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Home > Cars > Classic Mini

The Classic Mini
1959 to 2000


"The Greatest Car of All Time"
&
"The Car of the Century"
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Sir Alec Issigonis' Mini was launched on 26th August 1959, changing the face of the car industry forever.  The world's favourite small car stayed in continuous production, largely unchanged, until the year 2000.

It was a small cheap run-around in the time of a fuel crisis, a fashion icon in the sixties, and a legend on the race tracks of the world, having won the British and European Saloon car championships, and the celebrated Monte Carlo rally three times then back to being an economy car before finally ending up as an ultra-cool "retro" car for the 90s with a huge following from people of all ages.

I started these Mini pages in around 1995 when my Mini obsession was at its greatest and when I'd basically driven nothing else.

Click the buttons below, or use the menus, to explore the hundreds of mini pages from sexist old adverts, details of the last models, archive material, and information from the very end of Mini production.  


A Selection of highlights from my 100s of Mini Pages:-

History of Mini
Brochure Selection
Roadtest Archive
MPi Information
Colour Charts
1996 Relaunch Postcards
1996 Relaunch Brochures
Old Sexist Adverts
Very Last Minis
John Cooper Obituaries
April Fools Letter
End of the Mini
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My 1994 Mini
My 1990 Mini
1983 Brochure

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