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Autocrossing an early Mini Jem (3)
And the messages regarding the Mk1 Mini Jem that was auto crossed in the late 1970s and early 1980s continue to come in! (See here for part 1 and part 2). This time the news comes from the Hawkins...
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Broadspeeds of Spain, where are you?
I wrote about it before on these pages (click here), but so far there is no news that I know of about the Broadspeed GTs that were exported to Spain. Several sources claim that quite a few ended up...
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Biota at Harewood hill climb
Nick Beaumont shared a picture he took at Harewood hill climb in the late 1980s, when he was active himself in hill climbing his Cox GTM (see the car in action here). That's a Biota Mk2, but Nick or me...
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Mini Jem for sale
A few years after he completely restored it, Tony Fysh has now decided to part with one of his Mk2 Mini Jems. It is in fact the car (or its body shell) that was featured in the second blog posting I...
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Film footage of Uruguayan Padován GT
It is one of the more unlikely Mini derivatives: the Padován GT, as seen in Maximum Mini 3. The car made its debut at the Autódromo de Rivera in Uruguay 50 years ago and together with the Torrendell...
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Biotas in Holland
I was sent a Dutch Biota brochure some time ago, published by Precott Hill Ltd., who were the Dutch importer of the Mini based sports car (more info here and here). Did I know it? I thought not, but it...
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New Zealand MiniSprint mystery
Tim Neal made me aware of a little known Mini Sprint kind of creature, seen recently at a racing event in New Zealand. At first I thought it was the Hatton MiniSprint, designed and campaigned by Lynn...
View ArticleMini Marcos at Mugello 1966
Lasse Kärkkäinen of Finland made me aware of a nice little bit of film footage. He wrote: "Hi,I am not sure if you have found this already, but the Mini Marcos Mk I driven by Billy Dulles in the...
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An Ogle in Australia
I am often surprised to learn that Mini based cars have made it to certain parts of the world. I never heard of any Ogles in Australia, but there is at least one, or so it seems. Simon Neilson of...
View ArticlePerivale 1968: driving the Quasar Unipower
You may have seen this lovely little film. Or you may have not. It shows the prototype Quasar Unipower City-car including its transparent and inflatable seats which missed in the latter production...
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Spotted in South-Africa: Banshee
Sean Brennan spotted the Banshee at a Mini event in South Africa earlier this month, and sent them over to me, too. As you may know the Banshee (Maximum Mini 3) was built over a long period of time by...
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Blyton Park - here we come!
Hope to see you his weekend at Blyton Park for the 4th Mk1 Performance Conversions / Maximum Mini Action Day. It will be your one and only chance to see the Le Mans Mini Marcos in 'as found' condition...
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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...
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Blyton Park 2017: the best of the rest
After yesterday's GTM galore, let us now have a look at the rest of he Mini based cars that made it over to Blyton Park on the 30th of April for the terrific 4th Mk1 Performance / Maximum Mini Action...
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GTM lives on as the Hambly Coupe
It's been 50 years since the GTM came to life as Bernard Cox' original Grand Touring Mini at the 1967 Racing Car Show and celebrations were held at Blyton Park (story here) as well as at the National...
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Analyzing the Le Mans Mini Marcos (4)
Ever since I managed to find the Le Mans Mini Marcos and bring it to here, I have been wondering what's with the floors. When you look at them, it seems like they have partly been cut out, with new...
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Racing a Landar in Scotland
Scottish Maximum Mini enthusiast Al Brown got in touch with fellow Scotsman David Ross recently about his adventures with a Landar R6. What's more David wrote some of his recollections down, sent them...
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The Filby Files - and what you find in them
While in the UK earlier this month, it was also about time to fulfill an agreement I'd made some two years ago with Complete Kit Car magazine editor Ian Stent. Ian had written to me about the famous...
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The Maya Maynot survives!
Some great news reached me today: the Maya GT that was once registered 'RKM 473G' and also known as 'The Maya Maynot' (full story here) is alive and well! The last trace of it dated back to 1983, but...
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Looking for Le Mans film footage
In the last couple of months I have received an incredible amount of photographs of my project car in its heyday at Le Mans in 1966. And when somebody tipped me off for some moving images, I discovered...
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