Old Mini Adverts

Started by BruceK, September 11, 2017, 03:07:55 PM

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MiniDave

We had some folks with a "Sky" here and I liked the white/blue top combination..... 77.gif
Complete failure at retirement

1989 Cooper Racing Green
2009 Clubman S
2014 Audi Allroad

BruceK

The IMA Mini estate built in Portugal had a single rear door instead of the twin "barn doors" found on Minis in other markets.  Not sure how much a person had to stoop down to get under that door to load and unload the car.
1988 Austin Mini
2002 MINI Cooper S
1992 Toyota LiteAce (JDM)
1997 Jeep Wrangler Sahara

BruceK

Beautiful color illustrations.  Officially the car is being called the Austin Mini now instead of the Austin Seven, so that places this ad as after 1961.
1988 Austin Mini
2002 MINI Cooper S
1992 Toyota LiteAce (JDM)
1997 Jeep Wrangler Sahara

ve9aa

Quote from: BruceK on September 30, 2022, 05:53:39 PM
The IMA Mini estate built in Portugal had a single rear door instead of the twin "barn doors" found on Minis in other markets.  Not sure how much a person had to stoop down to get under that door to load and unload the car.

Maybe Europeans were shorter in the 1960's? ;-) :-X
Mike in NB

30 minutes in a Mini is more therapeutic than 3 sessions at the shrink.

BruceK

#179
An ad for Minis from a US magazine in the early 1960s. 

Some things stick out to me: 

- the word "Mini" is totally absent in the ad
- the Cooper model is sporting whitewall tires!
- the ad states there were over 1,000 (!) Austin-MG dealers in the US/Canada.  (For comparison, these days there are currently about 1,000 Nissan dealerships in the US, and BMC achieved that coverage 60 years ago)
1988 Austin Mini
2002 MINI Cooper S
1992 Toyota LiteAce (JDM)
1997 Jeep Wrangler Sahara

BruceK

A nice simple and clean looking Mini ad/brochure.
1988 Austin Mini
2002 MINI Cooper S
1992 Toyota LiteAce (JDM)
1997 Jeep Wrangler Sahara

ve9aa

Quote from: BruceK on October 03, 2022, 01:35:45 PM
An ad for Minis from a US magazine in the early 1960s. 

Some things stick out to me: 

- the word "Mini" is totally absent in the ad
- the Cooper model is sporting whitewall tires!
- the ad states there were over 1,000 (!) Austin-MG dealers in the US/Canada.  (For comparison, these days there are currently about 1,000 Nissan dealerships in the US, and BMC achieved that coverage 60 years ago)

I can believe it ! I was only about 16-17 when they stopped sending Minis to Canada, but up until then, even in my tiny city in NB, Canada, we had a dealership selling Minis.
Mike in NB

30 minutes in a Mini is more therapeutic than 3 sessions at the shrink.

BruceK

#182
The Mini estate by Innocenti.   Easier to see some differences in this ad:  the license plate is handled differently, and the rear tail lights are different from the English version (they look like Fiat units).   Instead of two small bumperettes,  there's a full width rear bumper.  And I don't think that chrome trim on the side at doorhandle height was ever used on other Minis?  And chrome wheel arch trim is unusual for an estate.  I wonder if the car's "T" designation was short for Traveller? 
1988 Austin Mini
2002 MINI Cooper S
1992 Toyota LiteAce (JDM)
1997 Jeep Wrangler Sahara

BruceK

This ad seems to be for dealer-installed air conditioning for the JDM market?
1988 Austin Mini
2002 MINI Cooper S
1992 Toyota LiteAce (JDM)
1997 Jeep Wrangler Sahara

BruceK

This cropped image with no text looks to be from a Portuguese Cagiva Moke brochure.
1988 Austin Mini
2002 MINI Cooper S
1992 Toyota LiteAce (JDM)
1997 Jeep Wrangler Sahara

BruceK

A German language ad for the newly launched Mini.
1988 Austin Mini
2002 MINI Cooper S
1992 Toyota LiteAce (JDM)
1997 Jeep Wrangler Sahara

BruceK

Here's an Australian example of "race on Sunday, sell on Monday".
1988 Austin Mini
2002 MINI Cooper S
1992 Toyota LiteAce (JDM)
1997 Jeep Wrangler Sahara

BruceK

Sombody liked this ad for the Innocenti Mini Cooper 1300 enough to hold on to this ragged copy of it.
1988 Austin Mini
2002 MINI Cooper S
1992 Toyota LiteAce (JDM)
1997 Jeep Wrangler Sahara

BruceK

In the days before seatbelts, I guess you could pack the entire girls soccer team into one Mini.
1988 Austin Mini
2002 MINI Cooper S
1992 Toyota LiteAce (JDM)
1997 Jeep Wrangler Sahara

BruceK

A British Leyland promotional photo showing the 4 millionth Mini was a Clubman.  And based on the model's outfit, this was in the winter.
1988 Austin Mini
2002 MINI Cooper S
1992 Toyota LiteAce (JDM)
1997 Jeep Wrangler Sahara

ve9aa

MMM, that white Clubman is tasty. 77.gif

I just turned my room upside down looking for a Brochure I bought off ebay back in the mid 2000's for an 87 Austin Mini City-E and do you think I could find it? No way. :-[

I did however find most of the service records and whatnot for my car going back decades.  Pretty cool names (Wales) for the business and streetnames over there.  :-\

Keep'\m comin ! :D
Mike in NB

30 minutes in a Mini is more therapeutic than 3 sessions at the shrink.

BruceK

Yeah looks great in while. A 1275GT with the Dunlop Denovo runflat tires.   That would have been the top-of-the-line Mini at that point in time.
1988 Austin Mini
2002 MINI Cooper S
1992 Toyota LiteAce (JDM)
1997 Jeep Wrangler Sahara

BruceK

The Innocenti Mini Cooper 1300 Export model. 

Looking at the stickers on the boot lid, it seems the big markets for it were France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland.
1988 Austin Mini
2002 MINI Cooper S
1992 Toyota LiteAce (JDM)
1997 Jeep Wrangler Sahara

BruceK

#193
The Canadian market Mini with its big bumpers and side marker lights was really ugly. But how is it possible to make it uglier? Just add approved accessories Such as front air dam, mudflaps, huge wheel arches, massive side decals, and rear window louvers!
1988 Austin Mini
2002 MINI Cooper S
1992 Toyota LiteAce (JDM)
1997 Jeep Wrangler Sahara

BruceK

An old ad from the 1960s, but somehow the car color seems off?   Looks brown on my phone but maybe it's supposed to be maroon?
1988 Austin Mini
2002 MINI Cooper S
1992 Toyota LiteAce (JDM)
1997 Jeep Wrangler Sahara

ve9aa

Quote from: BruceK on October 13, 2022, 09:48:55 PM
An old ad from the 1960s, but somehow the car color seems off?   Looks brown on my phone but maybe it's supposed to be maroon?

Ohhh! That's a weird p00py brown colour, eh?

Not sure I've seen that before, least of which on a LWB Mini
Mike in NB

30 minutes in a Mini is more therapeutic than 3 sessions at the shrink.

BruceK

A BMC publicity photo showing the recently launched Mini out and about in the English countryside.  I guess in the days before GPS navigation sometimes it was hard to unfold a big map inside the car. Better to lay it out on the bonnet! 
1988 Austin Mini
2002 MINI Cooper S
1992 Toyota LiteAce (JDM)
1997 Jeep Wrangler Sahara

BruceK

Four special editions launched at the same time.
1988 Austin Mini
2002 MINI Cooper S
1992 Toyota LiteAce (JDM)
1997 Jeep Wrangler Sahara

BruceK

Another special edition 998 Mini.
1988 Austin Mini
2002 MINI Cooper S
1992 Toyota LiteAce (JDM)
1997 Jeep Wrangler Sahara

BruceK

#199
The popup sunroof (ugh!) helps identify this from the launch of the RSP (Rover Special Products) Mini Cooper.  That was the special run of 1,050 cars to test the waters about possibly re-launching the Cooper as a mainstream model in Rover's lineup for the 1990s.  And the tie-in to the Italian Job movie didn't hurt one bit.   Obviously the RSP Cooper was very successful!
1988 Austin Mini
2002 MINI Cooper S
1992 Toyota LiteAce (JDM)
1997 Jeep Wrangler Sahara