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[IWasNotYetBornIn1959]

Fabulous photos !
Many thanks for posting them ... and keep on if you have others !

By the way, it's funny to see those 70s custom cars with French eyes as in France, we have always been some years late with custom cars !
70s style used to start here in the 80s and kept on in the early 1990s !

Thankfully now some really nice custom cars are to be seen in France even if there are homologation problems ...

[Old Drag Racer]

Thanks everyone for all the kind remarks and information about the pictures.
Running my own nostalgia website and forum I thought these might go down well on here.
Hopefully they might have inspired some of you to try something a bit different with your own cars
One more batch after these and that's it I'm affraid.

[IWasNotYetBornIn1959]

So nice ...
I just had a quick glance at your own nostalgia drag website.
I think I'll be hooked for hours with it ...
Very best regards !

[Jet_black]

That Duckhams oil Mini is brilliant.

[miniman86]

i like the idea of a debumpered hornet, something that i am tempted to do with mine, we will see........

[E-Tizzle]

i like the idea of a debumpered hornet, something that i am tempted to do with mine, we will see........

yeah i like debumpered as well, but those arches look horrible, maybe better from a slightly more side angle.

do you know what year these pictures are? roughly

[jay30]

Wow! Donington Park in the olde days LOL

[mab01uk]

Thanks everyone for all the kind remarks and information about the pictures.
Running my own nostalgia website and forum I thought these might go down well on here.
Hopefully they might have inspired some of you to try something a bit different with your own cars
One more batch after these and that's it I'm affraid.

The (half of) Mini on the right of this picture with Wood & Pickett Arches and nudge bars + brand new 6x10 Cosmic slot alloys with Goodyear 165/10 Rally Special tyres was mine!!

I also knew all the Minis parked in this photo including the bumperless Hornet in grey primer as we had convoyed up the M1 with the Surrey/Sussex members of the then newly formed Mini Cooper Club.

Edited by mab01uk, 19 July 2010 - 06:38 PM.

[mab01uk]

That Duckhams oil Mini is brilliant.

Its now kept at the Beaulieu Museum.

[minimininut]

Brilliant! Do you know what happened to your mini with the fab alloys?

Edited by minimininut, 19 July 2010 - 07:32 PM.

[yousmeg]

Tonights offerings

Ive fallen in love

Does anyone know what car these headlights are off?

Edited by yousmeg, 19 July 2010 - 11:03 PM.

[mk3 Cooper S]

Tonights offerings

Ive fallen in love

Does anyone know what car these headlights are off?

MK2 escort

[mk3 Cooper S]

Interestingly a lot of the cars appeared to go off the road in the mid 80's
Probably due to the tightening up of the MOT tests around this time

[E-Tizzle]

Does anyone know what car these headlights are off?

i saw a mini at L2B with massive mercedes headlights that went from the top of the bonnet down to the bumper.
NOT A GOOD LOOK AT ALL!!

[Robert]

What a fantastic trip down memory lane. Thanks for posting them.

These pictures tell us so much about the past, but leave so much stuff untold.

How many of these Mini's are actually still around?
Where are all the people now?
Are Rob and Mandy still together?

I guess we'll never know!