Old Mini Adverts

[BruceK]

The Mascot.  Sold in Denmark. And other places?   

The Mini name is completely absent from this ad.

[94touring]

Almost forgot, I was going to post this.  Trying to get in closer in the pic to where you can read the text.

[BruceK]

Cool.  From what I can understand through Google, Koelliker was an Italian dealership chain who offered the Mini and gave customers a fire and theft policy too.

[ve9aa]

Jon from Belgium (Minimania, but I think I've seen him here too!) has a very nice Mini Mascot.

[BruceK]

Back when adding alloy wheels to your car was a really big thing.

[BruceK]

The introduction of the Mini estates in 1961.  Still calling the Austin version of the Mini the "Seven". 

At this time the estates came with the fuel tank mounted internally in the passenger compartment (!) before the switch later to the fuel tank mounted under the floor behind the rear subframe.

[BruceK]

Heres a brochure of a Mini Moke that was never actually made - as far as I know.  My understanding is this handout was used to try to sell the Moke to different governments for their various militaries.   When that effort failed and no military wanted it, BMC decided to offer the Moke to the general public as a fun runabout. 

[BruceK]

And here's the Moke as first released to the public.

[BruceK]

Here's a prototype Moke - note that the side pod/pontoons were not finalized at this point.  But the Moke's front end styling was.  So that makes the "military version" styling even more curious...

[Tim]

The 'Military styling' one is very similar to a South African Moke.  Same shortened wheel base and the different front end.  They also ended up with a hinged side panel.  Still some around.  http://www.sedgeclasscars.co.za/car-details.php?CarID=2486


Tim

[BruceK]

Tim, Wow. In 50+ years of being a complete Mini fanatic and reading and absorbing everything I could find about Minis, I have never seen a South African Moke before. I didn't even know it existed.  Mind blown.  I mean, I know about English Mokes, and Australian Mokes, and Portuguese Mokes, and Chinese "Mokes", and American "Mokes" but I never knew about the South African one.  I'd love to know more about it.  Like why the shorter wheelbase and lower lights?  Lots of other little detail differences, including the folding windshield.

That one is for sale for 110,000 rand, so less than US$6,400.  Quite a nice price.

[Tim]

I'll look up more info for you, but from what I remember, there were at least 6 prototype, short wheel base Moke's, built in SA for testing.  These later found there way into public hands.  I'll read through a couple of resources and let you know.

Tim

[BruceK]

Very true!!

[ve9aa]

Keep'r comin' Bruce.  :-\

This is my favorite running thread on the entire interwebs. 4.gif

Does that make me nostalgic?  No idea.  17.gif

[BruceK]

Thanks Mike!

Here's an Innocenti.

[BruceK]

Back when every Mini had only a central speedometer and no supplemental gauges this was an aftermarket way to get some more instrumentation.

[MPlayle]

That dash is actually available today at this French website.

https://www.datch.fr/en/dashboards-c-45_4516_451613.html

Available in either LHD or RHD.

[BruceK]

Crazy that it's still available.  I saw the price of over €700 and I thought it was crazy until I realized that it includes all the gauges and speedometer.

[MiniDave]

Yeah, a speedo from MiniSpares is like half of that cost.

BTW Bruce, do you still have any of those old speedos? The one in Clancy's Moke is broken and I was hoping to fix him up on the cheap.....

[MPlayle]

Dave,

Let me check my stuff as I may still have the old one from the white Moke.  I put an electronic one in the Moke.

[MiniDave]

Thanks Michael!!!

[BruceK]

I found one of my spare speedos and sent it to Dan a couple of weeks ago.  But looks like Michael has you covered for Clancy.


This ad looks like it's for one of the first aftermarket mufflers that exited through the center of the car.

[MiniDave]

I love these English addresses......"Lever st, Little Lever, near Bolton"

Mine might be "Hadley Pl, off Antioch, near Overland Park"  77.gif

My brother's actual address is "Three Elms, Little Cowarne, Herefordshire" That's it.

[BruceK]

The special edition Mini Cooper 35th anniversary model.

[BruceK]

I love these English addresses......"Lever st, Little Lever, near Bolton"

Mine might be "Hadley Pl, off Antioch, near Overland Park"  77.gif

My brother's actual address is "Three Elms, Little Cowarne, Herefordshire" That's it.

How about the phone number?  Farnworth 1935.    Much like the old phone numbers in the US with catchy (and memorable) exchange names. When I was a kid our family's home phone number was Twinbrook 2 8252.   Nowadays nobody has to remember any phone number.