What's this and who built it - for 1 point?:
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Mini Margrave by Wood and Pickett?
Quote from: Majeko on January 21, 2014, 08:29:41 AM
Mini Margrave by Wood and Pickett?
No - that looks like this:
http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=23324.msg253639#msg253639
Experts?
Up to the Pro's then...
From Switzerland, by Emil Frey?
Was it modified in the UK?
Quote from: AlexFrance on February 18, 2014, 06:21:16 AM
Was it modified in the UK?
It's not a modified car, but it was built in the UK.
Quote from: Carnut on February 18, 2014, 06:24:19 AM
Quote from: AlexFrance on February 18, 2014, 06:21:16 AM
Was it modified in the UK?
It's not a modified car, but it was built in the UK.
So could it be a proposal or concept built by Austin?
It's nothing to do with Austin AFAIK.
Proposal for a Vanden Plas Mini?
It appears to be a later BL Mini, maybe a Sprite from the 80s. By then the fad for luxury conversions was well-past. Was this a privately-modified car, or was it available to purchase?
Quote from: Wendax on February 18, 2014, 09:03:32 AM
Proposal for a Vanden Plas Mini?
No, it's nothing to do with BL..
Quote from: nicanary on February 18, 2014, 11:24:38 AM
It appears to be a later BL Mini, maybe a Sprite from the 80s. By then the fad for luxury conversions was well-past. Was this a privately-modified car, or was it available to purchase?
It does a bit, but it's not one.
It was proposed to offer it I believe, though I'm not sure what BL would have thought of that...!
Phaeton by Automobilia?
It is shorter than a normal Mini. Is it a Mini body [front end] on another base?
Wheels could be from a Reliant. Is it Kitten-based?
Going from memory as out of the country at the moment, but is this the Electric Mini, made in the 1980s by RMB, better known as the people that made the Gentry TF kit car?
Quote from: Wendax on February 18, 2014, 12:58:23 PM
Phaeton by Automobilia?
No,
Quote from: D-type on February 18, 2014, 04:33:19 PM
It is shorter than a normal Mini. Is it a Mini body [front end] on another base?
I don't know if uses any Mini parts apart from perhaps some of the lights, door hardware and maybe glass.
Quote from: Wendax on February 18, 2014, 04:44:38 PM
Wheels could be from a Reliant. Is it Kitten-based?
No.
Quote from: Djetset on February 18, 2014, 04:45:09 PM
Going from memory as out of the country at the moment, but is this the Electric Mini, made in the 1980s by RMB, better known as the people that made the Gentry TF kit car?
What a memory!
Yes, this is made in glassfibre by RMB and is obviously a copy of the Mini, though as I said I don't know if it uses many Mini parts (I don't think the grille is even a real Mini grille).
It is an electric car, but it does have a name which is not The Electric Mini, so I'll lock it for you to reach into the depths of that memory and see if you can come up with it!
Djetset has asked me to unlock this one so it's open to all again.
It's the Mini Lectro built by Roger Blockley and powered by an electric motor and ten 6-Volt batteries. It dates from 1982.
Quote from: Oswald on March 02, 2014, 12:10:24 PM
It's the Mini Lectro built by Roger Blockley and powered by an electric motor and ten 6-Volt batteries. It dates from 1982.
Yes indeed, that's the name.
If anyone was going to know I thought it would be you or Quiller!
Here's the original picture: