I've got my mini's home :)

Last weekend I managed to get things lined up to move my mini's home here from the other house . I'd been waiting for a chance when I didn't have the boys here but also my ex wife and the boys weren't home so the boys weren't there to see the mini's moving (post separation is a minefield with young kids , they loved seeing the mini's here this weekend but if they had seen me removing them from the other house it would have been upsetting for them) . It took pretty much the whole weekend loading and unloading and of course it rained the whole time ....

1963 sports850 ,


1970 Mini K shell (12th month 1970 , same as my birthday) ,


1968 mini blind (windowless) van ,


the three of them in a double garage ...


1971 Nota Type IV (Fang) ,


1981 Moke Californian 1275cc ,


and how tightly they all fitted into a double garage ...




Just how tight a fit , the moke's front bar is pushing out on the roller door , it's rear bar is hard up against the Fang's rear wheels and the nose is off the fang and the front of the chassis is hard up against the cupboard at the end of the garage ,



Some of the sales posters I grabbed too , got to build a 6m by 3m shed in the back yard now just for the models (900 or so I think , I've lost count again ....) and other memorabilia , then extend the garage so I have room to work on the big mini's .

Awesome collection mate, love the pigmy rooter!

the sports 850 is a rare one these's days.