Mini 25th Birthday & Turning Japanese

[taffy1967]

Direct video link since YouTube hotlinking seems to be down at the moment: -

www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8D0qqxl3ZA

[taffy1967]

Plus the direct YouTube link until they fix hotlinking: -

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVLjl5LT3dQ

[irish]

i love taffys links!

[taffy1967]

Cheers Irish. I've been swapping Mini archive video's with someone on The Mini Forum and it's taken me ages to find a way of getting the clips I wanted to use off the DVDr discs.

I've finally cracked it and so when I get a chance there'll be a few more added soon. Although YouTube isn't working too good at the moment.

As for the turning Japanese bit, this article appeared in Autocar magazine back in 1988 and the top Mini is a 'Jet Black', the 'Red Hots' brother: -

[taffy1967]

Funny how that article (plus many more at the time) claimed the Mini Cooper would never return. Rover were obviously keeping it a big secret: -

i97.photobucket.com/albums/l236/taffy1967/Mainstream%20Mini%20Cooper%20Stuff/BigInJapanIIIAndCooperCashesIn.jpg

i97.photobucket.com/albums/l236/taffy1967/Mainstream%20Mini%20Cooper%20Stuff/CarMagazineCoverSeptember1990.jpg

I've had to use direct links for the above 2, because the images won't load for some reason. Perhaps the link information is too long?