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[mab01uk]

Anita & Me, (BBC2) a coming-of-age comedy-drama film (2002) set in the Midlands during the early 1970s, based on Meera Syal's best selling novel, featured this early Mini as their family car....






Vehicle make: MORRIS
Date of first registration: February 1961
Year of manufacture: 1961
Cylinder capacity (cc): 848 cc
Vehicle status: SORN in place
Vehicle colour: BLUE
No MOT results

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From 'About us' - 'History' tab in link below:-
1962-1976
"Harry, and the shop, became famous for providing probably the UK's first neutral service vehicle. Between 62 - 76 Harry provided a free race service to most top UK and local events.
A friend and rider of the era said 'it was a great feeling, if you looked behind you and saw Harry & the van, you knew you'd made it!'
The little minis proved to be a reliable vehicle for the task. We ran 3 Mini's over this period, the latter two being performance modified to keep up with the pace the riders were now setting."
https://www.harryhal...co.uk/about.php

Edited by mab01uk, 23 December 2018 - 10:45 AM.

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[Lord Oversill]

Great stuff, thanks for sharing.

[Stevie W]

Mab,

Once again, many thanks for sharing this stuff, truly excellent!

Cheers, Steve.

[bpirie1000]

Love em....
Don't think folks will do this in 60 years with the new BMW shape mini.....

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A brand new Austin Mini parked on the first floor canopy of Barker's Kensington High Street department store which was giving away a Mini as a competition prize every week for six weeks in the run up to Christmas - 11th November 1966

 

Edited by mab01uk, 20 October 2019 - 07:01 PM.

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1960's group the 'Dave Clark Five' driving a Mini Moke in a scene from their 1965 film 'Catch Us If You Can'

https://www.reelstre...-us-if-you-can/

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[Cooperman]

If you look at the Dave Clark Five Mini Moke, you will see one of the then-new Cibie Oscar spotlights mounted centrally.

They had a metal black lamp cover with a small translucent circular piece and the cover was held on with a rubber elasticated strap. I had one on my then-new 1964 Cooper 998 with two Lucas 7" spots. I was asked what the thing in the centre was and I said it was a 'radar meter detector'. Some people actually believed it was!