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danidad
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as a kid i remember seeing a mini with a rolls royce grille and headlights grafted on... strange as that may sound , from memory it was awesome, looked really good and a very tidy job. it made the papers as the owner claimed he had dreamt of owning a roller all his life but realised he would never have enough dosh.. anyone remember seeing it, are there any others done? anyone got a pic???
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you sure it wasnt a riley or wolsely?
a rolls royce grill would look mustard
esp with the flying statuette

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One of the Cheech & Chong movies had a VW withe a RR Grille on the front :lol:
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I've seen a pic of that somewhere years ago. Also one of the upmarket UK bodyworks used to fit Mercedes 220SE headlamps to custom Minis. Didn't look too bad.. :wink:

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here is the roller front... mustard indeed :? done by Brian Luff as a bit of a joke, Brian Luff was responsible for the Minipower special, rear-engined mini based lotus seven competitor

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and here is the benz headlights that doc refers to, courtesy of Wood & Pickett - not too bad Doc, not too good either, but maybe preferable to a clubman :P

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and here is one of those hatchback conversions people were chatting about a while ago

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Third link as same as second. :!:
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brilliant pics. Love the roller mini, dunno about the merc mini, and the hatch is weird but kinda cool!

I must admit, I thought Jeff was trippin when he mentioned a Rolls Royce fronted Mini....... :? ......very interesting! Good memory Jeff! :lol:
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christ its like seeing Leprechauns
i wanna go touch them all

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there was a hatchback conversion floating around down the gold coast many years ago....... rumor at the time was it had a KAD head as well. Wonder what happened to it :? :? :?

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The mini looks so small with those huge headlights.

I reckon i like the look of it.
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The second one's like when a roundie meets a clubbie.
The last one isn't too bad. Make that stereo easier to fit.
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the one i saw way back then would have had to have been a roundy.. had the twin headlight cluster horizontaly
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Some one also did a BMW grill I'll se if I can Find it ! EEEkkkkk

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That would be this Clubbie - Done by someone in Denmark
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:lol: Thats the One :lol:

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