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Really, Ed, I don't know anyone else who could possibly make a video around a 1970's brochure watchable and interesting and yet you can! Thoroughly enjoyable, as ever! I well recall the motoring press at the time being full of adverts for "conversion kits" whereby one's old round-nose could be updated to a Clubman. I wonder if anyone ever bought one of these kits? If they did, then the work must have been done professionally as I don't ever remember seeing any bad transplants!
Thanks Stuart, that's very kind :) I have seen a handful of Minis both older and newer with Clubman fronts. They come in useful when attempting to cram a larger engine in the front!
Restoring a '79 Clubman right now - lovely video. First road-test last weekend, after replacing all the brakes front and rear. Drives really well, and loving it. Not quite street legal yet, but hopefully in 2022 - if the virus does not stop me.
Always been a fan of the mini as my uncle worked on the track at longbridge from launch until 1987 and reminds me of happy memories chatting to him about the mini and how they were made wish I had written down his stories now as he passed away a few years ago now
Mini is a legend! One drawback, with the side mounted engine and spark plugs getting damp in wet weather. Even with a bit of old carpet behind the grille. In those days it was called motoring. Now it's just driving. Great video Ed! 👍
I think the colour of the Mini 1000 at the beginning is “Harvest Gold” my mum had a 76 model in that colour and it looks the same, it wasn’t a dark colour.
Oh goody! Brochure day! "The BL round plug of doom" was a hilarious audio prompt to buckle up. Shade was thrown. Sarcasm heaped upon every page. This absolutely did not disappoint. Nobody but you, Ed. Nobody.
Great video! I have to agree, the Mini is my most favourite car too. (as you can probably tell haha!) Safe to say that anything could make a limited edition in the 70s (a different interior and stickers being enough lol) The mini at 6:20 was a denim blue colour i believe and ( although I'm not sure i think that the yellow mini at the start was in sandglow as series 2 allegros (built at the same time) were in the same colour.
That takes me back a few years Ed! I remember these brochures in the 70s and 80s. The Mini's were really impressive in their day and were everywhere. Bring back the original Mini lol :-)
I have just found one of these in my loft. I must have picked it up at some time in my childhood, I have no idea where and when, as I was born in 1972 so would not have been old enough in 77 to have got it directly from the showroom. I also have a 1976 brown 1275 owners manual. I may have been given them at one of the many current and classic car shows that My dad would take Me to on a yearly basis all over the UK during the early 80s as a boy, Happy memories
My first car bought in Sept 1994 when I turned 17 was a 1979 Mini 1000 in vermillion (orangey red). That colour was available on Austin Morris cars between 1978 and 1982. I really wanted a Clubman Estate for the extra practicality but the conventional Mini met my needs. Besides, the estates were very thin on the ground by the 1990s. Early Metros were over my £500 budget! Or at least the ones for sale in my local area were.
I learnt to drive in a Java (green) Mini 1000 in 1980 with BSM (British School Of Motoring). It was identical to the ones in this brochure with the plain black steering wheel. It was a great car to learn in and I remember it was quite nippy. Like all FWD cars from BL it was quite difficult to get in to reverse. Looking at this has brought back many good memories.
@4:18 to 6:44 Yes, that is indeed a lovely example of a Clubman. I think the colour was Denim Blue metallic, as is the 1000 HL on the cover of your October 1980 brochure. We once owned a 1983 Mayfair in Opaline Green that had the same plastic wheel trims (A424GHF we adored that little car), and they stayed with the Mayfair (with the BL centre logo deleted after October 1983) until the October 1984 mk5 introduction with the front disc brakes and 12 inch wheels.
Hi Ed Happy memories of my 1977 Mini 1000 in a rather bright Flamenco Red. As for the front of brochure car colour, looks like it could only be Sandglow. However, happy to be proved wrong by your viewers who are true Mini aficionados! Mike
I agree I think its Sandglow as that was a brand new colour for the 1977/78 model year and I suspect it's either the exposure on the original photo or the printing process that makes it look more yellow.
I always the loved the 'neatness' of this version of the Mini....and the 1275GT was positively exotic in its day. Having said that, I knew someone who owned one and when it went in for repair she was given a bog standard Fiesta courtesy car - and didn't want her Mini 1275 back!!!! There's no accounting for taste. 🤣 Great video - as usual! 🙌
Another excellent presentation! I must say, while BL was emphasis was on mist function for the windscreen wipers, the Japanese had intermittent setting as standard in more upmarket versions. The same goes for the new Fiesta for 1978. Cannot wait to see what improvements are mentioned in your next video!
Thanks mate :) Japanese cars of the late 1970s were so well equipped. It's a shame they didn't keep up the effort once they had become established in Europe.
Great video Ed ! Love watching the history of BL evolve through the various brochures. I cannot understand why BL didn’t put a picture on the front of this brochure though seems like a total misstep.
Mini, yeah! Three of the models I've owned are in this brochure. The 1275GT, 1000 auto (mine was a later Mayfair though), and the clubman estate. I miss them lots! My 1275 had a few little mods, camshaft, intkae and exhaust manifold and a bigger carb. It shoved out around 70HP which was huge fun. Brilliant cars. If anyone out there hasn't driven one yet, just do it. There is nothing like a Mini.
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Superb. My absolute favourite car, the Mini. I own a 2012 Cooper S. Yes it is from BMW but it still has much of the original Mini’s “essence” in it. A friend owns a 1970 Classic Mini. And thats a very pretty car indeed.
Note that the lettering is further back along the door, on the yellow GT. For some reason. Maybe it was a one-off, which enabled this car to be photographed with the driver's door open and the lettering still legible. Take a look at the "Joy Ride" magazine advert for the 1275GT, as an example.
Well the coincidence is I am restoring a 1978 Mini 1000 and its original colour (underneath the later black paint) was Java Green. Its actually quite a nice colour and just that bit 'different'. Not sure how you made the Leyland Brochure so interesting but you did. 👍
Great video. Have a Sep 1977 Mini 1000 with those details like the dipping mirror and eyeball face vents. I'm sure mine always had a chrome grille, wonder if it was changed before I bought it or BL were shipping whatever was in stock. Did sell the stripy seats for comfortable 80's ones though, much better shape base so did not regret that, they get a keen buyer. People assumed I'd upgraded the rear lights so must have been one of the first years with reversing lights. I always thought the Mini took well to 70's style and for me they look better that 60's ones.
Great to see you back, TC, and loved the BL 'plughole of doom' quip. Memories of my L-reg Clubman that was a nice little car, as my first one owned, but I can't remember the dashboard instrumentation or whether the carpets were fitted.....!
Would have had carpet in the clubman and I think they had a two pack binnacle in front of the driver with fuel and temp gauges and a speedometer I believe later clubman had a rev counter
Thanks Dave :) All Clubmen had proper fitted carpets and the twin instrument binnacle fitted in front of the driver as seen here. The changes to the interior between 1969 and this brochure are the seats, steering wheel, and centre switch panel.
Great video! I'm pretty sure that colour is Sandglow. I have a sandglow 1979 1000 (with those stripy seats) and it looks that colour. Interesting that it had no passenger door mirror. Mine did, but it fell off, having been attached with rivnuts. Maybe it was aftermarket.
Great video. I remember seeing the Mini at the Toronto International Auto Show when it was still in production. I think ours had the 1,273 cc engine. I do know they all had the round nose. The also all had 5 mile per hour safety bumpers on them. They also had different interiors, as head restraints were required beginning in 69. I would love to find a Canadian brochure to send to you so you could compare, as our cars were quite different.
As were your Marinas, badged as Austins in Canada I believe you only got the 1800 twin carb cars but the interiors were far superior to those in the U.K.
As an American, who almost never sees one of these cars, I find these kinds of videos interesting. And I've never understood why British people seem to love these ridiculously small and under powered cars so much. Maybe I can understand it when they first came out, but 30 and 40 years on?
I must say that in the town I was living in upstate New York quite a number of years ago, I spotted a classic Mini in red. It looked tiny! The only one I have spotted since!
@@frothe42 very few were ever sold in the United States. I think only in the late 60s. Presumably the one you saw must've been kept out of the snow or else it would have rusted away almost instantly
It’s a good question that I ask myself. I think the answer lies in the drive, they are so much fun to drive. Despite all the cars I have had the mini is still the one that brings an unstoppable smile when you drive one. I will never be without one. On paper they are low power yes, but you must remember they also weight very little so scamp along very well - especially around uk lanes. The motorsport history is also huge, as is the tuning culture. It’s a timeless design, like a Vespa, they look right parked down the pub, in a field or outside Buckingham palace. Don’t get me wrong however they are absolute rot boxes and need constant TLC but you always forgive them for the enjoyment they bring
@@steveguest6941 If I remember correctly, this is THE CAR that many in the UK 🇬🇧 could afford! Yes, it was small, but some village roads are quite narrow, even today! It could fit four adults in reasonable comfort. Most of all, it gave the British public their freedom to explore their country, travel, get to and from work. It gave the country jobs. All of this, ten years after the war, when the UK rationed quite a lot, rebuilding after the war. Pent-up demand. And now, the original Mini is a classic, with the new Mini Cooper becoming one soon!
Another well-presented brochure vid, Ed! Only you could make such ‘literature’ so interesting - complete with the occasional tongue in cheek. As a language nerd, I found it interesting @ 7:41 that the œ ligature was still being used (in manœuvrable, second-last word in para #2). It’s not the level of orthography I’d expect to find in anything less than a Royce brochure (did Royces even have such promotional publications?). Love your work!
Ah, about the reversing lights. They did not all get them at the same time. The 1000 and Clubman got them first, but the 850 never did and it's replacement, the "City", also had no reversing lights until the mid 80s.
Was the blue Denim Blue? The other does still look like Sandglow rather than Harvest Gold. And I don’t think it was that weird colour where it looked like they had a tin of Sandglow and one tin of Clove Brown which they had to mix to paint the whole car.
I don't know about the yellow colour I think it is probably Sandglow and it the exposure or the printing process that makes it look a bit off but the blue one was Astral Blue metallic. Interesting that in this brochure that it was only the Clubman and 1275GT that had inertia reel belts, I think it was at the motor show that year that they announced that the entire BL range would be fitted with retractable belts. I love the way that BL always showed the 1275GT shod Denovo run flat tyres, in my entire time working in the BL dealer network (1976-1991) I only ever saw two minis with these tyres fitted as they were quite an expensive option, the only other car in the range on which they were offered if memory serves was the Princess 2200 HLS and Special Six. As for those deckchair seats I seem to remember that Ford where the first to use them in the Mk1 Fiesta S models, BL obviously thought that was a good idea because they fitted them across the Austin Morris and MG range with the exception to the Princess if I remember correctly. Please keep these reviews of seventies brochures coming as they bring back happy memories for me as an apprentice in the BL dealer network.
You are absolutely right, the only reason they stopped making the Cooper was because BL refused to pay John Cooper (who developed the original performance minis) the royalties for using his name on the car, realising they still needed a performance variant BL designed the 1275GT in house but it was a lot softer than the Cooper and was never quite as good.
Good video, I remember the Java colour being very popular. So if the husband got the Rover SD1 and the wife the Mini Clubman, who got the Allegro? My money is on the dog.
That's definitely not sandglow my mom had a 78 T reg mini clubman in sandglow when we were kids. Sandglow was a darker shade loved that little car wished id got it now
@4:22 No sexism just photos of two good cars, his wife has her own car and nice house because her husband has a good salary, probably a company director.
Your comment about the male executive with his Rover 3500 & wife with the more "easily manageable" Mini was uncalled for. Of course today we would have to have a "mixed race" family or "same sex" couple in the literature to pass the diversity test: but I assume from your earlier comment this is acceptable to you.
It's a societal observation, Gary. Don't get so het up. I'm imagining by your bringing up of something not completely related that representation in advertising annoys you?
Sorry, I genuinely thought you were kidding. The 1970s in the UK, by anybody's standards, were pretty terrible. Limited power availability, rocketing energy prices, inflation regularly above 20%, huge industrial action, and civil unrest. I enjoy many of the 1970s products, whether they be the cars, fashion, music, or culture, but to say the '70s were great is a massive case of rose-tinted glasses. Also though, what does your second comment mean? It's difficult to understand.
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Sorry for the audio in this one. I was using the microphone on my new camera, and it isn’t as good as I was expecting. It will be better next time!
Also, I believe that Clubman is in Denim Blue.
Really, Ed, I don't know anyone else who could possibly make a video around a 1970's brochure watchable and interesting and yet you can! Thoroughly enjoyable, as ever! I well recall the motoring press at the time being full of adverts for "conversion kits" whereby one's old round-nose could be updated to a Clubman. I wonder if anyone ever bought one of these kits? If they did, then the work must have been done professionally as I don't ever remember seeing any bad transplants!
Thanks Stuart, that's very kind :)
I have seen a handful of Minis both older and newer with Clubman fronts. They come in useful when attempting to cram a larger engine in the front!
Restoring a '79 Clubman right now - lovely video. First road-test last weekend, after replacing all the brakes front and rear. Drives really well, and loving it. Not quite street legal yet, but hopefully in 2022 - if the virus does not stop me.
@@VauxhallViva1975 That's good to read! Well done! The virus won't stop you. But our "Government's" reaction to it may!
I love these brochure videos. I especially like the BL ones, and even more so about the Mini.
Thanks Richard :)
Good video as usual . Can’t agree with you on your 70s comment though . Far better times than we live in now and I’d go back in an instant !
Great videos on the Mini brochures and great to see you back!
I do love these brochure videos. No one else does them.
Nicely done, more please.
Always been a fan of the mini as my uncle worked on the track at longbridge from launch until 1987 and reminds me of happy memories chatting to him about the mini and how they were made wish I had written down his stories now as he passed away a few years ago now
Mini is a legend!
One drawback, with the side mounted engine and spark plugs getting damp in wet weather.
Even with a bit of old carpet behind the grille.
In those days it was called motoring.
Now it's just driving.
Great video Ed! 👍
I think the colour of the Mini 1000 at the beginning is “Harvest Gold” my mum had a 76 model in that colour and it looks the same, it wasn’t a dark colour.
Oh goody! Brochure day! "The BL round plug of doom" was a hilarious audio prompt to buckle up. Shade was thrown. Sarcasm heaped upon every page. This absolutely did not disappoint. Nobody but you, Ed. Nobody.
Great video! I
have to agree, the Mini is my most favourite car too. (as you can probably tell haha!)
Safe to say that anything could make a limited edition in the 70s (a different interior and stickers being enough lol)
The mini at 6:20 was a denim blue colour i believe and ( although I'm not sure i think that the yellow mini at the start was in sandglow as series 2 allegros (built at the same time) were in the same colour.
Thanks mate :)
That takes me back a few years Ed! I remember these brochures in the 70s and 80s. The Mini's were really impressive in their day and were everywhere. Bring back the original Mini lol :-)
Excellent vid as always, Ed. Rare opportunity to see catalogs of BL cars from the past. Keep up the good work!
I have just found one of these in my loft. I must have picked it up at some time in my childhood, I have no idea where and when, as I was born in 1972 so would not have been old enough in 77 to have got it directly from the showroom. I also have a 1976 brown 1275 owners manual. I may have been given them at one of the many current and classic car shows that My dad would take Me to on a yearly basis all over the UK during the early 80s as a boy, Happy memories
My first car bought in Sept 1994 when I turned 17 was a 1979 Mini 1000 in vermillion (orangey red). That colour was available on Austin Morris cars between 1978 and 1982. I really wanted a Clubman Estate for the extra practicality but the conventional Mini met my needs. Besides, the estates were very thin on the ground by the 1990s. Early Metros were over my £500 budget! Or at least the ones for sale in my local area were.
Nice to spot you and Melvin at the Motor Show yesterday
Good memories! Our 850 Morris Mini with the magic wand shifter.
You are a complete nerd and I love it! The information you give is essential for any car enthusiast. Thanks for doing it!
I learnt to drive in a Java (green) Mini 1000 in 1980 with BSM (British School Of Motoring). It was identical to the ones in this brochure with the plain black steering wheel. It was a great car to learn in and I remember it was quite nippy. Like all FWD cars from BL it was quite difficult to get in to reverse. Looking at this has brought back many good memories.
@4:18 to 6:44 Yes, that is indeed a lovely example of a Clubman. I think the colour was Denim Blue metallic, as is the 1000 HL on the cover of your October 1980 brochure. We once owned a 1983 Mayfair in Opaline Green that had the same plastic wheel trims (A424GHF we adored that little car), and they stayed with the Mayfair (with the BL centre logo deleted after October 1983) until the October 1984 mk5 introduction with the front disc brakes and 12 inch wheels.
Ah, the luxury of an electric windscreen washer!
Decadence!
Hi Ed
Happy memories of my 1977 Mini 1000 in a rather bright Flamenco Red. As for the front of brochure car colour, looks like it could only be Sandglow. However, happy to be proved wrong by your viewers who are true Mini aficionados!
Mike
I agree I think its Sandglow as that was a brand new colour for the 1977/78 model year and I suspect it's either the exposure on the original photo or the printing process that makes it look more yellow.
I'm 99% sure it's Sandglow. There's no other period colour like it. It must be a photography/print thing!
I always the loved the 'neatness' of this version of the Mini....and the 1275GT was positively exotic in its day. Having said that, I knew someone who owned one and when it went in for repair she was given a bog standard Fiesta courtesy car - and didn't want her Mini 1275 back!!!! There's no accounting for taste. 🤣 Great video - as usual! 🙌
The Mini was probably much more fun in an 'Italian Job' sort of way but the then new Fiesta was a better and more grown up car in almost every way.
Absolutely loved this!!!!
I see the UK in the 70's had the scourge of "Bell Bottoms" just like here... A great watch as always. Stay safe, Stay strong......
Another excellent presentation!
I must say, while BL was emphasis was on mist function for the windscreen wipers, the Japanese had intermittent setting as standard in more upmarket versions. The same goes for the new Fiesta for 1978.
Cannot wait to see what improvements are mentioned in your next video!
Thanks mate :)
Japanese cars of the late 1970s were so well equipped. It's a shame they didn't keep up the effort once they had become established in Europe.
Great video Ed ! Love watching the history of BL evolve through the various brochures. I cannot understand why BL didn’t put a picture on the front of this brochure though seems like a total misstep.
Mini, yeah! Three of the models I've owned are in this brochure. The 1275GT, 1000 auto (mine was a later Mayfair though), and the clubman estate. I miss them lots! My 1275 had a few little mods, camshaft, intkae and exhaust manifold and a bigger carb. It shoved out around 70HP which was huge fun. Brilliant cars. If anyone out there hasn't driven one yet, just do it. There is nothing like a Mini.
Show of hands, all those who think BL would still be building cars if Ed was doing their marketing ✋
Hahahahaha
@@TwinCam, I thoroughly enjoy your videos, even the ones on sales information for cars that haven’t been available to buy “new” for 50+ Years, and I’m hoping, form the amount of research and time you put into producing each episode, that you get a kick out of it too.
Absolutely brilliant well done and well presented. Welcome back...best car ever ...I enjoy your videos
Thanks Robert :)
Brilliant vid. My first car in 1990 was a blue 1977 Mini Clubman. :)
The mini clubman in the brochure is denim blue, great video 👍
People have disliked this video. I can't understand that so I'll just assume it's big fingers on small screens.
A really interesting video, I’ve always loved the Mini
Love your brochure videos! 👌
My Dad has a brand new Mini in 1980 (automatic) before getting his first new Metro in 1983.
Superb. My absolute favourite car, the Mini. I own a 2012 Cooper S. Yes it is from BMW but it still has much of the original Mini’s “essence” in it. A friend owns a 1970 Classic Mini. And thats a very pretty car indeed.
Note that the lettering is further back along the door, on the yellow GT. For some reason. Maybe it was a one-off, which enabled this car to be photographed with the driver's door open and the lettering still legible. Take a look at the "Joy Ride" magazine advert for the 1275GT, as an example.
Well the coincidence is I am restoring a 1978 Mini 1000 and its original colour (underneath the later black paint) was Java Green. Its actually quite a nice colour and just that bit 'different'.
Not sure how you made the Leyland Brochure so interesting but you did. 👍
Great video. Have a Sep 1977 Mini 1000 with those details like the dipping mirror and eyeball face vents. I'm sure mine always had a chrome grille, wonder if it was changed before I bought it or BL were shipping whatever was in stock. Did sell the stripy seats for comfortable 80's ones though, much better shape base so did not regret that, they get a keen buyer. People assumed I'd upgraded the rear lights so must have been one of the first years with reversing lights. I always thought the Mini took well to 70's style and for me they look better that 60's ones.
Thanks Dave :)
1:55 - The sandy colour was called Inca I believe :D
Really liked this era of Mini and Clubman models
My sister ha a 1970 H reg clubman in turquoise many years ago
Great to see you back, TC, and loved the BL 'plughole of doom' quip. Memories of my L-reg Clubman that was a nice little car, as my first one owned, but I can't remember the dashboard instrumentation or whether the carpets were fitted.....!
Would have had carpet in the clubman and I think they had a two pack binnacle in front of the driver with fuel and temp gauges and a speedometer
I believe later clubman had a rev counter
Thanks Dave :)
All Clubmen had proper fitted carpets and the twin instrument binnacle fitted in front of the driver as seen here. The changes to the interior between 1969 and this brochure are the seats, steering wheel, and centre switch panel.
Great video! I'm pretty sure that colour is Sandglow. I have a sandglow 1979 1000 (with those stripy seats) and it looks that colour. Interesting that it had no passenger door mirror. Mine did, but it fell off, having been attached with rivnuts. Maybe it was aftermarket.
Thanks Ben :)
The blue Clubman`s colour would be Denim Blue metallic... As you say a lovely colour..
How big was the percentage of LHD Minis compared to the whole volume in the late 70s? And where were they mostly exported?
I have no idea, though I'm sure there will be some information on AROnline. That's an exceptional website.
Great video. I remember seeing the Mini at the Toronto International Auto Show when it was still in production. I think ours had the 1,273 cc engine. I do know they all had the round nose. The also all had 5 mile per hour safety bumpers on them. They also had different interiors, as head restraints were required beginning in 69. I would love to find a Canadian brochure to send to you so you could compare, as our cars were quite different.
As were your Marinas, badged as Austins in Canada I believe you only got the 1800 twin carb cars but the interiors were far superior to those in the U.K.
As an American, who almost never sees one of these cars, I find these kinds of videos interesting. And I've never understood why British people seem to love these ridiculously small and under powered cars so much. Maybe I can understand it when they first came out, but 30 and 40 years on?
I must say that in the town I was living in upstate New York quite a number of years ago, I spotted a classic Mini in red. It looked tiny! The only one I have spotted since!
@@frothe42 very few were ever sold in the United States. I think only in the late 60s. Presumably the one you saw must've been kept out of the snow or else it would have rusted away almost instantly
@@kevinbarry71 I think so! Saw it just that one time (Greenville, NY).
It’s a good question that I ask myself. I think the answer lies in the drive, they are so much fun to drive. Despite all the cars I have had the mini is still the one that brings an unstoppable smile when you drive one. I will never be without one. On paper they are low power yes, but you must remember they also weight very little so scamp along very well - especially around uk lanes. The motorsport history is also huge, as is the tuning culture. It’s a timeless design, like a Vespa, they look right parked down the pub, in a field or outside Buckingham palace. Don’t get me wrong however they are absolute rot boxes and need constant TLC but you always forgive them for the enjoyment they bring
@@steveguest6941 If I remember correctly, this is THE CAR that many in the UK 🇬🇧 could afford! Yes, it was small, but some village roads are quite narrow, even today! It could fit four adults in reasonable comfort.
Most of all, it gave the British public their freedom to explore their country, travel, get to and from work. It gave the country jobs. All of this, ten years after the war, when the UK rationed quite a lot, rebuilding after the war. Pent-up demand.
And now, the original Mini is a classic, with the new Mini Cooper becoming one soon!
I have a 77 Mini and it is Inca Yellow with the grey stripey seats.
Delighted to see your brochure videos back, a wonderful presentation of such a simple era in motoring.... bring it back.
Another well-presented brochure vid, Ed! Only you could make such ‘literature’ so interesting - complete with the occasional tongue in cheek.
As a language nerd, I found it interesting @ 7:41 that the œ ligature was still being used (in manœuvrable, second-last word in para #2). It’s not the level of orthography I’d expect to find in anything less than a Royce brochure (did Royces even have such promotional publications?).
Love your work!
Love the term “plug hole of doom” for the (L) for Leyland
Ah, about the reversing lights.
They did not all get them at the same time.
The 1000 and Clubman got them first, but the 850 never did and it's replacement, the "City", also had no reversing lights until the mid 80s.
Sexism was rife in 70’s! Love the brown velour seats. In 1977 I bought a yellow Vauxhall Chevette followed by a brown Renault 14 in 1979!
Really enjoyable vid Ed, keep them coming. What set up do you use to film the brochures?
Was the blue Denim Blue? The other does still look like Sandglow rather than Harvest Gold. And I don’t think it was that weird colour where it looked like they had a tin of Sandglow and one tin of Clove Brown which they had to mix to paint the whole car.
My 2006 R50 proudly flaunts 'Randalls of doom'; he has them stuck onto his quarter panels.
I don't know about the yellow colour I think it is probably Sandglow and it the exposure or the printing process that makes it look a bit off but the blue one was Astral Blue metallic. Interesting that in this brochure that it was only the Clubman and 1275GT that had inertia reel belts, I think it was at the motor show that year that they announced that the entire BL range would be fitted with retractable belts. I love the way that BL always showed the 1275GT shod Denovo run flat tyres, in my entire time working in the BL dealer network (1976-1991) I only ever saw two minis with these tyres fitted as they were quite an expensive option, the only other car in the range on which they were offered if memory serves was the Princess 2200 HLS and Special Six. As for those deckchair seats I seem to remember that Ford where the first to use them in the Mk1 Fiesta S models, BL obviously thought that was a good idea because they fitted them across the Austin Morris and MG range with the exception to the Princess if I remember correctly. Please keep these reviews of seventies brochures coming as they bring back happy memories for me as an apprentice in the BL dealer network.
Nice review. From memory the original Cooper had more bhp than the 1275GT all these years later?
You are absolutely right, the only reason they stopped making the Cooper was because BL refused to pay John Cooper (who developed the original performance minis) the royalties for using his name on the car, realising they still needed a performance variant BL designed the 1275GT in house but it was a lot softer than the Cooper and was never quite as good.
I thought my Russet Brown Mini 850cc 1978S was an Austin? Mine had a Chrome Grille.
Those are plastic wheel covers on the Clubman???
'12 month warranty, and pay for the option of a 2nd year'
I forgot how bad car warranties were back then.
Love the mini
Good video, I remember the Java colour being very popular. So if the husband got the Rover SD1 and the wife the Mini Clubman, who got the Allegro? My money is on the dog.
That's definitely not sandglow my mom had a 78 T reg mini clubman in sandglow when we were kids. Sandglow was a darker shade loved that little car wished id got it now
rode in a Mini ~1978
@4:22 No sexism just photos of two good cars, his wife has her own car and nice house because her husband has a good salary, probably a company director.
Inca yellow
That bland steering wheel design was truly awful - and they even put it on the top of the range 1275GT!
Your comment about the male executive with his Rover 3500 & wife with the more "easily manageable" Mini was uncalled for. Of course today we would have to have a "mixed race" family or "same sex" couple in the literature to pass the diversity test: but I assume from your earlier comment this is acceptable to you.
It's a societal observation, Gary. Don't get so het up. I'm imagining by your bringing up of something not completely related that representation in advertising annoys you?
I enjoy your videos...but can you please stop with the "woke" virtue signalling...the 70s were great.
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@@TwinCam It's not your fault. It is just the way you have been brought up (loosely termed educated)...and all the soya in the modern diet.
Sorry, I genuinely thought you were kidding.
The 1970s in the UK, by anybody's standards, were pretty terrible. Limited power availability, rocketing energy prices, inflation regularly above 20%, huge industrial action, and civil unrest. I enjoy many of the 1970s products, whether they be the cars, fashion, music, or culture, but to say the '70s were great is a massive case of rose-tinted glasses.
Also though, what does your second comment mean? It's difficult to understand.