Blyton Park 2017: the GTMs

I survived another Mk1 Performance Conversions / Maximum Mini Action Day at Blyton Park - the fourth in a row and perhaps the best so far. We had a great turn out of Mini based vehicles on display, not in the last place thanks to the GTM owners, who had come out in force to celebrate their car's 50th anniversary. I didn't have much time to take photograps, but did some quick photo shooting in between the many lovely chats I had. Let's have a look at them here.

Packed Maximum Mini display at the Blyton Park paddock with plenty of GTMs

Two of the earliest cars at the track: Stuart Poole's and John Fisher's Cox' GTM 

Stuart and family with the turbo equipped car. They weren't very lucky this year. It didn't run due to a broken lead. They searched half of county Lincolnshire for one, to no avail, but then it was a Ford lead... 

And that's John Fisher's car. You may remember he found it in a Yorkshire barn some years ago (here). It was now up and running, although a petrol leak caused some trouble

his is another early car and another Cox GTM. It's owned by Peter Skitt who is steadily restoring it

Peter's Cox GTM is Nerus tuned. I wrote about the car some time ago, see here.

A beautiful Heerey GTM in eye catching peppermint and with 998 power was another eye catcher 

Our bearded friend Richard Hawcroft wasn't very lucky with his Heerey GTM either. But fortunately he was allowed to drive a mate's car - which he spun!

There were several GTM Coupes to be seen, of which this mid-'90s car was just one

And how about this GTM Rossa? It's a Mk1, which you don't see very often. It was bought just months earlier by Kevin Knipps who'd lovingly got it ready for the show

This is a Rossa Mk2 in roadster guise of 1991. An excellent example of the breed. GTM LIbra behind

Sweet surprise. The GTM Owners celebrated the 50th anniversary at Blyton Park with a lovely cake