Innholdsfortegnelse for Summer 2021 i MiniWorld

This year marks 21 years since the formation of Portsmouth & Southampton Mini Owners Club. "PSMOC was formed back in 2000 and we remain the Solent’s largest and most active club," explained club spokesperson Keith Burton. "We attend shows all over the country with a special emphasis on supporting local events in Hampshire. Membership of the club is just £10 a year and, now that the pandemic is easing, we are getting back to holding regular social club meets every other Sunday evening at the Locksheath Sports and Social Club. We’re a friendly and sociable bunch and the club is as much about the people as it is about our cars. We’re proud to welcome Minis of all ages and every generation." Find out more at: www.facebook.com/pandsmoc…

In October 2019 Roger Agate bought a Mk2 998cc Cooper. The bodyshell was beyond economic repair but he had a replacement, as he explains: “The shell is a Mk2/3 shell supplied via Wadham Stringer’s parts department, I believe, in 1973. Due to its late production some internal panels are Mk3. This shell had spent around 45 years unregistered in a garage as the original owner had intended to build a circuit racer. However, I understand ill heath prevented this happening. A friend of mine bought it a few years ago. He rang me up and asked if I wanted it. I said yes because, well, why wouldn’t you? So I purchased an unregistered, never been used, bodyshell that had only had some limited work done on it and had never…

Ask Tim Email: mw.ed@kelsey.co.uk Post: MiniWorld Q&A, Kelsey Publishing Ltd, The Granary, Downs Court, Yalding Hill, Yalding, Kent, ME18 6AL, UK Tim Mundy has worked on Minis since the age of 13. In the 1990s he worked for Oselli Engineering and has been writing for MiniWorld for 25 years. He has owned more than 20 Minis and built two from scratch. New floor When I was a child my dad had a 1967 850 Mini which he kept for many years, eventually replacing it with a Metro. I always loved that Mini and have spent many hours over the past decade trying to trace it. I knew it was sold in my area and, for many years after, saw it driving around so always hoped it had survived. Five years…

COSMIC ACCESSORIES A name that will be familiar to anyone who was into Minis and other cars of the later 1960s and throughout the 1970s is Cosmic. It was a large accessory manufacturer which was based in Walsall, Staffordshire, and is known to Mini enthusiasts mainly for its range of alloy wheels. The Cosmic Mark 1 alloy, introduced in 1961, was fi  ed to a lot of early coachbuilt Minis, including the Radfords, but the wheel that was the most popular Mini fitment was the Cosmic Mark 2. Available in 5x10 and 6x10, the Mark 2 was perhaps the most popular alloy to be fi  ed to Minis in the 1970s; it is di. cult to say whether the top seller was actually the Cosmic or the Dunlop Formula D1.…

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1992 Rover Mini I first fell in love with Minis when I was about eight years old when I was sat on the sofa with my dad and he put The Italian Job on. I asked: "What car is that?" He replied: "That's a Mini, son." Since that day the only car I wanted was a Mini. I remember, at around 13 years old, I would scroll through eBay with my dad just looking at Minis. Eventually, my time came. I was 17 and had passed my driving test so I was on the hunt for my very own Mini. We found one and my dad made an ofter of £1,350 and they accepted. A week or so later we made the trip to Birmingham to pick her up. I…

1972 MODIFIED MINI CLUBMAN Owner: Dean Davies Issue: December 2015 Mini Coopers were not only made in England. Innocenti Mini Coopers were made in the Lambrate factory in Italy and this particular example, a 1974 innocenti Mini Cooper 1300 Export, was actually made at the Seneffe factory in Belgium. MiniWorld writer, Kay Drury, asked its owner, Dean Davies, what appealed to him about Innocenti Minis as he has owned a few over the years: “I just like Innos because they were just so much better spec. than the UK equivalent.” I think it’s the dash layout I like the best, and the quarterlights, they’re pretty cool. The reclining seats are about 50% thicker than UK cars. The only thing I don’t like is the price of everything!” Dean bought the…

MAY/JUNE 2020 • Restored 1071cc Mini Cooper S • 1970 Automatic Mini Clubman • Top tips for a reliable Mini • Memories of working at Cowley Pt1 JULY 2020 • Stunning Radford Cooper • Nissan LEAF-converted electric Mini • Turbocharged retro Mini Mayfair • Memories of working at Cowley Pt2 AUGUST 2020 • Early BMC Works rally Mini tribute • Turbocharged 998cc saloon • Mini Van restoration project • Superbly-modified 1275 GT SEPTEMBER 2020 • Restored Mini Pick-up • Paul Easter interview • K-series-engined saloon • Unique W&P shorty hatchback OCTOBER 2020 • 1967 Works-prepared Cooper S • Working Australian Mini Van • Mini 1000’s desert rally adventure • Beautifully-restored 1972 1275 GT NOVEMBER 2020 • Supercharged saloon and Hornet • Superb father and son City E project • RAF…

It’s a crisp May morning here at Baskerville Raceway, in Tasmania’s south, as I stand trackside clutching a takeaway coffee, anticipating the arrival of Peter Killick in his freshly restored Mk1 Morris Mini Cooper S. The distinctive whine of straight-cut gears is soon heard clawing at the grey winter air, getting very much louder as the Almond Green S slips into view, barrels down the access road and settles beside me on the track’s start/finish line. A smiling Peter Killick clambers out and immediately confesses the car’s homecoming is fast becoming an emotional one. “I actually started to get a bit teary on the way here. It’s the first time this car has been back to Baskerville in 38 years.” The Cooper S looks absolutely stunning and, as we slowly…

Buying a Mini, any Mini, requires a great deal of care and research and probably more than most other classic cars. This is simply down to the long duration of Mini production, the large number of models and the huge range of modifications that have been made to production models and produced by the aftermarket. Buying a Cooper S needs even more careful investigation due to the value differences between Coopers and most other models and the easy interchangeability of parts. This has resulted in the creation of many ringers; in the case of Cooper Ss, a converted, standard Mini given an identity from a scrap Cooper S logbook. Some are very well done and this is why thorough investigation is essential. Introduced in March 1970, following the end of…

TOOLKIT Restoring a Mini is a great deal more than fitting a few new panels, a nice paint job and a mechanical overhaul. There are so many other finishing touches that many of us overlook when planning and undertaking renovation work. One example is the toolkit. Every Mini produced was sold with a jack and wheel brace to enable the spare wheel to be fitted in the event of a puncture. Think about it: that is a lot better than most cars today which come with a battery-operated pump and some goo to squirt into the compromised tyre. At least the spare and jack will actually work, provided of course you maintain the Mini spare. A lot of Minis will have lost the jack and brace at some time in…

MiniWorld staff and writers reporting on their month in, under and around Minis… Sheldon Model: Reshelled 1990 Racing Green, 1293cc engine History: Donor Mini bought as a MiniWorld project and reshelled into BMH Mini bodyshell number 1 in 2003. Last issue I mentioned that I thought Sheldon was MOT-ready and he very nearly was. As he has sat about doing nothing for so long I checked over things such as the rear handbrake quadrants as they can stick, (I pulled the handbrake cable from under the front edge of the rear subframe and saw movement in each quadrant) and I tweaked the rear drum brake adjusters. A squirt of the grease gun on the suspension grease nipples proved entertaining as I’d not used my compressed air grease gun for a…

1985 Mini City E I've owned my Mini since 2002 with the first incarnation running 7x13 Starmags and appearing as MiniWorld cover car in August 2003. It has a 1380cc engine. I dropped it o  for its MOT in 2014 and my Mini world was turned upside down as there was a lot of rust to be fixed. My first purchase was a rollover jig. The Mini was back on the road for the IMM in Bristol where our family volunteered to help: what an amazing weekend that was. The Mini was used occasionally throughout the pandemic in 2020 and had one very memorable weekend away with two Woody estates.…

A nostalgic rummage through the MiniWorld archives… Gareth Howell’s stunning cover car was built up from a brand-new Rover bodyshell. He cut the front end off in order to fit a flip-front for easy access to the 1380cc engine. Sports Pack arches were pretty unusual on Minis back in 2001: “I always wanted the biggest wheels you could get on a Mini,” said Gareth, who fitted 7x13” Superlite alloys. The modified shell was painted in a Ford blue with black roof and bonnet stripes. The blue contrasted very well with the red of the immaculate interior and there were also red flashes in the boot and engine bay. Other feature Minis included a 1996 Rover Cooper that had been treated to a chequerplate dash, a material that was in high…

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David Jackettrecalls: “I always liked classic Minis from a young age. I bought my first Mini in 2015. It was a Cooper without Sports Pack, a 2000 car. It had 10,200 miles on the clock and I put it into dry storage.” In 2017 Rover Mini Cooper Sport 500 X500 COO, first registered with the DVLA in January 2001, went up for auction at Historics. “I knew that it was a 500 so it was a special car because it was the second one made and I knew that the first one, a Racing Green example, had been written off. It also has super-low mileage so it was like buying a brand new Mini basically. It was an opportunity of a lifetime as it’s the oldest Cooper Sport 500 in…

1) In the past the Cooper S was expensive to insure compared to other Minis and heavily loaded for younger drivers. Is this still the case with classic insurance and today’s high values for the S? Insurers will look at a number of factors when offering terms for any vehicle; the driver’s history, their experience, the vehicle usage, its value and storage to name a few. Whilst values of the Cooper S continue to climb, their overall usage remains limited and often the vehicles are now more securely stored than they would have been 10 years ago. As the Cooper S and other Minis are now an enthusiast’s car, the premiums have become more competitive to reflect the reduced risk an enthusiast presents to the insurer. Historically, the younger driver…

MiniWorld staff and writers reporting on their month in, under and around Minis… Jenna Model: 1981 BL Mini 1000 Mileage: 83,169 Model: 1981 BL Mini 1000 Mileage: 83,169 I have been working tirelessly towards finishing Mary the Mini but, due to some issues with the paint process, it’s been put on the back-burner with next to no chance of being finished this year. So, instead of just moping, I thought it’d be the best bet to set to work on Jenna. She has been looking sorry for herself for some time: completely rusted A-panels, manky primer across the rear quarters and just general corrosion and miscoloured paint all over. To fix this I’ve begun stripping the car to a rolling shell: the bumpers, lights, windows and everything else in the…

Show off! To get your Mini on these pages, email mw.ed@kelsey.co.uk with photos of you and your Mini, plus information (put ‘My Mini’ in the subject box) or post to: MiniWorld My Mini, Kelsey Media, Cudham Tithe Barn, Berry's Hill, Cudham, Kent, TN16 3AG, UK. If your Mini is awarded the 'We Love It’ badge, you’ll win a goody pack, courtesy of Meguiar’s (www.meguiars.co.uk). Email us to claim your prize. Karl Amos Modified 1985 Mini Mayfair This is Mad Bess, so called because she makes a pretty mad noise, and the final money required to finish her came when my great aunt Bess died and left me a little in her will. The project took five years and way too much money. She started life as 1985 Mayfair which was…