Customer Reviews

Mini-Cooper: The Cars and Their Story, 1961-1971 and 1990 To Date (Essential Series)

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If you are buying a Mini Cooper, read this book first, read it again, check out the Mini you want to buy and read the book one more time. I bought my Mini first but would have made a different choice if I studied a bit more.

This is also a good book for reference for restoration or just facts about the car.I would say this book, along with a few others, is important in ones collection of Mini books.

The Book's title is in fact quite true to its content, in that it only contains the essential facts about the Cooper.

The Cooper's development is quite well detailed, and this makes the book ideal for the enthusiast seeking his first book about the Mini Cooper.

Mini restorers however, need to go into much greater detail than what this book can ever offer.

Pictorially, the book is well-illustrated, though mainly in black and white. There is a slight imbalance towards Austin Cooper models in the pictures, as few Morris Coopers actually feature.

However, the book remains a great addition to the shelves of those who want an entertaining read about the Mini Cooper story, in its production and competition guises, and merits a place on the bookshelf, in the company of other books about the Mini.

This book has just what you need for a person who is constantly on the run. It provides pictures that demonstrate the appeal of the mini's. It provides a short chronological history of the 30+ years reign of the mini's. But, best of all (again for those always on the run) it's short enough to be a quick reference, yet long enough to give its reader a whole rounded experience of the mini's plight.

For those younger or others who may be interested in the history of the Mini Coopers, this is an excellent book for your overall history. In the 1960s I raced a Morris Cooper 970S with success.
For any Mini Cooper enthusiast, this is a book you must have.

This book is a good starting point for anyone interested in a Mini - especially the older versions of the car.

There are many good pictures throughout and it is an adequate reference material.

This is not exactly a book to help in preparing a Mini for concours and it is a little weak as a restoration guide. There are better books out there if that is your objective.

Overall, this book provides a concise history of this car and a lot of useful and interesting information.

This is typical of many auto marque books. It's a step by step, fact by fact, history of the Mini, with what feature changed when sorts of details.

What it's not is that it's not a guide on what to look for if you're going to buy one and it's not filled with enough photos to use as an authenticity guide or concours preparation guide.

great boook for anyone interested in the cooper minis, spells out what a cooper is, remember, not every mini is a true cooper!

good read if you want the cliff notes to mini coopers history, quick read, tells the entire story with a few pages, nothing in depth, just the basics, its a good gift.

I wasn't expecting much but was very pleasantly surprised with this book. It has a lot of technical detail, but is also written as a very interesting story about the history of the mini. (I couldn't put it down). The author seems truly knowledgeable and interested in the mini, and gives great anecdotes to keep it interesting. Great pictures too. If you are interested in buying a mini and don't know much about them, this is well worth it.

This book is typical of the "Essential" series of marque history's and as a result is the most economical way to get a great overview (and lots of details, too) on these great cars. Informative, interesting text well illustrated with development and production photos in both black and white and many in color. Competition cars, and nice shots of Abingdon's tuning department at the MG factory where all of BMC's racing cars were prepared. You will not be disappointed.