Old Mini Adverts

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

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BruceK

Show girls? Hookers? Obviously the British sense of Piccadilly is lost in translation.
1988 Austin Mini
2002 MINI Cooper S
1992 Toyota LiteAce (JDM)
1997 Jeep Wrangler Sahara

MiniDave

Looks 80's?

BTW, thanks for posting these, they're fun to look at!
Complete failure at retirement

1989 Cooper Racing Green
2009 Clubman S
2014 Audi Allroad

94touring

I always get so annoyed seeing people laying on the car lol.  Get your boney ass off there and stop denting it!

BruceK

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?
1988 Austin Mini
2002 MINI Cooper S
1992 Toyota LiteAce (JDM)
1997 Jeep Wrangler Sahara

94touring

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. 

BruceK

#155
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.
1988 Austin Mini
2002 MINI Cooper S
1992 Toyota LiteAce (JDM)
1997 Jeep Wrangler Sahara

BruceK

#156
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)
1988 Austin Mini
2002 MINI Cooper S
1992 Toyota LiteAce (JDM)
1997 Jeep Wrangler Sahara

MiniDave

Complete failure at retirement

1989 Cooper Racing Green
2009 Clubman S
2014 Audi Allroad

BruceK

1988 Austin Mini
2002 MINI Cooper S
1992 Toyota LiteAce (JDM)
1997 Jeep Wrangler Sahara

BruceK

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

BruceK

Back when £199 could buy stuff!
1988 Austin Mini
2002 MINI Cooper S
1992 Toyota LiteAce (JDM)
1997 Jeep Wrangler Sahara

BruceK

Not a traditional Mini ad, but an attention-getter advertisement nonetheless.

1988 Austin Mini
2002 MINI Cooper S
1992 Toyota LiteAce (JDM)
1997 Jeep Wrangler Sahara

BruceK

Mini illustration. Again we have miniature people - miniature luggage too!  Trying to make the car look bigger?
1988 Austin Mini
2002 MINI Cooper S
1992 Toyota LiteAce (JDM)
1997 Jeep Wrangler Sahara

BruceK

And a very small but perfectly proportioned miniature man, who can barely see over the roof, loads a Mini Van in this illustration.
1988 Austin Mini
2002 MINI Cooper S
1992 Toyota LiteAce (JDM)
1997 Jeep Wrangler Sahara

MiniDave

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
Complete failure at retirement

1989 Cooper Racing Green
2009 Clubman S
2014 Audi Allroad

gr8kornholio

You know and shrinking when you wash it.   But the tiny people are interesting.
I am the GR8KORNHOLIO! Are you threatening me?

Saussie Aussie 1965 Australian MK1 Mini.
"Beavis" - 07 MY/MY MCS, B/MY Konig Daylites, JCW sideskirts, TSW springs, TSW lower rear control arms -- Exploring the country with new friends since 11/09.

BruceK

#166
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.
1988 Austin Mini
2002 MINI Cooper S
1992 Toyota LiteAce (JDM)
1997 Jeep Wrangler Sahara

BruceK

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

BruceK

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"
1988 Austin Mini
2002 MINI Cooper S
1992 Toyota LiteAce (JDM)
1997 Jeep Wrangler Sahara

ve9aa

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
Mike in NB

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

BruceK

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

BruceK

An ad for the Innocenti Mini Cooper shows an unusual angle of the car.
1988 Austin Mini
2002 MINI Cooper S
1992 Toyota LiteAce (JDM)
1997 Jeep Wrangler Sahara

BruceK

Usually don't see Paddy Hopkirk with a Clubman, but why not?!
1988 Austin Mini
2002 MINI Cooper S
1992 Toyota LiteAce (JDM)
1997 Jeep Wrangler Sahara

BruceK

1988 Austin Mini
2002 MINI Cooper S
1992 Toyota LiteAce (JDM)
1997 Jeep Wrangler Sahara

BruceK

The Sky and Rose special editions geared toward women.
1988 Austin Mini
2002 MINI Cooper S
1992 Toyota LiteAce (JDM)
1997 Jeep Wrangler Sahara