who a lot of you will know and it's had a full restoration over the last few months.
 
It made its "debut" at Uttoxeter on Sunday - I'd be interested to know what you think of it.
Thanks

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Edited by Kt1966, 03 September 2014 - 05:18 PM.

[stevearch0]

Very nice indeed. Haven't seen a special in silver for a while. Enjoy.......

[exuptoy]

Thats a credit to you fella. Well done!

[miniman86]

lovely special!! do really like that LE!! as said above, a credit to you :)

Alex

[big-jay]

Stunning Miini you've got there. Credit to you !

[Mrpeanut]

Very nice. The 1100 special in silver is probably my favorite factory mini. That looks superb. Want to swap for a mini Tahiti and a bag of crisps ;) ?

[steve m]

Saw it at the weekend very nicejob done on it

[Kt1966]

Very nice. The 1100 special in silver is probably my favorite factory mini. That looks superb. Want to swap for a mini Tahiti and a bag of crisps ;) ?

How big is the bag of crisps and what flavour ?

[jt19]

Very smart! Are the wheels standard? How many of these where there?

[jamesmpi]

Love it. Well done

[Kt1966]

Yes the wheels are standard (Exactons) , I've had them refurbished though and they did a really excellent job. Shame to put rubber on them to be honest.

 

There were 5200 Specials produced across the 2 colours though there were more Rose than Silver. The consensus is that there are less than 20 Silver ones still around ( would be really interesting to know though)

[Mrpeanut]

Very nice. The 1100 special in silver is probably my favorite factory mini. That looks superb. Want to swap for a mini Tahiti and a bag of crisps ;) ?

How big is the bag of crisps and what flavour ?

I would stretch to a large bag of kettle chips in any flavour ;)

[mab01uk]

Very smart! Are the wheels standard? How many of these where there?

 

They were officially launched at the first major Mini event I attended way back in August 1979.............

 

More about the 20th Birthday here:

http://www.theminifo...-27th-aug-1979/

Edited by mab01uk, 02 September 2014 - 05:48 PM.

[Kt1966]

Bizarrely, I was there at that Donnington as a 12 year old ( remember meeting  Peter Shilton), so it's quite nice to come full circle with it all.

[mininuts]

Beautiful mini!
Always one of my favorites when Oltonlad had it, even more now