Edited by mab01uk, 26 February 2012 - 05:09 PM.
Half A Mk 1 Mini Museum Find
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, Feb 26 2012 10:44 AM
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Posted 26 February 2012 - 05:08 PM
Half a Mk2 Mini now in Japan.
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Posted 26 February 2012 - 05:43 PM
why dont they cut a more modern mini in half? save the mint mk1's and mk2's for people who will actually drive them?
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Posted 26 February 2012 - 05:48 PM
I didnt know there was so many!! I think the one from gaydon was the one on show at the design museum. As I am fan of the design museum on facebook (I am a design student so not just weird!) and it showed pictures of how it got to be on display. Came up on a lift on the outside of a building, and they basically took the window out of the building to get it in!!
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Posted 26 February 2012 - 06:34 PM
why dont they cut a more modern mini in half? save the mint mk1's and mk2's for people who will actually drive them?
The Dyson Mk1 Mini was bought and cut in half quite recently but most of the others were done in the 1960's and 70's when the Mk1Mini was a current or very common car.
Posted this link to a film showing a moving horizontal cutaway display Mk1 Mini and BMC 1100 (7 minutes into video) from the 1963 Earls Court Motor Show in London on here recently but not many seemed interested......
Earls Court Motor Show 1963:
http://www.eafa.org....atalogue/118016
Edited by mab01uk, 26 February 2012 - 06:40 PM.
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Posted 26 February 2012 - 07:11 PM
My mate sent me this pic a while back. Not sure where it was though. You could go right up to this one.
That looks an awful lot like the one in the Science Museum in London, that I mentioned in the original post. It used to be covered in perspex panels like that, so you could get up close to it without actually being able to get inside it . It's not like that any more though, they moved it behind a big pane of glass a couple of years ago, so you can't get anywhere near it anymore.
Edited by AVV IT, 26 February 2012 - 07:13 PM.
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Posted 27 February 2012 - 12:34 AM
I was in the Science Museum a few weeks ago and you can now walk round the Mini but it has perspex panels round the mechanicals which I think really spoil it.
I meant to go to the Design Museum to see the "This is Design" exhibition which featured the other cut-in-half Mini but missed it. I have seen it before at Gaydon from where it was borrowed.
mab01uk, I did see your earlier post on the Earls Court Motor Show and thought it was great. I wonder what happened to that Mini.
I meant to go to the Design Museum to see the "This is Design" exhibition which featured the other cut-in-half Mini but missed it. I have seen it before at Gaydon from where it was borrowed.
mab01uk, I did see your earlier post on the Earls Court Motor Show and thought it was great. I wonder what happened to that Mini.
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Posted 27 February 2012 - 10:25 AM
if theres enough fuel in the carb it might still drive a few feet! lol
there isn't a fool tank
the question is can you drive it? i mean im looking i'm thinking maybe just mayb you can?
Well it looks like you could drive the Jap one, that has a fuel tank
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Posted 27 February 2012 - 09:16 PM
Not to mention box bracing between the subbies so you are not driving a flex monster :)
I bet they are pretty cheap to buy and insure.. surely they are half off.... *hides*
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I bet they are pretty cheap to buy and insure.. surely they are half off.... *hides*
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Posted 27 February 2012 - 09:36 PM
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Posted 27 February 2012 - 09:37 PM
i bet my mini has less steel in the body still........
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Posted 27 February 2012 - 09:42 PM
Ironbridge eh?
Thats only up the road from me, I might take a trip out there and have a nose.
Thats only up the road from me, I might take a trip out there and have a nose.
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Posted 27 February 2012 - 10:02 PM
seen them back in 1989 at silverstone mini 30....................... 
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Posted 28 February 2012 - 09:58 PM
theres a pale blue mk1 in the think tank/science museum in birmingham, bit expensive to get in though, about £13 an adult, and £8 a child! nice mini though and plenty to do!
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Posted 28 February 2012 - 10:01 PM
Ironbridge eh?
Thats only up the road from me, I might take a trip out there and have a nose.
Yeah it's worth a look if you're remotely interested in engineering & technology though the ages, (which let's face it, a lot of people here will be). It's supposed to be a place for kids, but from what I saw it was filled with a lot of adults dragging their kids along, just so that they could get to play with all the stuff themselves.
As i recall, it was about £8 for an adult ticket, but you can get in with a couple of quids worth of those Tesco Clubcard reward vouchers instead.
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