#minimark

#Repost @autoaventura ・・・ Muito mais que um sujeito bastante atrapalhado, protagonista de gafes homéricas e responsável por gargalhadas mundo afora, @mrbean tornou-se conhecido também por dirigir um carro minúsculo na série de televisão que rodou o planeta. O @mini Mark III amarelo ‘Citron’ – que hoje é parte da coleção @bmw Group Classic – foi dirigido pelo ator e entusiasta de carros Rowan Atkinson em seu papel como Mr. Bean, na série de comédia britânica homônima. Desde seu lançamento (1959) o Mini tornou-se autor de novas tendências. Com sua enorme popularidade, o Mini fez várias aparições em filmes de Hollywood e encontrou seu lugar na garagem de estrelas do showbiz. O Mini destacado na série foi desenvolvido em 1974 e ficou famoso ao participar de um total de 14 episódios filmados entre 1989 e 1995, nos quais o personagem interpretado por Atkinson teve várias aventuras e quase acidentes ao volante do distinto Mini amarelo com capô preto. O modelo é equipado com um motor de 4 cilindros de 1.0L com uma potência de apenas 34 cv. Ele também tinha um volante escamoteável e um cadeado, vitais para que o Mr. Bean nunca se separasse de seu “melhor amigo” de quatro rodas. #mini #minimark #bmw #bmwgroup #mrbean #rowanatkinson #england #uk #greatbritain #london #london🇬🇧 #tv #tvseries #comedy #comedyshow #humor #car #cars #television #autoaventura (em Santos, Sao Paulo, Brazil) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEDDh3Mg0Pc/?igshid=8v001i1czsz1

The first “neo classic” was really Brooks Stevens’ 1964 Excalibur - Studebaker based and meant to mimic a 1928 Mercedes SSK, the Excalibur was the first real dedicated (limited) production car to blend retro styling and modern mechanicals. The same year saw Glenn Pray’s Cord 8/10, a scaled-down but convincing fiberglass replica of the 1936 Cord 810. This pair of cars spawned many imitators - from Auburn IIs to Zimmers, either replica attempts or new takes on classic styling. One of these, on the more affordable end, was the #MiniMark of Bremen (that’s Bremen, Indiana, not Germany). - The Mini Mark blends a pair of 1960s/70s automotive microcultures - it’s a Neoclassic and a VW-based fiberglass special. With cheap and reliable VW donor cars everywhere in the 1960s, many specialists offered fiberglass bodies fitted to VW bones. The tale starts around 1965 when DeWayne Creighton and Omar Hostetter began building VW-based dune buggies in 1965 with fiberglass tubs shipped in from California. With dune buggy VW conversions like the Meyers Manx very popular, the partners soon expanded Bremen Motor Sport Co. and began building their own fiberglass shells. They built several different VW-based cars - the Citation dune buggy, the Nova-like Sebring sports car, the Mini Mark, the Maxi Taxi (a bigger Mini Mark) and the Creighton (a bigger and costlier Neoclassic). - Most VW-based specials were kits only, but the Mini Mark could be ordered as a kit or a finished car, and it used a modified frame - not just a straight Beetle chassis. Externally, it was meant to wrap together elements of the Lincoln MkIII and MG TD. The result, marketed as “a Personal/Luxury kit car.” Power came from VW flat fours in various states of tune, which could make the cars quite fast, various cloth or different fiberglass tops were optional. - The Mini Mark was one of a slew of such cars introduced in the late 1960s and early 1970s 1930s retro trends were all over the place - including full VW-based MG TD replicas and the all-metal Siata Spring; but in the early 1980s the trend began to fade. After building more than 400 Mini Marks, Bremen stopped making cars in 1984.  https://www.instagram.com/p/B4F4lo7lCB0/?igshid=ya4dqoo70iks