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General Discussion => The Lounge => Topic started by: BruceK on September 11, 2017, 03:07:55 PM

Title: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on September 11, 2017, 03:07:55 PM
I found this old advert for Dunlop wheels.   

The ad says a set of them is £40 (or, if you can't swing that, you can pay £5 a month for 9 months).  Honestly, how cheap are you?   ;D




Title: Re: Old Mini Accessories
Post by: BruceK on September 12, 2017, 07:36:01 AM
Well, it's not an 'accessory', but kinda fundamental.   Rubery Owen proud they could produce a Mini front subframe in less than one minute.
Title: Re: Old Mini Accessories
Post by: BruceK on September 12, 2017, 07:38:06 AM
One of the aftermarket suppliers of rollup windows for Mk. I and II cars. (and vans and pickups too)
Title: Re: Old Mini Accessories
Post by: 94touring on September 12, 2017, 07:41:03 AM
That would have been nice to have.  The windows too.
Title: Re: Old Mini Accessories
Post by: BruceK on September 14, 2017, 01:37:56 PM
Ad for the launch of the Coopers (and Supers, too).   
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on September 18, 2017, 06:47:43 AM
Back before it was called a "Mini".   My first car was a 1962 Austin Seven.  Said right so on the boot.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on September 18, 2017, 06:50:58 AM
I remember buying an British car magazine when I was a teenager and this was the advert on the back cover.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on October 03, 2017, 07:36:44 AM
Selling the Clubman in Oz.   Wouldn't be great if you could buy a brand new one now for just $3K?
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on October 03, 2017, 07:39:57 AM
Surfing in South Africa.   Regulations in South Africa meant every car had to have a pair of white reflectors facing forward - on the Mini they were put under the headlights.

Note that it is Mk. I, but with roll-up windows like an Oz Mini.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on October 10, 2017, 11:32:38 AM
Apparently the Mini went through a phase where a vinyl top was a "thing".
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on October 10, 2017, 11:34:01 AM
Racing sells cars.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: MiniDave on October 10, 2017, 12:59:04 PM
Interesting that's it's smoking the loaded tire and not the unloaded one.....

Thanks for posting these, they're fun!  4.gif
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on October 10, 2017, 01:15:11 PM
Quote from: MiniDave on October 10, 2017, 12:59:04 PM
Interesting that's it's smoking the loaded tire and not the unloaded one.....

Thanks for posting these, they're fun!  4.gif

Glad you like 'em.


Hey!  We made the rack and pinon that won the Monte!!


Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on October 11, 2017, 02:51:03 PM
Quote from: MiniDave on October 10, 2017, 12:59:04 PM
Interesting that's it's smoking the loaded tire and not the unloaded one.....

I've seen a lot of photos of old Minis doing the same thing. 

Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: MiniDave on October 11, 2017, 03:20:19 PM
Huh, you'd think it would be smoking the inside tire.....
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on October 13, 2017, 05:37:35 PM
I understand why the front tires would smoke, but why are they turned on a drag strip?



(Truth in advertising = torque steer?   :D  )
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on October 23, 2017, 12:39:45 PM
Makes a good point.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on October 23, 2017, 12:42:37 PM
Selling the Clubman GT
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on November 10, 2017, 09:21:05 AM
I think this person loves her Mini!    "When everything else goes wrong, your Mini will still love you"    4.gif
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on November 10, 2017, 09:22:17 AM
Why not get a Traveller? It's got "room for a lively, sprawling family" !

In 1960 this would have been the estate model with the interior fuel tank, before BMC mounted it under the car.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on November 14, 2017, 08:34:21 AM
The Mini was the car of choice for German hippies! 

(actually, nearly everyone I knew looked like that back in the 1970s)

Google says Spardose = Money Box, which I guess means piggy bank?

Also, I see that the car has reverse wheels.  That was never an option, right?  And I can't imagine the German TUV approving them on a brand new production car. 
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on November 23, 2017, 01:35:43 PM
Sums it up nicely.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: Minty on November 30, 2017, 11:37:21 PM
my old man likes looking at those ads back in the day
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on December 18, 2017, 08:50:51 AM
A Winter-themed Mini advertisement.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on January 15, 2018, 10:43:55 AM
Retro Uber?  Nope. 

Just a suggestion to call a Mini dealership to arrange for a test ride in a new Mini.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on January 29, 2018, 02:05:53 PM
Selling great fuel economy to the masses.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on January 29, 2018, 02:07:16 PM
ERA Turbo ad playing on Italian Job theme.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: ADRay on January 29, 2018, 05:23:23 PM
my favorite... stuck as wallpaper on my ancient iPod Touch

Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on February 04, 2018, 04:39:27 PM
I like that ad.    Not too many Almond Green Minis were used.


Who would have guess The Flintstones influenced a Mini ad?  Based upon the surf theme and the license plate size, this seems to be for Oz built Minis.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: jeff10049 on February 04, 2018, 11:12:20 PM
A few I have.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: jeff10049 on February 04, 2018, 11:21:49 PM
more
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: Lone Star Mini on February 14, 2018, 09:12:40 PM
where in the world do you guys find all these.. they are quite fun..
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: jeff10049 on February 14, 2018, 10:56:46 PM
A few more, also I need to take pictures of all the old posters mini ads and posters I have and post as well.


Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on March 07, 2018, 07:04:33 PM
Wow. I love that last photo of the packed room with Minis on shelves?  Is that from Japan?   Or the Netherlands?  (seem to be a lot of Dutch plates)
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: ve9aa on April 18, 2018, 02:33:33 PM
Awesome ads guys ! !  Keepm' comin'

Well done.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on April 19, 2018, 06:14:52 PM
Lucas pitching as an OEM supplier to BMC.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on April 19, 2018, 06:17:13 PM
Mr. Bean sells out for the Japanese market!
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on August 07, 2020, 08:06:28 PM
Reviving an old thread.

How is this for a rich, feature-based print advertisement?   Our new model has "big wheels"!   ;D

Back when the Aussies improved the Moke.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on August 21, 2020, 08:13:02 PM

An actual TV commercial right after the Mini's launch.  It's got crazy animation too.   Looking mighty fine in gray color.

It's British, yet they use the word trunk. Huh? 

Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on August 21, 2020, 08:21:44 PM
And here is a long Mini TV commercial from Australia.

There's some pretty racy sexual innuendo in this one.



Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on July 28, 2022, 05:17:54 PM
This was such a '60s phenomenon With multiple manufacturers which really died out by the 70s.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on July 28, 2022, 05:19:24 PM
Aerodynamics?
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: MPlayle on July 28, 2022, 05:45:06 PM
That nose conversion reminds me of the old Subaru 360s.

(https://img.hmn.com/fit-in/450x253/filters:upscale()/stories/2018/08/625679.jpg)

Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: MiniDave on July 28, 2022, 05:59:24 PM
The radius on the wheel wells on the Sprint looks odd?
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on July 30, 2022, 08:20:50 PM
Quote from: MiniDave on July 28, 2022, 05:59:24 PM
The radius on the wheel wells on the Sprint looks odd?

Odd?  How about this version? 
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on July 31, 2022, 04:42:11 PM
An ad for a contest to win the 1,000,000th Mini built, some 57 years ago, and the actual car more recently.

I guess the advertising guys thought it was going to be a dark colored car... but when it came down the assembly line it wasn't.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on July 31, 2022, 04:50:10 PM
The car in this ad, 731 HOP, is pretty famous. It was a test car in a number of car magazines and it also appeared on TV as the main character's Mini in at least one TV series: "Secret Agent" (aka "Danger Man") with Patrick McGoohan (Who later starred in "The Prisoner" with some Mini Mokes).
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on August 02, 2022, 07:04:42 AM
Ad for post-1973 Mini in Canadian market big bumper trim.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: MiniDave on August 02, 2022, 07:21:27 AM
I don't remember the turn signals below the bumper, I thought they were in the grill?  8.gif
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on August 02, 2022, 08:46:26 AM
Interesting marketing angle.  Not sure it would fly today.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on August 02, 2022, 08:47:31 AM
Quote from: MiniDave on August 02, 2022, 07:21:27 AM
I don't remember the turn signals below the bumper, I thought they were in the grill?  8.gif

I've seen Canadian cars with them in both places. Must've changed over at some point.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on August 02, 2022, 09:09:20 AM
Quote from: BruceK on August 02, 2022, 08:47:31 AM
Quote from: MiniDave on August 02, 2022, 07:21:27 AM
I don't remember the turn signals below the bumper, I thought they were in the grill?  8.gif

I've seen Canadian cars with them in both places. Must've changed over at some point.

Here's an ad with them in the grille.  I'm guessing they probably tended to rust and drop off when they were below the bumper.  ;D
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: MiniDave on August 02, 2022, 10:26:31 AM
And the much larger side marker/reflector on the front fender!
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: ve9aa on August 02, 2022, 01:48:23 PM
aHHH, the Canadian Fugly bumpers and lights.  I knew them well. (and hated them)
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: skmini on August 02, 2022, 03:25:15 PM
My '79 had the signal lights in the grill. They're quite a bit larger than the normal front signal lights. The front fenders have round pieces of sheet metal spot welded on top of the holes for the signal lights.

Quote from: ve9aa on August 02, 2022, 01:48:23 PM
aHHH, the Canadian Fugly bumpers and lights.  I knew them well. (and hated them)

Don't get me started.  The front bumper mounts to a pair of bars that are bolted to the front subframe mounts on the bottom and to the fender at the top.  As you can imagine, the front fenders have a bunch of extra bracing where the bar attaches. This bracing is, obviously, designed to catch dirt kicked up by the tires.

That's all relatively solid compared to the rear bumper, which was just bolted to the boot lid, which would get bent from the weight.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on August 02, 2022, 05:10:07 PM
Quote from: skmini on August 02, 2022, 03:25:15 PM

That's all relatively solid compared to the rear bumper, which was just bolted to the boot lid, which would get bent from the weight.

Plus, don't forget the added "protection" of the little bumperettes that sat under the taillights.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: skmini on August 02, 2022, 05:20:36 PM
Quote from: BruceK on August 02, 2022, 05:10:07 PM
Plus, don't forget the added "protection" of the little bumperettes that sat under the taillights.

And all the extra brackets spot welded inside the boot to support and reinforce those bumperettes.  They completely engulfed the rear subframe attachment reinforcements between the floor and the wheel well.  The bumperettes were the most heavily reinforced part of the whole setup.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on August 02, 2022, 07:14:55 PM
How about the not-too-different-looking-from-a-Mini-850 Mk 3 Cooper S?  By the time these were produced only the boot badge and holey wheels were the external clues it was an S.   Must be part of the reason there were so many fake Mk 3 Cooper S models created.

I don't think I've seen this factory color on a Mini before.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: Tim on August 02, 2022, 08:28:59 PM
Beauty colour!  Aqua, just like mine.  You can see it in my profile pic.

Tim.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on August 02, 2022, 09:58:24 PM
Cool.  Nice to learn what that color is called.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on August 03, 2022, 06:52:19 PM
Need some headroom? 
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on August 04, 2022, 06:01:41 PM
When I was a teenager I used to ride my bike over to the local Lotus dealer and I would drool over the John Player Special edition Europa models.  They look so cool painted black with the JPS gold pin striping and emblems to commemorate the F1 sponsorship of the Lotus Grand Prix team.

Who knew there was also a JPS edition Mini model!?   Also black with gold pinstriping and JPS emblems.  I'd love to have one of these.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on August 05, 2022, 08:26:52 AM
Artistic license?  This estate sure looks longer than it is in real life.   But still, a nice illustration.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: ve9aa on August 05, 2022, 05:16:02 PM
I find this thread very nostalgic.

Enjoying it !
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on August 05, 2022, 06:48:29 PM
Great. Glad you are liking it.

Here's a Mini ad from Australia back when the country's currency was still in £'s and hadn't switched to decimal $'s yet. 
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: 94touring on August 05, 2022, 07:44:05 PM
I'll have to take a pic of the innocenti advertisement I bought that's hanging in my spare room.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on August 05, 2022, 08:01:46 PM
Love to see it.

I'm the meantime, here is a Innocenti ad.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: Tim on August 06, 2022, 05:51:36 AM
Funny you should show the John Player Special.  I just picked this one up the other day.  Now's your opportunity to own one 😂.

Tim
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: MiniDave on August 06, 2022, 08:41:41 AM
Well.......the remains of one anyway!   :-\
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: gr8kornholio on August 06, 2022, 09:06:33 AM
Partial to the Australian one. Lol.  Looks like mine was an upgraded model then cause I don't se the chrome door trim on this one.  Of course I've left it off cause I actually like the look better without it.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: cstudep on August 06, 2022, 01:33:57 PM
I have this framed up.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: ve9aa on August 06, 2022, 02:10:32 PM
Quote from: Tim on August 06, 2022, 05:51:36 AM
Funny you should show the John Player Special.  I just picked this one up the other day.  Now's your opportunity to own one 😂.

Tim

That'll polish right up Tim.  Bring it to Cars n' Coffee next weekend?
;-)
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on August 06, 2022, 04:22:17 PM
Quote from: cstudep on August 06, 2022, 01:33:57 PM
I have this framed up.

Wow. Never seen that ad before. Seems more modern than the early 1960s.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: cstudep on August 06, 2022, 04:45:28 PM
I have no idea what it is from, I assume it is from a magazine or something but it is page 117, so maybe a catalog of some sort. This is on the back side, page 118.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: MPlayle on August 06, 2022, 07:43:23 PM
The add in the lower right corner of the back side for The Lobster restaurant indicates "now in its 41st year" and the restaurant opened in 1919 (found on this website via searching the restaurant name and address https://www.cardcow.com/105869/lobster-145-w-45th-new-york/ (https://www.cardcow.com/105869/lobster-145-w-45th-new-york/)).

That means the ad is likely from a publication in 1960.

Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: cstudep on August 06, 2022, 07:54:52 PM
Quote from: MPlayle on August 06, 2022, 07:43:23 PM
The add in the lower right corner of the back side for The Lobster restaurant indicates "now in its 41st year" and the restaurant opened in 1919 (found on this website via searching the restaurant name and address https://www.cardcow.com/105869/lobster-145-w-45th-new-york/ (https://www.cardcow.com/105869/lobster-145-w-45th-new-york/)).

That means the ad is likely from a publication in 1960.

Nice bit of investigative work!
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on August 07, 2022, 07:24:43 AM
Good detective work!  So, 62 years ago the restaurant was 41 years old! 
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on August 07, 2022, 09:17:26 AM
Another obscure special edition Mini, apparently for the French market, the Printemps (Springtime).
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: MiniDave on August 07, 2022, 10:43:17 AM
And yet another completely different set of side marker lamps.

No yellow headlights?

Looks like a Leyland badge on the front, so that sort of determines the era, right?

And even brandy new the door doesn't fit well at the bottom edge!  ::)
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on August 07, 2022, 11:10:15 AM
France kept the yellow headlights up to the early 1990s, and that is definitely a pre-1984 Mini. Perhaps the ad was for the French-speaking parts of Belgium or Switzerland?

Yeah, the poor door fit speaks to how they were built in "the good old days" doesn't it? 
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: MPlayle on August 07, 2022, 11:20:04 AM
A search for "Austin Mini Printemps" came up with this site that indicates it was a 500 unit edition for France in 1979.

https://www.austinminiwebsearch.com/printemps.html (https://www.austinminiwebsearch.com/printemps.html)

Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on August 07, 2022, 04:23:10 PM
Quote from: MPlayle on August 07, 2022, 11:20:04 AM
A search for "Austin Mini Printemps" came up with this site that indicates it was a 500 unit edition for France in 1979.

https://www.austinminiwebsearch.com/printemps.html (https://www.austinminiwebsearch.com/printemps.html)

Ah. It was France eh?  So perhaps it had yellow bulbs sitting in clear headlamp reflectors?

I see by the specs it also has "un tableau de bord en bois" which I believe is a wooden dashboard.  So fancy! 
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on August 08, 2022, 03:22:16 PM
A nice box of "go faster".
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on August 08, 2022, 03:59:37 PM
The Mini 25 model introduced the changes for the Mk V version of the Mini in 1984.  Twelve inch wheels, 8.4 inch disc brakes, and wheel arch flares were some of the new improvements.  In fact, every single Mini made for the next 16 years was fitted with some type of flares. 
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on August 11, 2022, 01:12:43 PM
Umm.  I want to discuss this ad, but I'm not sure what particular points to mention. 
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: ve9aa on August 11, 2022, 02:22:49 PM
I can think of 2.......... 127.gif
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on August 11, 2022, 04:34:33 PM
The idea sounds good but this didn't seem to catch on.

Is that the scoop on the right-hand side of the ad?
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on August 11, 2022, 04:37:09 PM
Wait. You mean you don't need a giant SUV or a minivan to transport a miniature human?

Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: ve9aa on August 12, 2022, 07:33:33 AM
Quote from: BruceK on August 11, 2022, 04:34:33 PM
The idea sounds good but this didn't seem to catch on.

Is that the scoop on the right-hand side of the ad?

So...it mounts on a roofrack or something and acts like a tubular horizontal  turbine?
I've obvious never tried it, but my little lizard brain tells me it would be no match for air flows around a car at highway speeds.
(standing still, maybe)
Like using  a hair drier outside on a cold winters windy day.  Won't happen !
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: ve9aa on August 12, 2022, 07:37:57 AM
Quote from: BruceK on August 11, 2022, 04:37:09 PM
Wait. You mean you don't need a giant SUV or a minivan to transport a miniature human?
Every (and I do mean E-V-E-R-Y) time I see a nice Mini Traveler, I wish I had held out for one.  I just love the ultilitarian look of them and have personally owned lots of station wagons, hatch backs and small pickups and SUV's.  I pretty much always end up "hauling stuff around".

Don't get me wrong, I love my Austin Mini City-E, but a traveler would be uber cool to have.  Even a Clubby Estate.  Almost bought one from Big Al one time, but money was real tight that year and the deal didn't go down.  I miss Big Al and all those Minis he had for sale. (RIP Big Guy)
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on August 15, 2022, 01:19:19 PM
From Oz, a Clubman Van.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: ve9aa on August 15, 2022, 04:51:50 PM
Lovely ! !
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: MiniDave on August 15, 2022, 06:08:22 PM
Isn't it a Clubman Clubvan?  ;D
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on August 17, 2022, 06:37:27 PM
Not a Mini ad of course, but I'm including it here to show how the Mini's front end styling - including the iconic grille design - was really just based upon other larger Austin models. 
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on August 17, 2022, 06:43:01 PM
An ad from South Africa.  The Mini was sold alongside the Apache, which was basically a Morris 1100 (Austin America) with a South Africa-only front end design and a boot tacked on. Sort of sort of what happened with the Elf & Hornet with the Mini.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: ve9aa on August 18, 2022, 10:26:46 AM
Quote from: BruceK on August 17, 2022, 06:37:27 PM
Not a Mini ad of course, but I'm including it here to show how the Mini's front end styling - including the iconic grille design - was really just based upon other larger Austin models.

For 1/2 a second I nearly thought that car in the foreground was a 1960's Volvo 122S
( I know the grill is a bit different ).  Many mfr's of cars in that era used similarish styling Q's
(Big fenders/wings and headlights for example)

Very nice !
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: MiniDave on August 18, 2022, 11:25:10 AM
That Apache looked more like a 60's/70's Audi to me!

https://images.app.goo.gl/SxJLBWkDJjxvC22y7 (https://images.app.goo.gl/SxJLBWkDJjxvC22y7)
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on August 18, 2022, 05:49:58 PM
I think these might have sold well in the US if they had been available here with the 13" wheels and the pickup bed.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on August 18, 2022, 05:53:39 PM
Quote from: MiniDave on August 18, 2022, 11:25:10 AM
That Apache looked more like a 60's/70's Audi to me!

https://images.app.goo.gl/SxJLBWkDJjxvC22y7 (https://images.app.goo.gl/SxJLBWkDJjxvC22y7)

Yeah, I see the similarities.

More Apache.   https://www.aronline.co.uk/cars/bmc/1100-1300/11001300-international-variations/austin-apache/
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: ve9aa on August 18, 2022, 05:56:21 PM
Quote from: BruceK on August 18, 2022, 05:49:58 PM
I think these might have sold well in the US if they had been available here with the 13" wheels and the pickup bed.

Me likey !  Kinda like a Japanese Kei class mini/micro truck.  (but bigger!) (nobodies said that about a MOKE, I'll bet)
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on August 19, 2022, 04:15:17 PM
The Mascot.  Sold in Denmark. And other places?   

The Mini name is completely absent from this ad.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: 94touring on August 19, 2022, 04:31:42 PM
Almost forgot, I was going to post this.  Trying to get in closer in the pic to where you can read the text.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on August 20, 2022, 11:52:22 AM
Cool.  From what I can understand through Google, Koelliker was an Italian dealership chain who offered the Mini and gave customers a fire and theft policy too.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: ve9aa on August 20, 2022, 04:46:53 PM
Jon from Belgium (Minimania, but I think I've seen him here too!) has a very nice Mini Mascot.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on August 24, 2022, 07:16:13 PM
Back when adding alloy wheels to your car was a really big thing.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on August 24, 2022, 07:24:33 PM
The introduction of the Mini estates in 1961.  Still calling the Austin version of the Mini the "Seven". 

At this time the estates came with the fuel tank mounted internally in the passenger compartment (!) before the switch later to the fuel tank mounted under the floor behind the rear subframe.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on September 01, 2022, 03:36:54 PM
Heres a brochure of a Mini Moke that was never actually made - as far as I know.  My understanding is this handout was used to try to sell the Moke to different governments for their various militaries.   When that effort failed and no military wanted it, BMC decided to offer the Moke to the general public as a fun runabout. 
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on September 01, 2022, 03:40:02 PM
And here's the Moke as first released to the public.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on September 01, 2022, 03:45:15 PM
Here's a prototype Moke - note that the side pod/pontoons were not finalized at this point.  But the Moke's front end styling was.  So that makes the "military version" styling even more curious...
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: Tim on September 01, 2022, 06:58:17 PM
The 'Military styling' one is very similar to a South African Moke.  Same shortened wheel base and the different front end.  They also ended up with a hinged side panel.  Still some around.  http://www.sedgeclasscars.co.za/car-details.php?CarID=2486


Tim
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on September 01, 2022, 08:25:04 PM
Tim, Wow. In 50+ years of being a complete Mini fanatic and reading and absorbing everything I could find about Minis, I have never seen a South African Moke before. I didn't even know it existed.  Mind blown.  I mean, I know about English Mokes, and Australian Mokes, and Portuguese Mokes, and Chinese "Mokes", and American "Mokes" but I never knew about the South African one.  I'd love to know more about it.  Like why the shorter wheelbase and lower lights?  Lots of other little detail differences, including the folding windshield.

That one is for sale for 110,000 rand, so less than US$6,400.  Quite a nice price.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: Tim on September 02, 2022, 07:34:01 AM
I'll look up more info for you, but from what I remember, there were at least 6 prototype, short wheel base Moke's, built in SA for testing.  These later found there way into public hands.  I'll read through a couple of resources and let you know.

Tim
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on September 05, 2022, 07:42:31 AM
Very true!!
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: ve9aa on September 05, 2022, 09:39:22 AM
Keep'r comin' Bruce.  :-\

This is my favorite running thread on the entire interwebs. 4.gif

Does that make me nostalgic?  No idea.  17.gif
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on September 06, 2022, 06:15:37 PM
Thanks Mike!

Here's an Innocenti.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on September 06, 2022, 07:24:18 PM
Back when every Mini had only a central speedometer and no supplemental gauges this was an aftermarket way to get some more instrumentation.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: MPlayle on September 07, 2022, 06:16:55 AM
That dash is actually available today at this French website.

https://www.datch.fr/en/dashboards-c-45_4516_451613.html (https://www.datch.fr/en/dashboards-c-45_4516_451613.html)

Available in either LHD or RHD.

Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on September 07, 2022, 08:58:35 AM
Crazy that it's still available.  I saw the price of over €700 and I thought it was crazy until I realized that it includes all the gauges and speedometer.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: MiniDave on September 07, 2022, 09:14:04 AM
Yeah, a speedo from MiniSpares is like half of that cost.

BTW Bruce, do you still have any of those old speedos? The one in Clancy's Moke is broken and I was hoping to fix him up on the cheap.....
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: MPlayle on September 07, 2022, 12:20:40 PM
Dave,

Let me check my stuff as I may still have the old one from the white Moke.  I put an electronic one in the Moke.

Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: MiniDave on September 07, 2022, 02:13:56 PM
Thanks Michael!!!
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on September 07, 2022, 09:07:28 PM
I found one of my spare speedos and sent it to Dan a couple of weeks ago.  But looks like Michael has you covered for Clancy.


This ad looks like it's for one of the first aftermarket mufflers that exited through the center of the car.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: MiniDave on September 08, 2022, 05:40:47 AM
I love these English addresses......"Lever st, Little Lever, near Bolton"

Mine might be "Hadley Pl, off Antioch, near Overland Park"  77.gif

My brother's actual address is "Three Elms, Little Cowarne, Herefordshire" That's it.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on September 08, 2022, 09:55:06 AM
The special edition Mini Cooper 35th anniversary model.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on September 08, 2022, 10:00:19 AM
Quote from: MiniDave on September 08, 2022, 05:40:47 AM
I love these English addresses......"Lever st, Little Lever, near Bolton"

Mine might be "Hadley Pl, off Antioch, near Overland Park"  77.gif

My brother's actual address is "Three Elms, Little Cowarne, Herefordshire" That's it.

How about the phone number?  Farnworth 1935.    Much like the old phone numbers in the US with catchy (and memorable) exchange names. When I was a kid our family's home phone number was Twinbrook 2 8252.   Nowadays nobody has to remember any phone number.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: MiniDave on September 08, 2022, 04:38:22 PM
MItchell 9-7099, we had it for about 10 years is all.....I never knew the ones for the homes before that, and I only know the one I have now because Rose has had it as her house line since the 70's!
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on September 09, 2022, 07:45:20 PM
The Super model of the 850.  This model and the 850 de Luxe model (which were later combined into a single model: the Super de Luxe) had many of the "upmarket" trim pieces and features that were then used on the first Mini Coopers (e.g. bumper overiders, chrome trim around the front windows, key starter instead of the push button on the floor, etc).

This model also had a special version of the "wavy" grill with vertical slats in the troughs of the waves.

Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: MiniDave on September 10, 2022, 09:58:05 AM
With optional small dog roof ornament?  ;D
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on September 10, 2022, 01:26:16 PM
When you think Mini 1275GT you naturally think of a sporty Mini Clubman.

But... there was a round nose version of the 1275GT made in Spain by Authi.

And apparently, the best way to sell them was to have women sit on top of the cars.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: 94touring on September 10, 2022, 05:46:03 PM
Wonder how they fixed all those dents after  ::)
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: gr8kornholio on September 10, 2022, 05:54:16 PM
Booty shaped dents probably increased its value.  ;D

Did the minis come with window stickers or some form of them?   If so, does anyone make reproductions or the like of them. 
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on September 12, 2022, 03:17:41 PM
I'm glad this dash design didn't catch on. Looks like it belongs on a tractor.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on September 12, 2022, 03:21:07 PM
Who knew that McLaren F1 designer Gordon Murray owned a Mini Midas?
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on September 13, 2022, 05:33:03 AM
Interesting to me that sometime, around 1963-1965, there was a major switch in automobile advertising from illustrated brochures to photographic brochures.   Seem to happen about the same time in both the US and the UK.

Anyway, here's an illustrated brochure selling the Pickup.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on September 13, 2022, 05:35:25 AM
Selling a special edition called "Special".   That took a lot of imagination.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on September 13, 2022, 05:38:08 AM
Wood & Pickett.   Besides creating some incredible customized Minis, their namesake wheel arches live on as a classic Mini accessory.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: MiniDave on September 13, 2022, 07:43:58 AM
It looks like that W&P has vent windows?
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on September 13, 2022, 08:51:23 AM
Quote from: MiniDave on September 13, 2022, 07:43:58 AM
It looks like that W&P has vent windows?

Oh yeah. They equipped those cars like miniature Rolls-Royce's and I'm sure it had power windows too.  And full Connolly leather and Wilton carpets.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on September 14, 2022, 01:07:36 PM
From the age of never ending Mini special editions. 

Putting on the...
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on September 14, 2022, 01:09:35 PM
These types of roof tents are enjoying modern renaissance these days.  But here they were on Minis 60 years ago.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: MiniDave on September 14, 2022, 04:46:23 PM
Are those alloys on the Ritz, or hubcaps on steelies?
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: ve9aa on September 14, 2022, 05:12:01 PM
Quote from: BruceK on September 13, 2022, 05:35:25 AM
Selling a special edition called "Special".   That took a lot of imagination.

I can't tell for sure..picture is kinda small, but that looks like the same steering wheel I have in my car.
My interior is (mostly) from a early 90's British Open Classic.
My wheel is tan in colour and leather covered.

(I have to laugh at some of the names they came up with.  Plain, but they kinda "stuck" over the decades, eh?)

Mine's an Austin Mini City-E (wtf is a city-e? LOL)
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on September 14, 2022, 05:27:05 PM
Quote from: MiniDave on September 14, 2022, 04:46:23 PM
Are those alloys on the Ritz, or hubcaps on steelies?

Looking at the back wheel in the photo I don't see any lug nuts or center cap covering up lugnuts so I believe it's just a silver plastic hubcap.

I'm looking for other pictures of the Ritz model....

Edit: found a good Ritz wheel photo. I'm now backtracking and saying it looks like a decent alloy wheel with a cover over the lugnut/hub section.  Looks like there's a little notch (at 9 o'clock in the photo) to gain access to pop the center cap off.  No reason to mold that in if it was a plastic hubcap.

Edit #2: found a much better photo and definitely it is an alloy wheel. And oh so 1980s in design.  But I like it!
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on September 14, 2022, 07:23:32 PM
Quiz: where is this car from?
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: MiniDave on September 14, 2022, 08:41:53 PM
Well, I would have thought Australia with that stripe over the hood, but no vent windows so - South Africa?
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on September 15, 2022, 07:10:38 AM
Quote from: MiniDave on September 14, 2022, 08:41:53 PM
Well, I would have thought Australia with that stripe over the hood, but no vent windows so - South Africa?

Yup. Also the door handles aren't the later flush Oz type.  Oh, there are two white reflectors on either side of the headlights – a South African safety requirement.  Of all the various stripe graphic designs on Minis, I think this is the best.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on September 15, 2022, 07:14:40 AM
A later Innocenti Mini with the pretty Bertone designed body featuring a hatchback. 
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: cstudep on September 15, 2022, 07:50:57 AM
Quote from: BruceK on September 15, 2022, 07:10:38 AM
Of all the various stripe graphic designs on Minis, I think this is the best.

I think it looks good with the clubman front end for sure, not as sure it would look as good on the regular mini front end. It might look ok though.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on September 15, 2022, 01:25:05 PM
This Mini accessory makes absolutely no sense to me.   (And it comes from a respected Mini tuning firm, not some fly-by-night company)

Firstly, it requires the installation of an intermediate bracket onto the wheel hub to support the rod, so you'd need to modify the car before you could first use it, and Secondly why in the heck would you need to hand crank a little 1,400 lbs car that you can literally push with one hand to pop start it?  I mean if a Mini owner was having ongoing problems with starting the car, why not fix the problems instead of investing in this primitive solution?

So why did they make it?
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: ve9aa on September 15, 2022, 05:34:54 PM
Good question ! :-\

I actually bump started my car in a flat parking lot one day nearly all by myself.
A much older gentleman wandered by and "helped push" (I am being kind) and so anyways, I think
I popped it in 2nd gear and was likely going 2mph and it fired right up !

Not understanding the crank handle on a Mini. (I guess if you were stuck in the mud or snow or at the bottom of a hill?)

As an aside, my 1961 Land Rover Series I had a crank handle and hole in the bumper.  I never tried it.  Always had visions
of breaking arms or having the Landy run over me I guess  ::)
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on September 16, 2022, 08:01:03 PM
Show girls? Hookers? Obviously the British sense of Piccadilly is lost in translation.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: MiniDave on September 17, 2022, 06:41:23 AM
Looks 80's?

BTW, thanks for posting these, they're fun to look at!
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: 94touring on September 17, 2022, 08:12:20 AM
I always get so annoyed seeing people laying on the car lol.  Get your boney ass off there and stop denting it!
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on September 17, 2022, 08:49:16 AM
Selling the automatic Mini in Australia and pointing out that you can shift through the gears as you drive.

That shifting gears capability kind of goes against the whole reason of getting an automatic, doesn't it?
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: 94touring on September 17, 2022, 08:53:09 AM
The one automatic I had I think had 1, 2 and drive..maybe it had a 3 in there too.  Been awhile. You could make it like a manual but no clutch work required.  Automatic rx7's were similar. 
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on September 19, 2022, 04:15:34 PM
Mini marketing for France. " The big solution for automobile problems".  This had an 1100 engine. I don't think the round nose front ever got the 1100 in the UK market.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on September 19, 2022, 04:19:57 PM
The Jet Black special edition 998 Mini of 1988.   (My Mini came out of the factory as a Jet Black model, but it's the complete opposite now)
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: MiniDave on September 19, 2022, 05:42:26 PM
Jet white?   ;D
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on September 20, 2022, 06:10:51 PM
Quote from: MiniDave on September 19, 2022, 05:42:26 PM
Jet white?   ;D

Haha. Must be!
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on September 20, 2022, 06:13:00 PM
Another ad from Oz.   Apparently the copywriter learned what a simile was in grade school and wanted to make all the Mini similes at once.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on September 20, 2022, 06:14:54 PM
Back when £199 could buy stuff!
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on September 20, 2022, 06:39:58 PM
Not a traditional Mini ad, but an attention-getter advertisement nonetheless.

Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on September 21, 2022, 05:13:35 PM
Mini illustration. Again we have miniature people - miniature luggage too!  Trying to make the car look bigger?
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on September 21, 2022, 05:34:36 PM
And a very small but perfectly proportioned miniature man, who can barely see over the roof, loads a Mini Van in this illustration.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: MiniDave on September 21, 2022, 05:34:55 PM
People were smaller in the 60's, so was their luggage!   ;D

Also, the cars were taller then.....60 years later, well - gravity, you know.....  :D
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: gr8kornholio on September 21, 2022, 06:42:03 PM
You know and shrinking when you wash it.   But the tiny people are interesting.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on September 22, 2022, 06:23:04 PM
Back in the day a Mini Van could be purchased in the UK classified as a commercial vehicle which meant lower purchase taxes than a passenger vehicle.  So the trick was to buy a 2 seater Van to avoid the tax, and later purchase an official BMC kit to add a fold-down backseat. Perfect for the plumber or other tradesman. Truck during the work week, and family car on the weekends.

Here's the kit. And a photo showing the window-less claustrophobic rear seat in use.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on September 26, 2022, 08:18:22 PM
An ad from the Mini revival era of the late 80s and early 90s.  Yeah, they were counting on nostalgia from the 1960s and they weren't hiding that at all.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on September 26, 2022, 08:21:03 PM
From what I remember about high school French, I believe this ad says "if they didn't exist at this time, we'd have to invent them"
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: ve9aa on September 27, 2022, 02:44:43 AM
Keep'm comin' Bruce. 4.gif

I found a page showing some "new" CDN Minis and was gonna post it, but there may have been copyright issues -and- I didn't wanna steal your thunder.  You are the *KING* of this thread. 23.gif

So,.,,,if you can find one with the Canadian Fugly bumpers and huge bugeye signal lights, that would be funny ! 69.gif

Cheers  66.gif
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on September 27, 2022, 05:24:07 AM
Post whatever you want - like all threads here it's a totally open to what you want to say or add (other than politics that is).  Heck I'm just finding these old Mini ads on the Internet and sharing them here. 

There were a couple of Canadian market adverts shown earlier, but show us some more ones if you have 'em.  Back about 30 years ago I owned a '79 Mini from Canada. I removed the big ugly bumpers and added chrome ones, but it still had the sidemarker lights.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on September 28, 2022, 04:02:11 PM
An ad for the Innocenti Mini Cooper shows an unusual angle of the car.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on September 28, 2022, 04:05:10 PM
Usually don't see Paddy Hopkirk with a Clubman, but why not?!
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on September 30, 2022, 07:33:20 AM
True dat.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on September 30, 2022, 07:36:37 AM
The Sky and Rose special editions geared toward women.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: MiniDave on September 30, 2022, 07:51:45 AM
We had some folks with a "Sky" here and I liked the white/blue top combination..... 77.gif
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: 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.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on September 30, 2022, 06:29:45 PM
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.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: ve9aa on October 01, 2022, 12:49:56 PM
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
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: 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)
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on October 03, 2022, 01:39:26 PM
A nice simple and clean looking Mini ad/brochure.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: ve9aa on October 03, 2022, 03:15:54 PM
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.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on October 04, 2022, 05:41:41 PM
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? 
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on October 04, 2022, 05:44:51 PM
This ad seems to be for dealer-installed air conditioning for the JDM market?
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on October 05, 2022, 03:16:12 PM
This cropped image with no text looks to be from a Portuguese Cagiva Moke brochure.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on October 05, 2022, 03:17:23 PM
A German language ad for the newly launched Mini.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on October 06, 2022, 11:16:31 AM
Here's an Australian example of "race on Sunday, sell on Monday".
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on October 06, 2022, 11:28:43 AM
Sombody liked this ad for the Innocenti Mini Cooper 1300 enough to hold on to this ragged copy of it.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on October 09, 2022, 02:03:52 PM
In the days before seatbelts, I guess you could pack the entire girls soccer team into one Mini.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on October 09, 2022, 02:05:31 PM
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.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: ve9aa on October 09, 2022, 02:23:55 PM
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
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on October 09, 2022, 02:58:00 PM
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.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on October 13, 2022, 07:54:15 PM
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.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on October 13, 2022, 07:55:59 PM
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!
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: 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?
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: ve9aa on October 14, 2022, 05:57:38 AM
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
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on October 15, 2022, 04:04:24 PM
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! 
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on October 18, 2022, 01:15:00 PM
Four special editions launched at the same time.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on October 18, 2022, 01:15:57 PM
Another special edition 998 Mini.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on October 18, 2022, 01:50:51 PM
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!
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: MiniDave on October 18, 2022, 04:55:07 PM
Yeah, I really don't like my popup sunroof......besides rattling like crazy, I don't think it does anything to help ventilate the car. However, mine only rattles when open and it doesn't leak - so it has that going for it, which is nice.....
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on October 19, 2022, 01:00:42 AM
I used to like them. I bought a new car back in the 80s and paid the dealer to install a popup sunroof.   Now I dislike any kind of sunroof and prefer a solid roof.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: MiniDave on October 19, 2022, 08:02:52 AM
I do too, but the bride has to have her moonroof in any car she gets. I never open them but she does, even in winter......

That's one of the reasons I ordered my Clubman S, even tho they had a bunch in stock - I did not want a sunroof and they all had them......
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: Brit_in_TX on October 27, 2022, 03:54:30 PM
I had a popup sunroof in my first mini, and like Dave says they are pretty useless. What made mine worse is I think it was an aftermarket additional and you could feel the shell flex.

Every since then I have tried to avoid getting cars with them, if they do have them I never use them. 

The other feature I hate along the same lines is a panoramic glass roof! Even in the UK it makes the car unbearably hot, like driving around in a green house.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on October 28, 2022, 07:28:08 AM
Quote from: Brit_in_TX on October 27, 2022, 03:54:30 PM
I had a popup sunroof in my first mini, and like Dave says they are pretty useless. What made mine worse is I think it was an aftermarket additional and you could feel the shell flex.

Every since then I have tried to avoid getting cars with them, if they do have them I never use them. 

The other feature I hate along the same lines is a panoramic glass roof! Even in the UK it makes the car unbearably hot, like driving around in a green house.

We had a rental Fiat 500 Hybrid in the UK last week and it had a large fixed glass panel over the entire driver and front passenger area.  Fortunately it had a pull shade that helped keep the sun out but the biggest help for that was rain and cloudy weather!
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on October 28, 2022, 07:31:39 AM
Apparently this old ad is saying "A Mk II Mini can help boys catch girls".    Figuratively and apparently literally too.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: MiniDave on October 28, 2022, 08:08:53 AM
Switched on?

I wonder what they meant by that?

Jason Torchinsky (formerly of Jalopnik, now the Autopian) does a whole series on old car ads from the 50's/60's called "Cold Start"

It would be fun to feed him some of these Mini adverts....  ;D
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: MPlayle on October 28, 2022, 03:48:47 PM
The car is RHD.  With the round bonnet badge and white relectors between the headlights and turn signals, I am guessing one of three sources: Australian, New Zealander, or South African.

Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on October 29, 2022, 01:51:28 AM
Dave, I think "switched on" is one of those groovy, hip 1960s phrases that Austin Powers would say.   
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on October 29, 2022, 04:04:58 AM
OK, this is not technically an ad for a Mini.  But it's for the Mini's older brother by the same father.

Do you think that is 0 to 60 time of 28 seconds with something to brag about. We are so spoiled now.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: MiniDave on October 29, 2022, 07:55:10 AM
But..............that was twice as fast!!!!    ;D
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on November 12, 2022, 09:10:16 AM
I'm trying to figure out this ad.

I guess the message is: the Mini is small enough to deal with an emergency while you run to the public outdoor urinals in France?
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on November 12, 2022, 09:11:47 AM
This ad artwork makes the headlights look nearly twice the size they really are!

Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: ve9aa on November 12, 2022, 11:17:24 AM
 :-X
Quote from: BruceK on November 12, 2022, 09:11:47 AM
This ad artwork makes the headlights look nearly twice the size they really are!
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on November 30, 2022, 07:02:12 PM
Back when the Mini was being marketed as a family car with room for all the kiddos.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on November 30, 2022, 07:06:49 PM
Sure, the guy looks like a Bond villain wearing only white and holding a black cat, but nice, clean looking Mini!
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on November 30, 2022, 07:26:38 PM
Back when the Morris version of the Mini 850 came with a stamped steel grille painted white.  This ad is for the Mascot which was a model name used in Denmark (and Germany too?). Not sure why, but believe it had to do with copyright issues.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: LarryLebel on November 30, 2022, 10:30:15 PM
RHD in LHD countries?
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on December 01, 2022, 07:12:37 AM
Quote from: LarryLebel on November 30, 2022, 10:30:15 PMRHD in LHD countries?

I'm guessing they just used a stock photo for the ad.  Should have flipped the image I guess.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on December 01, 2022, 07:19:47 AM
Looks like they sorted that out by 1978.  :)
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: ve9aa on December 01, 2022, 03:17:30 PM
Mmmm. Ferebeilen  :great:
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on December 11, 2022, 10:30:03 PM
I agree with this ad's message!  Driving a Mini clears out my head.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on December 11, 2022, 10:31:46 PM
This seems to be a promotional photo or an advertisement.  But I have no idea what the message is.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: LarryLebel on December 12, 2022, 08:59:04 AM
The picture comes from an advertising brochure called "The Mighty Mini". I once had a copy of this brochure but it's long gone now.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: LarryLebel on December 12, 2022, 04:11:42 PM
Said picture was the last page of the brochure. Another page had a picture of "An All Dressed Mini". I think it was a Canadian with the funky bumpers and the only "dressing" item I remember was louvres on the back window.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on December 12, 2022, 08:46:33 PM
Interesting. I guess the contrast is supposed to be between the boring conventional people in the background, and the crazy and fun loving '70s people who, of course, are choosing the cool Mini?
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on December 12, 2022, 08:48:46 PM
Where the Mini fit in the Morris range of cars, circa 1962 (year based upon the license plates not yet having a designated letter suffix).
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on December 22, 2022, 07:57:39 PM
A Clubman 1275GT ad with some very 1970s colors. 
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on December 22, 2022, 07:59:51 PM
A Mini ad from the late 1980s with an appeal to the fashion conscious.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: MiniDave on December 23, 2022, 08:49:36 AM
But......that's actually a good looking Mini, tho I would prefer shiny bumpers rather than those grey ones.....check out the wheel gaps!
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on December 23, 2022, 09:27:59 AM
Yeah, big but "factory authentic" wheel gaps.

 :grin:


And nice paint color too. Suits the car very well.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on December 23, 2022, 09:33:52 AM
With the awful weather most of the country is having right now, this winter fun ad seems appropriate.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: MiniDave on December 23, 2022, 01:05:45 PM
When I lived in Colorado I drove my Mini year round, it was great in the snow and fun to buzz around. It always started easily too......

In KC I drove my Dino in the snow too back in the day - people looked at me like I was crazy, but it was my only car at the time, and it did great with the mid mounted engine/gearbox.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: 94touring on December 23, 2022, 01:22:02 PM
I daily drove a mini for years too.  Snow and all.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on December 27, 2022, 04:55:37 PM
Interesting design. Thigh support?  Yes indeedy.   In spades. But they don't exactly look comfortable.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on December 27, 2022, 04:59:13 PM
John & John.

A promo photo showing John Cooper and racer John Rhodes.  A couple of huge names in Mini history.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: MiniDave on December 27, 2022, 07:03:22 PM
Quote from: BruceK on December 27, 2022, 04:55:37 PMInteresting design. Thigh support?  Yes indeedy.   In spades. But they don't exactly look comfortable.

There were a set of these in the Cooper S I got from Iowa, the guy who sold me the car kept them. I didn't think the bolsters looked that big!
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on December 28, 2022, 06:22:23 PM
Kind of crazy to think that by the time these school kids grew up and had their own children, the Mini was still in production, and their grownup children could buy a brand new one.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on December 29, 2022, 05:53:55 PM
It's the updated Hornet with Hydrolastic. And it has roll up windows many years before the regular Mini got those doors.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on December 29, 2022, 06:16:09 PM
From a brochure at the launch of the revived 1990s Cooper model.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: MiniDave on December 29, 2022, 06:46:13 PM
I guess those pop up sunroofs were really big then, didn't those go out of favor here in the 70's?
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on December 30, 2022, 09:31:01 AM
Sorry to admit I had one installed in a brand new '86 car I bought.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: ve9aa on December 31, 2022, 07:44:52 AM
Very cool Bruce. Keep'm comin' !

:great:  :great:
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on January 01, 2023, 06:27:05 PM
How to buy a Moke in Oz as a business expense. 
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on January 01, 2023, 06:33:33 PM
Not sure if this is a BMC or James Bond "Goldfinger" promotional photo, but here is Oddjob lifting up a Mini.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on January 15, 2023, 08:56:19 PM
As you might know, the Mini name was not always used in different markets. At one time the car was called the Austin Partner in Norway. 
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on January 15, 2023, 08:59:18 PM
And in Denmark the Mascot name was used instead of Mini.  Which led to the sporty version called the Mascot Cooper instead of the Mini Cooper.  Awkward.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: jeff10049 on February 05, 2023, 01:01:15 PM
I probably posted these before but here they are again always fun to look at.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: jeff10049 on February 05, 2023, 01:08:21 PM
I have hundreds of ad's Ill add some from time to time.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on February 18, 2023, 07:22:01 PM
Oz Mokes stacked for shipping.  Pretty cool how the front and rear fenders provide a platform for the tires of the top Moke.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on February 18, 2023, 07:24:07 PM
Mini hidden in the tall grass.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on February 19, 2023, 09:19:39 AM
These days this would be seen as sexist, but 60 years ago this appeal to women buyers was for a "man's car" they would like.

I think this is an ad from Australia back when they still used pounds instead of dollars.

Mark, isn't this the color of your Oz Mini?
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: gr8kornholio on February 20, 2023, 08:04:53 PM
Possibly.  It turns out there are a lot of colors similar to mine.  I see pictures of them and ask and have yet to have someone say o yea mine is fiesta yellow too. 
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on February 22, 2023, 07:02:24 PM
London black cab driver is jealous of the Mini's maneuverability in city traffic.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on February 22, 2023, 07:04:47 PM
An aid for ventilation for Minis with sliding windows.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on February 28, 2023, 07:08:42 PM
Okay, these aren't Mini advertisements per se, but you can be sure Austin/River/Innocenti were quite happy to have photos showing the CEOs of both Ferrari and Lamborghini using Minis as their own personal cars.  Enzo Ferrari's Mini was a personal gift from Alec Issigonis.  But it looks like Ferruccio Lamborghini purchased his own Mini.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: MiniDave on February 28, 2023, 09:19:47 PM
River? Both cars appear to be Innocentis, going by the repeaters on the front fenders and the bonnet badges
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: MPlayle on March 01, 2023, 08:50:44 AM
The Ferrari owned one appears "custom" as can be told by the repositioned front turn signals and added driving lights that look molded into the front panel.

The Lamborghini owned one looks very likely to be an Innocenti - appears to be MK-III as well (roll up windows, internally hinged doors, apparent Inno bonnet badge).

Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on March 01, 2023, 07:44:20 PM
Here's an article about the Ferrari Mini Cooper with an update on its present status. Not an Innocenti but a customized British Mini.

https://tcct.com/news/2021/01/did-ferrari-have-a-mini-no-two/
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on March 01, 2023, 07:50:20 PM
Selling luxury in a Mini package with comfy leather seating and a nice wooden dashboard.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: MiniDave on March 01, 2023, 10:37:04 PM
That's an Autoplas dash cover, I only know that because there's a thread on it on TMF right now.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on March 02, 2023, 11:06:19 AM
Quote from: MiniDave on March 01, 2023, 10:37:04 PMThat's an Autoplas dash cover, I only know that because there's a thread on it on TMF right now.

Wonder if it's a modern copy on an old Wood & Pickett design?  Like the modern copies of W&P wheel arches?
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on March 02, 2023, 06:06:12 PM
Moke Californian model (never sold in California), joins the lengthy list of other car models that were never sold in their namesake locations. 

Like the:

Corvair Monza
Oldsmobile Calais
Pontiac Parisian
Chevrolet Monte Carlo
Pontiac LeMans
Ford Torino
Ford Granada
Mercury Milan
Dodge Monaco
Chrysler Cordoba
Cadillac Seville

Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on March 02, 2023, 09:00:30 PM
A promotional photo of Minis being exported.  This was back when each car had to be individually lifted by crane onto and off the ship - before the invention of the "roll on, roll off" car transport ships now used.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on March 21, 2023, 05:27:54 PM
Apparently at one point in the German market your Mini dealer stocked both Italian Innocenti Minis as well as British Minis at the same time.  Quite a selection to choose from. 
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on March 21, 2023, 05:34:08 PM
A promotional photo of a Mini model unique to South Africa - a Wolseley with the formal front nose of the Hornet but with the regular Mini's rounded "butt".

I really like the looks of this car.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on March 21, 2023, 05:37:43 PM
The Mini WildGoose RV conversation.  A big advantage to potential buyers was was it would fit into a normal garage.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on March 21, 2023, 05:51:48 PM
Back in the 60's there was a special record company promotion in the Los Angeles area for The Beach Boys where they gave away some special zebra-striped Mini Mokes  called "Mini Surfers" with special fringe tops that were designed by George Barris, the King of Kustomized Kars. I've heard there were as many as 20 of these Mokes given away. Wonder where they ended up?
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: MiniDave on March 21, 2023, 07:43:12 PM
What went in the compartment over the top of the cab? I've seen one of these at MMEMW in Winona, Wi.

Is that some sort of hood scoop on the bonnet of the Moke?
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: MiniDave on March 24, 2023, 08:18:11 AM
Does this make my butt look big?

Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: MiniDave on March 24, 2023, 08:48:30 AM
German Mini Importer

Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on March 24, 2023, 06:15:28 PM
Quote from: MiniDave on March 24, 2023, 08:18:11 AMDoes this make my butt look big?



Huge!  :)
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on March 24, 2023, 07:19:18 PM
Quote from: MiniDave on March 24, 2023, 08:48:30 AMGerman Mini Importer



Really selling the English heritage of all those different BL models. And it includes a map of the factory locations.  Never mind that Germany tried bombing most of those locations during the war...   :embarrassed:



Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on March 24, 2023, 07:21:54 PM
An early BMC publicity photo of a Mini out in the English countryside.  Looks to be Speedwell Blue!
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on April 06, 2023, 03:52:19 PM
A 1970s Mini ad showing a very '70s dark brown color.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on April 06, 2023, 03:56:26 PM
Selling special edition Minis in the Netherlands in the late 1980s.

Racing Green, Flame, and Checkmate
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on April 06, 2023, 04:00:05 PM
Early 1960s Mini ad touting the novel - for the time - transverse placement of the engine to make the car more spacious.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on April 08, 2023, 05:32:27 PM
The Clubman nose models are the big stars of the Mini world according to this ad, and they cost more.   The round nose version is still available at 850 and 1000 cc's and they are definitely at the bottom of the Mini lineup at this point in time.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on April 10, 2023, 07:06:57 PM
Early Innocenti brochure.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on April 10, 2023, 07:09:08 PM
Selling the Clubman wagon.  I owned a Mini in this bright Pagent Blue and it really stood out.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on April 11, 2023, 02:02:06 PM
Hornet ad showing the internal hinge doors with roll up windows that would appear on regular Minis four years later. 
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on April 20, 2023, 05:44:38 PM
Wash and wear.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on April 20, 2023, 05:49:35 PM
Promotional photo of Mini coming off the assembly line painted like the Union flag. 

I believe this was the first Mini ever painted like this and it was shipped off to Montreal for display at the Expo '67 World Fair (back when world fairs were a big thing).
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on April 20, 2023, 05:53:26 PM
Seems to be an ad for the later Portuguese-built Moke.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on April 20, 2023, 06:03:08 PM
Newspaper ad from Australia in the 1960s.  Only Morris-badged Minis were sold in Oz - never Austins for some reason.  Note the reference to these being BMC cars first, then Morris models.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: ve9aa on April 21, 2023, 01:15:04 PM
Suddenly
Quote from: BruceK on April 20, 2023, 05:53:26 PMSeems to be an ad for the later Portuguese-built Moke.

I have the urge to drive a MOKE on a beach in Portugal!
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on April 28, 2023, 09:58:24 AM
Some peeks into the exciting world of Broadspeed back in the 1960s. 

Pretty darn impressive performance out of a modified Mini: 128mph.  :13:  And look at the prices!

The James Bond/Aston Martin DB5 influence of the mid-1960s definitely affected the rear styling!
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on May 07, 2023, 07:38:43 PM
A list of all (most?) special edition Minis from the final 2 decades of Mini production.  I think these are the ones for the British home market and there were other special editions unique to Europe and Japan.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on May 07, 2023, 07:41:20 PM
Does this make my nose look big?
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: ve9aa on May 08, 2023, 04:47:29 AM
Quote from: BruceK on May 07, 2023, 07:38:43 PMA list of all (most?) special edition Minis from the final 2 decades of Mini production.  I think these are the ones for the British home market and there were other special editions unique to Europe and Japan.

That's pretty cool. I've never seen them all(?) listed like that.
My 1987 is an "Austin Mini City-E"  - perhaps way too common to make the list?

Thanks for all your Mini ads.  I look here often to see them Bruce.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: ve9aa on May 13, 2023, 04:58:40 PM
cdn mini
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on May 30, 2023, 09:55:00 AM
A promotional photo from BMC showing John Cooper standing in front what is likely the launch of the first batch of Mini Cooper models in 1961.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on May 30, 2023, 09:58:46 AM
Janspeed and their SOHC head upgrade for the Mini.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: 94touring on July 12, 2023, 06:49:23 PM
Have you scoured all the internet and run out of advertisements Bruce?
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: MiniDave on July 13, 2023, 07:54:00 AM
I wish they had a better pic of that Janspeed OHC setup, what the heck are those blocks on the carbs?

And a specially constructed block?
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: ve9aa on July 14, 2023, 03:58:55 PM
CANADIAN MINI - FUGLY BUMPERS AND ALL
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: MiniDave on July 14, 2023, 06:11:40 PM
Includes free snowplow?   :grin:
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: skmini on July 14, 2023, 06:44:11 PM
Interesting angle to take on selling a Mini.  "Luxurious" "relaxing seating"
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on August 10, 2023, 08:36:08 AM
Quote from: 94touring on July 12, 2023, 06:49:23 PMHave you scoured all the internet and run out of advertisements Bruce?

Nope!  Just took a break. Back with more...
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on August 10, 2023, 08:39:52 AM
How's this?  Upgrade from a Mini 850 to a Mini 1000 and get:

150cc more engine displacement!!!

AND...

Two extra gauges on the dash!!!

What a deal.


Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on August 10, 2023, 08:42:12 AM
Or... get a Clubman and you get 2 extra doors!!! 

:grin:

Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on August 10, 2023, 08:48:20 AM
Not a Mini advertisement, but a (publicity?) photo showing how to rig up a temporary cooling solution on a rally Mini. 
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: 94touring on August 10, 2023, 09:19:08 AM
Quote from: BruceK on August 10, 2023, 08:48:20 AMNot a Mini advertisement, but a (publicity?) photo showing how to rig up a temporary cooling solution on a rally Mini.

That's one way to do it!
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: cstudep on August 10, 2023, 10:15:09 AM
Step 1 remove light. Step 2 add radiator and some hoses. Step 3 finish the race.....Nice!
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: MiniDave on August 10, 2023, 11:22:16 AM
I never understood why people (who aren't driving their cars in a rallye) fill their entire grill with lights, seems like that would really restrict the cooling.

It also makes sense to me that if you're going to rallye, you need A), more cooling air thru the grille, not less and  B) the lights should be up on the front edge of the bonnet or on the roof. I seriously doubt they'd be a disadvantage aerodynamically, given the brick like shape of the car.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on August 14, 2023, 04:37:49 PM
Like this?
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: 94touring on August 14, 2023, 05:19:04 PM
My sportpack came with factory rally lights. They worked very well at night I remember.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: Brit_in_TX on August 16, 2023, 08:32:42 AM
Quote from: BruceK on August 14, 2023, 04:37:49 PMLike this?

Rallying change the rules around additional lights.  At some point in the 80s (would be my guess) the additional lights had to be in a removable pod to meet the body homologation rules.  And there is rules about when they can be installed, I vaguely remember it is linked to the start time of the stage relative to sunrise/sunset times. 

Here is a print of a Mini at the Monte Carlo rally in 1994 with the light pod installed.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on August 18, 2023, 10:44:13 AM
A Mini ad introducing the Clubman as an entirely new range of Minis.

The ad points out that the regular shape Mini remains available and now has roll up windows. No mention of the hidden door hinges that also arrived on the new Mk III Minis! 
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: LarryLebel on August 18, 2023, 12:26:32 PM
FYI. The rally Mini shown just above is GRX 5D with Paddy Hopkirk (RIP) driving in Canada's 1968 Shell 4000 rally. It was disqualified because of the external rad installed to cure over heating. I refer to the website starchak.ca for a history of the Shell 4000 Rally. You'll find it in the index page close to the bottom just below Competition History. BTW the picture in Competition History tab is my former 67 Austin Cooper S.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on September 05, 2023, 06:10:39 AM
I guess things happen pretty fast in a Mini Moke - so fast that the backseat passengers get all blurred out?  :)

Anyway, this is a 1970s ad for an Oz Moke Californian.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on September 05, 2023, 06:17:46 AM
Assuming this crazy "mod" painted Mini survived from the 1960s into the 1970s when it definitely became out of fashion then, what do you think happened to it? Did it get repainted or did it stand out like yesterday's news?

It would be really crazy if it was still around now in this paint scheme.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: 94touring on September 05, 2023, 07:58:00 AM
I can only imagine how long it took to paint that.
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: MiniDave on September 05, 2023, 08:38:25 AM
Me too, especially if the stripes are different colours!

Funny that the "California" Moke is right hand drive....
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: MPlayle on September 05, 2023, 01:55:13 PM
The "Californian" Moke was a trim package on the Australian Mokes, thus the RHD.

Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: BruceK on September 05, 2023, 02:58:49 PM
So the Californian Moke - never to be sold in California – it's somewhat like the Buick Riviera – never to be sold along the Riviera.  :grin:
Title: Re: Old Mini Adverts
Post by: 94touring on September 09, 2023, 06:53:55 PM
This one is for sale. Another hard paint job.