1979: The MINI at 20 | The Mini | Retro Transport | BBC Archive

[@fburton8]

One of the great classic presenters of the 20th century.

[@scooped85]

Intresting ! Especially the cooper interview.

[@RobinTheMini]

Thank you for the attention 😊

[@biscayforex4317]

🤩

[@secretagentbloke]

My first car, and I still have it 👍🏻

[@fidelcatsro6948]

Congratulations 😼👍

[@MrHeMan1001]

Same!

[@hilaryepstein6013]

One of the great classic designs of the 20th century, although I never knew there was actually a Mr Cooper.

[@BOABModels]

Charles and his son John Cooper ran the Cooper car company. Before the Mini they won the F1 World Championship double in 1959 and '60 so they were very accomplished.

[@simmadpaul2880]

My sister had a Mini named Freddie. In fact every car she's owned since has been called Freddie. We went to I think it must have been the 30th anniversary at Silverstone. It was then the largest gathering of minis ever held. We parked up on the circuit. For a good hour on the way back pretty much every vehicle on the road was a mini. Great day.

[@TCHorwood-xq7mw]

The thing about Mini shows is that there's almost as much to see in the car park as the show itself.

[@BOABModels]

It's not surprising that the Mini Cooper is now more famous than the Cooper car company which came before it. The Cooper stripes which are now so common on Mini bonnets were actually first added to the British racing green Cooper F1 cars to help differentiate them from the other British teams on the circuit.

[@derekogilvie6942]

This is AMAZING to view for any mini enthusiast! THANK YOU!!!

[@Car_and_classic_lover]

Amazing video! I've never seen this before. Interesting to see the different interviews!

[@OlafProt]

Quite remarkable that Peter Sellers did this. He rarely if ever showed “himself” to a camera. He was close friends with Lord Snowden who perhaps convinced him to do this .Dreadful how he really did age so suddenly. His heart was never going to let him make old bones.

[@dean6816]

The penny Mini still exists today!!

[@fidelcatsro6948]

Wow

[@Car_and_classic_lover]

Yes! I saw it on display at the Royal Mint in the UK👍

[@pit_stop77]

My first car was a 1974 mini 1000, i loved it and adorned it with many many accessories 😂

[@4seeableTV]

I'll bet those sketches would be quite valuable today.

[@thetimetraveller6550]

The "Mini" Defined the true British🇬🇧 car nothing will ever beat it for looks just 100% style it will always be "The True Classic"...

[@makara80]

Sad to see the once razor sharp Peter Sellers visibly ailing here - he would have barely a year to live when this feature was originally transmitted… 😔

[@tomleader7054]

He does seem to have blocked sinuses doesn't he?

[@garrylawless3550]

Excellent, I've never seen this before and I've watched hundreds of car shows! Was this the full episode? If not any plans to post the full length episode? Thank you.

[@dronespace]

Great video!

[@fidelcatsro6948]

We should get a rich businessman to remake the classic Mini Cooper body fitted with the current modern low emission inline turbo 3 cylinder engines today😼👍

[@daviddesert3132]

But you can build one from scratch.....new bodyshells are built and all parts are available....but....it would cost more than a 30k... you can get a good mk1 cooper s for 40k-50k!

[@buickadelaide1283]

CHEERS TO SIR ALEX ISSIGONIS ,,THE GREEK INVENTOR N DESIGNER OF THE BRITISH ICON CAR , THE MINI.

[@joebryant5722]

4 in our family over 15/20yrs. Sunshine yellow 1978 1000, Metallic green Mayfair 1983, then I got a royal blue 1980 city and finally I had a cream coloured 1986 Mayfair. have had bigger 'better' cars including SAAB, Skoda etc. Never been truly happy driving since not being in a Mini🙁

[@succulent951]

We've had a 1983 metallic green (opaline) Mayfair in our family since new!

[@ChromosomeSyndicate]

British Leyland mini 1200 special my first car .

[@biscayforex4317]

1100 Special

[@shingitai5882]

I miss the days when we had BBC presenter’s like Raymond Baxter. I am sick and tired of the tattooed ex-footballers, the children of pop star’s, minor sports people, friends of comics, bad ex researchers or worst of all ex-models.

[@siwynjones]

I miss the days when people commenting on KZbin videos knew how to use apostrophes. Progress, eh?

[@markwiles3485]

Great at motorsport except for the one that didn’t move at 5:05.

[@DavidSkidmore-e5t]

"Trade up to a allegro marina" oh mr stokes really!!!!!!!!!!

[@classlessbozo317]

Trading up to the Allegro, Marina and Princess…

[@omarnour348]

Jeremy Clarkson rolling around on the floor 😂

[@brucenicoll4373]

Great car for the wife to pick me up from the pub drunk

[@markeyhendrix]

It was Definitely the best small car in the world then they fkd it up by turning it into a BMW tank. Nothing Mini about those cars! Absolute travesty

[@finncarlbomholtsrensen1188]

It was an absurdly horrible built car!!! As an owner of a new 1966 Mini, it leaked in water, also from the corners of the frontscreen!!! The door frames I had to bend in with my knees in between the body, to make the window frame meet the rubber sealing, and don't leave anything in the large door-boxes that couldn't stand becoming wet! Because a faulty degreasing method the paint round the outside hinges left the plate and don't drive close to a car in front, during rain, because the engine then would cut! Its frontal area was like a minor lorry, when driving through the wind. And the long gearstick in the bottom was only slightly able to hit the gears and first gear wasn't synchronized! The wipers had to be stopped manually at the bottom of the front screen! I liked it then, because it was my first car, but never more an English car, ever!

[@siwynjones]

Iconic? Yes. Heap of junk? Totally. Fondly remembered by those who never had the misfortune to ever have to travel in one.

[@succulent951]

takes one to know one i guess

[@siwynjones]

@@succulent951 They were not heaps of junk? A well made, reliable, and comfortable car, eh?

[@succulent951]

​@@siwynjones yes, quite reliable. the 'a series' engine is pretty robust & easily serviceable. a thoroughly ingenious design, so inherently quite well made. Like most early cars, early ones can rust from the ground up. Mid 90s Mercedes levels of rust are only found on later 90s Minis as BMC was dying Our 1983 Mayfair with 10" wheels and standard rubber cones (not even the later enhanced ones) has a surprisingly soft, smooth ride. Seats improved over the years, but unfortunately weren't a priority. The roar from the 998cc engine is my other negative

[@Randomyoutubeaccount10p]

Mr bean car

[@biscayforex4317]

and 5.000.000 other's too...