This article is exclusively written by and copyright ©2025 of Ian Beaton and Richard Pengelly jointly, with all rights reserved and cannot be copied or reproduced in any form without their permission, but has been featured in the Mini Cooper Register monthly magazine Cooperworld. Chapter 1: Introduction Working on the basis of two heads are better […]
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Rover Mini SPi and MPi This article is exclusively written by and copyright ©2025 of Ian Beaton and Richard Pengelly jointly, with all rights reserved and cannot be copied or reproduced in any form without their permission but was featured in the Mini Cooper Register monthly magazine Cooperworld. Chapter 1: Introduction This is another joint article […]
During and after covid a lot of standard small and large bore heads plus rare large bore heads emerged as owners seemed to dig out forgotten or stored cylinder heads, but since 2022- there seems to be a levelling of prices requested by sellers except some who claim misleading facts and ask for high prices […]
This book has 495 pages with 486 pages of text including many great quality photos, illustrations and useful charts. This is not a rehash of the usual stories about Mini, Cooper, Cooper S, or 1275 GT stories seen before, or a retelling of Longbridge articles. Instead, Mini Regards explores the unique production story of South African Minis […]
Mini Spares Centre’s 50th birthday celebration party was brought forward to 23rd August to cover the disastrous cancellation of the August 2025 planned International Mini Meet at Laughton show ground in East Sussex. Mini Spares recognising the fact that many customers from the all over the world who had made travel and accommodation arrangements and […]
August 1959 the mini was shown to the world by Tony Ball dressed as a magician producing a Mini out of a giant top hat to the tune of “that old black magic” and with the mist from the dry ice clearing he waved his magic wand with something new coming out of the mini […]
Fitting and removal of rivet The plates were held on by a Hammer Drive Screw — that is to say a screw that is fitted by using a hammer into an interference-fit hole. They are threaded, although the block is not. If you want to remove, do not chisel off and hope to drill out […]
A few years back when writing the article on A series cylinder head types I added the 8 port cast iron head as designed by Eddie Maher and Harry Weslake. Eddie Maher was well known at Morris Engines and in the tuning world as he was instrumental in the Sebring and Le Mans Sprites using […]
The Cooper S 4.5″x10″ Dunlop wheel 21A1286 (LP883) was an optional extra introduced for the Cooper S MK1 and painted in Old English White (WT3). The same option available for Mk2/3 was painted Dover Grey (GR34). This wheel was made to fit over the 7.5″ disc and S caliper with the extra inch being internal […]
What is new old stock parts? New old stock refers to original parts made and sold by the manufacturer when the vehicle was still in production. The Mini had many distinguishing change points over its lifetime and restorers or owners look for the exact original replacement which might not be readily available new any longer […]