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Jeroen Booij Maximum Mini writer

MINI LIFE My first car was a Mini, and many more followed, but the focus became more and more on kit cars and specials, and more and more on researching them rather then owning them. I’ve tracked down several long-lost obscurities and wrote three books on Mini-based vehicles so far, known as the Maximum Mini trilogy of terrors.

1966 Le Mans Mini Marcos. This car came with a 1289cc Cooper ‘S’ engine, AEA649 camshaft, AEG480 crank, AEG163 head, AEG333 gearbox casing with straight-cut close-ratio gears, SU

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