January 2024

MiniWorld

The original and best-selling magazine for the Mini.

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Editor Paul Guinness. mw.ed@kelsey.co.uk Technical Editor Tim Mundy Senior Contributor Karen Drury Design AT Graphics Jim Jupp, Rob Hawkins, Jon Cass, Gerard Hughes, Simon Cooke, Andy Starkey, Mike Guido, Jake Adams, Richard Crawford, Jeroen Booij,
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Stronger Together
Although this issue of MiniWorld carries a January cover date, it hits the shops (and subscribers’ doormats) in early December, making it the very last one of 2023 – and what an eventful year it’s been! MiniWorld found itself with a new editor eight
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Mini Scene
A company that specialises in classic Mini tours, smallcarBIGCITY, is offering festive excursions around London. With Christmas songs, hot cocoa and snug blankets all on tap, it promises to be a memorable experience, with tours running through into J
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Rare Breed
Thanks to the Mini Cooper Register, John Parnell (author of the book, Original Mini Cooper & Cooper S) and other sources, there are plenty of facts and figures out there when it comes to Mini Cooper and Cooper S production. And that means just about
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Market Update
Devon-based Mini specialist Richard Williams has various late-model Cooper Sports in stock at the time of writing, including the two lowmileage examples shown here. The first is a two-owner car finished in the ever-popular combination of Solar Red wi
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In Gear
Mini Spares has announced a new chrome-on-brass version of the MkI Morris Cooper grille with the pointed lower bar, as fitted to early original cars built up until 1965. The grille is suitable for models without a cable bonnet release mechanism. Made
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Event Diary
The British Mini Club reckons this is the UK’s biggest and best indoor Mini show, now in its 24th year. As well as Mini displays, club stands and concours competitions, there’ll be over 100 traders and Mini-jumblers selling parts, accessories and mor
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Mini Fair 2024
There’s not long to wait now until the British Mini Club’s first event of the year, with Mini Fair getting 2024 off to a great start on Sunday, January 28. Taking place at the Staffordshire County Showground, Stafford, this season-opener represents a
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Roll With It
Nobody can deny that race cars have a pretty hard time, although that’s very much the nature of their existence. Sure, they have a charmed life from the outset, with bountiful trinkets bestowed upon them in the form of the latest upgrades, technologi
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Q&A
I am upgrading the engine of my 1980 Mini 1000 from 998cc to a mildly tuned 1293cc unit. The brakes and suspension are also being upgraded to suit. Should I replace the radiator with a larger-capacity unit? Colin Manners As long as your original 998c
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Restoration Corner
One thing that’s almost always certain when rust repairs and restoration are being carried out on a Mini is that a lot of the major work will be low down on the car in the floor and sill areas. If the Mini bodyshell is intact (or largely intact), the
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Top Question
I have experienced several instances of points and condenser failure in the past couple of years and feel the time is right to convert to electronic ignition. I have noticed that there’s some play in the shaft of the existing dizzy, but have been tol
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Flashback
Today, when we want parts for our Minis, we generally look online and have them delivered or, depending on where we live and what we need, we’ll pay a visit to a Mini specialist. But if we go back to when the Mini was launched and then come forward t
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Manual Transmission Improvements
Rebuilding, replacing or tuning the engine is something that most owners will do to their Mini at some point. This might be because of wear or could be to gain extra performance, although in many cases it will be for both reasons. The engine, however
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Ultimate TRIBUTE
Jason Spry and his father, Laurence, had a lot of fun together thanks to Minis, as Jason recalls: “Dad never owned Minis himself or did any kind of racing, but when I was 13 we went to our local banger racing track, Westworld Raceway in St Columb, Co
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Logbook
Karen enjoyed driving Sheldon throughout the summer and beyond, meeting up with friends and family for fun trips and events My last update on Sheldon took us up to the start of May, since when he has been rather busy. First up was an early morning ja
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Pat Moss And The Mini
During a hugely hectic life, Pat Moss-Carlsson grew to become a worldwide legend in the hard-fought field of international rallying, showing her prowess behind the wheel of MGs, Triumphs, Austin-Healeys and… yes, the Mini. Tough and resilient both me
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City Slicker
Here at MiniWorld, we often hear from readers who’ve recently completed their first project or are perhaps part-way through. They’ll usually have spent many years yearning for their own Mini, only to finally take the plunge and embark upon a resto, m
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Memory Lane
Last month’s MiniWorld featured one of BL’s double-page ads promoting the newly updated Mini line-up of 1980, which came with extra soundproofing across the range. The headline last time was “You’ve never heard it so good”, but we reckon this one’s e
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