January 3, 2004:

“The Ultimate History Of The Mini” video

Sheila and Paul, friends of mine back in England, sent me a DVD called “The Ultimate History of The Mini” (published through Marks & Spencer). I could not find it online, and since it is PAL format it is not useful to most of my American friends - but it is a good DVD with some excellent video of the classic Mini, including loads of Minis and some MINIs on the 2003 London To Brighton Mini run.
I used PowerDVD to capture some screenshots and put them on a Mini Ultimate History gallery page - maybe I will do some more if there is any interest.
There are some good sequences of classic Minis being driven around:

There are also some shots of heavily modified Minis like this one, called MiniMini:

There is a short sequence on the design of the new MINI, which includes this picture where we see a MINI Convertible concept on-screen:

Go to the gallery for a few more pictures …
(February 1 update: I found the same DVD, with slightly different cover design, on Amazon.co.uk (in PAL format of course, so not suitable for most American viewers).