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jfl99
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Very nice, Martin. Thanks for the photos everyone.
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 This is the grey/grey/black that was at MMW 2007, very nice.  Martin.
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66coop
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So I guess if you made a movie about racing back in the day, you had to own a Mini:-) James Garner — check Steve McQueen — check
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The best paint job I've see for quite some time was at MMW last year. Two tone grey & pinstriped in black - I believe it was a panel van. If I remember I'll shoot some pics to this thread tonight. Martin.
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Hoser Dave
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Here's mine. Much like the one that Rockford is in I see! 72 Mini 1000
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 Here is a shot of mine. Ralph already put up one shot. This is another angle. I had a pin stripe done to join the two colors.
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jfl99
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elpez, you were right. Found the car on the site. Silver over black. Very nice looking. Different but not "odd". Looks right. Thanks.
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jfl99
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Thanks for the photos, guys. And Garner's car even has what look like Mambas...like I have. Or are they Revs? Did they make Revs back then?
Friend of mine who was editor of both Car Life and Road & Track back in those days interviewed both Garner (since he was with "his" racing team) and Steve McQueen (about the time of Bullett) and was very dissappointed by both of their attitudes which mostly upset me about McQueen. They both jerked my friend around quite a bit and came off as less than great people. What did I expect, right?
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GoldieDon
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 ****** Another reason to love Jimmy, he's a Morris guy. I know what you mean Latka, I had to watch The Great Escape for the 457th time.
Cheers Don " sometimes it's tougher to look than to leap "
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Seems like several Radfords were painted that way, and depending on the color combo, looked good. When I was stationed at Charleston AFB back in the early eighties, there was a guy on base that imported a Mini with a really weird paint scheme. His car was an orange/red with the area above the beltline painted black, but the roof was the body colour. Looked like a bloody Raccoon. To make matters worse, he put an aluminum eagle that was designed by "Home Interiors" in the middle of the grille. Oh yeah, the entire car was painted with spray cans. What a mess that thing was. If anyone knows the car, I hope it fell into good hands and was saved from "Eddie"!
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Cheese~
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some one should do a rasta colored mini, red bottom, yellow middle at that line, then green roof.
that would be pretty cool  Go drive a mini 
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Latka
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Great, now the Rockford Files theme song is running through my head again.  John (Jon?) from CHiPs... he had a gold MK1 S right?
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GoldieDon
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 ***** If it's good enough for Jimmy Garner, it's good enough for me. I've always liked the look.
Cheers Don " sometimes it's tougher to look than to leap "
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elpez
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There's a local mini painted silver over black, it may be in the minis of miami site, member's minis. Not my cup of tea
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jfl99
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I was thinking black over medium to dark grey (anthrocite?) with black hood and large black stripe on boot and black flares with dark wheels.
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I had a friend that did just that.Silver over dark grey.If I can find some pics I will post them up.I never really cared for it but of course it wasn't my car.  www.caninecollective.org looking for a dog go to a rescue!
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Latka
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I've never seen one in person, but i've seen photos of a few different ones. I think it'd look pretty sharp especially if you picked chrome friendly colors and then used the (Hornet?) strip of chrome around that same crease.
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Posted: May-07-2008 11:01AM
Edited: May-04-2008 05:28PM
