Lovely but not quite as lovely as the half-timbered MK1 Mini Traveller... Dad had one for several years. It looked lovely Island Blue... I loved that car
Even as a kid I was really upset when he traded it in for a brand-new 1.3 Marina Coupe... An attractive car in Black Tulip but awful in every other way... One thing i remember well is dad finishing assembling the thing - doing things that BL QA missed
I learned to drive in the bloody horrid thing...
I can still recall the number plates of both... JOM 414E and PYA 372L
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I saw a Mini van hurtling up the A3 on Sunday afternoon. Not seen one of those on the road in years
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Maybe not island blue (clipper blue I think!)
http://sunstarmodelcars.com/5311/image/2S.jpg
Nice little write up
http://sunstarmodelcars.com/5311/image/2S.jpg
Nice little write up
Regards NeilIn September 1960, BMC launched the Austin and Morris estate car versions of the Mini saloons, based on the floorpan of the Mini van. However, like the saloon, the fuel tank was situated on the near-side of the boot behind a trim panel and the spare wheel and battery were placed under a hinged floor panel. (Later, the tank would be put under the floor like the van, and the spare and battery would be re-positioned.) Because of the popularity of the Morris Minor Traveller, both versions were offered with a wooden frame glued to the rear section and the Morris was also given the name 'Traveller', the Austin Se7en was called 'Countryman'. Unlike on the Morris Minor, this wooden frame was purely decorative and had no structural purpose, which was shown by the all-metal versions which were launched in the UK in October 1962. All estates had a trim level equivalent to a De Luxe saloon, with the addition of wing-mounted mirrors and sliding rear side windows as standard.
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My major recollection of the Mini Van was the rather dull "Post Office Telephones" model car I had!
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Darker blue than I imagined Jim if the evidence of theminiforum is to be believed.
..and the blue car in the Italian job was supposedly Island Blue........not a lot of people know that (as one of the leading actors may have said!)
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It was a Minivan that finally made me decide I'd never work on a Mini again - it was not having a separate (&, therefor, removable) grille that did it!
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van ordinaire wrote: ↑28 Mar 2018, 01:45 It was a Minivan that finally made me decide I'd never work on a Mini again - it was not having a separate (&, therefor, removable) grille that did it!
Ahh but that masterstroke by BMC was done on purpose - to prepare you for working on Citroens in later life
Neil, yes Island Blue was a darkish blue...
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...Ah! or should that be ooh! only about 100 views away from 50,000 views on this litttle thread.
Saw the mini clubman estate again..its definitely light blue, no pics though.
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Saw the mini clubman estate again..its definitely light blue, no pics though.
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If only that were true but while a time came when I wasn't prepared to work on Minis, & with the exception of kingpins, I have coped with the 2CV, the C15 has, I'm sad to say, largely defeated me (yet I keep reading they're easy to work on!)
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There was one real 'mare I recall on an early Mini - the inboard 'Hardy-Spicer' driveshaft joints
I still have the mental and physical scars... They make Xantia heater matrices look easy
I still have the mental and physical scars... They make Xantia heater matrices look easy
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I have barely touched Minis but the 'doughnut' joints on Imps were a challenge the first few times.
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Oh yes! I never had the 'pleasure' of those but I can imagine...
Did new ones not come wrapped in a metal band to make fitting easier?
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One good thing about the my first mini......didn't have a "brain" of its own
If it didn't start it was simply Fuel or Spark, and you could fix it.....even if sometimes that was hitting the electric fuel pump with a hammer!
No need whatsoever to put it on a "diagnostic", interpret trouble codes, or refer it to the British Motor Corporation's finest service outlets to rip you off!
The number of threads I read these days where the comment is "Main Dealer" couldn't find the fault and adopt the replace everything at eye-watering expense to fix a non-start or misfire symptom is staggering.
The more complicated diagnostics become the more useless they are at actually diagnosing!
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If it didn't start it was simply Fuel or Spark, and you could fix it.....even if sometimes that was hitting the electric fuel pump with a hammer!
No need whatsoever to put it on a "diagnostic", interpret trouble codes, or refer it to the British Motor Corporation's finest service outlets to rip you off!
The number of threads I read these days where the comment is "Main Dealer" couldn't find the fault and adopt the replace everything at eye-watering expense to fix a non-start or misfire symptom is staggering.
The more complicated diagnostics become the more useless they are at actually diagnosing!
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NewcastleFalcon wrote: ↑30 Mar 2018, 09:30 One good thing about the my first mini......didn't have a "brain" of its own
It really is an advantage Neil
A bit like my Skoda... Sat since November, untouched. Didn't even have anything to discharge the battery...
And started first time just as if it was yesterday it was last run...
Reminds me, I must fire up the Ka and give it a warming run and battery charge... That one does have things to discharge a battery such as a clock and radio memory amongst others hidden away...
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One of our customers came off a Ford Thames (100E Escort type) and bought a brand new mini van, I saw him a couple of weeks later, the van was dragging its ass on the ground, he ran a hardware shop so I figured he had it overloaded with goodies but I was quite surprised to find he had sixteen 2' x 2' concrete paving slabs in the back
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