Just Wrong . . .

[Jared Mk3]

Can't seem to get the picture here, but a Mk3 that's had a half roof chop . . . No!!

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[Boyscout]

Noooooooo!

[Vinay-RS]

Oh geez. This doesn't work. There is a mk3 beach car and that looks pretty decent. This just looks like another bodged up custom

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This one:

[Miniac]

That beach car was designed by Mr Issigonis himself

[Vinay-RS]

That beach car was designed by Mr Issigonis himself

I did not know that. Did he design the mk1 based beach car as well?

[Jared Mk3]

Not a Mk3 Beach Car that, rather a 'prototype' for the Elf/Hornet made in about 1960 or so. Here's a build thread for it : CLICKY .

And a picture of how it was found :

[Vinay-RS]

Thanks for sharing that build thread Jared. Lovely attention to detail on that build.

[Jared Mk3]

Cool It is a rather special car that one.

[Miniac]

There was another one overseas that was found lying in a scrap yard and the guy bought it for next to nothing, I think there are only 3 or 4 known Beach cars around.

[gweir]

I never new about the Mini Beach. 

   

http://maximummini.blogspot.co.za/2014/0...n.html?m=1

"With only fourteen made the chances of bumping upon a Mini based Beach car are limited, but visitors of the Quail Lodge in California will see one on 15th of August this year, when one of them comes up for auction. According to Bonhams auctioneers' description 13 of the Beach cars were left hand driven and 'went to destinations in the United States, where they would serve as dealer and distributor promotional vehicles to promote the North American introduction of the new Mini'. Thirteen seems a bit of an exaggeration to me but fact is that this one came that way. It was used for promotion by San Francisco based Austin concessionaire Kjell Qvale. He kept it at his ranch and had it painted dark green at one stage before giving it to a friend named Keith Simon at around 2000. Simon started a restoration before selling it to Robert Forbes in 2007. It's now in its original Surf Blue once more. Unfortunately the original wicker seats, made by Lloyd Loom of Spalding have disappeared and have ben replaced by standard Mini seats with wickeresque fabric. Beach car owner John Reymondos wrote to me: "From personal experience, they are not comfortable at all, so that might be the reason…" He had Lloyd Loom made new ones for his car a couple of years ago, so they may do that again for this one - if you have the money left. The estimate is a whopping $70 - 90,000. That's £41 - 53,000. Worth it or completely over the top?"