When I found what seems to be the only Codford Mini remaining back in 2009 (three were built between 1966 and 1967 - full story in Maximum Mini 2), the owner told me some amusing tales about the car, which he'd bought in 1969 including its moulds and manufacturing rights from Codford Motors. One of them has always intrigued me. He said he once had a stash of large and high quality pictures of the car, presumedly taken by a professional photographer and very nice they must have been. He lost them at one point and has never seen them back. He said he wouldn't believe someone would ever throw these away. I never came across the photographs, but was sent a sketchy copy of a Codford image recently. It's the black and white one below. Could it be a copy of one of the photos mentioned..? I still hope to find them one day.
Could this be a bad copy of one of the missing Codford Mini 'glamour photographs'?
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1967 Codford Motor Body Works letterhead showed what they could do to your Mini
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Snapshot of one of the three cars made. BPR 2B was based on an 850 Mini and scrapped later
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Other car was red and supposedly Cooper 'S' based. Registration 31 TKT. Could it survive?
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