One for Mini lovers, (Ted)

[Laverdaroo]

Went to get a ticket on the VFR today and the tech who did it was 21 and the owner of this little beauty. He passed his test in it and parked it for three years to get some dosh together.

He reckoned he’s spent £30k on it but it is quite frankly one of the best ones I’ve seen.

One for you Ted.

Cut slicks, 1380 motor, Koso dash, leather interior, the lot. Carbon bonnet and a super slick engine bay. He was just in the process of fitting a second rad as it was getting a little warm but what a great car


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[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

I love the Minilite wheels even if they are replicas also the Webber ? carbs  - my 'S' had a Madadash with equal sized Audi sourced rev counter to match the 120 mph 'S' Speedo.
While I am at it,  I had fly off handrake, works negative camber front lower suspension arms with competetion displacers plus a Koni front damper kit, rear suspension was 1/4 deg  toe out plus negative camber at the rear, engine was only 1340 cc standard EN40B crank  with twin 1.5" Strombergs with inlet Trumpets. Hepolite Racing pistons, 731 Camshaft, Mangoletsi exhuast with
Y piece, straight through silencer. Wheels were in the first instance Dunlop Alloys shod with Michelin XAS tyres wheels later changed to Wolfrace Rims - seats were a copy Recaro style with extended brackets. Also 13 row oil cooler plus the right hand tank of course held 11 galls in total, I also fitted the larger Vauxhall Cresta Brake Servo.
That was my favourite Cooper S DJC323E written of within weeks when I sold it to a lad in Sheffield - happy days - for all that tuning a modern family car has better performance but it was in 1970.

[SteveD CB500K0]

When I was a young electronics engineer  in Bracknell (1980s), my boss had a 1275GT with all sorts of “Stage” stuff.

It was like a go-cart but good for surprising the (then) go-faster foreign cars (whilst looking up at their door mirrors as you zoomed away).


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[Laverda Dave]

That's a lovely car, all credit to builder/restorer. Mini's have become as expensive as Fast Ford's these days.
I never owned a mini but my brother (who is 6’4”) bought a brand new Mini Racing in the 80’s. I drove it a couple of times and it was great fun, just like a Go-Kart. I'd love to have one but they are out of my league now

[K2-K6]

A very tidy mini there.

Always thought a Kawasaki Z 1300 six would make a really good power unit in one of these.

A differential designed to mount on original output shaft and you'd have a compact installation, six cylinder twin cam, sequential gearboxed mini special 

The sound would certainly confuse casual observers, 130 bhp too 

[Laverdaroo]

It must be the weather,? I bobbed over from Radstock’s MOT gaff to Fowlups in Brizzle to collect some exhaust studs I’d ordered and there was a chap there in an Ariel Atom looking thing that was all matt black and ‘quite naughty’ looking.
It had twin Hiyabusa motors in a V configuration in the back. Sounded ace but my phone had gone flat and couldn’t take any piccies. Paddle shift, big dash all full of digital this n that, looked proper factory too. Bet it went well


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[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

One of the mechanics where I worked fitted an 1600cc Astra engine into his old mini - a tunning  firm sold a complete front subframe conversion kit that enabled the upgrade. Only extra machining needed was to have the Astra drive shafts shortened.
Can't remember what wheels he was able to fit at the front.
After about a year of ownership he sold it on e bay. It was written off by the new owner on his journey home.

[Matt_Harrington]

Ooh, the nostalgia of Minis. I remember you were either a Ford man or Mini man back in my youth. I had many s's and even scrapped a 1071s - oh the sacrilege!
Look up a mate of min on Google - 'Harvey Death Mini' that is some beast - not Harvey, the Mini 

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

Ooh, the nostalgia of Minis. I remember you were either a Ford man or Mini man back in my youth. I had many s's and even scrapped a 1071s - oh the sacrilege!
Look up a mate of min on Google - 'Harvey Death Mini' that is some beast - not Harvey, the Mini 

Be even worse if it was a 970 S.

[Orcade-Ian]

Still got mine after all these years.  20 years ago I put all of the bits of a crashed Cooper LE into the shell I'd had for almost 30 years - including all the injection stuff.

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Rear door from a Reliant, rear lamps Mk5 Cortina estate.

With the passengers seat removed, my coffin will fit for the final blast!

Ian

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

Amazing how did you think of a Reliant tail gate - looks better than the standard pair of doors plus they will not rust.
Looks neat Ian - did you do the work to make the tailgate fit -respect?

Stallard badge on the boot -  a new name to me. Back in 1968 there was a bloke in Derby had a white Ogle Mini at the time it looked stylish - like this one.

.Ogle Mini by Macabe Thiele, on Flickr