1966 Morris Mini Cooper S

August: A Special tháng for Minis







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Julius Caesar had a tháng named after him, July, so when his distant relative, Augustus, defeated Liz Taylor and Richard burton to become emperor of Rome, the Senate figured they’d better ante up for him, too. So, the tháng of Sextillis was changed to Augustus which eventually morphed into August.



Fast forwarding about a couple thousand years and the tháng of August takes on a special meaning to those of us in the world of Minis. It was on August 26, 1959, that the Mini was officially introduced to the public.



We could start with Issigonis’...