A mate of mine who’s sausage like fingers are just too chubby to work a computer keyboard 
asked me to post a few pic’s of his latest purchase.
A nice moody shot in the fading light;
Trick drivers seat microphone too.
He’s also got a bit of ‘old english’ too, but it’s had a bit of a Jap transplant;
Ross.
bet that mini shifts
A tragic waste of a good mini there. 
gogzy:
bet that mini shifts
Indeed it does, he’s done a couple of trackdays in it and used to use it to go to work & back, it seemed to keep a smile on his face. (an unusual thing to see on an owner driver 
)
Gogan:
A tragic waste of a good mini there.
That depends on your viewpoint, if your a purist and like the A series leyland I suppose it could be viewed as such, but personally, I think beauty is in the eye of the beholder & Dave likes his mini’s fast and no BL engine could keep up with that VVTI Honda lump.
Here’s another pic’ of it;
Ross.
bigr250:
gogzy:
bet that mini shiftsIndeed it does, he’s done a couple of trackdays in it and used to use it to go to work & back, it seemed to keep a smile on his face. (an unusual thing to see on an owner driver
Gogan:
A tragic waste of a good mini there.That depends on your viewpoint, if your a purist and like the A series leyland I suppose it could be viewed as such, but personally, I think beauty is in the eye of the beholder & Dave likes his mini’s fast and no BL engine could keep up with that VVTI Honda lump.
The motor is out of an ‘Integra Type R’ with 200bhp so I think it’s fare to say that it goes like stink"!!
Ross.
bigr250:
That depends on your viewpoint, if your a purist and like the A series leyland I suppose it could be viewed as such, but personally, I think beauty is in the eye of the beholder & Dave likes his mini’s fast and no BL engine could keep up with that VVTI Honda lump.
I appreciate what you’re saying, and normally I would agree. But I have a real soft-spot for classic Mini’s and the A-series engines.
I spent my school years playing with old mini’s in my parents garage, most of which I had bought as scrap for 20 quid! I would love to buy another one and restore it now I have the financial means to do the job properly, but sadly time is the limiting factor these days. I long for the days when I would come home from school and dive straight into the garage, eating my dinner with oily fingers and spending all night promising my mum that i would come in and do my homework in 10 mins. 
toonheed:
This one worked in the North East around 1994.
Ha ha ha I wonderd when Id see the old girl !!! My dad drove that for Swedish Truck Parts who had all that work done to it 
it was bought at a H M Customs sale after it had been caught using cherry, it had a low cab and was black and red
Gogan:
A tragic waste of a good mini there.
ill not show you this then…1JZ rwd mini 
but youll like this
fully restored, 1300 engine, 10x7 rims all round
gogzy:
but youll like thisfully restored, 1300 engine, 10x7 rims all round
Nope, thats sacrilage as well.
Wrong rims for the age, wrong engine (1300 was a metro engine, and imho it needs to be a gas flowed 1275 with twin 1 1/2" SU’s, or even better a 997 or 998 with the manifold from an auto-box equipped mini), wrong badge on the bonnet, wrong grill for the year, wrong doors, and some ■■■■ has put wide arches on it with narrow rims. Just looks amatuer.
There is a certain ‘look’ for a mini, and that just isn’t it. 
Gogan:
There is a certain ‘look’ for a mini, and that just isn’t it.
I actually have a (small) soft spot for mini’s, for me it’d be a bog standard 1971 1275 Cooper S in white with twin tanks & ‘exposed door hinges’, no big arches just a bog stock car. Or an original 1098 Cooper S from the early 60’s!! (1964?)
Ross.
bigr250:
I actually have a (small) soft spot for mini’s, for me it’d be a bog standard 1971 1275 Cooper S in white with twin tanks & ‘exposed door hinges’, no big arches just a bog stock car. Or an original 1098 Cooper S from the early 60’s!! (1964?)Ross.
Didn’t think the 1098 engine made its way into the Mini until the mid 70’s with the MkII’s (Clubman and the Mini 1100-special)?
A 64’ Cooper S would have been either the 1071 ‘oversquare’ engine using the pistons from the 1275 with the ultra short stroke of the 848cc, or the 970cc again with the 1275 pistons but an even shorter stroke than the 1071. A 64 would also have been during the hydrolastic suspension phase, before it reverted back to the rubber cones in the early 70’s.
Gogan:
bigr250:
I actually have a (small) soft spot for mini’s, for me it’d be a bog standard 1971 1275 Cooper S in white with twin tanks & ‘exposed door hinges’, no big arches just a bog stock car. Or an original 1098 Cooper S from the early 60’s!! (1964?)Ross.
Didn’t think the 1098 engine made its way into the Mini until the mid 70’s with the MkII’s (Clubman and the Mini 1100-special)?
A 64’ Cooper S would have been either the 1071 ‘oversquare’ engine using the pistons from the 1275 with the ultra short stroke of the 848cc, or the 970cc again with the 1275 pistons but an even shorter stroke than the 1071. A 64 would also have been during the hydrolastic suspension phase, before it reverted back to the rubber cones in the early 70’s.
Gogan, you truly are the ‘font of all knowledge’ with regard to mini’s!! I was refering to the high revving 970? (could it have been 997, or was that just the actual capacity of the 1,000cc??)
Dave’s mini in the pic has a Honda Integra R motor with 200BHP!!!
Ross.
bigr250:
Gogan, you truly are the ‘font of all knowledge’ with regard to mini’s!! I was refering to the high revving 970? (could it have been 997, or was that just the actual capacity of the 1,000cc??)
The 997cc was a special version of the A-series engine used only in the Mini Cooper from 61’ to 64’ (not the Cooper S which had the 970/1071cc as above), the 997 was high revving (peak power at 6000 revs IIRC) like the 970 and used twin SU’s. After 64’ the basic Cooper used the common 998cc engine, which had a different bore/stroke and couldn’t rev as high, but was tuned to 55bhp for the Cooper.
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