Dan:
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Mini sprints were one of the saner
mini-based bodies/specials around at that time, though some of the cut down
versions were more severe than your father's. Others were the twin-engined
Moke, MiniMarcos, Unipower, and.... The good old days, really.
Martin
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Subject: [OM] Re: OT - energy efficient cars
Walters, Martin wrote:
> In my youth (ahhh), I built, rebuilt and rebuilt a number of
> minis, including a quite well tuned Cooper S. One developed a
> love-hate relationship with them. But they were fun, cheap to
> own and to modify. In their day, they were very,very quick,
> but not for the faint of heart.
Here's a couple of photos of a Mini Sprint that my father chopped
down, with him and his mother for scale.
http://gallery.danielmitchell.net/index.php?gallery=./Old%20Family%20Photos
(on topic: these were "scanned" with an E-1 + 14-54 lens, because
that's what I had with me when Dad found these old photos; a bit of
perspective correction and dust removal later, and they don't look too bad).
-- dan
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