CLASSIC TAILS
WHEN BLMC GIFTED A MARKET TO FORD
The 1275GT was great, but not quite the halo model that the Mini Cooper S had been.
It is now 50 years since the last Mini Cooper S was produced. Rolling out of the Longbridge gates and onto a Leyland or AEC car transporter, this July 1971 built S in Blaze Orange would in fact survive to the present day, as has the very first Mk3 S that was built over a year earlier. Not that British Leyland even wanted to build it, the Mk3 launched in March
