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Author:  sports850 [ Thu Aug 13, 2009 3:09 pm ]
Post subject:  A couple of photo's found on someones flickr site
Whilst doing a google images search for something I came up with this guy's flikka page with some photo's from the 1970's .

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hugo90/

This one is claimed to be taken in Melbourne in 1974

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and someone's comment
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Disappeared when the dealer disappeared. Used to sit atop the "Mini World" sign in High Street, Thornbury in the late '70's - early '80's. Was red by that point. Note the rego label on the side window - it was a street-legal driver.


Secondly , this is claimed to be from the 1976 Castrol International Rallye in Canberra , pretty impressive pipe work at the front to extend the nose and protect the winch/driving lights .

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Anybody know anything about either car ?
Author:  poeee [ Thu Aug 13, 2009 3:25 pm ]
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That Moke is FANTASTIC!
Author:  BBY755 [ Thu Aug 13, 2009 3:30 pm ]
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Thought I saw a mini-mini same size for sale on ebay or carsales a few weeks back - it had been registered also...

Don't think I could find it again........bugger
Author:  clubmn [ Thu Aug 13, 2009 4:35 pm ]
Post subject:  jae
Not sure if its the same car doubt it... one had sliding windows the other doesnt??

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Author:  sports850 [ Thu Aug 13, 2009 4:36 pm ]
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I remember someone saying ages ago there was a panelworks (possibly in Sydney) who did 4 or 5 of them but can't find it now .
Author:  poeee [ Thu Aug 13, 2009 4:39 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: jae
clubmn wrote:
Not sure if its the same car doubt it... one had sliding windows the other doesnt??

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That's a Geelong car. As far as I know it was built down here, too.
Author:  Timbo [ Thu Aug 13, 2009 4:56 pm ]
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I remember a yellow shorty like the first one at a servo in Launceston when I was a kid (so early '70s).

I knew a guy that had a shorty Cooper S in Hobart in the mid '80s. It got t-boned at an intersection and broke in half. The ambulance driver thought the owner was in pain, but he was crying because he'd killed his car.

Tim
Author:  clubmn [ Thu Aug 13, 2009 5:35 pm ]
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Timbo wrote:
I remember a yellow shorty like the first one at a servo in Launceston when I was a kid (so early '70s).

I knew a guy that had a shorty Cooper S in Hobart in the mid '80s. It got t-boned at an intersection and broke in half. The ambulance driver thought the owner was in pain, but he was crying because he'd killed his car.

Tim


poor guy
Author:  Blokeinamoke [ Thu Aug 13, 2009 5:54 pm ]
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I remember that car as kid. It used to go down Tramway Pde Beaumaris all the time. I think one of the guys kids went to the same primary school as me. My dad used to point it out to me - that and a stretched 6 wheel Moke.

The 70s would be right - 1975 ish

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Author:  clubmn [ Thu Aug 13, 2009 5:59 pm ]
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blokeinamoke wrote:
I - that and a stretched 6 wheel Moke.


which someone resistantly told me where i would find one in a paddock near by.
Author:  mini maxx [ Thu Aug 13, 2009 6:36 pm ]
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Im pretty sure the stumpy Mini was used in the Mooroolbark Red Earth festival many moons ago, was draggin a float i think......an some school kids had given it a watercolor paint brush paint job, looked like a lil rainbow warrior :D twas followed by a moke in similar skin
Author:  toymini76 [ Thu Aug 13, 2009 7:04 pm ]
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I know where there is a shorty mini just like that but red with pink pearl. Can remember it from about 10 years ago driving around and have seen a couple of times since then. I know the owner is now thinking of selling it but is away on holiday at the moment. I have his contact details and will be ringing him soon so I'll see if it is similar or even the same one as in the photo. Not sure how much he'll want for it but am considering buying it for a bit of fun :D if not too dear.
Either way I'll take some photos of it if I go for a look.
Phil
Author:  drmini in aust [ Thu Aug 13, 2009 7:13 pm ]
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Allen's Motors (The Morris Minor Centre) in Parramatta has one. It has a towbar on both ends, is used for shunting dead Morries, Austin Lancers etc about the workshop & yard.
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:P
Author:  woodwormm [ Thu Aug 13, 2009 7:34 pm ]
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I remember as a kid at the Royal Show seeing a show before the holden stunt drivers....

clowns (the type with red noses, big shoes and face paint) in shortened minis, with large external circular roll cages. they would drive, hit the skids which were biased to the front creating a massive endo but due to the roll cage the car would somersault over onto it's wheels again. pretty easy in a shorty i would imagine.
Author:  rehab1964 [ Thu Aug 13, 2009 7:39 pm ]
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I can remember the the ads for miniworld on the TV and in the classifieds - I think they were a chain of car yards at one point
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