Classic Minis, London to Brighton 2022

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I had no idea this event was going to start 3 miles from my house , I saw a sign directing the cars on a road 1 mile from my house yesterday , so looked it up and went back down there this morning and watched for 2 hours as many many cars passed
by .

I have many many pics ,not a single 1 of a BMW Mini ,I needed to save memory card space for the old cars .

















This will take all night to post ,my internet and lap top are painfully slow .
If you think some of these are poor quality , the pics I rejected are worse !

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Innocenti Mini , looks like Mini ,made by Italians , odd number plate and another just up there ^^^

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You can tell by the length of time between my posts how long this is taing ,i literally cannot go any faster and have lost the will to live again . finish off some other time . Loads more pics to come .

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evoivboy said:

Great pics

Thanks , my new fave pics are the first with the long line of near identical green cars .

I tried to capture all the unusual types , estates , vans ,pickups , customs , kit cars , missed a pair of Mini Marcoses
travelling together , Innocentis , there was plenty of European registered cars , saw Belgian , German and Dutch ,
there may have been others .
There was a whole line of Mokes too ,pics to come yet .








Full size version of a Matchbox car I believe .











I need more encouragement and enthusiasm to finish this .

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and orange cars .

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Uploading a little faster but that's all I have time for now ,more later .

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dandarez said:

I'd have also sat there and watched that lot too, even though I'm more an Imp fan.
Just joy and fun, something that's been missing for the last couple crap years.

ps
Your remark about 'not a single BMW Mini' is wrong though, I've spotted several in your pics!

They were photo bombing my pics of classics .

I was hoping for a 3 abreast round the large roundabout but why would anyone do that on an unfamiliar road ?

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Where I was standing was at the start of the locally infamous mad mile , a straight dual carriageway of 0.9 mile ,

some of the modded BMW versions mostly gave it all the beans ,to the other end where they had to turn left towards

Purley .

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Electric shorty , even less room for batteries than a standard size car .







My mother had a white car identical to this , she died in it ,in 1973 .
Seems like a good place to stop again .

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These 4 went missing from the OP .







My fave Moke pic ,looks so original .

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NotNormal said:

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Great pics. This is me giving you a wave

Good fun event, just a shame that most of the day was wet down in Brighton which puts a damper on activities don there. I still managed 2nd in the show and shine though

The waving , smiles , thumbs up , the hooting and light flashing really brightened up my day .....

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Only 2 or 3 more posts required to finish this .

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more orange ,orange is good .

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and lastly



this and 2 others spotted at the other end of the mad mile whilst walking home , seem to be doing their own thing not
on the prescribed run route ....

Every picture posted .less the rejects .

Cars were passing from just before 8am until about 10am .

I managed to salvage 2 car flags that didn't make it further than 2 miles from the start ,must have been many more strewn over Surrey and West Sussex on the drive down .

As I mentioned earlier , I am very grateful to all those that acknowledged the sad photographer at the roundabout , it lessened the depression being suffered ,for just a short while .

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Thanks for the info , I got only 3 Moke pics ,there was loads more of them but impossible to capture all of them
with such a slow camera that needs time between photos .