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PostPosted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 9:42 pm 
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Found some early mini advertising under the lino of a house I renovated
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great find.
what year newspaper?

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Melbourne Sun, 1965.
There's more ads, are there copywrite on these?

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Love it :D

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Rookiepilot wrote:
Melbourne Sun, 1965.
There's more ads, are there copywrite on these?


Cool same year as my mini.
I might copy it to my list of period images.

copyright, No.
Your only posting images of interest to a classic car forum, not passing them off as your own work. Its long out of date at anyrate.

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I love the "Accelerates like a dragster 0-50 in 13.9!"

Creative advertising at it's best.

Nice find and it looks in fantastic condition too.

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Publishers copyright lasts 25years - intellectual copyright last 75 years if the author/graphic artist can prove they actually wrote it.

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I love the "Accelerates like a dragster 0-50 in 13.9!"

Creative advertising at it's best.



They're just continuing the bike analogy ....

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These things look so much faster on the TV than they obviously are:

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according to the Reserve Bank Inflation Calculator,a Mini costing 833 pounds in 1965 would cost the equv of $17,484 today. :o

Do you think a new car with the selling points of that Mini Deluxe would find any buyers today for that price...... :wink:

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Mort Subite wrote:
according to the Reserve Bank Inflation Calculator,a Mini costing 833 pounds in 1965 would cost the equv of $17,484 today. :o

Do you think a new car with the selling points of that Mini Deluxe would find any buyers today for that price...... :wink:


that means the 850 must have been about 15k, so pretty much comparable with whats on the market today for those prices.


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I paid (or rather my Mum did) £400 for a two year old Mini in 1966

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we found a news paper form 1924 in the walls of my sisters house just yesterday haha

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Accelerates like a dragster

Dragsters must have come a long way since then :roll: :lol:
Or do they mean it accelerates in a forwards direction like a dragster :lol:

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Mort Subite wrote:
according to the Reserve Bank Inflation Calculator,a Mini costing 833 pounds in 1965 would cost the equv of $17,484 today.


I saw on a BBC programme guys talking about the Mini and how Ford bought one and took it apart. They struggled to see how it was built for a profit, and the answer they came to was that the mini was sold at close to cost.

833 pounds in 1965 is, in 2008 NZ$27757.80. (From the Reserve Bank of NZ CPI calculator).

A Suzuki Swift sells, at a profit presumably, for NZ$16,990. Seats five and won't kill you in an accident. Negligible maintenance.

Cars these days are cheap.


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