tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7504395159942147195.post2163702495692304449..comments2024-03-26T19:29:20.784+00:00Comments on Maximum Mini: Broadspeeds in SpainMaximum Minihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17278829448628021729noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7504395159942147195.post-60005669668165220902014-08-15T09:42:09.192+01:002014-08-15T09:42:09.192+01:00Yes, that's the car, a nice survivor, not a tr...Yes, that's the car, a nice survivor, not a trailer queen, but regularly used.<br />The seat in the car was from a Broadspeed Anglia.<br />And no, he is not selling :(Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7504395159942147195.post-12969245705957103882014-08-15T09:08:49.155+01:002014-08-15T09:08:49.155+01:00Was that the car from this report: http://www.maxi...Was that the car from this report: http://www.maximummini.blogspot.nl/2014/06/updates-from-antipodes.html , by any chance?Maximum Minihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17278829448628021729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7504395159942147195.post-71623708257508216552014-08-15T08:46:41.979+01:002014-08-15T08:46:41.979+01:00I came across car 28 in New Zealand in July 2014. ...I came across car 28 in New Zealand in July 2014. <br />The gentleman who owns it says it is the original colour, can't remember the exact name of the colour, (it looked Burgundy) but he said it was the same as the Rolls Royce colour of the time Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7504395159942147195.post-39479704459540245412012-02-22T11:38:47.186+00:002012-02-22T11:38:47.186+00:00Anglias, of course. But let me quote from an inter...Anglias, of course. But let me quote from an interview Broad gave in 1996: "(...) Then I got pissed off by the BMC team. After we'd won at the Nurburgring they sent me a bonus cheque for 5 pounds. We were out to win the championship at another meeting and we were leading the race by half a lap when suddenly my driver slowed down and started waving to the crowd. The works car won the race and the championship as a result. My driver had been promised a works drive if he threw the race, so he did. I was furious." Ford's Henry Taylor heard all this hoo-hah in the paddock and came over and asked me if I'd like to run Fords in the next year."Maximum Minihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17278829448628021729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7504395159942147195.post-33602155528020479212012-02-22T10:42:17.775+00:002012-02-22T10:42:17.775+00:00"but when his racing team switched from Minis..."but when his racing team switched from Minis to Escorts, BMC was not amused and immediately stopped the colaboration"<br />Sorry but it was the other way around, the Broadspeed cars won to mutch as opposed to the Cooper team and BMC ended the relationship forcing Broad to go to Ford Anglia's not EscortsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com