Just picked up a copy of this months Unique cars and they have an article on 10 of the mini based cars that were made including a tractor, trike and a camper van!!!

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Here's a very nice overview of all those funny Mini based 'specials':
http://www.minimarcos.org.uk/altpics/index.html

I'm reading this book ATM:



"the story of a 140mph Mini engined world record breaker and how to build it" - very inspiring book!

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ashphalt that is a great link thankyou for posting that.. Very interesting

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Did they use predominately Australian ones or just web sourced stuff (did the Mini-Trac make it ) ?

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The ones in the mag were all ones that were brought in or made in aussie and also mentioned how many there were around nowdays, also had pics of the red jem that one of the guys in canberra owns (forgot his username on here)

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Is that bout building a terrapin? I'm lookin at doin that

Tspeed Jem

Yes! It's the book by Allan Staniforth, the inventor of the 'Terrapin' I'm very tempted myself to build a Terrapin - once I have a good workshop

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The specials they included are

1. Broadspeed
2. Tractor
3. Lolita
4. Trike (not a production model though)
5. Monaco
6. Mini-Trac (there you go Iain )
7. Fang
8. Unipower GT
9. Wild Goose
10. Mini Jem

Some interesting info.......I'd never heard of the Wild Goose before. THe trike doesn't count though, it was just something some guy made in his back yard. THey should have axed it and put the Midas in instead.

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Their website still only has the previous edition on it http://www.uniquecars.carpoint.com.au/ going out shortly to try and find the mag though .

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Also a nice Mk2 Cooper S for sale with Weber and roll bar - $28,500 I think they were asking.

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1965 Mini Van (1360)
1970 Mk2 Cooper S (1310)
1978 Rover SD1 V8 (4.6)
1996 Land Rover Discovery V8 (4.0)

Got the mag today , you could have said it was nearly all the cars in TME issue 17 It's a decent spread of cars over 10 or so pages . Well done watto (well , if it wasn't watto his lawyers will be busy) for getting the mini derivatives into a mainstream car mag read by thousands of people .

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I had to look hard to find Watto's byline, but it's there. Great work.

How about the $30,000 Morris 1100 on the previous page?

that would be the Vanden Plas Princess? - somewhat over restored by the looks of the website but enough for me to up the insurance on mine

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'62 Morris 850 (Marion)
'65 Mini Delux - sleeper 1275/S discs (Ms Plum)
'69 Vanden Plas Princess 1300
'71 Wolseley 1300
'74 Austin 1300 Countryman
'94 XJ6 Sport 3.2
'04 Rover 75 CDTi

HeHe, it's funny discovering my car come up in various articles. They've put the engine pic for the uni-power on the page with mine for some reason?