ALL THE NEWS - This month's all-action news pages include an Italian Job update, a spot of litigation in the high-power world of whizzy
Minilite wheels, a couple of radical utes, Pan Am's takeover and relocation, new models, jackets and clocks... how on Earth News Ed Steve Bennett finds time to be such an all-round
wonderful guy we just can't figure!

POCKET PERFECTION? - Strange times the 70s (ask your Mum...). Worry over the bomb, the whales, wayward shoe fashions and the
environment led to eco-concious designers up and down the land coming up with the likes of this little number. Known as the Minissima, the car sank without trace - but deservedly so?

TECH TIPS - Fresh from the annual nightmare that is Christmas, comes another year-by-year event that's almost as bad (but not quite
as costly!), the MoT. Techspert Richard Roffey delves deep into the tester's guidelines to bring you this pre-test checklist. Now
there's no excuse for going with your Mini's tail between your legs... (or something like that)

ALL-TERRAIN TERROR! - Listen up and we'll let you in on a little secret, there's a truly all-terrain Mini-based terror known as the Scamp, produced in
the depths of the home counties that'd give many a so-called off-roader a run for its money - and for the price of a couple
of pints! We trek off to the deep south (.. .of London) to meet the man behind the operation Andrew Maclean and take a
drive in his super Scamps...

LITTLE STRIPPER...- The one you've all been waiting for. Robert Hawkins'land Kingston MiniCentre's...) guide to deseaming. Cue The
Stripper (da da da da - boom-boom - da, da, da, da...)

BILL SOLLIS DRIVES...- A real coup this month as Bill slots himself behind the wheels of the Mini Challenge Miglia and Se7en winning pair...

YOUR LETTERS - More grouches from Mini owners around the globe! The Zurich police department's idea of a joke, cheap chassis plate
replacements, the cose for rehabilitating classic old Minis and a certain rooftop problem...

BOOK CLUB - Sex, scandal and the inside stories of a thousand.. .ahem introverted cabinet ministers are - unfortunately - not
revealed in the tomes stored on our book store's shelves. You will, however, find some of the best in Mini reading cm/at a
price that's (wait for the cliche...) very definitely right!

POCKET ROCKET - Forerunner to the dizzyingly expensive rocket was this, the dizzyingly dully named Curley Trike. There was nothing dizzy
about its performance in the '60s however. Recently unearthed, our man went along to see...

ALL YOUR OWN WORK - Yeah, yeah, you can't wait, right? OK, three whole pages, and they begin on page 52. Well, what are you waiting for? Yours
might just be there

JOHN COOPER COLUMN - MiniWorld's much esteemed columnist provides a pic of Paddy anticipating the forthcoming Monte, and reminkes
about his association with the cheeky comedian of many years standing, Norman Wisdom

MAPLE LEAF RAG - Poor old Canadian reader Frank French, ragged by all his chums simply because he has the audacity to own a plain
old Cooper rather than one with the much-needed S tagged on at the end. Trials and tribulations of a Mini-owning Canadian

IN THE CLUB - More from the mighty world of Mini clubs...