Fellow Countrymen:
Since we are all Mini enthusiasts, I thought of sharing these images from my archive. Some pics of Mini's we own and restored in the last few years. Enjoy guys!

 

Beautiful cars!!

 

Incredible job.

 

Good looking cars and garage. I especially like the orange one that belongs to Morris. Real neat the way he got his name engraved on the engine.

Oddly, there's a Mini Traveller in the used lot/garage just down the street from me. They haven't been open weekends, but I'm off Thursday and may stop and take a look.

Thanks!

 

Hi Sealy, Hmm... Not alot of people know this but Initially the Minis were marketed under the Austin and Morris names, as the Austin Seven and Morris Mini Minor, until Mini became a marque in its own right in 1969.
The Mini was again marketed under the Austin name in the 1980's.
This orange one we have is a '64. We celebrated Mini's 50th by showcasing our fleet.
Good luck with the traveler.
We are now restoring our Moke.

Cheers!

 

Actually, bored at work and being a PIA. Sorry. I'd like to say it won't happen again, but I'm incorrigable. I knew the history of the Mini was a back and forth affair - but not the details. Thanks for filling it in. There's some, now defunct, US makes that had a equally strange lineage.

A member of our car club (The Straight Eights) has a Moke. For some reason I think he brought it in from Australia. He has a weakness for the odd - had a Smart years before they came here, too.

The Traveler will just be a look-see. My SO and I are over burdened with cars as is. No room for another.