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Tom
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Posted: Tuesday December 27th, 2005 09:47 am |
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Can someone clear up a puzzle for me. I drove a friend's RSP when they first came out and that car had a shiny metal RSP badge on the boot lid, towards the bottom of lid on RH side. Was this a factory fitting or something added perhaps by the dealer. My friend can't even remember there being such a badge on his car. I have looked at seceral RSPs and none have had this badge. Am I going senile..help.
regards
Tom
T55COO
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STEVEBLACKER1960
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Posted: Tuesday December 27th, 2005 06:52 pm |
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hi ya
must have been a dealer fit item
steve
Last edited on Tuesday December 27th, 2005 06:52 pm by STEVEBLACKER1960 |
Andy Simpson
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Posted: Friday February 17th, 2006 10:41 pm |
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| Never seen one, must have been dealer fit.
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hawaiianblue
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Posted: Saturday June 2nd, 2007 05:46 pm |
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| I have an idea i saw something like this in relation to a Japanese RSP?
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Tom
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Posted: Saturday June 2nd, 2007 06:30 pm |
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Aha, perhaps I'm not going senile and there are such badges floating around. The hunt continues. I shall have a close look at RSPs at Beaulieu.
Regards
Tom
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STEVEBLACKER1960
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Posted: Saturday June 2nd, 2007 07:03 pm |
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mine will be in the show and shine
steve
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coopersean
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Posted: Saturday June 2nd, 2007 07:09 pm |
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Must admit, I've never seen it either. Only extra badge I've seen is a small 'catalyst' one on some cars, as can be seen on the picture below:
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DaveShreeve
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Posted: Monday June 4th, 2007 12:44 pm |
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Rear view of an RSP on RSP Cooper Register buyers guide page. Additional Rover badge but no RSP badge.
http://www.rsp-cooper-register.co.uk/buyers_guide.htm
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taffy1967
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Posted: Monday June 4th, 2007 03:03 pm |
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I've seen some early Rover Mini Coopers with a 'catalyst' badge on the boot too. Come to think of it the last one I saw was a red Mainstream Cooper driving through Tenby town back in 1994.
Anyway I've never seen an actual RSP badge and it's not mentioned in the recent Mini Magazine RSP Cooper buyers guide either.
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hawaiianblue
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Posted: Monday June 4th, 2007 07:10 pm |
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The catalyst badge was one Rover were fitting across the range in the early 90's, at the time Unleaded petrol was being pushed, and all new cars at the time had to be capable of running on it.
Cat's were actually put across as a selling point on many cars of the era.
You'll find the same badge on the R200/400, which when you see it, it was clearly designed for those models.
I'm not sure if all RSP's had them originally (they had cat's), but most people pull those badges off as they look naff and after a bit of polish the silver wears off and they look worse.
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DaveShreeve
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Posted: Tuesday June 5th, 2007 01:14 am |
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taffy1967 wrote: Anyway I've never seen an actual RSP badge and it's not mentioned in the recent Mini Magazine RSP Cooper buyers guide either.
Thought these Mini Magazine articles were quite good until this month; then you realise most of it could be made up without even looking at the accompanying photos. British Open with SPi, picture shows HIF38 carb, SPi only available on German version about '95 never in UK. Silver coachline - actually gold. Colour matched seatbelts - they're black. 'By appointment' tabs on seats - no such thing, crest as external badges and similar to that on 'Thirty' and 'Forty', nothing to do with HM.
So would they even be aware of an RSP badge?
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hawaiianblue
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Posted: Tuesday June 5th, 2007 05:44 am |
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Mini magazine has gone downhill over the past couple of years tbh.
I mean i've seen cover cars with huge rust scabs under their headlights.
although to be fair i've seen a few gafs in the tech section of miniworld too.
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taffy1967
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Posted: Tuesday June 5th, 2007 09:58 am |
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Yes I've noticed the gross inaccuracies too and it is a shame they don't try harder, because those guides would be very good if they did.
Perhaps instead of trying to fill the magazines with the same stuff that has made them slightly repetitive, it might help if they published a more polished quarterly magazine that would be worth waiting for and investing in.
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ben.summerfield
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Posted: Monday June 11th, 2007 04:43 pm |
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| yup how many honda v tech minis do we need to see!!!!
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hawaiianblue
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Posted: Thursday June 14th, 2007 08:02 pm |
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I guess the trouble is though there are only so many minis, so what ever they publish is always going to be repetitive, it's not often you see something you havent seen before.
Fact is there is only so much you can do to a mini, before it's no longer a mini, and i think pretty much everything has been done.
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