the red hot/jet black thread

[irishstick]

got these off e-bay a few weeks ago, for a fiver, original brochures for the above title,, im mad into red hot /jet black!

[irishstick]

[jc1380s]

Very nearly bought a brand new Jet Black when they 1st came out but heard rumours that they were thinking of re-introducing the Cooper so waited for that instead

Can remember that the Jet Black looked amazing in the dealers showroom though!!!

jc

[irishstick]

to be honest november last i was looking for a cheep car to run around in, in the winter,(as my cortinas live in a barn during the winter)
and seen this very sorry ass looking mini on the side of the road for sale, (real cheep)

ive had minis before, but forgot how cool they were, (really forgot ) i was driving a granny scorpio at the time!!!!!!!!!

anyhoo i only bought it to do the winter thing for me (back and for work) then i fell in love with minis again! why not, there great!

then things moved on, no granny scorpio any more, it was a mk3 tho, nice car! the square one

anyhoo, minis rock, and ive got quite a few of em now,

[irishstick]

well to be an anorack! b l made 3000 of each and exported 2000 of each to japan,
the japs love their minis!
its not a rare car but they are thin on the ground???

[irishstick]

ive also got a jet black,

well in bits that is?
so i intend buying a black mini and telling dvla i reshelled it and stuffing the jet black vin plate/ no plates on it and the jet black livery,

i have to change the seats/clocks/seat belts and a few other bits, tho, but it,ll be cool to have a red hot/jet black some time soon-ish money and time,,,,,,

[gar1380]

well i've a log book and number plates left off my 'red hot' if any one wants to purchace them

[irishstick]

gar1380 said:

well i've a log book and number plates left off my 'red hot' if any one wants to purchace them

how much? p.m. me!

[irishstick]

irishstick said:

gar1380 said:

well i've a log book and number plates left off my 'red hot' if any one wants to purchace them

how much? p.m. me!

do you still have the vin plate? thats wots counts?

[taffy1967]

I've been doing some research on the early Rover Mini Cooper and I had to provide this old Autocar Magazine article from 1988 to the Mainstream Mini Cooper Register and you should find it of interest buddy: -





I can't get the 3rd page to load here (is the hyper-link information too long?), so here's a link to that thread instead: -

z11.invisionfree.com/mainstreamcooper/index.php?showtopic=214

It seems so ironic now to read that the Mini Cooper wasn't going to come back.

Anyway the Japanese just couldn't get enough Minis once they'd been introduced there and I can remember seeing a feature on the national TV news back in early 1986 concerning this fact and it was all thanks to the insight of the then chairman of Rover (Canadian born Graham Day). Instead of letting it die a slow and quiet death, he raised the cars profile during the mid 1980's with the 'Minis Have Feelings Too' Xmas TV adverts, introduced it to Japan and then the rest is history.

The Japanese also started the craze of converting new Minis to look like 1960's MKI models, right down to fitting adapter plates so the original MKI rear lights would fit.

It's funny how times change because a decade or more earlier, people were converting MKI's to look like later Minis and fitting larger rear lights was one of the main things they did.

[irishstick]

taffy1967 said:

I've been doing some research on the early Rover Mini Cooper and I had to provide this old Autocar Magazine article from 1988 to the Mainstream Mini Cooper Register and you should find it of interest buddy: -





I can't get the 3rd page to load here (is the hyper-link information too long?), so here's a link to that thread instead: -

z11.invisionfree.com/mainstreamcooper/index.php?showtopic=214

It seems so ironic now to read that the Mini Cooper wasn't going to come back.

Anyway the Japanese just couldn't get enough Minis once they'd been introduced there and I can remember seeing a feature on the national TV news back in early 1986 concerning this fact and it was all thanks to the insight of the then chairman of Rover (Canadian born Graham Day). Instead of letting it die a slow and quiet death, he raised the cars profile during the mid 1980's with the 'Minis Have Feelings Too' Xmas TV adverts, introduced it to Japan and then the rest is history.

The Japanese also started the craze of converting new Minis to look like 1960's MKI models, right down to fitting adapter plates so the original MKI rear lights would fit.

It's funny how times change because a decade or more earlier, people were converting MKI's to look like later Minis and fitting larger rear lights was one of the main things they did.

yeah i remember being skink in the early 80s( being an apprentice) and face lifting a mk 3 cortina to look a mk 4,/5, lol, the cops dident buy it tho ;D, lol ;D ;D

[irishstick]

im not a fan of washing waxing cars, in fact ive had the merc 6 months now, and the only water its sees is rain, ;D

but i did make an effort on the red hot the passed day or two, and here she is,
ive had her 2 and a half years and never seen her (merlin) looking finer, i do wash merlin once in a blue moon tho, ,, roll on the l2b,,,, hope you washed your car taffy?

[irishstick]

might even win the concours , if they all have white sticks! ohh and the brown bits are supposed be there, like the day it came outta the factory, yeah right!

[minichick]

Looks like you have worked really hard with the polishing, it looks really clean. Have you been taking tips from Gar1380? ;D ;D ;D

[irishstick]

taa babe, only tips off gar ive been taking is deny eveything, its not even my car, lol,,, ;D ;D HE made me do it! wont tell you again , babe, swear to jesus,
dont bring the fryingpan to bristol pllleeeease,

[coedy]

nothing really to add to this thread other than the bloke driving the jet black on the brochures cover seems to be a hip and happening kinda guy! lol

[irishstick]

in one cody, hallula, its me in the 80s, and now!!! well sort of , going bald, incontent and ill tempered,lol,

[taffy1967]

Looking nice and shiny mate and I gave mine a wash for Singleton, but I hope to give it a quick wash and a polish in time for the L2BR.