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#1 littlemissmagic

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Posted 23 January 2015 - 01:23 PM

Not 100% sure this is the right place to put this.....
I've been asked by the lovely lady that looks after my uncles animals to post this on the small chance anyone might know something.

Back in 2003/2004 her fathers 1962 mk 1 mini (Registration 1899 VB) was stolen from Southampton.

It was taken away for an appraisal, by a guy who was a mini specialist called 'Minis Only' based in Southampton at the time.

The Guy took the car away on a low loader and was never heard from again. It's probably been sold it on and she understands that, but would like to know if it's still out there or if anyone knows anything about the company?

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Posted 23 January 2015 - 01:25 PM

Not heard of Mini's Only but obviously if the car is still around in it's original form, it won't have that VRM anymore.

 

Did she not report it to the police at the time?



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Posted 23 January 2015 - 01:42 PM

Sadly her mum was dying at the time so had more important things to worry about and didn't report it.

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Posted 23 January 2015 - 01:47 PM

Try a simple car search on dvla and Find out if its has being taxed since taken away.

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Posted 23 January 2015 - 01:51 PM

Just done the check, it hasn't been taxed since 92



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Posted 23 January 2015 - 02:37 PM

Google search for "Minis Only Southampton" throws up an address for Minis Only & maybe a telephone number, but might be ages old & might no longer exist ??

 



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Posted 23 January 2015 - 02:43 PM

https://www.google.c...y" Southampton

 

Googling the company brings up a few hits on this very site and others around 2005/6 with people posting both good and bad reviews, mostly bad. One says they closed down around that time.

 

Did nobody phone or visit them to check on the car at the time? The fact she's asking over 10 years later doesn't fill me with hope that it's going to appear...



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Posted 23 January 2015 - 03:02 PM

Contact for Minis Only was a Mr K Mackenzie. I managed to find a Kevin Mackenzie who lives very near where the garage used to be and he just happens to be into Minis:

 

[I've removed the link to his actual Facebook profile in case the mods get upset - although I'm not saying anyone stole anything!].

 

Here's the wind-up notice for the company:

 

https://www.thegazet...ice/L-57740-279

 

The name of the business partner and the guy I found on Facebook's wife are the same. Here's his Mini:

 

https://fbcdn-sphoto...5525856b53253ad

 

He also has a nice collection of Minis:

 

https://scontent-a.x...ce3&oe=556266E0


Edited by lewBlew, 23 January 2015 - 03:08 PM.


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Posted 23 January 2015 - 08:47 PM

I'll try see if I can contact anyone linked to the company.

She'd mainly just like to know if its still out there as she knows that its been so long now and obviously didn't do anything at the time.
I know it's most likely long gone, especially if it hasn't been taxed since 1992, but would be nice to know what happened to it.

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Posted 23 January 2015 - 10:00 PM

Should add she did later try and call but couldn't contact anyone, which would probably be because they look like they closed down around that time.

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Posted 24 January 2015 - 04:22 PM

My last mini was restored at great cost by them for its previous owner (a very nice old lady as well). It had (and I am guessing still has) the sticker in the rear window. She was using a well dodgy backstreet place who were ripping her off when I bought it from her and she said that she had stopped using minis only when they had shut because the guy had moved abroad. There were receipts from them totalling over 10k so she had used them for a while. If ot would help I could ask the present owner (he is on here) to see if there are any names/ contacts on the receipts that may be useful to her.

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Posted 24 January 2015 - 05:25 PM

Any information would be welcome and I will pass it on to her.

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Posted 24 January 2015 - 07:01 PM

Any information would be welcome and I will pass it on to her.

I will pm him and ask.

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Posted 27 January 2015 - 06:25 PM

Just had a good look through all of the documents of my mini, trying to find anything to do with them.

Not a lot of luck unfortunately :(

 

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Posted 28 January 2015 - 11:15 AM

https://www.gov.uk/g...about-a-company

You can find out for sure that no-one is trading using the VAT registered number - check the above link, some information can be had for free.






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