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During the early 2000s I worked in an industrial part of San Francisco at a dot.com. I walked the twenty or so blocks to work most days and started to carry my camera. I passed this car on the way to work many times. I never met the owner but loved the car.
Over 1050 ’67 Minors made it to these shores (U.S.A) before BMC was forced to pull the plug again. This time, the 1968 EPA (smog) and DOT (safety) regulations would require all auto manufactures to re-engineer their products to comply and BMC decided to drop the importation of the Minor and put their efforts into the MG 1100/1300 sedan and the Austin America. The Minor continued in various forms overseas until mid-1971. Over 1.5 million were built by the end of production. In total, 65,000 were imported to the US between !949 and 1967.
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