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I'm not too sure that John Cooper had much to do with Mini Coopers at all, apart from loaning the name and a little bit of "specialising" in the early days. It's said he persuaded Issigonis to build a perfomance car and that may be right, and Cooopers did use BMC engines in smoe of their racing cars until the 105E Ford & Cosworth blew them away, but it probabyl woudl have happened anyway. BMC comps was quite capable of tuning a Mini. Probably the fact that Copper were F1 champions of '59 and '60 had more to do with it than anything.

As for which way round - probably whatever they thought sounded best. Lotus Cortina, Mini-Cooper, whatever!
 
bcliff said:
WhatsThatNoise said:
BIBBER said:
It would definitely be a draw at any US British car events.
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I'd walk right past any new Austin Martin to check it out. :thumbsup:
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Just being nitpicky here(curse my OCD!), but would that be the same as an ASTON MARTIN? I don't think Lionel Martin ever had an association with Austin. One of those things that pop up in conversation, being an Austin owner. I also seem to spend a lot of time explaining why the car is a Mini, but not a Cooper.
Bruce
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No, that's Austin Martian - the prices are out of this world......
 
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