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

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

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Raymond Baxter presents a celebration of one of Britain's most beloved and enduring motorcars, the Mini. Originally designed by Alec Issigonis as an affordable vehicle for short journeys, the Mini quickly became an unlikely hit with movie stars, racing drivers and even royalty, it has also garnered a strong following among the car-modding community.
Contributors include Peter Sellers, Lord Snowdon, Sir Donald Stokes and John Cooper.
These clips are taken from The Mini, originally broadcast 28 August, 1979.
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@fburton8 10 ай бұрын

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

@scooped85 10 ай бұрын

Intresting ! Especially the cooper interview.

@secretagentbloke 10 ай бұрын

My first car, and I still have it 👍🏻

@fidelcatsro6948 10 ай бұрын

Congratulations 😼👍

@MrHeMan1001 10 ай бұрын

Same!

@hilaryepstein6013 10 ай бұрын

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

@BOABModels 10 ай бұрын

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.

@RobinTheMini 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for the attention 😊

@biscayforex4317 10 ай бұрын

🤩

@simmadpaul2880 10 ай бұрын

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.

@BOABModels 10 ай бұрын

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.

@makara80 10 ай бұрын

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 10 ай бұрын

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

@Jack_Warner 10 ай бұрын

How lovely to see a professional broadcaster, the late Raymond Baxter. Compared with the airheads we have today.

@derekogilvie6942 10 ай бұрын

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

@OlafProt 10 ай бұрын

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 10 ай бұрын

The penny Mini still exists today!!

@fidelcatsro6948 10 ай бұрын

Wow

@Car_and_classic_lover 10 ай бұрын

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

@Car_and_classic_lover 10 ай бұрын

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

@pit_stop77 10 ай бұрын

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

@4seeableTV 10 ай бұрын

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

@thetimetraveller6550 10 ай бұрын

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

@garrylawless3550 10 ай бұрын

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.

@fidelcatsro6948 10 ай бұрын

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 9 ай бұрын

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!

@dronespace 10 ай бұрын

Great video!

@buickadelaide1283 10 ай бұрын

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

@joebryant5722 10 ай бұрын

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 10 ай бұрын

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

@NTRSN-Archive 10 ай бұрын

British Leyland mini 1200 special my first car .

@biscayforex4317 10 ай бұрын

1100 Special

@user-ec9dh2oh5e 3 ай бұрын

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

@classlessbozo317 10 ай бұрын

Trading up to the Allegro, Marina and Princess…

@omarnour348 10 ай бұрын

Jeremy Clarkson rolling around on the floor 😂

@shingitai5882 10 ай бұрын

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 10 ай бұрын

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

@markwiles3485 10 ай бұрын

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

@brucenicoll4373 10 ай бұрын

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

@siwynjones 10 ай бұрын

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

@succulent951 10 ай бұрын

takes one to know one i guess

@siwynjones 10 ай бұрын

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

@succulent951 10 ай бұрын

@@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

@TinLeadHammer 10 ай бұрын

A smart car that killed British Leyland. Interesting, they show a hatchback version, I thought Minis were sedans.

@suffolkngood 10 ай бұрын

It was a Radford conversion ( coachbulders).

@themightyimp08 10 ай бұрын

The unions, inflation, the Allegro and the princess killed Leyland, as well as being a nationalised industry that was terribly run with loads of waste. Then they partnered with Honda (213, Ballade) and it got worse from there

@TinLeadHammer 10 ай бұрын

@@themightyimp08 They said they were losing money on every Mini. So I guess they have never been profitable.

@danyoutube7491 10 ай бұрын

@@TinLeadHammer I don't think he said they were losing money until later on when they were having to pay royalties to John Cooper, though even then John Cooper suggests the royalty was small and perhaps it comes down to what Stokes said earlier in the film, that they always wanted to move away from it because the profit margin was small.

@themightyimp08 10 ай бұрын

@@TinLeadHammer nah, they made money on the minis, and the mini paid for the factory. It was ford who couldn't work out how it made a profit. They also got good money in the franchise deals of the spares centres, so had many revenue streams.

@markeyhendrix 10 ай бұрын

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 10 ай бұрын

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!