Classic Minis!

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 02/18/2014 at 17:33 • Filed to: mini

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!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! assembled a great collection of pictures of classic Minis. If somebody can tell me what's happening in the last picture, I probably don't want to know.

via Vintage Everyday

pb123456789 > ttyymmnn 02/18/2014 at 17:48

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The kids are jacking up the car with a log so they can change the wheel

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 02/18/2014 at 17:49

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Last pic: the cruel child slavery administered by S. Pandaber of Cornwall, as he makes his coterie change a tire. Oppressive for his children, instructional for yours!

McMike > ttyymmnn 02/18/2014 at 17:52

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That's Andy

Candy and Andy are just like any other children, except that they are life-size dolls and live with two panda bears called Mr and Mrs Bearanda. They drive around in a Mini called Stripey. What’s not to like?

This very unusual and mostly forgotten Gerry Anderson project featured in TV Century 21. Gerry wanted to have a different style of comic strip, and so decided to have the characters photographed rather than drawn. Despite its unusual style, and strange characters (with no explanation of why two dolls were living with Mr and Mrs Bearanda, nor why they were pandas, nor whether they were adopted parents, guardians, or captors of the doll children), the Candy and Andy comic (called simply “Candy”) ran for 154 issues as well as many annuals and story books.

http://ageofuncertainty.blogspot.com/2009/11/candy-…

ttyymmnn > McMike 02/18/2014 at 17:54

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Did you actually know that, or did you have to look it up?

ttyymmnn > pb123456789 02/18/2014 at 17:55

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Well, I figured that much. But I figure there's a charming — or creepy — backstory here.

McMike > ttyymmnn 02/18/2014 at 17:57

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I threw a Reverse GIS; The Hail Mary of "WTF is this I'm looking at?"

Creepy. isn't it?

ttyymmnn > McMike 02/18/2014 at 17:59

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Those kids seem to have a certain affinity for logs.

McMike > ttyymmnn 02/18/2014 at 21:43

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Yeah, and I'm guessing that bitch Candy got a better dressing room, too.