Californian Mini Moke

Mini Mania has announced that the Californian Mini Moke will again be available in the USA. Originally built by British Motor Corporation at the Longbridge plant in Birmingham England, the manufacturing was ceased in 1968. The Australian plant for BMC that produced the Mini Moke continued in production from 1966 thru 1981. [...]

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Mini Mania offer Dyno Testing for all Mini Coopers at the annual Nevada City Adventure 2008

Nevada City, CA. Mini Mania Inc. is expanding it annual Nevada City Adventure to include the first ever “Vtec Encounter”,  public Dyno testing, and a free clinic in MINI Cooper detailing.   This will be the 7th annual event that highlights the joys of owning and driving both the Classic Mini Cooper and the BMW MINI [...]

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What is the easiest way to get the radiator in and out of the Cooper S.

Radiator removal and reinstall tends to depend upon the two Ps: Patience and Pain threshold! This is especially true with the Mk I and II cars that still have the inner radiator shroud as part of the inner wing panel — like your car.
I’ll describe what works for me on the early cars. [...]

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A little Mini history as written by my grandaughter!

Tina Racine
Ertola
Language Arts
12-5-07
Alexander Arnold Constantine Issigoniss.
Born November 18, 1906
Died October 2, 1988
Made the Austin Morris Mini.
He got his inspiration from drawing on a napkin. His friends called him “The Greek God”. He lived in Edgbaston (village of man called Ecgbald, from the old English personal name to Ton “Farm.”) United Kingdom Census 2001 found that’s [...]

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Vtec Mini Pick-up gets new floor

My project to upgrade my old Mini Pick-up to accept a Honda Vtec engine continues! The first steps of body restoration is taking a little longer than planned. As the floor of the pick-up was rusted completely and as I will be installing a Vtec I decided to use a later model British [...]

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