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GSJ166 s!”
£19.30
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The 6th edition of rim our AKM2 catalogue.
NEW!
EACH
£15.00
55th Anniversary T-Shirts
2014 is the 55th anniversary of the Mini!
To celebrate the occasion Mini Spares have a range of T-Shirts in Red, White or Blue, each with a different design on the front. Available in Small, Medium,
Large, X-Large and XX-Large.
They all retail at £15.00
each
Cooper S Distributor
Reproduction of the 40819 Cooper S 23D distributor but with more advance for economy and performance similar to the
Mk3 S curves. Fitted with quickfit std.
points - 12G2140 . . . . . . . . . . . . .
£45.90
Suspension
Suspension
Cone
The only genuine cone springs on the market you need an AKM2 which has received rave reviews.
made from original Rover tooling.
Order as FAM3968. . . . . . . .
£40.69
CV Joints
Mini Spares Dampers
Mini Spares 28 point adjustables
- front or rear
EACH
£46.20
Completely re-written to include all models from 1959-2000.
Now 219 fully illustrated pages.
If you've got a Mini
EACH
£40.80
GAZ Dampers
Bump & rebound adjustable - front or rear
Steering & Bearings
£7.50
We will not sell the cheap, inferior CV joints so readily available elsewhere.
We ONLY sell DEPENDABLE components
1275 and 1984 on - stamped GCV1013 . . . . £30.60
Early small 1.125" nut type pre 1984 GCV1105 . £30.60
Correct fitting inboard type GCV1102 . . . . . . £36.00
Any 1275 Pre A Plus with vac 12G4180 . . . £102.00
998 A Plus ADU5789 distributor . . . . . . . . . £91.80
All the best or good quality distributors and parts stocked for road and race
Engines
We stock all standard and
From performance parts
£1860
8 Port Head Kit
Silicone rocker cover gasket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £9.60
5 port alloy head - Road C-AHT347 . . Coming Soon
8 port head kit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . from £1860.00
8 port head - larger valve - race . . . . . . . £2340.00
1380cc built up 1/2 engine by Bill Richards . . £1090.28
Mega pistons 20/40/60 and 73.5 . . . . . . . . £236.69
73.5 EVO pistons 9cc dish C-STR311 . . . . . . . £189.60
Camshaft EVOLUTION001 . . . . . . exchange £68.40
Ultimate performance cam follower set C-AEG580 £31.20
Oil pumps . . from £15.83
to CNC race type £101.26
Forged 1.5 rocker set C-AHT436. . . . . . . . . £133.33
Alloy 1.5 hi-lift rocker set C-AHT446A. . . . . £198.00
Duplex timing kit C-AJJ3323 . . . . . . . . . . . . £27.20
21A1902 Mini Spares genuine profile engine mount £8.34
21A1902MS non-genuine mounting . . . . . . . . . £3.00
21A1902ST threaded mounting. . . . . . . . . . . . £3.78
Evo minimum stretch timing chains available
Gearboxes & Diffs
Comprehensive range of road/rally/race gearbox parts including 5 speed gearbox and
Evolution diffs. Only RHP and top quality bearings stocked.
No cheap imports that fall apart!
Original market leading Evo crosspin diff
Over 3,000 sold since 1994 .C-AJJ3385 . .
£163.39
Competition baulk ring C-22A1741 . . . . . . . .
£23.99
Hi-tech oil pick up pipe C-AHT54 . . . . . . . . .
£27.00
KYB/Kayaba Dampers
Std premium damper . . . .each £14.78
Super gas damper 25%+ upgrade . . . . . . . . . . . . . .each £24.01
KYB/Kayaba self-adj. gas shock £29.40
available only from us at a special price for a set of 4 (Part MSSK3015) £108.00
EACH
£21.59
Bilstein B36 Dampers
Performance non adjustable
EACH
£69.30
Front B36-037 . . . . . . . . . . . . .
£69.30
Rear B36-0380 . . . . . . . . . . . .
£69.30
Easier to set-up
EACH
£53.59
Geometry Kits
EACH
£14.78
G-MAX Gas Dampers
Front or rear . . . . . . . . . . .each £21.80
Bilstein B4 Dampers
Front 19-221694 . . . . . . . . . . .
£21.59
Rear 19-221700 . . . . . . . . . . .
£21.59
Evolution Dampers
Top of the range 8 point adjustable
743039 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .each £53.59
Complete kit with adjustable tie bars and adjustable lower arms.
Package
With correct performance bushes.
Price
Order as MSSK3008 £84.00
full kit
£84.00
Forget all the poly and uprated bushes when different lower arms or tie bars are fitted. What you need is an offset rubber bush to compensate with the extra distortion caused when correcting the geometry on Minis.
Car set of lower arm bushes. . . . £12.26 Part No C-STR632
New steering racks - L/H or R/H drive
FAM7306/7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £59.23
MPi Sportspack type race. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £71.94
Quick rack L/H or R/H C-AJJ1570/1 . . . . . . £78.00
Genuine track rod end GSJ1106 . . . . . . . . . . £11.11
Non genuine GSJ734MS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £4.80
Swivel pin kit genuine GSJ166 . . . . . . . . . . . £19.30
or our own which we recommend for any use. . .
Mini Spares swivel pin kit GSJ166MS . . . . . . £7.56
Timken front wheel bearings GHK1140 . . . . . £49.14
Tried and tested non genuine front wheel bearings with sales of nearly 5,000 per year and no breakages - GHK1140MS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £13.80
Rear Timken GHK1805 modified - late cars . . £32.40
Non genuine rear bearing GHK1548MS . . . . £14.39
Plastic Interior Mirrors
As fitted from 1964 on
Grey 24A1750 £29.40
White24A2110 £30.30
WHITE
£30.30
GREY
£29.40
Door Mirrors - pre ‘80s
Original pre ‘80s door mirrors.
Flat glass, stainless steel head
£17.16
Right hand - GAM215A £17.16 each
Left hand - GAM216A £17.16 each
Also fits later cars using
M90999 fitting kit £3.00
Door Mirrors - ‘80s on
Original white backed type as fitted to post 1994 Minis.
Pair £36.00
PAIR
£36.00
Order as GS25320
Black also available. Order as GS25319. Pair £30.62
All mirrors available separately or
Mini Spares approved part number
Clutches & Flywheels
GSJ166MS £7.56
Clearly identified MINI
• Cheaper Price
• Super Quality
AP clutch road and race plus flywheel
As the original and only true ‘Mini Spares” our sole business is to supply parts for the classic Mini and as the largest supplier of Mini spare parts in the world we make it our business to check the quality and fitment of all items available.
SPARES part number Flywheel puller for all types CE1 . . . . . . . . . . £21.78
Having spent 50 years in the Mini parts business I am still striving to keep your car on the road or race track with quality parts at the best prices available.
When comparing prices with other vendors, are they selling genuine parts or cheaper copies? Either way, our prices are rarely beaten!!!
3 piece AP clutch assembly pre Verto GCK100AF . . . . £43.81
3 piece Verto clutch pre-inj 180mm plate GCK151MS . £91.76
3 piece Verto clutch inj 190mm plate GCK152MS . . . £98.27
3 piece turbo kit GCK371AF . . . . . . . . . . . £108.00
Verto 20% upgrade pressure, fits all C-AEG485 £64.15
Standard diaphragm GCC103 . . . . . . . . . . . . £25.37
Orange diaphragm C-AEG481 . . . . . . . . . . . £34.84
Standard clutch plate GCP204 . . . . . . . . . . . £20.40
Race clutch plate C-AHT596 . . . . . . . . . . . . £82.50
Clutch lever arm pre Verto 22A2204MS . . . . £12.30
Clutch lever arm Verto DAM5355 . . . . . . . . . £18.28
Master cylinder GMC1008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £45.50
As a customer you have no idea what you are buying from some vendors who use original part numbers, but you can be assured when purchasing from us the part has been tried, tested and clearly described - if there are any problems we listen and react immediately - we get professional material analysis and testing done, plus trying the parts on our own or race Minis.
If a part is advertised cheaper than ours - it is probably inferior as the market is being swamped with cheap, untried imports. We take the spurious parts problem seriously by taking the problem away from you, ensuring our prices are rarely beaten on like for like quality.
Prices are correct at time of going to press, but are subject to change without notice. E&O.E. e-mail:- sales@minispares.com www.minispares.com Export Tel: (+44) 1707 607702
All part numbers used are unique and intellectual property of either Mini Spares Centre Ltd or Rover / X parts licensees.

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Mini Cooper Register formed as a Club in 1986
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National Mini Cooper Day Beaulieu 2014
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Mike Cooper
Rauno Aaltonen
Peter Baldwin
Warwick Banks
Peter Browning
Willy Cave
Ron Crellin
Ginger Devlin
Paul Easter
Paddy Hopkirk
Bill Price
John Rhodes
Gordon Spice
Stuart Turner
Julien Vernaeve
Basil Wales
Lady Watson (Christabel Carlisle)
Barrie Williams
Mike Wood
Chairman
Robert Young
Spring Cottage, Small Hythe, Tenterden,
Kent, TN30 7NE
01580 763975 (H) chairman@minicooper.org
Vice Chairman
Tony Salter
20 Batchelor Green, Southampton,
Hants, SO31 8FJ
02380 560073 (H)
Treasurer
Ian Hitchman
20 Meadowfield Road, Barnby Dun,
Doncaster, South Yorkshire, DN3 1LN
01302 883550 (H) treasurer@minicooper.org
General Secretary
Kim Bromage
31 Coralin Close, Chelmsley
Wood, Birmingham, B37 7NE
0121 680 1814 (H) secretary@minicooper.org
Website
Robert Clayson
39 Longhope Drive, Wrecclesham,
Farnham, Surrey, GU10 4SN
01252 726618 (H) webmaster@minicooper.org
Magazine Editor
Paul Sulma
7 Dorset Way, Twickenham, Middx, TW2 6NB
0208 898 9476 (H) editor@minicooper.org
Membership Administration
Mini Cooper Register, Arbons House,
47 Water Street, Lavenham, Suffolk CO10 9RN
01787 249284 mcr@lavenhamgroup.co.uk
Membership Information
Lesley Young
Spring Cottage, Small Hythe, Tenterden,
Kent, TN30 7NE
01580 763975 (H) membership@minicooper.org
Events Co-Ordinator
Justin Ridyard
2 Carlsden Close, Dover, Kent, CT17 0SD
01304 330715 (H) events@minicooper.org
Competition Secretary
Peter Moss
The Dower House, Rogate, West Sussex, GU31 5EG
01730 818336 (H) competition@minicooper.org
Regalia Secretary
Sally Salter
20 Batchelor Green, Southampton, Hants. SO31 8FJ
02380 560073 (H) regalia@minicooper.org
Regional Co-ordinator
Patricia Webb
25 St Leonards Hill, Queensferry Road,
Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland KY11 3AH
07834 081697 regions@minicooper.org
Public Relations
Andrew Bond
37 Tring Avenue, Ealing, London W5 3QD
020 8993 1620 (H) pr@minicooper.org
Car Registrar
Peter Barratt
44 Bushey Grove Road, Watford, Herts, WD23 2JQ
01923 816757 cars@minicooper.org
Non Designated Committee Members
Richard Humphrey 01933 679617(H)
Ken Hunter 01344 772446
Rod Chilcot 01707 650107
Archivist
Robert Young - See Chairman
Heritage Liaison
Peter Moss - See Competition Secretary
DVLA V765 Contact
(Vehicle Registration Recovery)
Paul Sulma, 0208 898 9476 email - v765@minicooper.org
Ex-Works and Competition Cars Register
Robert Young - See Chairman
Appendix K Register
Russell Earnshaw
8 White Ley Bank, Fulstone, New Mill,
Huddersfield, W. Yorkshire, HD7 7DL
01484 683899 russell.earnshaw@adp-architects.com
Cooper S MK I Register
Simon Wheatcroft
392 Nuneaton Road, Bulkington, Nuneaton,
Warwickshire, CV12 9RR 01827 830539 mk3sregistrar@hotmail.com
Cooper MK I Register
Barbara Alexander
Kilmeston, 39 Newgate Lane, Peel Common,
Fareham, Hants, PO14 1BQ
01329 665434 barbaraalexander945@btinternet.com
Cooper S MK II Register
Nick Hunter
01785 813693 nickandlynne.hunter@talktalk.net
Cooper MK II Register
Graham E Robinson
80 Alexandra Road, Great Wakering,
Essex, SS3 0HW
01702 219298 graham.e.robinson@btinternet.com
Cooper S MK III Register
Simon Wheatcroft
See Cooper S MK1 Registrar
Rover Cooper Register
John Parnell
8 Meadow Bank, Eversley Park Road,
London N21 1JE 020 8886 8226 rovercooper@minicooper.org
Coachbuilt Cooper & Cooper S Register
Steve Burkinshaw
28 Loom Lane, Radlett, Herts, WD7 8AD
01923 855971 stevebee49@live.co.uk
Ex-Police Cooper & Cooper S Register
David Davies
9 Mountway, Waverton, Chester, CH3 7QF
01244 332282 daviddavies15@sky.com
Innocenti Cooper Register
Foster Charlton
12 Queens Terrace, Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, NE28 7QU 0191 2639019 gingerfoss@hotmail.com
Mini Super Register
Garry Dickens
Pryland Barn, Cheddon Road, Taunton, Somerset,
TA2 7QT 01823 338228 (H)
01823 337835 (W) 07519 513826 (M) dickens.garry@gmail.com
1275GT Register
Suzy Kinsman
15 The Drive, Woolavington, Somerset, TA7 8EJ
07899 067025
1275gt@minicooper.org
New MINI Cooper Register
Martyn Collins
121 Tamworth Road, Hertford, Herts, SG13 7DN
07989 683654 martyn.collins@gmail.com
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The club has an insurance policy which protects its officers and members against a variety of claims. The key area it covers is ‘Public Liability
The main area of exposure to risk for the club is attendance at shows where we run a stand. There are an increasing number of shows featuring the Mini or classic cars generally which we are planning to attend with Committeestands, plus many regions already attend local shows, and there may be others that we are less aware of. Our public liability insurance will, we hope, never be claimed on, but there is always the possibility that a member of the public suffers an injury on our stand and, given the ambulance-chasing practices of many legal advisers today, makes a claim against us.
That is what our policy is there to protect us for
, but we can only offer that protection if the club is notified in advance of a Mini Cooper R
If the stand organizer lets me know (address, phone number and e-mail address at the front of the magazine) they will be protected against the risk of a personal claim by our insurance. The club cannot pick up liability after the event without prior notification. Also, the insurance only covers risks in the UK.
So if you are organising a stand, please tell both the magazine editor and me at the same time, so that it can be publicised in the magazine, and you and your organising team are covered by insurance.
Ian Hitchman
Treasurer
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Paul Sulma
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I f, like me, you have been a member of the club for more years than you care to remember, and attending the
National Mini Cooper Day at Beaulieu has turned in to some sort of a pilgrimage that you cannot miss, come hell or high water, then you have now got Minis in your blood for good.
So, what a great pilgrimage it was for
Mini addicts young and old this year according to some of our contributors’ accounts in this August post Beaulieu issue of CooperWorld . Personally speaking it was, indeed, in my view a vintage year for Beaulieu, with great weather from the start and then so many fantastic cars to see, photograph and discuss. Please read about it in more detail in the Events section and within most of the Register and regional reports too.
But none of this would have happened by itself if it was not for some stalwart regulars getting together in their spare time to take on the onerous, and sometimes thankless task, of organising the big day.
Tony Salter is just one of these dedicated people who has headed up a number of shows now over the years when others would have thrown in the towel after doing it just the once.
Do read his article on what’s involved in organising Beaulieu - it is an eye opener as to what he has to do and the fact that the work starts in the year before the show. I think we owe Tony and his band of helpers a big thanks and congratulations for putting on a really enjoyable day. Well done to Tony and all those unnamed people that were kind enough to roll up their sleeves and help make it happen.
Moving on, there are, of course, these days many car oriented events going on almost every weekend throughout the year but the summer is obviously the busiest time of the year for them. This is reflected by the number of articles we have in the Events and Competition sections which cover different types of events one can go to or actually get involved with such as the Irish Touring Assembly. There is an entertaining article written by Jo and Ian Wright on this tour which has prompted me to consider giving it a go perhaps next year.
I want to just finish by thanking the regular, and indeed the occasional contributors, for sending in articles without which there would be no magazine for us to read. So, please do keep sending them into me and by the copy date which is always the 1st of the month for the following month’s magazine. If you do decide to write an article for inclusion in the magazine, then please could you send your article as a Word document with any captions for photos at the end of your article. Photos can be attached as jpegs to your covering email.
Getting material in this format would be very helpful to me and our printers in putting the magazine together. Thanks.
Finally, if you look at the bottom of this page you will see an advert for our Webmaster committee post. If you think you could fill this important position then please get in touch with Robert
Clayson to find out the details of what is involved.
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B eaulieu was a resounding success again this year and the sun kindly shone all day to make everything that much better.
Once again, Tony Salter and his very small band of helpers put together a great day of Mini entertainment. It would be rude to single out any particular person - but I will.
Graham Lush worked his socks off setting the show up, so a special vote of thanks should also be given to him.
Because of the wet spring and early summer that we’ve had, the large marquee in the second field was not available to us, this being removed the week before, to allow the ground to recover over the summer. This resulted in a hasty re-arrangement of Tony’s proposed layout, which had already been put in the published programme. This meant that we returned to the earlier years’ format of having the Concours in the main arena, rather than in the big white tent. With the Mokes and
MINIs filling the second field, there was still much to see.
The trade stands had expanded considerably this year, as indeed had the number of trunk trader pitches we sold. All of this is a healthy sign that people want to come to Beualieu to sell their wares. This in turn means more people turn up looking for those parts for their pride and joy. It followed that the gate was indeed up on last year and although the final figures are not in yet, I’m sure we will have done well on the day.
Sadly, and most annoyingly, the Beaulieu tannoy system was its usual lamentable self, despite promises to improve the system following our complaints last year. I am told they are considering upgrading the entire PA system but it’s a question of finance. This I find a poor excuse, considering the large sum from the gate money that Beaulieu take from us each and every year. There was more than the odd complaint about the sound quality and it is something that we will continue to pressure
Beaulieu about. It’s particularly frustrating for Graham Robson, who does his level best to keep us informed and entertained during the day in his usual very professional manner.
We had some special guests with us this year: Richard Longman, the legendary Mini engine builder and Terry Kaby, the Mini driver and Rover
Works driver, as well as a good number of our Honorary members and
Abingdon mechanics, who always come along. We were also delighted to have both Paddy Hopkirk and Michael Cooper present at our awards this year. The Beaulieu Cup, for the car of the show, was presented to
Roy Gudge, with his superb Cooper S, which is in truly superb original condition and is my idea of concours. As usual, the standard of concours cars was superb, even if, to my taste, there was too much chrome, shiny bits and powder coating but that seems to be the way these days, which is why Roy’s original car was, in my view, a worthy winner of the Beaulieu
Cup. The Spirit of the Event, the trophy in memory of Graeme Allan, was awarded to Simon Drew, who tirelessly built two fresh engines, just days before the show, for himself and Ben Webb to drive down to Beaulieu, all the way from Edinburgh. A great effort and truly ‘the spirit of the event’.
A special award was also made, to Lesley Young our retiring editor, of a beautiful inscribed glass rose bowl, for editing our club magazine for the last fifteen years. She was delighted and very touched by the award.
M embership numbers continue to increase at this time of the year
- with Beaulieu, we generally see a sharp increase in numbers.
However, this year we didn’t attract quite as many as usual – perhaps because our membership secretary wasn’t on duty pressing potential new members until past lunch time. Nevertheless, a healthy number were joined up, as you can see below. We are fortunate that, unlike most motor clubs, our membership numbers grow each month – most are declining. So the Committee take some comfort in the belief that we must be doing some things right. The outcome of the latest questionnaire will tell us one way or the other. This brings me nicely to the next topic.
T he club’s questionnaire has now closed and the findings will be published shortly, just as soon as they’ve been fully analysed. Thank you for your participation. The response, once an email reminder had been sent to members, was good. This has made us think that an email drop is the most effective way to communicate quickly and efficiently with all members. This, of course, does mean that you need to have given us an email address and hopefully updated your profile page if your email address has changed. So, to repeat my plea from last month, we’d appreciate it if you could check the details we hold of your email address. Just take a few minutes and log onto the clubs website www.
minicooper.org
and click on the membership logo option on the left hand main menu. There you will be asked for your membership number and password. Don’t worry if you’ve forgotten either, there are email links to help you recover both. Once in, scroll through to check that all of your current information is correct and up to date. But don’t worry; we certainly won’t bombard you with countless irrelevant emails, which we all seem to suffer from these days, from almost every source. And
I’ll reaffirm again, we will not share this information with any third party.
So, if you’ve got an email address, let’s have it. Thanks for your help.
Ian Barnett, Chichester, West Sussex
Phil & Pat Manser, Peterborough, Cambs
Jacqueline Ford, Chichester, West Sussex
John Huff & Dawn Alecks, Sheering, Essex
Stephen Archer, Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire
Simon Peake, Market Drayton, Shropshire
Simon & George Wisker, Exeter, Devon
Michael Duff, Johannesburg, Gauteng ,South Africa
John Pitchers, Norwich
Jasmine Tompkins, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Richard Vernon, Frittenden, Kent
Jean Arthur & Hamish Macleod, Portsmouth
Mark Lewis & Sally Ann Hewitt, Washington, Tyne And Wear
Stewart Lewis, Llangybi, Usk Monmouthshire
Anja & Manfred Matysik, Brockenhurst, Hampshire
Patrick & Susan Feltham, Scarborough, Queensland, Australia
Kevin Shinnie, Stonehaven
Denise Betsworth, Swansea, West Glamorgan
Pete & Jacky Pelling, Worle
Janine Dartnall, Petersham, Surrey
Wesley Berloo, Oostakker, Belgium
Dean Davies, Belchford, Lincolnshire
Nigel Clarke, Poole, Dorset
Alexander & Marion Gill, Moorend Common, Frieth Henley On Thames
Jonathan Gover, Winton, Bournemouth
Rod & Linda Scollick, Crowthorne, Berks
Darrin Butcher, Peacehaven, East Sussex
Christopher Payne, Ashford, Kent
Avi Rosner, Halfa 34562, Israel
Daniel & Benjamin Warner-Deards, East Brent, Somerset
Paul Aldred, Shepshed, Leicestershire
Donna Wigman & Clive Bowles, Herne Bay, Kent
David & Carol Griffiths, Newcastle Emlyn, Carmarthenshire
Jeff Robinson, Connor, Antrim
Valerie Richards, Neath, Neath Port, Talbot,
Darren Westwood, Worcester, Worcestershire
Craig Allan-McWilliams, Crewe, Cheshire
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I I t’s a busy time of the year for events, but firstly, well done to Tony and his t team for a fantastic Beaulieu. I don’t think i imagine how busy the guys organising l late in June and it was great to see a t to a fascinating and informative 3 hour tour of the world of professional motor sport and development. I was personally surprised just how much goes into the building of a competition car and how much of the original car we recognise on the road is cast aside. When figures of hundreds of thousands of pounds per car get banded about for competition cars, you can see why.
We can offer support with the equipment to put on a stand and canvass members to attend.
Another reminder for the two large events the club is participating in towards the latter part of the year are the Footman James Classic
Car Show in Manchester on the 20th and 21st September, and the
Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show at the NEC, Birmingham, from the 14th to 16th November. We require interesting cars for both events; remember your car will need to be at the event indoors for the weekend. If you can help in any way at either of the events, then please contact Pete Flanagan for Manchester ( flan1275@aol.com
) and me below for the NEC.
That’s all for this month!
Tel: (01304)330715
Tel: events@minicooper.org
Don’t forget to Like the MCR Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/ minicooperregister or scan the QR code with your smart phone to visit the page .
Colin Woodridge in the WRC MINI looking at home!
Some of the MCR members at Prodrive!
If anyone would like to go on other motor sport or interesting motor related tours then let me know and we may be able to sort out something for next year. We, as a club, have visited the MINI factory and
Prodrive for two years running but I’m sure there are other interesting places we could visit. Let’s have your ideas.
We are still looking for someone to take on running the Big MINI show on Sunday 28th September 2014 for the club at Penkridge Market,
Staffordshire. It would be good to see the MCR represented at this
New MINI event so, if anyone would like to take this on, let me know.
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Bold = National MCR event or Club stand
Italics = Regional MCR event/attendance
Event: International Mini Meet - 55 years of the Mini
Date: 31st July-3rd August 2014
Location: Detling Show Ground, Kent
Contact: Justin Ridyard events@minicooper.org
Event: Croft Nostalgia Weekend /HSCC race meet
Date: 2nd/3rd August
Location: Croft Circuit, Darlington
Contact: Niall Cook – Newcastle & Durham Region naillcook@tiscalli.co.uk
Event: Mini in the Park
Date: 10th August
Location: Santa Pod Raceway, Northants
Contact: www.minishow.co.uk
Event: Prescott Revival
Date: 10th August
Location: Studley, Warwks, B80 7RR
Contact: Worcestershire Region. Mick Rowley - rminimick@aol.com
Event: Biggar Classic Rally
Date: 10th August
Location: Biggar, Lanarkshire
Contact: Scottish Region. Ben & Patricia Webb ben_patricia_webb@hotmail.co.uk
Event: The Ham Sandwich Run on tour (Touring assembly)
Date: 24th August
Location: Kent
Contact: Kent Region. Justin & Annmarie Ridyard - h13jkr@hotmail.com
Event: Coopers at Combe Track Day
Date: 30th August
Location: Castle Combe
Contact: Graham Robinson - graham.e.robinson@btinternet.com
Event: Pershore Plum Festival
Date: 31st August
Location: Pershore, Worcestershire
Contact: Worcestershire Region. Mick Rowley - rminimick@aol.com
Event: Dudley Classic Car & Transport Show
Date: 7th September
Location: Himley Hall, Dudley, DY3 4DF
Contact: Worcestershire Region. Mick Rowley - rminimick@aol.com
Event: Revival Meeting
Date: 12-14th September
Location: Goodwood
Contact: www.goodwood.co.uk
Event: Kent Classic Car Show
Date: 14th September
Location: Aylesford Priory, Nr Maidstone
Contact: Kent Region. Justin & Annmarie Ridyard - h13jkr@hotmail.com
Event: Stanford Hall National Mini Day
Date: 14th September
Location: Nr Lutterworth, Leicestershire
Contact: Jerry Filor - jfilor@talktalk.net
Event: Rally Car Day
Date: 20th September
Location: Castle Combe
Contact: Brian Davage - bridavage@gmail.com
Event: Selkirk Rally
Date: 21st September
Location: Selkirk
Contact: Scottish Region. Ben & Patricia Webb ben_patricia_webb@hotmail.co.uk
Info see www.selkirkvintagecarrally.org
Event: Manchester Classic Car Show
Date: 21st September
Location: Event City, Manchester
Contact: Mick Cooke, Lancs Region or Pete Flanagan
Event: MiniWorld Action Day
Date: 27th September
Location: Castle Combe
Contact: www.miniworld.co.uk
Event: Minis to Monte - Entry List Full
Date: 27th September-3rd October
Location: UK, France, Switzerland and Monaco
Contact: Robert Clayson webmaster@minicooper.org
Event: 14th Malvern Mini Show & Spares
Date: 13th October
Location: The Three Counties Showground, Malvern, Worcs,
WR13 6NW
Contact: Worcestershire Region. Mick Rowley - rminimick@aol.com
Event: British Mini Fair 2
Date: 19th October
Location: Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire
Contact: Worcestershire Region. Mick Rowley - rminimick@aol.com
Event: Classic Motor Show
Date: 14th, 15th and 16th November 2014
Location: NEC, Birmingham
Contact: Champion required – If you can help contact events@minicooper.org
Event: Northumberland Borders Rally
Date: 15th November
Location: OS Maps 87 (Hexham) & 88 (Newcastle)
Contact: Niall Cook – Newcastle & Durham Region naillcook@tiscalli.co.uk
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A s always, for me the start of organising our national day at Beaulieu begins at the back end of 2013. Decisions have to be made on a multitude of things. Come January and the press releases have to be ready for some of the magazines and with that comes the choice of theme. Thankfully this year I was helped no end with the theme by Graham Hendra from the Hampshire Region. His suggestion for a central display of non A series engine Minis was a bold move and a little daunting to begin with. To Graham’s credit he fleshed out the first bare details and the members of the Hampshire region, and then the committee, was convinced that this was a good, if a little controversial an idea.
We decided to follow this theme with the proviso that all the cars featured should demonstrate good engineering practice. And
Graham was tasked with vetting the potential exhibitors.
Thankfully we were blessed with another fine sunny day at Beaulieu. Despite a few last minute problems the day went well with our arena display of non A series Minis attracting considerable attention. The Ex-Works display and the Register displays also attracted a large number of admirers, as did the Mini car parking with more clubs booked than before with many interesting cars present.
Our concours, which had been moved from the large marquee to the arena benefitted from the glorious weather and the cars positively gleamed!
We had more trade stands than we have had before and trunk trader numbers were better than before, with many on the day entries. Both areas were busy with shoppers and a few bargains undoubtedly found. Michael Cooper was present to relaunch the
John Cooper accessories range and the local MINI dealer did brisk business all day.
At the end of a busy but satisfying day the club awards and concours awards were made by the pairing of Paddy Hopkirk and
Michael Cooper.
Class 1
Class2
Class 3
Class 4
Class 5
Class 6
Class 7
Class 8
Class 9
Tony Salter
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S imon Drew, the proprietor of The Mini Works based in Edinburgh, received the ‘Spirit of the Event’ award at this year’s National Mini
Cooper Day in recognition of him, along with a host of others, pulling out all the stops to make Beaulieu this year. A lot of people who are involved with classic Minis have probably been in a similar situation of tight deadlines and last minute panics etc, so can probably empathise with the following article.
The week prior to Beaulieu was full on manic…the intention was to get two engines built, chuck them into their respective cars, MOT them, run them in on the way down to Beaulieu, get them on the rolling road, and get back to Scotland again. In addition to this, Simon and his team had to work on customer cars during the day, so nights were spent fitting engines for the Beaulieu bound cars….and pretty much all night, every night.
For those of you who are familiar with SOH 956H will know that it hasn’t been on the road for quite some time. Simon had bought the car from Ade Wildsmith the previous year and the intention was obviously to get it back up and running. However, he never had a deadline in mind until about mid-May when he thought it might be nice to take it to Beaulieu under its own steam. There was an engine in the car, but it was purely for display purposes…there were no internals. The electrics were an unknown quantity, as was pretty much the rest of the car.
For those of you who are familiar with the Cooper S registered
DKG 2C will know, Peter Barker and Willy Cave had rallied the car quite a bit over the previous few years and Southam Mini and
Metro Centre were involved in its maintenance. However, they last looked at the existing engine in 2010, and it had since then done two Monte Carlo Historique rallies, a Rally des Alpes, plus Patricia and I had taken it on Minis to Ireland in 2013. Although nothing untoward had happened with the engine, it needed to be looked at. The idea in the end was to put a new ‘S’ block in, refresh the engine bay (basically paint it red) and get it ready for Minis to
Monte 2014.
So…by the end of May, Simon had probably put in about a week’s work on some engine building. The cranks were in, but there was still significant work needing to be done over the last weekend in May and the following week (prior to Beaulieu). It wasn’t really even agreed upon as to what cars we were going to take down to Beaulieu. Robert
Young had enquired whether we wanted to put a couple of cars in his display, but I said that they wouldn’t be coming.
SOH’s engine bay was already empty, wheels were off and the car was on the ramps. Local member John Heatlie kindly popped up to take a good look at each corner of the car and get them ready. This took a good day or two, but allowed Simon to concentrate on some customer work and also the engines. I dropped DKG off on the Saturday and stripped as much as I could off the engine, trying to minimise the work that Simon needed to do.
As both Patricia and I had day jobs, we left Simon and crew to their own devices for a couple of days. As SOH was the biggest unknown, every night was a late one trying to get to grips with it. As most people will appreciate, you fix one thing only for something else to crop up. By the Thursday before Beaulieu, both cars had engines in, but not exactly ‘plugged in’.
SOH and DKG being prepped Simon and David trying to figure out
SOH’s electrics at about 1.a.m!
Simon receiving the ‘Spirit of the
Event’ award
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All the cars on Southam’s rolling road
So, the Thursday was pretty much trying to get as much done on building the cars back up. Simon was working on SOH which (as anticipated) was going to take a lot more work than DKG, due to the number of years it had been off the road. I concentrated on
DKG. At the same time, David Dyson was on his way down to us as well (from way up North) and running his engine in. The idea was to kidnap him on arrival and utilise all his know-how. Needless to say, as soon as he arrived, he was duly press ganged into action on SOH. The main problem here was that SOH was due for an
MOT on the Friday, and therefore was on the ramps for the whole day on Thursday. This in turn, meant that DKG couldn’t be finished until SOH was off the ramps. Thursday night was very very late… getting the brakes up and running took forever, then David and
Simon were working on SOH’s electrics until about 2am. Once the wiring was sussed out, it was time to call it a night (or morning!) and retire to bed. David was staying with ourselves which is about a 40 minute drive away, so pretty much it wasn’t until 3 - 3.15am that we got to bed.
Friday morning was an early start due to SOH needing its MOT, so we managed to get DKG back on the ramps to finish that one off. Both cars were started for the first time around 11am; SOH was whisked off for an MOT whilst DKG decided to have high oil pressure. In fact it was so high it blew a hole in the oil cooler. After much tweaking, shortening of springs (in the pressure relief valve), and replacing the oil we got it down. With SOH it was the opposite of the same problem, and the oil pressure needed to be increased…we managed to meet in the middle somewhere, around 80psi.
Eventually, both cars were ready for their trip to Beaulieu by about
6pm. David did an oil change on his car, so he was ready for action.
Patricia turned up in her ‘67 Cooper S and we were ready to convoy down. The idea was to get to Preston to eat/sleep there…but as we were running late, the plan changed to eating in Penrith instead.
David and Patricia roared on ahead so as to get the table and food orders in, whilst myself and Simon plodded on down slowly. The plan seemed a good one….
At about 8.20pm (I checked my text messages) it became apparent that one of the cars had pulled over just north of the border due to the bonnet flying open! The ‘go-slow’ cars were still behind and the two cars in front had separated.
On arrival, the scene was pretty much as expected…bonnet resting nicely back against the front of the car. Fortunately, the only damage was to the bonnet…the scuttle remained flat, the windscreen was in one piece... pretty much everything else was unscathed. After a removal of the bonnet, some jumping up and down on it allowed the bonnet to be re-attached. A piece of wire to keep it held down allowed for a bit more confidence and then we were ready to head off again. However, we were now so late that the Penrith meal was out of the question, so we set off to our new food destination of Gretna
Services about 500 yards further along the road.
As our overnight stop was in Preston, we had to keep moving and eventually we got to our hotel at about 1.30am. Although the distance between the services and Preston was just over 100 miles, it seemed to go on for eternity. The next morning, the plan was to drive straight to Brockenhurst but with further fettling needed on the new engines in the car park, we didn’t leave until about midday. After driving through torrential rain (DKG wipers packed up and no RAINEX), all cars safely arrived at about 5pm.
Beaulieu (as probably reported elsewhere) was a great day. The
Scottish region in conjunction with Simon Drew’s Mini Works stand, which Patricia organised, had a fine selection of 15 cars in total and all of them in one piece! As mentioned, Simon received the ‘Spirit of the Event’ award as it felt as if it was for all the shenanigans that had happened (and still yet to happen). This was made all the more poignant as it is in memory of Graeme Allan who was a great friend of
Simon’s and partner in crime on many events.
The return trip was almost as eventful as the trip down, but not quite as much drama. The plan was that as we had 3 cars with new engines, we may as well go via Southam Mini & Metro Centre to have them all put on the rolling road. After leaving Brockenhurst around 9.30 on the Monday morning, we all piled in there at about
1pm. David was first up as the other two cars needed oil changes and more fettling first. The team at Southam were fantastic and to be able to accommodate all of us at such short notice was very much appreciated. Colin was in charge of operations and dragged all the cars through their respective sessions. I think we were all pretty happy with the results…David came out with about 100bhp
@6000rpm, DKG had 110bhp @6200 rpm and SOH was pretty similar as well.
Unfortunately for the Southam team, our presence meant a later evening than usual for them. It also meant an additional night’s accommodation for us as we were running very late. Once
Southam had finished their magic, we were on our way to Lichfield for food and then Preston again for sleep. To cut a long story short, we didn’t get to Preston until 1am! It seems that during the night, every major road in the area was closed for road works and therefore some rather large diversions. I think some locals who were stumbling out of a pub (after closing time) were quite surprised to see a whole bunch of Mk 1 Minis creeping along through a sleepy village at one point!
The next day was the last stretch home…and we all got safely back to
The Mini Works in Edinburgh by 3pm. All the cars were emptied of
Simon’s stash that he had bought down at Beaulieu, and we roared off home before rush hour hit.
A very long and tiring trip indeed, but a lot was accomplished in a very short space of time even though it was self-inflicted. Many thanks to John Heatlie, Southam Mini & Metro Centre, David Dyson and everyone else who was involved in getting these cars ready.
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S o which one of you is Paddy Hopkirk? asked a local retired gentleman who had enjoyed rallying minis in the early 60s. It was late Sunday morning on the 14th June and a convoy of fourteen Minis had just arrived at the Eccles Hotel, near Bantry Bay. Hugh Wyllie and his wife Jan were hosting a Mini Run in Ireland. We may not have had
Paddy with us this time but it is nice to think that he might enjoy the report in the August copy of CooperWorld . of friends, old and new. Both the Ferrycarrig and Sneem hotels accommodated everyone each night, ensuring we could help each other to service and repair the cars and enjoy the “craic” in the bar.
Helping hands kept Mini’s running throughout the event
The ‘Irish Touring Assembly’ road book took the cars the 220 miles from Rosslare to Sneem on day two. The next few days were spent scurrying along white coastal roads, around the Circuit of Ireland special stages, over hill top passes and through scenic valleys around
Kenmare, Killarney, Tillareny and the Connor pass, to name but a few.
The Healy Pass, the Circle of Glen Baugh and several Rally of the Lakes stages were all covered during the event. The road book with ‘tulip cards’ directed the crews over 800 miles of great Mini roads through the beautiful Irish countryside. Each day’s run was led by Hugh and
Jan, with Emma’s white MINI following the last car as ‘get you home’ support. We were all in safe hands so the crews could enjoy both the driving and the stunning scenery.
Pitstop for the “Irish Touring Assembly” at the Eccles Hotel
On the 12th June a convoy of Minis gathered in the sunshine at the ferry port in Fishguard on the Pembroke coast, some 300 miles west of London. Amidst many heartfelt “good to see you again”s and inclusive “nice to meet you”s, stories rapidly started to be exchanged about some Minis that weren’t going to make it to the ferry in time, due to various problems. Faulty wheel bearings and failed CV joints meant that some Minis had never even left home. Fortunately, these resourceful owners were able to take their other fitter/shinier Minis on the trip. (Natural selection turns out to be an important lesson for some Minis and their owners to learn!).
Experienced driving veterans, Tony and Angela Jones, arrived in the ferry port at the wrong end of a tow rope, surrounded by clouds of brake smoke and steam. After hurried discussions with other entrants, their car was withdrawn. However, in a demonstration of total commitment they returned home, jumped into another car, and raced back to Fishguard in time to catch the overnight ferry. As a result, the
Jones were enjoying their breakfast in Rosslare before some of the Mini crews had even risen from their beds on Friday morning!
It was the twentieth run to Ireland to have been organised by Hugh and Jan Wyllie, supported by their daughter, Emma and Tiny. The Irish
Met Office must be Mini fans because the sun shone for the full six days of the event. The touring group quickly became one big ‘gathering’
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Irish Touring Assembly Road Book, courtesy of Jan Wyllie
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Cooper’s collect at the ascent of Connor’s pass
Various cars suffered teething/setup problems on the Friday stages including failed suspension, oil leaks and leaking heater valves. On
Saturday, as Chris left the hotel at the start of the run, his engine died completely causing maximum frustration, following his Hi-Low suspension problems of the previous day. Chris was left with a saga that lasted all day and stretched over 100 miles as, with the generous help of a support car, he tried to identify and find a replacement for his ignition system. Fortunately, in the evening, having lost the entire day’s run, he was able to source a replacement 123 distributor, coil and leads from the ‘spare parts kit’ of another Mini. Then, under the constant attack of midges, Mick, Chris and Phil retuned the timing and managed to fire up the Mini. To everyone’s relief, Chris’ car then performed fine for the rest of the trip.
Chris fired up and ready to go, with a little help from his friends
Younger members of the group, Amanda and Jo, both in their twenties, exchanged stories of learning to drive Minis with their dads, Glenn
Fisher and Ian Wright respectively. Both daughters agreed that despite having enthusiastically passed on a passion for driving and Minis, their fathers made surprisingly reluctant passengers/navigators!
Glenn, always the willing driver, making Amanda wait to press pedals!
During the meal that evening, the group started to get to know each other a little better. Stories were revealed of courtships in the 70s! Phil
Dyson explained how he had arrived to collect Sue for a first date from her home one Friday night. Knowing her father disapproved of suitors on motorbikes, he had tactfully hidden his machine around the corner. He walked to the front door, but forgetting that he had tucked his bike helmet under his arm!
The Sunday morning run started with everyone looking forward to attacking the spectacular Healy Pass. The five mile climb to over 500m at the peak descends rapidly back to sea level through two miles of hairpin bends. The view was spectacular. It was a rare day of perfect visibility and we could see for almost forty miles, north and south from the peak. All were happy to acknowledge just how lucky they were to be there on such a day.
At lunch it was agreed that we, the Wrights, would make an independent, early run to the top of Borlin stage to be ready to photograph the passing Minis. Despite getting lost twice at the foot of the section, we eventually made it to the top of the corrie. Given our lost time, we had to wonder whether we were still ahead of all the other cars or whether we were going to be photographing the sheep for BBC Country File instead!
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A few minutes later, Emma and Tiny pulled over to check we were ok.
We waved farewell to the sheep and chased the leading Minis down the north side of Borlin. Taking the traditional route into the village,
Emma got us ahead of the pack once again. As a result, we were waiting in Kenmare to photograph the perplexed faces of Hugh and
Jan’s followers as they scurried past on the last leg of the run back to the Sneem hotel.
“Hi, how did you get ahead of us, again!” leaving Kenmare on the run back to the Sneem Hotel
The group discussed the day’s adventures in the bar, and over dinner, before taking to their beds. Still ringing with excitement from chasing
Mini’s across the Irish countryside, I (Jo) couldn’t help but let my mind wander as I fell asleep. I imagined that outside in the car park, once the sun finally disappeared in the west, the Minis might just be waking up for a chat of their own...
The Healy Pass & Minis.....Classic
To keep our spirits up, we stopped passersby for any information about the other Minis. We asked a local taxi driver and an American tourist in a hired
Mercedes sports car (but with his own Stetson Hat) neither of whom, fortunately, had seen a convoy of Minis on the road. Shortly afterwards, we were relieved to hear the distant drone of what sounded like one huge
14 engined Mini charging out of the trees at the foot of Borlin. The convoy rapidly ascended the two mile track around the far side of the corrie, flashed through our camera lens, then disappeared around the corner, before total silence returned to the Borlin stage.
Peter happy in his dirty and very fast Cooper S
Hugh, ready to go, gives us an extra second to catch up...........
The Tully’s Cooper S reaches the top of Borlin
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On the penultimate day, the convoy took a challenging route back to
Rosslare, conquering the Mullagnish Circuit of Ireland stage first thing in the morning. After lunch, the final stretch back to Rosslare allowed the drivers and navigators some time to think. ‘To do’ rebuild tasks were noted and extensive spares lists were created and logged. For Graeme and Mark, it was a commitment to a rally spec suspension setting; four fingers rear end, three fingers front.
Dinner on the final night was delicious, a fitting feast for the end of such a trip. People discussed how their love for Minis first started and confirmed that you are hard pushed to find a better way to rekindle that passion than a Hugh Wylie Mini run in Ireland. Ireland has significance in Mini history, thanks to Paddy Hopkirk. It has stunning views and rally stages that beg the question, “Were these roads built for rallying Minis?” But most off all, sat together with the sun setting, the group realised that the trip was all about the “entouragerie”*.
(*Entouragerie. A new word invented on tour by Phil Dyson, meaning the company, the collective, the shared spirit of Mini Enthusiasts.)
Photography & Copy co written by
Jo & Ian Wright.
Kilcorran Lodge Hotel on the penultimate day, still all running!
Over sundowners at the Ferrycarrig hotel, Wexford, the drivers also agreed that it would be a good idea to build a communal spares list for future events, like Minis to Monte. The group was lucky that collectively the spares kits had met the touring groups needs this time. It was agreed that we should share a collective list for the next trip; avoid being all coils and no valves or ‘all fur coats and no knickers,’ as Les Dawson used to say.
Jo Wright, behind the wheel at last
Minis chase up the Healy Pass
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A fter well over half a century as a successful rally and racing driver, Barrie Williams must now be considered as a national motorsport treasure. Although he’s firmly gripped the hem of international success, Barrie remains well grounded and essentially a club man at heart.
He first reached prominence in January 1964 by scoring an epic victory on the International
Welsh rally, a punishing 2-day weekender in
Wales, characterised by only one hour’s break, and spells of impenetrable fog and lethal black ice - sometimes both at the same time!
Make no mistake, his Welsh victory in his new red and black 1071cc Mini Cooper S was no fluke and the relatively inexperienced Williams, co-driven on his first international rally by his good friend John Griffiths, truly earned his spurs by beating a quality field containing such esteemed names as, Roy Fidler, Phil Simister,
Reg McBride, Eric Jackson and John la Trobe.
In fact the results read like a who’s who of the front-running rally crews of the era.
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Barrie’s success, which saw the first international rally win for BMC’s giant-killing Mini Cooper S and, the 50th anniversary of the Welsh Rally’s first running as an international, Almost 200 motorsport enthusiasts were held enthralled for
3 hours. Barrie nostalgically recalled some of his experiences on race circuits and forest tracks of the world, during an entertaining and often hilarious account of his distinguished career in international motorsport.
The well supported evening was organised by the Swansea Motor Club to celebrate its
90th anniversary, in conjunction with Trainer
MINI of Swansea and held at the Village
Hotel in Swansea’s maritime quarter.
The majority of the audience was made up from members of the Principality’s vibrant motor sporting community past and present, with many successful drivers attending including
Welsh rallying legends Jeff Churchill, himself a former Cooper S driver and former Toyota, Audi and factory RoverSport Metro 6R4 driver Dai
Barrie Williams regaling audience with tale of derring-do
Llewellin, winner of the Welsh Rally in 1989/90.
Also present and making the journey from
Brecon was Clerk of the Course on that murky
1964 Welsh Rally, the redoubtable Denis Cardell, who two weeks later would himself co-drive in
Norman Harvey’s Cooper S on the Monte Carlo
Rally that saw the second prestigious win for
BMC’s innovative Cooper S!
During his talk to a hushed gathering Barrie graphically recalled his epic Welsh rally victory. Remarkably, he has tracked down and restored his winning car bearing the distinctive
Herefordshire registration number 120 MNP, which he brought along and parked in the sumptuously carpeted reception area of the hotel, thus adding a nice touch of atmosphere and nostalgia to the rally themed evening.
world if I don’t. With a bit of luck there’s always another race to drive.”
Although now a septuagenarian, Barrie’s pace of life shows no sign of slowing down.
In addition to a packed diary of racing and driving instruction engagements, he’s also proud and an active president of the British
Motor Sport Marshal’s Club, a life member and past Board director of the British
Racing Drivers’ Club, vice president of
Hereford Motor Club, Patron of the Historic
Karting Club and honorary member of the
International Rally Drivers’ Club.
In a career starting in 1957, Barrie has competed in well over 1,500 races and rallies and driven almost every type of car, from thoroughbred sports prototypes to humble production saloons.
Barry told his audience, “I don’t know any other way of life and wouldn’t know what to do without racing. I’ll race anything on four wheels and although I race to win, it’s not the end of the
After 57 years of continuous competitive driving Barrie must now hold the mantle of the world’s most experienced competition driver, as well as that of the ultimate club man. Due to the generosity of those attending, the evening also raised much needed funds for Racing4MND, a charity set up by international racing driver Neil
Cunningham to support research into Motor
Neurone Disease.
Barrie Williams with Cooper S
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Barrie Williams is reunited with Denis Cardell

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Peter Sandeman receiving his class award at the Monte Historique in 2003
P eter Sandeman died suddenly on 26th June after a short illness and his sudden passing was a shock to all those who knew him.
Peter was a true gentleman and with his upright stature and good nature he was a jovial character who was always good company – invariably first to the bar and with a tale to tell. Cars had always played a large part in Peter’s life and his earliest forays into rallying began back in the 1960s when he took out a bank loan to join two others in a Mini Cooper entered in the Monte Carlo rally.
He has been rallying ever since.
Peter ran a small garage in South Nutfield in Surrey for many years and, as well as being a long time member of the Mini Cooper Register, was an active member of the Historic Rally Car Register and ran, for many years, the local Surrey meetings at Nuffield Cricket Club where many summer BBQs were enjoyed by members.
Peter was also very active with the Rotary Club and spent a lot of his time tirelessly working to raise funds for worthy charities. He was a leading light in the
Redhill branch. Peter eventually sold his garage business and retired, moving to
Henfield in Sussex.
In retirement Peter continued to be involved in rallying, taking up organising touring assembly runs with an old rallying friend. He was due to be away on one such event when he was taken ill and all those on his event were deeply saddened when the news reached them of Peter’s untimely passing.
I was fortunate to navigate for Peter on several events, the most demanding of which was the 2003 Monte Historique, where we won our class out of
Reims. The event was snow covered from the start to the finish and despite the atrocious conditions Peter pedalled his 998 Cooper with great skill. I well remember coming screaming into Gap, chasing our time, on sheet ice and slithering the decent into Gap, slicing through other traffic to arrive on time. I had total faith in his superb driving skill.
Peter will be sadly missed by all of his many friends and I am fortunate that
I can say that I was privileged to be one of those friends.
Peter with his trusty Mini Cooper at the finish of the 2003 Monte Carlo Historique with his award and champagne
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Years of experience and skill has spread our reputation throughout the world. At the heart of this success lies a commitment to creating quality products that are a pleasure to own. CRAFTSMANSHIP : The essential principles remain the same: Quality, Strength, Style and Performance
In addition our specialist services include; Electroplating, Hood Manufacture, Interior Trimming, Upholstery
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I attended the above event and displayed my two cars on the Works and
Competition Car stand. I had a fabulous weekend meeting many old friends and some new. I also enjoyed browsing the Autojumble stands etc for those hard to find pieces.
I have in the past organised shows and I know how hard it is to put together a show and run it successfully.
I would like to congratulate Tony Salter and all of his helpers for the marvellous job that they did. A very big well done to them all.
I would also like to thank Robert Young for, once again, a brilliant Works and Competition Car display but also particularly for putting up with my emails and telephone calls!
Kindest Regards
I would just like to thank the Club for the lovely glass rose bowl that was presented to me at Beaulieu in June. It was a big surprise and something that I will treasure as a reminder of my time as Editor of
CooperWorld .
I would also like to thank all the members who came and found me in the Membership tent and around the field at Beaulieu, in order to pass on their thanks and best wishes to me in my ‘retirement’.
It has been a bit strange not having to put a magazine together at the beginning of the month but I am sure I will get used to it! I will be helping the new Editor, Paul Sulma, with the first few editions, if he needs assistance but I am sure he will soon be happy to continue on his own. I wish him all the best.
What a fantastic Beaulieu it was and certainly one of the best in recent years with the added bonus of fine weather.
The biggest let down of the day was the dreadful P.A. system. Those of us within the show arenas couldn’t hear any of Graham Robson’s commentaries – such a shame as he does a good job only to be let down by the P.A. system. This issue must be addressed since loads of folk left early because of it including me.
Congratulations to all the organising team.
Yours sincerely,
On behalf of SKIDZ, I would like to thank you very much for publishing the Paddy Hopkirk gala press release, which supported SKIDZ and the work we do with disadvantaged young people.
As a growing organisation, we are always very grateful for any publicity that ‘gets our name out there’ and lets the public know about the work we do in trying to help at-risk young people to gain skills that will prevent them from becoming NEET (Not in Employment Education or Training).
We are most lucky to have the support of Paddy in helping us to do this and of course of organisations such as yours.
If you would be interested in learning more about SKIDZ then you would be most welcome to visit our workshops in Buckinghamshire to see our work in action, please do just let me know.
In the meantime I thank you again.
Kind regards
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INSURANCE
Our policies come with some great benefits as standard:
Agreed values (for vehicles over 5 years old).
Limited mileage discounts ; the less you use your car, the less you pay.
Multi-vehicle policies ; we can insure multiple cars at extra discount.
Free club arranged track days ; all other track days are on a referable basis.
Breakdown cover included on all our policies.
Extra club discounts for being a member of the Mini C ooper R egister.
A uthorised and regulated by the Financial S ervices A uthority.
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RESTORATION
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REFURBISHMENT
Sadly every Mini succumbs to the dreaded rust. Our Refurbishment service could be the answer. Typically all ‘skin’ panels are replaced and the car receives an external respray. This will bring your Mini to it’s former glory and give it at least another
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OTHER SERVICES
We have a fully equipped workshop and carry over
9000 new parts. We have over 20 years experience and a very skilled, knowledgeable workforce. We are able to carry out any job here is a list of some of our services, please contact us with your requirement: accident repair, mechanical repair, servicing, MOT tests, modifi cation & tuning and re-shells.
Somerford Mini also have a FULL workshop facilities. We are experts at restoring Minis and turn out some of the BEST IN THE COUNTRY. We also offer other services from general repairs and servicing to up-rated engines and suspensions. In fact we cater for anything connected with a Mini. We offer expert advice and professional honest service. Why not visit our ever expanding shop and workshops?
BADGES
MK1 Boot scripts: Mini or Cooper/Seven/Austin
‘S’ Script - MK1 (Large or Small)
1275 or 850 Script / 1000
Austin Cooper / ‘S’ Bonnet MK1
Morris Cooper / ‘S’ Bonnet MK1
Morris Cooper / ‘S’ Boot MK1
Cooper ‘S’ MK2 Boot insert - Austin / Morris
Cooper ‘S’ MK2 Boot bezel
Cooper MK2 Bonnet insert - Austin
Cooper MK2 Bonnet bezel - Austin / Morris
Mini Minor MK1 - Boot
Austin / Morris Cooper ‘S’ MK2 - Bonnet insert
Austin / Morris Cooper ‘S’ MK2 - Bonnet bezel
Morris MK1 - Bonnet badge
Austin MK1 - Bonnet insert
Austin MK1 - Bonnet bezel
£11.16/£8.06/£9.86
£5.05 each
£8.05/£10.37
£12.59
£29.22
£26.71
£1 1.70
£25.07
£1 2.16
£13.82 each
£18.71
£1 1.80/£13.06
£13.82 each
£29.22
£16.38
£17.30
MK3 Cooper ‘S’ Boot
Mini Special boot badge
Speedwell cast badge
1275 GT boot – Red or Black
1275 GT boot – Silver or Black
1275 GT grille badge
Downton rocker cover plate
Mk1 Horn push – Austin
£16.69
£16.52
£16.08
£16.52 each
£16.69 each
£12.00
£10.21
£28.20
B.M.C. Rosettes, S.T. stickers, engine bay/Rocker cover stickers etc all in stock
1275 GT stripes. 8 colours in stock £25.54
Clubman Estate stripe sets
Winged Mini badge (non genuine)
£54.00
£9.00
GB badge (chrome on brass)
Paddy Hopkirk accelerator pedal
£18.00
£8.12
SUSPENSION & STEERING
Spax/Koni gas adjustables (Std, Lowered or Estate) £58.00/£62.16 each
Standard shocks / Gas-a-just £18.38/£33.94 each
Comp bump stop kit (front/rear) Hydro only
Steering racks outright
£23.48
£72.22
Reconditioned radius arms (exchange)
Hydrolastic pipes - Nylon / Copper
Knuckle joint
Swivel joint kit
£70.46
£35.75/ £33.78
£4.08 each
£10.73 per hub
Track rod ends (Genuine / Non Genuine)
Steering rack boot kit (pair)
Front subframe - Front mount / Rear mount
Displacer dust cover
Bottom arm bushes
Tie rod bushes
Front towing eye
Negative camber bottom arms 1.5 degrees
£13.50/£4.96
£5.72
£3.60/£5.70
£7.14
£1.80 each
£1.08 each
£10.20
£51.34 pair
Adjustable tie rods (road use)
Adjustable rear camber brackets
£28.60
£46.90 pair
Adjustable suspension units - Standard / Competition £26.40/£30.13 pair
MANIFLOW EXHAUST SYSTEMS
The only exhaust system with a three year guarantee
Twin box - Side or Centre exit
Single box - Side or Centre exit
Manifl ow stage 2 L.C.B – Standard / Injection
Manifl ow L.C.B Standard / Big bore / Injection
Manifl ow freefl ow suits 850 / 998 / 1098
Van/Estate - Single box / Twin box
Catalyst back - Single / Twin box
£99.18
£73.08
£93.96/£113.10
£73.08/£179.22/£89.62
£73.08
£103.54/£127.02
£92.22/£116.58
OTHER EXHAUST SYSTEMS
RC40 - Twin box / Single box
Works replica rally system (STR807)
Sportex rear box single tailpipe
Manifold gasket - Standard / Big bore
£64.80/£50.03
£191.40
£60.90
£1.10/£3.53
ACCESSORIES
Top quality car covers - Waterproof / Indoor / Dust £91.16/£50.52/£39.02
Clear indicator lens kit including bulbs - Early / Late £7.66/£8.68 pair
Clear rear lens kit including bulbs
Stainless dipstick A+
£41.90
£10.20
Chrome wiper bezels (including nut & gaskets)
Stainless wiper blanks
Chrome twin washer jets (no drilling required)
Deluxe gear knob (leather or wood)
£4.20 pair
£5.10 pair
£5.62 pair
£7.14 each
Steering column dropper bracket
Seat adjuster kit
Carb dashpot covers 1.25, 1.5, 1.75
Grille buttons – Quick release (Black / Chrome)
Rocker cover buttons / T-Bars
Paddy Hopkirk accelerator pedal
Bonnet straps - Leather / Rubber
Internal bonnet release kit
Bonnet pins
Stainless headlamp peaks
Quadoptic Halogen headlamp kit - RHD/LHD
Wheel spacers - 3/8, 3/4 etc
Rear fog lamp
£3.00
£4.08
£7.16 each
£11.28/£8.39
£8.16/£6.96
£8.12
£10.57/£5.26
£35.28
£8.59
£15.26 pair
£39.95/£49.85
£18.85/£20.42
£1 1.74 each
Alloy rocker Cover / Chrome cap
B.M.C. green engine paint - Brush-on / 400ml Aerosol
Trilock locking wheel nut set
Competition top engine steady - 998 / 1275 / injection
Broken steady bar bolt kit
Budget driving lamp set
Dummy RHD fi ller neck
Motolita steering wheels in stock
Mountney steering wheel 13” vinyl
Mountney steering wheel 13” black/coloured leather
Mountney steering wheel 14” wood
Mountney steering wheel Boss kit
K.A.D. Quickshift - Rod / Remote change
Electronic ignition kit - Aldon /Lumenition
Central locking kit
CHROME & BRIGHTWORK
£25.54/£5.40
£11.02/£10.44
£19.92
£25.54 each
From £18.00
£33.17
£9.00
From £170.98
£35.41
£54.17
£77.20
£15.94
£106.68/£63.72
£87.36/£97.87
£101.80
MK1 & MK2 door handles - Single / Pair
MK1 & MK2 Matching handle & boot lock set
£25.86/£51.73
£65.21
Barrel sets (3 matching locks with keys) MK1 & MK2 / MK3 £32.44/£26.72
MK1 & MK2 Van etc, internal door opening handle £27.34
Chrome boot handles MK1 & MK2 / MK3
Period 60’s locking fuel cap
£29.58/£26.35
£19.74
Stainless bumper - Budget / Polished Non Genuine)
Van/Pick-up quarter bumper - Chrome / Black)
£41.41/£60.04
£55.02/£38.77 each
Black bumper (Non Genuine) £33.48
S/S overrider kit x 4 - Undrilled / Drilled (including fi xings) £17.74/£75.73
Corner bar kit x 4 (including fi xings)
Cooper grille - 8 slat
Cooper spot lamp grille - Internal or X release
Spot lights for above
£57.42
£47.86
£89.62 each
£33.17
MK1 Morris Cooper grille
MK1 Austin Cooper grille
MK3 / Mayfair chrome grille - 11 slat
MK1 Austin grille
MK1 Moustache / Moustache whisker
£73.34
£69.88
£69.40
£79.51
£82.66/£9.90
Clips for above
Grille surround kit - 3 piece
Stainless wiper arms (RHD or LHD British made)
Stainless wiper blades (British made)
Stainless door mirror (standard fi tment type inc. plastic plinth)
Chrome plinth for above
Racing ‘bullet’ mirror top quality plinth mounted
Stainless ‘Clip-on’ overtaker mirror
MK3 handle set (3 piece) / with MK1 boot lock
Stainless headlamp stone guards
Period wing mirrors - full range in stock
MK1 & MK2 door bin trim
MK1 & MK2 stainless window channel support
60p
£34.94
£8.99
£7.43
£20.74
£10.03
£34.38
£33.06
£79.13
£15.32 pair
Ask
£12.60
£21.08 each
Door kick plate (suits MK1 & MK2)
Headlamp rim (Genuine / Non Genuine)
Cooper ‘S’ Flat top ashtray
Small hub caps - Chrome / Stainless
£16.48
£16.27/£7.30
£11.40
£19.20/£17.40
Original British made Aston & Monza caps in stock. Please ask
Chrome MK3 number plate lamp
Chrome - Winder / Release handle
Ask
£15.32
£11.65/£12.94
CARPETS & INTERIOR TRIM
Standard carpet set - 9 piece (Black or Charcoal, L.H.D. add 10%) £40.56
Deluxe carpet set - 9 piece top quality, bound edges, tailored to fi t exhaust tunnel, heel mats and seat frame pads-now includes full cross member and parcel shelf carpet - Available in the following colours: Black, grey, green, red, brown, beige, navy, light blue £86.57
Deluxe carpet set - Estate, including luggage fl oor
Carpet mats top quality fully tailored-set of 4
£127.64
£39.94
Carpet underlay kit cut to fi t fl oor £30.38
Under bonnet soundproofi ng set cut to fi t Mini / Clubman £13.54/£16.13
Boot lid liner - tidies frame of boot lid includes screws
Door check straps MK1 & MK2 etc
Dash liners either side of speedo
Bulkhead soundproofi ng pad - Early / Late
£12.84
£10.32 each
£12.84 pair
£13.06 each
Van/Pick-up millboard door liners - black
Dash shelf liner (black)
Traveller wood set guaranteed to fi t top quality English ash
Seat belts: Inertia / Static / Rear lap strap
£785.88
£36.50/£25.28/£16.82
(colours available: Red, blue, gold and grey)
£33.91 pair
£15.32
WE SUPPLY QUALITY PERIOD INTERIOR TRIM,
COBRA AND CORBEAU SEATS!
SEALS & RUBBERS
MK3 door (1970 onwards) / MK1 & MK2 door
Van door rubber (special profi le)
Van & Estate rear door rubbers
Clips for above
Van & Estate door window seals
Windscreen rubber (One piece front/rear) / Wide type
Chrome screen fi ller strip
1/4 light seal - ‘72’ onwards / MK1 & MK2 / Fixed
Glass to frame glazing rubber
Lamp to body seal - MK1 / MK2 / MK3
Sliding window channel - Upper / Lower
Clubman Estate (complete kit)
Vertical draught excluders
Plastic window catches
£13.79/£16.85
£16.85
£29.62 pair
£0.41p each
£26.10 each
£15.32/£13.20
£6.13
£9.55/£10.20/£12.25
£5.1 1 per/metre
£3.12/£8.40/£7.15
£9.54/£10.34 each
£50.04
£6.43 each
£8.06 each
Boot seal - ‘Clip-on’ type / Push-on type)
Arch/side trim - Chrome OE type / Black
Waist seal chrome or rubber - Outer / Inner
Roof gutter trim chrome or black (top quality)
Door check arm seal - Early / Late
£15.01/£14.29
£15.32/£9.00
£14.32 each
£10.21 each
£3.90/£5.95 each
£6.54
£19.92
£92.10/£76.13
£N/A
Filter oil - 400ml / Kit
Crankcase breather
57i kit - MPi / 57i kit - SPi
£25.04
£23.99
£N/A
Special twin carb fi lter including back plate £104.38
M. MACHINE PANELS
We stock the largest range of M.Machine panels in the south. These are superb quality panels made to original specifi cations - the only panels to use in a restoration! Just about any panel you can think of has been reproduced - please ask. Listed below are JUST A FEW examples:
Saloon front to rear fl oor includes inner and outer sill and jacking point to
1st fl ute (also available for Van, Pick-up and Traveller) as above but to exhaust tunnel
MK1 outer sill (4 fl ute)
MK1 saloon rear wing
Van & Pick-up front panel (pressed integral grille)
Cooper ‘S’ front panel
Van & Estate rear valence closing plate
Saloon boot fl oor panels - Side section / Rear section
Van lower rear corner repair (below light)
£98.66 each
£119.36 each
£18.36
£88.09
£173.57
£144.77
£5.40
£23.76/£21.06
£14.04
We stock most genuine Rover and repair panels, examples below:
GENUINE RESTORATION QUALITY NON GENUINE
£95.00/£95.00 Front Wing MK1 / MK3
£175.00/£175.00 Front panel - Pre ’76 or Post ‘76
£19.99
£165.00 each
‘A’ panel (internal hinges)
Bonnet - MK3 & MK1
£51.30/£51.30
£58.99/£54.98
£11.88
£113.53/NLS
£80.00 each
£N/A
Door skin - Internal & External hinges £34.38/£35.82
Door frame repair (bottom) MK1/MK2 & 3 £30.13/£18.65
£37.50/£30.66 Narrow sill - Saloon / Estate £10.20/£13.14
£49.00 Rear valence
£380.00/£379.99 Rear subframe - Dry / Hydro
£N/A
£31.68/£40.06
Van / Estate fuel tank
Rear subframe mounting panel - End / Full
£14.76
£190.80/£N/A
£195.00
£N/A
£61.99/£32.50 ‘A’ panel (external hinges) - Inner / Outer £27.24/£11.04
Panel lists available please ask
WHEEL ARCHES
Standard black plastic arch kit
Stainless wheel arch covers including sill trims
Group two works arch kit (including piping & screws)
Superb quality, no painting required!
W & P style arch kit – (includes piping & screws – concealed fi xings)
Superb quality, no painting required!
Arch to body piping x 4
Cooper Sports-pack arch kit (Genuine Rover)
£25.54
£72.22
£76.60
£97.02
£10.73
£468.90
STAGE 1 KIT (998/1275)
Manifl ow Manifold, RC40 or Manifl ow system, water heated inlet manifold, fi tting kit, uprated needle, tapered air fi lter, gaskets, water pipe, clips, studs
(other combi nations available) - Single box / Twin box £211.14/£235.44
SYKES-PICKAVANT
MINI SERVICE TOOLS
Flywheel puller (UNF/Metric)
Suspension cone compressor (metric/UNF)
Swivel/fl ywheel bolt socket
Ball joint splitter (scissor type/heavy duty)
£26.10
£43.46
£23.48
£26.93
Rear hub puller £1 1.38
Valve spring compressor £21.77
Cylinder honing tool £44.64
Piston ring compressor (ratchet type)
Compression tester
One-man brake bleeder
Oil fi lter remover (super heavy duty)
Feeler gauge set (imperial 10 blade)
Brake adjusting spanner
Disc hub/steering wheel socket (inch & 5/16th)
Windscreen fi ller tool
Wheel cylinder circlip tool
£14.89
£49.88
£10.22
£20.47
£4.20
£5.94
£8.59
£19.90
£1 1.52
CARBS, FILTERS & INLETS
Carburettor re-build kits
Reconditioned carburettors
HS2 & HS4 main jet
HS4 Waxstat main jet
HIF 44 service kit
Water heated inlet - HS4, HIF 6/44
S.U. Uprated needles - Stage 1 & 2 988 / 1275 etc
Choke cable - MK1 & MK2 / MK3
Throttle cable - HS carbs / HIF carbs
Electric fuel pump - Genuine S.U. / Non Genuine
Van Front/Rear fuel pipe (includes tank union)
Facet pumps - Standard / Silver top /Red top
Filter king regulator - Glass or Alloy bowl
Glass fuel - Filter / In-line regulator
From £42.88
From £102.13
£16.85
£32.68
£34.64
£31.32
£10.21
£14.40/£7.31
£3.88/£9.19
£71.77/£69.60
£28.37
£33.19/£63.67/£68.24
£45.94/£46.56
£9.00/£26.57
GOODRIDGE PERFORMANCE LINES
Braided brake line set (4 lines)
Braided clutch hose standard / Verto
Metro 4 pot caliper conversion set
Late Servo brake hose kit
Braided oil fi lter feed pipe ‘92 - ’96
£37.98
£11.52/£16.80
£43.07
£29.89
£64.67
ORIGINAL SMITHS INSTRUMENTS
All gauges available with Black or Magnolia face
Speedo (90 or 130mph or 200kph)
Water temperature gauge (electrical)
Oil pressure gauge (mechanical)
Clock (analogue)
Ammeter (-60 +60)
Voltmeter
Fuel gauge
Dual oil pressure/temperature gauge
80mm setable tacho (10,000 rpm)
Dash mounted tacho pod - Black / Chrome
Oil pressure gauge pipe - Nylon / Braided
Oil Temperature - Gauge / Adapter boss
We are Smiths distributors - other gauges in stock!
BLACK MAGNOLIA
£128.87 £128.87
£30.64 £31.39
£47.90
£57.49
£29.05
£52.13
£58.01
£31.39
£29.05
£29.05
£87.14
£31.39
£31.99
£89.21
£103.85 £107.59
£15.00 £16.80
£7.40
£29.05
£18.90
£19.08
BURR WALNUT INTERIOR PARTS
Dashboards: Walnut, Maple, Alloy etc
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W ednesday, June 11 saw the State Funeral service for Sir Jack
Brabham take place at the Southport Church of Christ on
Queensland’s Gold Coast. It was a superb send off for a man that many people across all walks of life held in the highest regard.
I arrived early to find Jack’s hearse sitting outside the main entrance to the church with a message from Mike Cooper to add to the memorial book on behalf of the Cooper family. Duly added I then, after a little nervousness in view of the ‘State Funeral’ nature of the occasion, was gently ushered to a seat four rows back from the front altar area where the coffin of Jack was sat decorated with a floral arrangement, chequered flag, and Jack’s gold helmet and steering wheel - this sight was when the truth hit home to me
-Jack had really gone.
Gradually the church filled up with some familiar faces and names, plus, I dare say, a lot more humble enthusiasts. I didn’t bother keeping track of time, but the service started some
30 minutes later than intended with the delayed arrival of the
Brabhams. What followed was a welcome from Rev Steve Peach and prayers from Fr Harry Reuss. This then led to Queensland
Premier, Campbell Newman giving his speech on Jack, followed by Paul Andrew (son-in-law of Lady Margaret Brabham) delivering thanks on behalf of the family. Then Geoff Brabham stood to so eloquently deliver anecdotes about Jack and his life of pure gold! I, and suspect many others, would have happily listened to Geoff for a lot longer but the serious nature of the circumstances dictated otherwise. There were two religions at play on that day, one of the faith, and one of motor racing but the service encapsulated both.
Two of Jack’s grandchildren, who have been afflicted with the racing gene, then took to the microphone – David’s son, Sam followed by Geoff’s son, Matthew. Their Pop would have been so proud.
Andrew Cannon then read out a lengthy tribute.
The service then began winding up with another hymn, followed by Fr Harry Reuss standing over Jack’s coffin undertaking the committal ceremony for Jack. Rev Steve Peach then did the
Benediction and from that point onwards Jack’s coffin, aligned by six of the Brabham grandchildren, was returned to the hearse for what was ultimately a Police motorcycle led cortege. In the meantime, everyone filed out of the church and mingled around the entrance. The media could be seen hanging from many vantage points to get their news bulletin or newspaper photos of the occasion.
Although there was never going to be any race pace, Sir John
Arthur Brabham AO OBE, April 2, 1926 to May 19, 2014 took his place ‘on the grid’ in the Holden hearse. Fittingly, at least, it was a very dark British Racing Green type colour with gold lettering, and so effectively the Brabham Racing Organisation team colours.
With Sir Jack having received his final chequered flag as the cortege left the church the media disappeared in haste and the crowd filtered away too. There was an open invitation from the Brabham family to continue celebrating the life of Jack at the Royal Pines resort a few kilometres from the church.
But there were a few old stagers chatting away for a while afterwards at the church. Now as many fellow enthusiasts will attest, recognising a driver or someone involved in the sport is sometimes awkward, especially as the years tick by and grey or less hair etc takes over. Anyway, I took a chance and approached a gentleman who looked like Bruce McLaren’s friend and Jack’s former manager, Phil Kerr. Fortunately, I was saved much
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Tribute to his dad... Geoff was pure gold embarrassment by identifying him correctly. He and his wife Pat had flown in from Auckland, and both being an absolute pleasure to meet.
I had also earlier worked out the former Queensland HWM/
Cooper-Maserati/Lotus driver, Denis Geary had attended and was able to chat with him and his mates – former Qld speedway driver, Gus McClure and 1960’s Qld circuit racer, Graham Ward.
In more recent times, Graham had spent a lot of time with Sir
Jack - taking him out and about. So hopefully you’re getting the picture that there were some important people present at Jack’s send off.
Having arrived at the wake venue we found our way to the Royal
Pines reception area via a lift and, as the doors were about to close, Rev. Steve Peach, who had officiated at the service popped in the lift as well. I congratulated him on conducting the service and he was rightly proud and said “It’s my first State Funeral and likely the last.”
Upon seeing the reception area for the first time it was quite awe inspiring, as the afternoon sun shone through the mass of glass plate. Lining up in the queue for drinks, the person in front of me spun round and there I was face to face with David
Brabham. I gave him and his family my condolences and we briefly chatted and attempted to get him together with Geoff
(who was nearby at the time) for a photo. Ultimately, there were so many things going on that I never got a photo of the pair together by themselves. But I did get the three Brabham sons in

one photo as you will see in one of the photos in this article. Later on, David told me it was literally a flying visit for him and his family – they were UK bound again the following day.
I mentioned above how I could have listened to Geoff Brabham for a lot longer at the church. I could also say that of Phil Kerr. I’m just glad that I plucked up the courage to speak to
Phil and Denis there being a possible
15 or 20 minute period whereby I had
Phil’s undivided attention chatting and bouncing questions off him and wishing I was standing there with a tape recorder.
I can’t thank Phil enough for allowing that to take place. In fact it only came to a halt because Pat had organised another photo for someone.
As the clock ticked by and the sun drifted away, it was time for me to ponder getting on the road back to Gold
Coast Airport at Coolangatta for the flight back to Melbourne. It was a long day by the time I got home at midnight, but I’m glad I was there amongst many others to celebrate the life and legacy of a great Australian, Sir Jack Brabham
– known the world over and humble to the end. This was truly a celebration of
Sir Jack’s life, upbeat and humorous at times with family & friends, colleagues,
Government and Forces dignitaries, fellow race drivers – young and old, media and humble enthusiasts, all there to give Jack the respect he so rightly deserved. Many of those present had travelled substantial distances to be at
Jack’s funeral.
Lady Margaret, Geoff, Gary, David and the extended Brabham family can rest easy knowing that they did a brilliant job and from this humble enthusiast I thank you all for sharing Sir Jack with us.
PS To read Geoff Brabham’s tribute and humorous anecdotes to his dad visit http:// www.speedcafe.com/2014/06/11/geoffbrabhams-full-tribute-sir-jack/
When the flag drops...
The herding of the cats episode... David Brabham, Bob Ilich, Phil Kerr, Sam & Matthew
Brabham, Ron Tauranac, John Judd, Geoff & Gary Brabham. One way or other all members of the Brabham dynasty
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I am pleased to have taken over the position of Competition
Secretary previously and admirably held by Pete Flanagan.
I would be keen to hear from any member who is doing any form of competition in a Mini, so I can keep club members informed of your activities, and advise our members of your successes, I hope.
Similarly, please get in touch if you plan to organize any competitive event in the club’s name, and that includes touring assemblies, which require a Certificate of Exemption from the Motor Sports
Association (MSA).
there competing in our favorite car, gathering compliments from spectators and the Press alike. So, in its 55th year of competition, the flag is still being waved by and at the Mini.
One change that I would like to tell members in the North about is that we have, once again, become members of the Association of
North-Western Car Clubs. So, members in that area (and from the other side of the Pennines) can now enter events in the name of the MCR.
Happy racing and rallying.
The renaissance of the Mini in historic touring car races, (or saloons as we used to call them); the PowerMaxMINI Challenge, plus the continuing Mini Miglia series, not to mention the DEWS sprint/ hillclimb championship, all mean that there are lots of members out
Peter Moss
T here may be some Club members who would like to drive their
Mini Cooper in a competitive event but may consider rallying and circuit racing to be beyond their means.
However, a relatively inexpensive entry into competitive motor sport is to participate in sprinting or speed hill climbing. It is easy to obtain a motor sport speed licence, as there is no requirement to attend training classes or pass a test to obtain a licence for sprints or hill climbing. A standard road going car can also be used. There is no need to have a roll cage or built in fire extinguisher either and most cars only need minor safety modifications. Full details are available from the RAC Motor Sport Blue Book or from the organising club.
A vertical timing strut is required and this can be screwed onto the front registration number position.
I have retired from racing a classic Jaguar saloon and decided to use my
Mini in local hill climbing events in 2014.
My nearest hill climbing venue is at Harewood which is situated between Leeds and Harrogate. There are usually 12 events held there each year from spring until autumn. The events are organised by the Yorkshire centre of the British Automobile Racing Club, and the members are extremely friendly and helpful enthusiasts.
There are several classes one can enter ranging from road going production cars up to 1400cc, to out and out racing cars and there is a website that has a wealth of information:- www.harewoodhill.com.
The photographs taken of my car, by P.W. Pics, show the car on the tarmac course, which is 1448 metres long embracing bends and short straights. The time taken to complete the course is not much more than one minute.
The challenge of speed hill climbing is to drive the course in the shortest possible time. The clock starts when the timing strut fitted to the car breaks the beam on the start line and the clock stops when the beam is broken on the finish line.
So, this is really a great and cheap way to compete in your Mini if you fancy having a go. Good luck if you do.
Andrew Jeffery
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A fter the manic MINI Festival at Brands, with the MINI Challenge in the starring role, we moved up to Snetterton Norfolk, in a support role to the British GT series with Formula 3 and Formula 4.
The MINI Challenge was camped out in the outer paddock grass area, next to the car park. The down side of the meeting was that we had just 2 rounds of 20 minutes, plus 15 minutes qualifying. Most teams came up on the Thursday and had a track day on Friday to make the trip worthwhile. Snetterton is a very fast circuit and has a number of technical areas, one such named the ‘Bomb hole’ being a very ‘Ballsy’ corner to say the least!
Twenty five cars had decided to make the trip: 13 John Cooper Works and 12 Coopers. Josh Gollin had his new build Cooper looking very smart, unfortunately a lack of brakes meant it stayed in the display area all weekend. Another new build Cooper was in the hands of the unstoppable Shane Stoney. His Dad, Chris, rolled Shane’s Cooper at the previous meeting at Brands so Shane built a new one (MINI
One) for himself and let his Dad have his old rolled car with the dents knocked out.
Qualifying on Saturday morning saw the usual sandbagging claims of set up and lack of straight line speed, ABS issues, set up problems, etc. It all turned out as expected with Luke Caudle edging into Pole position from Chris Knox by 0.55 seconds with Neil Newstead 0.49 seconds off. The other JCW’s were all tightly packed. The Cooper
Henry Duprey, first podium, and the scary tree!
Pole went to Shane Stoney (there’s a surprise!) by over 2 seconds, with William Phillips, Matt Hammond and Ricky Page completing the front 2 rows. The first MINI race was to be the last race of the day at
6 o’clock, just as the sun was getting a bit lower!
Race 1 started with the usual mad rush to get into the first bend,
Riches, in the lead, so much so that Grace Williams’ car was pushed straight into the pit lane wall before she had even crossed the start line! It was a large bang and, of course, the safety car was deployed for the next 2 laps while her car was cleared to safety. The race resumed with the inevitable bunching behind the pace car, but Luke and Chris Knox quickly showed the rest of the field why they are former champions. Neil Newstead and Lawrence Davey were having a great battle for the other podium space, while the Coopers of
William Phillips, Josh Gollin, Matt Hammond, Gideon Cresswell and
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Ricky Page had a very tight race behind Shane
Stoney, with so much determination that a waved yellow flag was ignored. Reprimands later to be given as well as points on licences!
Apart from the eventful start a good race, nice and tight and a great crowd pleaser.
Race 2, Sunday morning 10.20 am and we could be home for Sunday dinner at this rate! A reverse grid had Henry Duprey in the Lohen car in pole position next to
Keith Issatt in the Sussex Road and Race
Car. Cooper pole was given to Chris Stoney
(Shane’s dad) run by Coastal Racing next to
Josh Gollin in his old car run by the College of West Anglia.
Luke made it a double win, made all the more easier as Chris Knox had been turned into a spin by the charging Lawrence Davey, later to be dispatched from the lead by Luke as he made his way through the field from the
4th row. In the Cooper Class another show race from Shane Stoney as he had arranged with his dad as to what side they would both go from the grid. It worked and Shane very quickly dispatched the others. The final results, after a number of time penalties were applied for exceeding track limits, had Luke on the top step with Henry Duprey having his first podium in 2nd and Neil Newstead in third as Lawrence Davey’s penalties knocked him down 2 places. So, two thirds for Neil
Newstead in the Oakfield Motorsport run
JCW. Cooper class went to Shane, followed by William Phillips (Excelr8) and Ricky Page
(Sussex Road and Race). Much champagne flowed on the Podium, a very sticky wet
Nikon, and the overjoyed family of Henry
Duprey celebrating his first podium.
David Young
Neil Newstead with two 3rd places
Keith Issatt on 2 wheels
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A fter a break of nine months since the Isle of Man rally in September last year, we started this year with the ORC Canal Rally on
1st June and the Geko Rally Wervik on 14th
June, both in Belgium located about 15km east of Ypres.
David Smalley joined me again for the Canal
Rally in the usual Minispares Cooper S registered 277 BRX. However, a wedding prevented him from doing the Wervik with me and so I was co-driven on this rally by Graham
Carter who had co-driven with me before in
Flanders and the Isle of Man rallies.
After distributor problems last year, we had at the last minute arranged for Swiftune to prepare a 40819 Lucas distributor for the
Canal rally, but the donor unit was damaged in the post and its replacement did not arrive until after the rally. So we ran with last year’s
Aldon version for the first round.
Our main competition on the first round was the Mk1 Mexico of Keith Pettit and
James McCullough. The format was identical to 2013 with the same 3 stages
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We were 2 seconds slower than the Escort on special stage 1, but the distributor problems reared their head again with a loose point’s spring shorting inside resulting in us losing many minutes on special stages 2 and 3. We did a bodge to get back to service where Spen affected a permanent fix which worked fine for the rest of the rally.
For the rest of the rally we took time out of the Escort on every stage, but our early time loss was too much to catch Keith in his
Escort even when he backed off towards the end as his diff was playing up and he wanted a finish.
We did manage a class win and our trip was not in vain as we returned with a car full of Belgium’s best!.
A total of 134 crews, including 39 Historics lined up for the 40th running of the Wervik Rally. We had some interesting competition in the up to 1300cc class with 2 Belgian Minis and a beautifully prepared
1975 Simca Rallye 2, which is quite a rarity these days and not seen in the UK. Henry Hardiment made a welcome return in his well rallied
Cooper S registered 353 ACE, with my last year’s co-driver, Derek
Webb, in the hot seat. Interestingly, both of them live in the same
Norfolk village.
The forecast was warm and dry and we were eagerly looking forward to the class battle and also our fight for FIRC honours against Keith
Pettit’s Escort with our re-fettled Lucas distributor fitted hopefully giving us a trouble free run.
A feature of rallying in Belgium is the practice of cutting the corners to reduce the severity of the bends, and with modern cars’ greater ground clearance most bends are tackled this way, but it does leave a lot of gravel on the road to catch. The first was a mild cut, the second, we were completely off the tarmac ! A very strong sump guard is needed especially on a Mini which we have fitted to ours.
The rally follows the same format each year with 3 stages run in 4 loops totalling 12 stages and 90kms in total. This year special stages 1 and 3 were run in the opposite direction and special stage 2 “Wervik” with its
2 laps was changed slightly.
At the start on Saturday morning Henry’s Mini was leaving an ominous cloud from the exhaust and he retired almost immediately with a suspected blown head gasket. Poor return for all the effort of going to Belgium!
Looking at the stage times after the first loop of 3 stages a pattern was already established. Keith’s Escort and our Mini were swapping times, the Simca was beating us generally by 3 to 4 seconds per stage, the black Mini of Sieben Vandevyver was about 10 to 15 seconds slower than us , and the white 1380 Mini of Cathleen Neyens was well off the pace and being caught by us on the stage. They were to retire after stage 5 with no second gear. At lunch we were 6 seconds ahead of the Escort on stage times but a one minute late arrival at the re-group cost us 10 seconds.
As we improved our stage times to try and match the Simca of Karel
Verschuere and Ruben Boudrez they went even faster and achieved a superb class win, just over a minute ahead of us at the end. Their cornering style in the rear engine Simca was very different to our Mini,
(see pics 6 and 7). They were clearly trying hard!
We continued to battle all afternoon with the Escort but could not pull back the road penalty loss and finished 10 seconds behind at the finish, but our 2nd in class was a good result for the Minispares Mini behind the flying Simca.
Thanks to the Belgian photographers: www.rallydigital.be , Xavier
Mahieux, Jan005, Bert Verstraete, and others.
Peter Horsburgh
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I was invited to take my Mini Clubman 1275GT, Group 1 (GTL 430N) to the above event, rallying with Group B as well as taking part in the demonstration special stage being run on all three days of the event. Surface was all tarmac with as many runs as you could fit in, within a two hour slot in the morning and a two hour slot in the afternoon.
Also attending were Pat Walker in his 8 port Mini Cooper S (540 TDV) and his Ex
-Works Mini Cooper (977 ARX) with Colin Goler. ‘Jumping’ Jeff Williamson came in his Citroen Visa Group B car (NGF 777Y), whereas, Derek Wilkins brought along his CCC GTM (UBD 174G).
This was a first time experience for my better half, Marley, and on the first day Jumping Jeff elected to get out on the stage first taking Marley as passenger. She returned, not quite white faced, and sat into my spare seat for the first of our runs. Whilst waiting to start the stage Pat was returning in the
8 Port and jumping straight into ARX. He was going to be a very busy man over the three days.
Marley was very quiet in the car on the stage as there were no instructions to give other than reminding me about lapping and it was not until the last day she said after the final run “You frightened me that time”.
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Derek was having problems with his ‘rocker arms’ on the Saturday and decided to change them before going to the Blyton Mk 1 Performance day on the Sunday before returning to Donington on the Monday.
Altogether a brilliant weekend and hopefully the next event for me and GTL will be the Manx International Rally (Demonstration run) on the stages in front of the main rally with RW Group B in September.
GTL has been to the Isle Of Man Manx Rally previously getting a third in class in 1978 with Bill Barton on his way to winning the class overall in the Sedan Products/RAC International Rally Championship. Then in 1980 I failed to finish having collided heavily with a large earth bank on my way to winning the class overall on the Castrol/Autosport/RAC
National Rally Championship.
Tom Bradley
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Beaulieu Display
Beaulieu, for the Ex-Works &
Competition Car Register, was a great success. We were placed back in our old position, adjacent to the access track by the Information caravan. This attracted many visitors all day – and apart from the dust, it is the best place for these cars of ours. We had a record number of thirty one cars booked into display.
Sadly we had two no shows, which is a shame as the resulting gap looks like a missing tooth. Apologies were made by their owners and accepted.
The promised late Monte Carlo car display, because of the necessary rearrangement of the field due to the removal of the Beaulieu marquee, was amalgamated within our display. So we headed the show with five Group A cars and one group N car from the 1990s.
Bryan Purves’ lovely ‘last of the Works Minis’ was in pole position with P246 WFH, followed, all the way from Luxembourg, by Jim
Writz and his family with D555 GRX – a car I regret to this day not buying when it was offered to me. My 94 Monte car L333EJB was next and these three cars, spanning just a few years, looked good together. Simon Cottingham brought along his Autocar prize winning Rover Cooper. This car was a display version of the Hopkirk
94 Monte car and was offered as a prize once its display duties were over. No stranger to Beaulieu, Jim Partridge brought out the evergreen, well green and red, Eddie Stobart car A13 GPN. The car was entered on numerous WRC events, in the hands of the Plant brothers from 94 to 97. New to Beaulieu was Malcolm Huxley in his fully restored Safari Mini that he acquired from Jeff Hignett. First seen at the NEC a couple of years ago, the car is just so different from any other car we see. Having competed on the Safari rally no less than five times, it is a credit to Malcolm that he has restored the car so well and it too is another ex Plant brother car.
Andrew Bond’s beautiful square front YMO 886J was looking as pristine as ever with Andrew continuing to change and update little bits and pieces to improve the car. With a couple of people building replicas of the car, he spent much of his time explaining the finer points of the car. Andy Harrison of AceSpeed brought along James
Martin’s OBL48F as James was away filming in Manchester. Peter
Smith, James’ mother’s partner, brought 8 EMO, James’ other Works car and these two cars always attract a lot of interest. It was kind of James to loan out the cars. John McIntosh has not shown his very original Work car LBL 590E for a long while now and I’m grateful to
John for struggling to get the car through an MOT and fit for Beaulieu.
The final hurdle was to get the fuel pump to work – this I advised changing to electronic in the future.
Peter Moss brought out DJB 92B, always nice to see, and this made up a trio of 1964 Works cars with John Littman’s CRX 90B and
Chris Spennewyn’s sister car CRX 88B. Sadly, work commitments prevented Al Vines bringing CRX 89B to complete the set. I noted that John Littman had returned the car to steel wheels after using
Minilites in Ireland last September. Pat Walker rounded off the Works cars with 977 ARX. This car continues to be the most used of any of the Works cars, and Pat, despite his advancing years, is as keen as ever to use the car and have it seen. Top man.
We had a few more contemporary race cars displaying this year.
Dave Boswell kindly brought along two icons from the late 1970s
British Saloon Car Championship. The first, being the DataPost
1275GT and the second the Richard Longman Patrick Motors
1275GT. This latter car has been superbly replicated by Nick Swift
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and all the lads at Swiftune and it showed very well at Goodwood earlier this year. We were also fortunate to have Richard Longman there on the day and he was happy to talk about the cars and his achievements throughout the day – ably assisted by Graham Robson interviewing the great man. As a marked visual contrast, Richard
Humphrey brought along his lovely Britax liveried replica – always an eye catcher and this was topped off by the stunning Cooper Car
Co racer of Mike Mark. We were again treated to this car being fired up and listening to its sewing machine like running - such a great testament to Mike’s skill as an engineer that he has the car running so sweetly and with all that power. Finishing off the racers was Mike
Feetham in his Mini Sprint, which has seen much use, built by Neville
Trickett in the 1970s - it still looks the part.
Turning now to the truly excellent replicas we have in this register, we had David Dyson’s YMO replica showing for the first time, with the number YMO 881K; the car looked superb. David is a stickler for detail and it showed well in how the car was presented. Martin
Dimond’s LBL6D replica was looking as good as always. Paul Clare, with his Alpine Rally replica, was delighted with the attention that the car received from Paul Easter, being as it had his name on the wing.
Paul Eeles continues to improve his 67 Monte replica, now sporting gold Minilites. As always the replicas we show are all first class examples, researched thoroughly in almost every detail.
Historic rally cars always form a major part of our display and Tom
Bradley, following the example of Dave Boswell, displayed two cars.
The first HUS 718T the 1275GT, which competed on the Rally D’
Antibes in 1986, a brilliant event over many of the Monte stages but run in the summer. Tom’s second car there was also a 1275GT, this one the familiar GTL 430N. This group 1 car had several class wins on national events and also competed on the 1986 D’Antibes Rally. Both cars were looking immaculate and it’s great to see square fronts again.
Another new car to Beaulieu was John Cadwallader in his historic rally car, based around XJB 308H, the World Cup and Scottish Rally
Works Mini. John uses the car and was last seen out at RaceRetro on the rally stage. Barbara Alexander was showing Coburn Improvements successful rally car EBP 970C, a car that she shares with husband Mike on Minis to Monte events. The car competed on numerous Montes and
Alpine rallies in the 1960s and is still going strong. Then Barrie Williams brought 120 MNP which won the 1964 Welsh Rally; it also did a dozen other internationals in its life and numerous Autocross events. Finally,
Pat Walker, the third member to display two cars for us, brought along
540 TDV his disgustingly quick Cooper S with its short stroked engine and 8 port head with Amal carbs. It started life as a rallycross engine for
Hugh Weldon and ‘Jumping’ Jeff Williamson. All in all, we had a superb display, probably one of the very best we’ve put on, so thank you to all those who took the time and trouble to display these great cars. I know it was appreciated by many.
Ron Crellin showing a photograph to Paul Easter and Den Green of
GRX309D that he brought along together with other memorabilia

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One notable absent car from our Beaulieu display, despite my trying my very best to get it there, was GRX 309D. This was a great disappointment, as so much interest had been generated by the discovery that Paul Bates’ car had GRX 309D’s first bodyshell.
Nobody was more disappointed than Ron Crellin, who’d journeyed down to see the car, armed with press photos, rally reports and even the car’s original rally plate from that rally of the Flowers event to show the owner. The car was special to Ron as this was the first drive he had with Paddy Hopkirk, and it would have been great for both Paddy and Ron to see Paul’s car and for Paul to be able to ask these two gentlemen a bit about it and the event. But I guess
Paul had his reasons for not bringing the car.
33 EJB replica
Many at Beaulieu would have seen the replica of 33 EJB that Paddy
Hopkirk now owns and is looked after by MiniSport. The car was featured extensively in the June edition of Mini Magazine. The car was built by Graham McConnell in Northern Ireland and was built as a faithful replica of 33 EJB – Graham being not alone in thinking that the 33 EJB in Gaydon was not a great exhibit to commemorate
Paddy’s famous Monte win, so he set about building a replica. As the build progressed towards being finished, it was decided Paddy would drive the car at the head of the Gala parade, held in his honour, in Belfast earlier this year. Unfortunately, Graham was too ill to accompany Paddy as planned, and sadly he died shortly after the event. It was his wish Paddy should have the car, so Paddy bought the car from the family.
Well Beaulieu was a successful day especially as the sun shone throughout the day, a welcome sight after previous years of much rain.
The Mk1 Register display was well supported by three good cars. Firstly,
Dave Ball brought along his car AMR
232B, an Austin 998cc variant in old
English white. This car was last years’ winner of the ‘John Kelly’ award, a car chosen by John Parnell as the car that the late John Kelly would have liked to have taken home with him. Stan Gibbs
displayed KMK 741C, a Morris 998cc variant finished in Almond green. Stan is a frequent visitor to many shows in this car which he restored himself. Finally, Andy Calderwood brought along XFO 149, another
Morris, but this time originally a 997cc variant, and this car belonged to the late Chas Harris, a close friend and also keen Hampshire member. Andy finished the restoration that Chas started and, now in its modified form, uses it in hill climbs and sprints as Chas had always intended.
Most members must have seen the recent TV series For the love of cars shown on Channel 4. This featured ‘Life on Mars’ actor Philip
Glenister, and the series showed several classic cars being restored and eventually being auctioned off at the end of the series. Despite the MK1 Cooper from the series being described as ‘not quite finished correctly’ (I have not seen it in the flesh I might hasten to add), the series did make good TV - much better than some of the
USA based programmes of a similar theme. Two MK1 members made up the group of cars for the shoot at Millbrook proving ground, again
Andy Calderwood and Ermano Passerini both with their Almond
The 33 EJB replica looking much better at The Festival of Speed with its correct size door numbers
So the next words I write are very difficult because, despite the headlines in Mini Magazine saying that the car is “Even better than the real thing”, I thought there were a good number of things wrong with the car. It is difficult to criticise someone’s hard toil, especially when they are no longer with us but this is not a great replica - yet. Perhaps, as Graham struggled with ill health and with the Gala date looming fast, corners had to be cut. I understand that Bill Price and Gerald Wiffen had a look at the car at Beaulieu and gave an indication to Paddy and Chris Harper of MiniSport of a few things to correct. Not sure quite what work MiniSport will do, as I guess that is dependant on what Paddy wishes to spend on the car - but it would, in my view, be a shame not to complete
Graham’s work and make it the perfect replica of 33 EJB he’d intended it to be. Encouragingly, when I saw the car again at the
Festival of Speed, at the end of June, it was looking better with the correct sized numbers on the door, which visually made a big difference to the car. I do hope when we see it next it will be a much better car.
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MK1 Display green cars. Although sadly there was not much footage on the final cut, I heard that much ‘pizza’ was eaten and generally it was a good day out especially over the ‘Alpine’ course.
That’s all for this month,
Looks like we got away with it then, fantastic weather for Beaulieu despite a torrential down pour on the drive down from the Midlands on the Saturday making me a little worried.
The Mk11 ‘S’ register was well represented with four cars on display.
This was my first chance to get a close look at Nidge Ratledge’s recently completed car WMU 211G. I’m not normally a fan of cars painted in non original colours but the very deep purple almost black metallic paint on
Nidge’s car really works and looks fantastic. Certainly the car drew many admiring looks and comments all day. Also on display was Neil
Anderson’s superb and well known Tartan red and black car EVW
220G, Pete Cullen’s equally impressive Tartan red and Snowberry white car PRC 48 and finally, Peter Barrett’s recently refreshed
Snowberry white and black car NOB 453F, again looking superb.
The display was busy all day with people asking questions and taking pictures. I’m sure these cars will have inspired a few people to finish a restoration or go out and buy a Mk11 ‘S’.
Thanks to the guys for taking the time, trouble and expense to bring their cars as it was much appreciated by all. Also thanks to the organising team for putting together a fabulous event, everything seemed to go very smoothly from start to finish and that’s not achieved without a lot of behind the scenes effort.
To the register then, and a car recently recorded via the internet caught my attention due to its registration prefix. As you probably know from press shots and brochures, many of the cars registered by BMC/BL had the Birmingham prefix ‘O’ so when I saw POK
278G I thought this might be something a bit out of the ordinary.
Contacting the owner, Davis Pickerill, proved that this car had a very interesting history.
POK 278G is an El Paso beige and white Morris built on 12th
December 1968 that was not registered until May 1st 1969, but unfortunately neither the despatch date and dealer were not recorded on the heritage certificate. David bought the car way back in 1978 and the story of the car’s previous life is intriguing.
Going back to 1978, David had recently bought the car and his father, a dentist, was running a surgery from the family home.
Arriving home one evening in the ‘S’ David was followed up the driveway by his father’s next patient. Striking up a conversation, he looked at the car and thought that he remembered it and also thought that it had been stolen at some time. Putting David at ease he said everything was alright but he would check his facts.
Subsequently, he confirmed that it was the same car (he could not think why he remembered the number) and that the following had happened when he was an apprentice at Longbridge.
The car was stolen before it was ever registered and when recovered, had been covered in black mastic (underseal?) perhaps to disguise its age. The car was taken back into Longbridge, stripped down and rebuilt and then sold to the first owner a David Depper, who David thinks may have been the quality manager/supervisor at Longbridge at the time. This probably explains why BMIHT had no recorded despatch date or dealer and why the car was not registered until 1st May 1969. David thinks that David Depper sold the car to his ‘No.2’, a Roger Deakin some time in 1971, who then kept it until late 1972. In the mid eighties David rang Longbridge and spoke to either David Depper or Roger Deakin who confirmed they had owned the car. David has not been able to trace the history between Roger Deakin and the person he bought it off, a chap named Neil Preston (not the Neil Preston of the ‘twini Mini’ fame) although Neil thinks it was owned by a quarry company somewhere local to Birmingham.
Fast forward some years to a barbeque party at David’s brother in law’s, when David was telling his neighbour the story and he
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The car has the following unique/rare features:
1) Working vertical element (like Ford’s quick clear windscreen) heated rear screen.
2) Steering lock, possibly an export lock. The usual position for the ignition key is covered with a professional looking chrome plated cover.
3) The steering wheel is a Clubman Type but the centre boss cover is plain having been powder coated the same as the rest of the wheel. Again this looks to be professionally done.
4) Front seats are the high back “S” type.
David does not know when these items were fitted, but has always thought it could have been when the car was rebuilt after being recovered. An intriguing history then, if you can help to fill in any of the gaps please contact me and I’ll pass the information onto David.
That’s all for now.
As you can guess, the majority this month’s magazine is taken up with Beaulieu - and why not? It was very well attended and the weather was glorious.
So my thanks go to Ken Hunter, Simon Gentle and John Matthews for bringing their cars along to represent the MkII Register. However,
Simon Gentle’s earlier MKII Boot Lid
Simon was lucky to make it, having suffered a minor breakdown on the journey to the show. It was an ideal opportunity to see cars in the metal that I had mentioned in my previous reports.
The three cars varied in condition and specification from standard to concours. Ken Hunter’s Snowberry White car is a fine example of an unmolested original car. Sure, some mechanical parts have been replaced due to normal wear and tear, but the body nor interior have undergone any restoration. John’s car ‘Dusty’ has undergone a major restoration and is very well finished. Simon, as previously mentioned, has carried out most of the restoration work on his car himself. A paint sprayer by trade, the finish is credit to his work and the attached photos do not do it justice. Even with the uniqueness of the car, Simon chose to replace the original MkIII boot lid with an earlier ribbed MkII example because he thought it looks more original. I just hope he has kept the original.
It was good to meet and chat to quite a few MkII owners during the day. During my usual tour of the car parking, I found 8 more MkII
Coopers. Unfortunately, all were locked and the owners away enjoying the show. 11 cars is not a bad turnout but hopefully with a few restorations scheduled for completion next year perhaps there will be a better turnout in 2015.
When carrying out a restoration obtaining those last few parts can be a major issue. Chris Sprason has contacted me asking if I know of a supplier for the heater duct that goes from the back of the grille to the heater. I have offered a few suggestions but if you know of a good supplier or have got some leftover from you own restoration, then please let me know and I will pass on the information to Chris.
Well that’s it for now.
Happy Coopering.
Beaulieu 2014 MKII Cooper Display
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There was one of the best turnouts of Mk 3 S’s at Beaulieu for many a long year with at least ten in attendance. Many thanks to Phil
Splett, Rob Sharman and Ray
Kershberg for putting their cars on the Mk 3 S display.
There were at least three examples in the concours as well, with Scott
Turner’s Aqua car coming a very close second in the Masters Class.
I’ve had a growing number of enquiries recently about Mk 3 S’s for sale, probably because the Mk 1 S has become so very expensive nowadays. The one I mentioned last month, BHA 813K, which had failed to sell on Ebay has apparently found a new home.
I received an enquiry about Mk 3 S colours and which is the rarest.
As it stands there is a solitary Blue Royale car on the Register, namely THR 591J, although it may have changed hands and colour in the last couple of years. THR is an early car built in June 1970 but not registered until the November. If the current owner is out there it would be nice to get an update on the car. Blue Royale which is a dark shade of blue was only available on the Mk 3 Mini range for about nine months.
Almost as rare is Antelope which was around at the same time as
Blue Royale but lasted a bit longer. There are only four cars known; and of those four one of them may have been subject to a colour change. Incidentally, people seem to confuse Antelope and Bedouin.
Antelope also appeared on a few late Mk 2 Coopers and is, in my opinion, quite a nice shade, similar to a milky coffee whereas
Bedouin is often described as hearing aid beige, although it may even be more wishy-washy than that. Bedouin is certainly my least favourite Mk 3 colour followed by Blaze but beauty is, of course, in the eye of the beholder.
Welcome to Keith Hook who has registered his Mk 3 S TDL 379J which he bought last year. This was a car that I was missing a few details on, so it’s nice to fill in a few gaps. Welcome also to Simon
Johnstone who has filled in a few gaps in the details of BBB 31J. BBB has spent most of its life in the north east until Simon bought the car in 1996 and made the long journey south to Kent.
And finally, thanks to Stuart Batstone for registering his car, UMR
977J. Stuart’s car is slightly unusual in that the chassis number isn’t part of a sequence but just one sole Mk 3 S on its own. BL (&BMC before them) generally allocated Cooper & S chassis numbers
DTX 904J looking resplendent in Antelope in blocks of varying sizes. For the Mk 3 S these blocks were up to as many as forty five and as small as three but there are a few individual cars out there and Stuart’s is one of those.
That’s all for this month.
I start this month’s report with an apology for my non-appearance in the July issue. As I delve ever deeper into the production elements of 1990s
Rover Minis, so the learning curve gets steeper. At the time, I was researching the MEMS units used in Spi and Mpi cars. Trawling through reams of
Rover parts microfiches, plotting the bewildering number of changes, I soon began to wonder what I had taken on.
In the end I ran out of time, or more to the point, our dear editor, Paul Sulma, did. All being well, that report should appear next month... and any errors in it will all be mine!
Moving on, I would like to thank Peter Selby, Ian Chilcot and Richard
Williams for displaying their cars in the Beaulieu arena. Each of these three vehicles had something special to offer. The likes of Peter’s
Mainstream model were once the doyen of Mini meetings in the early
1990s. Now these carburettored icons are an endangered species.
For pure Rover Cooper ownership without the encumbrance of an
ECU, and at a very affordable price, a Mainstream Rover Cooper is one of the best buys going. I wonder how long it will be before enthusiasts wake-up to the true worth of this forgotten successor to the RSP model.
Ian Chilcot’s newly restored Spi car is noteworthy because of its
White Diamond / Black colour scheme which was deleted as a customer option in the spring of 1995. White Diamond cars with their distinctive black bonnet stripes and decals were never numerous in the first place and are becoming an even rarer sight these days.
Congratulations Ian on giving yours a new lease of life.
Richard Williams’ May 1994 British Racing Green / White Diamond car had covered less than 2,000 dry miles from new. Serviced,
MOT’d, and in stunning factory fresh condition, it was sold at
Beaulieu for £12,750. This may sound like serious money, but at least the lucky buyer knows exactly what he/she is getting when compared with the present minefield that is the market for MkI
Cooper S’s.
Is it a hearing aid? No it’s a Bedouin MK 3 S
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Freshly restored - Ian Chilcot’s 1994 White Diamond Rover Cooper
New John Cooper Accessories
In my February 2014 report I flagged up that Michael Cooper was planning a re-launch of the John Cooper engine conversion kits and other genuine accessories that proved so popular during the
1990s. True to his word, the range is now available online at www.
coopercarcompany.com. Working in partnership with Mini Sport Ltd,
Michael showcased his impressive display of what was on offer on his trade stand at Beaulieu. This was just a taster of what is to come once the project gets into full swing. I should add that it was Mini Sport who supplied most of the cylinder heads and all of the valve rocker assemblies, alloy rear brake drums, Cooper brake conversion kits and adjustable suspension to John Cooper Garages in the 1990s, so this present venture has a logical and well established history behind it. Chris Harper, Mini Sport’s MD, was at pains to emphasis that, as in the past, the new John Cooper cylinder heads and tuning kits will be produced to the original unique Cooper specifications. Indeed, everything they produce under the Cooper name is carefully vetted and approved by Michael Cooper himself. Out of respect for period collectors, all of the new accessories carry a subtle change of design to the 1990s originals. Another important selling point is that all products are manufactured in England to the highest quality, mostly by Mini Sport themselves, or are sourced from leading British brands such as Moto-Lita.
Old Accessories
Few cars have been accessorised quite as much as the Mini, and re-visiting what John & Michael Cooper were offering in the 1990s prompted me to examine what Rover themselves were doing during this period of the Mini’s renaissance.
It has to be said that Rover were very slow off the mark when it came to add-on extras for Mini owners, and when they did finally act, it was all very low key. From the very start, owners of Mainstream Rover
Coopers could purchase from their Rover dealer an `Italian Job’ pack
(I think that was what it was called), consisting of bonnet stripes and two auxiliary driving lamps, to make their car look like the higher spec RSP limited edition model. Many Mainstream cars recorded on the register in 1990/1991 had these fitted and it was in response to this demand that Rover included bonnet stripes and twin auxiliary lamps as standard when the Spi model was launched on 29th October
1991. It goes without saying that any Rover dealer could already supply items such as bumper overriders and mudflaps. These had been available for decades.
The earliest dedicated Rover Mini Cooper accessories brochure I can find is Publication No. 4563 detailing the Monte Carlo decal pack to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Paddy Hopkirk and Henry Liddon’s
Monte Carlo victory in 33 EJB in January 1964. The concept sounds simple enough but what this brochure demonstrates is the subtle art of the marketing gurus to encourage the customer to spend more money.
The basic pack included Monte Carlo logo decals for the bonnet, bootlid and rear quarter panels, a John Cooper signature for each front wing, white rally door squares, waistline stripes, and white over black Cooper wheel centres. The price, including Vat, was
£75. But it didn’t end there. To make your car look even more distinctive you could also add a Mini Cooper-branded sump guard (with anti-corrosive coating), four black fabric floor mats, rear mudflaps, and tyre valve caps, purchased either as individual options or for a combined price of £98.80p. And for those who wanted a finishing touch of traditional interior ambiance, a handcrafted walnut veneer fascia with an analogue clock could be specified for £245 (this became a standard fitment in the spring of
1995). Finally, for an extra £80 you could swap the existing Philips
R652 stereo radio cassette player with a superior R750 model featuring radio data system (RDS) on FM - yes, I know this may sound old hat by today’s standards but don’t forget, dear reader, we are talking 1994 here.
But the real talking point with the Monte Carlo accessory pack (as that is what it really is) was the option of having your car’s engine performance enhanced with a 77PS (76 BHP) John Cooper `Si’ conversion, the details of which I reviewed in my June 2013 report
(pages 45-48). I don’t have Rover’s price for this option but John
Available now - Original spec John Cooper engine conversions
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Cooper Garages were charging £783.02p for the standard `Si’ upgrade in early 1994 (the price rose to £858.03 later that year).
Summing up, if you opted for the entire January 1994 Monte Carlo accessory and engine upgrade package, the additional cost on top of the £6,995.00p for the standard Rover Cooper 1.3i would be at least £1,281.82p - an 18% add-on premium. And who wouldn’t want to have a car that looks as good as the one in the picture? A lot of people evidently did which was why Rover released the Monte Carlo
LE on 20th July that year.
After BMW took control of Rover on 31st January 1994, the emphasis on making more money out of the Mini went into overdrive, and selling high margin accessories was an important part of that strategy. In August that year Rover published its 16-page Approved
Accessories brochure, AKM 570. The first edition (undated) shows a fully kitted-out Monte Carlo decal Rover Cooper (not the LE) on the cover, parked on a cobbled street (possibly in Oxford?) illuminated by an old style street lamp. When the brochure was reprinted (to incorporate Rover’s new marketing slogan; “Above all, it’s a Rover”), with identical content and the same undated AKM 570 publication number, the front cover was revised to show a lifestyle image of a young couple unloading their water-skis from the roof rack of the above same car.
Inside the brochure, the choice of accessories was divided under six headings: Comfort & Practicality, Safety & Security, Mini Accessories
- designed to fit your lifestyle, Roof Carrying, Styling, and Audio.
Comfort & Practicality included items such as an electric sunroof, floor mats, rear mudflaps and a halogen headlamp conversion. Safety
& Security covered driving lamps, child seats, a first aid kit & warning triangle, a fire extinguisher and high mounted stop lamp, Roof
Carrying advertised alternative roof racks, ski clips, a cycle carrier and lashing straps. The Styling section shows alternative alloy wheels, wheel arch extensions (flares) steering wheels, gear knobs, valve caps,
Monte Carlo decals, and a wooden dashboard fascia with matching door cappings and furniture. The Audio section offers a 6 CD disc auto changer and head unit.
Oxford Street? - The first edition AKM 570 Approved
Accessories brochure
Over inflated - Mini Cooper tyre valve cap prices almost doubled in 18 months under BMW ownership
In all, the price menu issued with the AKM 570 brochures lists more than fifty items and variations. I have two different price lists, neither of them dated, save for reference to the availability of certain items.
However, what is interesting is the pricing policy adopted for the most popular items. For example, in January 1994 a pair of rear mudflaps and a set of tyre valve caps would have cost you £14.30p and £6.00 respectively. Less than 18 months later those same items are marked up at £22.33p and £11.75. That is the difference between pre and post BMW ownership.
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Compared with those of 1960’s Minis, Rover Cooper accessories and decals are still relatively easy to source and affordable to buy. And now that genuine John Cooper parts and original engine conversions are also back on stream, enthusiasts can add both authentic finishing touches to a bodywork repair or restoration and upgrade their car’s engine with the confidence that what they need they can readily find.
In a future report I will review Rover’s extensive range of post 1996
Mini-branded accessories and merchandise.
Until next month...
Have an enjoyable August.
You may remember me mentioning a few issues back my handsome French brother, Greg Cambe, and the efforts he made in making reproduction horn push badges for the Leyland Innocenti Cooper
1300 Export, and then the pre Export models that used the oval ‘i’ badge.
Well,Greg has now managed to reproduce the green and yellow ‘IGM
4579 S’ decal that was placed on the airbox of all Innocenti Mini models.
At first glance, it seems like a sticker, but on closer inspection, it is actually a waterslide decal.
Greg has found a company in France that was willing to experiment with various techniques in order to replicate this decal as closely as possible.
When stickers are reproduced, the company making them usually has the help of a computer and because of this, the artwork is often as
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At the time of writing this report, I have just received photos of the Castoro (brown) Cooper 1300 Export belonging to member
Brian Cross.
A few bits and pieces needed doing to Brian’s car before it was treated to a fresh re-spray in two pack paint. It had already undergone a full restoration some years ago, so nothing major needed doing….just a tidy up.The car looks fantastic Brian!
That’s all for this month.
close to the original as the software will allow. This sometimes means that the font or styles of letters are sometimes too precise. The original
‘IGM’ decal has some irregularities, which from a purist’s view, should be replicated as well. However, through perseverance, both Greg and the company have managed to produce a very accurate decal.The decal is available for the Leyland Innocenti Mini Cooper 1300 Export, but if there is enough demand, then Greg will look at having a batch made for the pre Export Coopers. The main difference between both decals is the ‘I’ logo and the ‘Leyland’ logo at the start of the decal. The spacing between the logos and letters is slightly different as well.
Please show some support for Greg and order a couple of these decals to complete the original factory spec look to your airbox.
Contact me and I’ll pass on his details.
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Another short report this month I am afraid but, back to normal next month
I hope.
Firstly, the National Mini Cooper day at Beaulieu. We were planning on having three Supers displayed this year; my November ‘61, Almond green and white Austin Super Seven, Sally
Brown’s September ‘61 Smoke grey and white Morris Super Mini-Minor
and Dave Pegrum’s ‘62 Smoke grey and white Morris Super Mini. Sadly, on the day only two cars were displayed as Dave’s car broke down thus failing to complete the journey. Nothing serious, fortunately, nevertheless it suffered the indignity of having to be recovered and trailered home by the AA. Some may remember that the previous owner of Dave’s very low mileage Super heavily modified it with period extras, including lowered suspension. Dave has now completed the reverse of this work so now the car is again completely standard.
Nevertheless, our two exhibits created a great deal of attention, as always, with a number of people saying that they once owned a Super but at the time had no idea what it was. No new discoveries though were made on the day.
It was good to meet a number of people at the show face to face who
I had previously communicated with by phone or e-mail. Thanks to all for coming up and introducing themselves.
In the past many people complained about the performance of the standard 848cc engine and thus often substituted it for a larger unit.
However, 848 engines are wonderfully sweet and quiet when in good condition and, albeit they are not fast by today’s standards, in their day they were not considered as slow.
The trip to Beaulieu of 240 odd return miles (partly because of lots of closed roads and diversions!) in my Super was thoroughly enjoyable, and an exciting drive too when the car only has standard single leading brake shoes fitted, cross-ply tyres and no seat belts! The standard 850 engine, when on tune and running well, is simply wonderfully sweet and quiet. Cruising happily along
A and B roads at around 60 mph, not only was my car keeping up but at times was well ahead of other traffic. Having said that,
I know many people complain about the performance (or lack of it) of the standard 850 engine and thus sadly they often substitute them for a larger unit.
And now for a plea for a bit of detective work please. Another
Super has come to light via Facebook. Someone posted a photo of a Mini they had just discovered, a car which had been in storage for many years. It looks a remarkably original and very sound Austin
Super Seven. In faded almond green with an old English white roof it looks as though all it needs is a good ‘T-cut’ and polish. Attempts to contact the owner have so far failed. I would desperately like to know more about this car with the registration number of KJC

699. It was registered in early 1962 which means it probably was manufactured late 1961.
Finally, my usual plea, if you own, have owned, or know of a Super, even if it no longer exists, please do let me know so I may record its details or fate.
Thanks.
Well, what a blooming beautiful
Beaulieu MCR Day this year was, and I’m pleased to say we had four utterly different Minis representing the
1275GT Register - or, as some may call them, the good, the bad and the ugly... plus Trevor! When I was asked to gather some volunteers to display their
GT’s, I thought it would be nice to have a selection across the range, from basket case to concours quality. After all, every Mini has a tale to tell not just the shiny ones, and sometimes the less pristine examples can provoke just as much discussion from passers-by as the polished A1 class winners.
The Good: a big thank you to Nick Newport who brought along his immaculate ONP 350L, which looked stunning with its sunroof pulled back in the sunshine and definitely a GT to be proud of.
John Reynolds only bought this on Monday
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Nick’s interior was as immaculate as the outside
Nick Newport’s 1972 GT
Trevor’s prototype castings and draft drawings
The Bad: John Reynolds acquired a project car only just that week, LLP 4K. John borrowed a recovery truck from a friend and travelled down for the day. The Mini was obviously delighted to be taken out into the open for the day, indeed, it took several attempts to winch it back securely on the truck, it was like it didn’t want to leave! The car caused quite a lot of pointing and prodding of the ghastly paintwork, most noticeably the sills which you could see daylight through. But with some period touches, like a
Rokee dashboard and a rear wash wiper, this 1972 GT will be an interesting restoration.
The Ugly: well that was my own black GT Tigger, now sadly showing some scruffy signs round the edges, but a likeable workhorse nonetheless.
And Trevor: who needs little introduction because you may recognise TFR 327J as the brand new model, quite literally, for Corgi. Thank you to the ever effervescent Tanya and Jason
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Fields, who have a fleet of far too exquisite classic vehicles than most folks are surely entitled too. Did you spot the moulding prototypes that Tanya popped on the rear parcel shelf? I shall treasure my 1:43 scale replica of Trevor even more now I’ve met the car in person.
Speaking of project Minis, did you see that barn find Bronze yellow
1275GT on Ebay? Item number was 111373977099 and it sold for
£2641. Garaged for over 35 years, it was parked up by an elderly owner after its engine had been removed. It appeared relatively complete apart from any paperwork, which seemed to confuse some bidders judging by their questions about documentation. I’m sure it will be a good base for a restoration if its identification can be pieced back together.
When is a GT not a GT, but is actually a GT in reality? We’ll catch up with Jon Clapp and his unusual looking 1275GT in the next issue, along with the story behind a well known Scalextric Mini.
Specialist Cars demo Cooper - my transport to Beaulieu
It seems like such a long time ago now, but the highlight of June for me has to be our national show at Beaulieu.
Having experienced it at its worst, both wet and damp, it was extremely satisfying that the weather played ball too, with hot sun all day.
I managed to secure three very interesting MINIs for the stand too.
First up, representing the New MINI
MK1, was James Boscarini’s 2006
Black-Eye purple Cooper S JCW. I
spoke about this car last month, but because it is such a late build, it’s quite interesting to see some of what were expensive extras on the car. There’s the interior, with the supportive Recaro seats, a rare option usually found in GPs. On top of this, there is also the interior chrono pack and anthracite headlining. The outside is equally special, with full colour-coded aero kit, plus unusual
JCW roof spoiler and those R99 alloys finished in anthracite that complements the purple so well.
David Young’s John Cooper Works hatch was the perfect demonstration of a fast second-generation MINI, with its black and contrasting red highlights such as the roof, mirrors and bonnet stripes.
I’m a big fan of his plate too (R33 EJB), nice work David.
The third car, an F56 Cooper was brought to Beaulieu by me. I had originally hoped to borrow an F56 Cooper S from MINI UK, but this fell through. Thankfully, my local dealer, Specialist Cars Stevenage, came to my rescue with the offer of their Cooper demonstrator - which I gladly accepted.
So, Saturday lunchtime before Beaulieu, saw me pick up the key to my weekend loaner - in the rain! AF14 PKA looked smart in
Midnight Black with a white roof and matching bonnet stripes. The wheels - Victory Spokes - looked neat, but at just 16-inches were a little lost in the F56’s massive arches. Inside, like the outside, was similarly smart, distinctive and plush. Options included the chrome line interior, anthracite headlining and the Glowing Red dashboard colour line.
The short trip home was enough to put a smile on my face, as despite driving the latest Cooper D and Cooper S versions earlier this year,
I’d only had a short UK drive in the Cooper. It looked like the 100+ mile trip to Beaulieu would be fun.
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Finished in Midnight Black, this Cooper looked under tyred with the 16-inch alloys
James Boscarini’s Black-eye purple Cooper S JCW on the
Beaulieu stand
Just a quick wipe down later and after fitting my kid’s seats (my wife being away meant my one and three-year olds would be coming with me), I thought we’d be ready for the following day.
After managing to get all of us into this MINI by 7:30 am (lots of forward planning the night before!), a last minute text saw us joining neighbour and fellow member, Neil Burgess in convoy with his R53
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CD player-less.) Thankfully Bluetooth and iPod connectivity is excellent with a USB connection, although the wire makes the centre console look untidy. But what do you do if you haven’t got an MP3 player?
Then there’s the infotainment screen where the speedo used to be. I can’t help feeling that without the sat-nav, the screen is an expensive waste of space, especially when all it could tell me on the trip was that the aux socket was connected.
Finally, there are the instruments yes, they might now be in front of the driver, but the speedo is small and hard to read. Luckily, I managed to flick through the modes and found the digital speedo, which is much easier to see, at a glance, but then makes the little speedo redundant.
As usual, I had an excellent day, but thankfully there was enough to keep my three-year old entertained too. I’m sure there were plenty of members who went home red with sunburn!
Highlights apart from the excellent selection of cars, is always the trade area - so it was particularly interesting to witness the return of the Cooper name to Classic Mini parts. Now sold through Mini
Sport, many of the significant parts available through both Ferring and latterly East Preston have been recreated.
Considering the high prices of some early John Cooper Works parts on auction sites such as eBay, I wonder if Mike Cooper could be persuaded to extend his range to cover New MINIs too. I’m guessing not, as I’ll bet BMW wouldn’t be happy, but I’m sure there would be a market.
After seeing prototypes running round the factory during our tour back in April, June was also the time when MINI released prices and specification details of the five-door version of the hatch.
Slightly longer and taller than the three door F56, the extra doors and space put it up against premium small family rivals, such as the
Volkswagen Golf.
In my opinion, the latest F56 MINI’s design works best as a five door with the extra 161 mm of body length, is more in balance with the longer nose. I look forward to hopefully giving you my driving impressions when it launches in September.
Also announced in June, were details of the fastest diesel version, the
168bhp Cooper SD. Other key figures include a 0-60 acceleration time of just 7.3 seconds and 360Nm of torque.
Anyway till next month, safe driving.
With 360 Nm, the Cooper SD is the torquiest ever!
On the road the first thing that struck me was how smooth and punchy the 1.5-litre, three-cylinder turbo engine is and how positive, slick and well-matched the new six-speed gearbox is.
Okay, so it lacked Neil’s Cooper S top end punch, but I didn’t find it hard to keep up.
Then, on the motorway it was the refined driving experience and quiet engine that sent my kids off to sleep. This brings me nicely onto things I don’t think are so good with the latest MINI’s interior. Firstly, there’s the in-car entertainment, or lack of it.
Gone is the CD player, to be replaced by your own MP3 player.
(This is a sign of the times, as my own 2014 SEAT Leon is also
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Hi from Kent!
Apart from a lovely, but busy weekend at Beaulieu, Kent held their road run in France in June. Thanks to John
Mathews and Dean Edwards for looking after Brands
Hatch this year for the region. A great day apart from poor organisation at the venue, but we have been assured the venue will sort these issues along with the return of the trade village for next year. We have also purchased a lovely new branded gazebo which had its first outing at Beaulieu and it should do us fine for the events in the summer months and shelter us from the sun. It was great to see so many of you at the meetings but there is always room for more. Also nice to see some new faces last month, so come down and meet up with us each 2nd Wednesday; you will find further details below.
Don’t forget to book onto the Ham Sandwich Run for this year on the 24th August. Join the Kent Region for a touring assembly on ‘Tulip diagrams’ around the Kent lanes. The Ham Sandwich Run this year is on tour away from its traditional far south east location. Minis and new
MINI’s are all welcome. The entry fee is just £20 per car including driver and navigator, £5 per extra person in the car. Bring a picnic! Call/email us for further details.
We are still looking for help later in the year with the
Aylesford show; we are on holiday for this event and wondered if someone in the region can look after it for us?
Hope to see you out and about. All the best!
Justin & Annmarie Ridyard
Tel: 01304 330715 h13jkr@hotmail.co.uk
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The Kent Region stand at Beaulieu!
Kent hosted MCR stand at Brands Hatch
June 2nd was the date for the region’s 4th annual informal concours, and like two of the previous events it rained for most of the evening!
However, this didn’t deter 15 owners of classic cars from bringing them out to be judged by their peers. The idea of the evening was that everyone gets to vote for the car they would most like to take home with them - but not their own! Previous winners have been a Bristol
406, a Lotus Elan Sprint owned by MCR member Dick Robinson, and last year a SAAB 2-stroke. So there was a lot of expectation that the winner this year might just be a Mini of some sort, perhaps even a Mk1 Cooper or even Nick Hunter’s very original MK2 Cooper S.
Unfortunately, I have to report that the eventual winner was an MGA. It must be admitted that Alan and Joan Elkington’s MGA is very nice, as you will see from the attached photo taken at the start of our 2013 Autumn Tints Tour. Yet again no Minis featured in the top three. The closest relation to a Mini, and only because it has an ‘A’ Series engine, was a very nice Austin A40 which polled equal 2nd place (tying with
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Alan Elkingtons MGA Don Mitchell’s recently restored 997 Morris Cooper another MG, a 1954 TF). Sadly, too few people wanted to take home Don Mitchell’s recently restored
997 Morris Cooper.
So come on MCR members in the area, give these MGs a run for their money, and give me a photo of your Cooper to send in and include in
CooperWorld . Mention must be made of Dick Robinson, who tried his luck with a mildly modified Mini 1000, but failed this year. Perhaps an explanation to non Mid Staffs Region members who are reading this and thinking ‘What the hell’s going on in the Mid Staffs Region? Well the region shares its monthly meetings with the MG Car Club (it is their Stone pub meeting), and a wide variety of local classic car enthusiasts who own an equally wide variety of cars, but unfortunately MCR members are in the minority. So if you are reading this and live in the North Midlands, why not come and see what our meetings and activities are all about. The oldest car we have seen was a 1912 Chalmers roadster, and we do have a few modern cars representative of the modern registers from the MCR and MG CC. The monthly meetings on the first Monday of the month are always friendly, as everyone who attends appreciates a classic car.
So on to the Region’s future events.
Monday 4th August , hopefully a talk by Carole Nash insurers, but at the time of writing this is to be confirmed.
August is generally a quiet month because of the holiday period, so our next monthly meeting on Monday 1st September will be a natter meeting.
This will be followed by the Stuart Turner’s talk ‘A Misspent Life in Motorsport – an Evening with Stuart Turner’ on 18th September . By the time you read this it will most likely have sold out (as I write these notes on 1st July I have 7 tickets left), but if you want to try your luck phone or email me. The details are below.
As I write, I am just preparing to depart for the Le Mans Classic, where Minis will be few and far between and as the Mini didn’t have a Le Mans history, they are not eligible to race. However, Mini engined cars did race at Le Mans in 1963 and 64 with the Deep Sanderson, which exceeded
150mph on the Mulsanne Straight (think about that next time you are giving your Mk1 Cooper or Cooper S a bit of stick!), and in 1966 and 67 a Mini
Marcos. Those pesky MGs had a much longer Le Mans history dating back to 1933. But let’s not forget that during the 1950s and 60s the MGs were prepared at the BMC Competitions Department at Abingdon and their success sits alongside those of the Mini Cooper and more especially, the
Cooper S.
That’s it for this month, other than to remind you that all Minis and MINIs are welcome at the Mid Staffs Region.
Some of the members cars at the MK1 Action Day
I’ve not had much time to report on activities of late, but can
Niall Cook
Rewind to April and some of us took in the Tour of Hamsterley
Rally to enjoy the sights and sounds of Mini Coopers at full chat i in the forest. This is a rare sight nowadays, of course, but there t the R.A.C Rally Championship. Amongst them were two from t the Galway Mini Centre, one of which was piloted by the hard –
Irish historic events under his belt. Ultimately, an off on special stage 7, captured here on Youtube http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=h5IysnZEDgs meant he finished lower down the field t than expected, and slightly behind teammate Ross Forde. But the
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Dalby hopefully.
Roll on to early May and the region had a stand at the Mk1
Performance Action Day at the Blyton Circuit in Lincolnshire.
Proceedings of this excellent event have already been covered in detail on the Mini forums and elsewhere but once again a big thank you to Mark Forster and Peter Flanagan for putting it on. Also, thanks to all the members that took part, in particular those that travelled up the day before in order to enjoy the full Blyton experience that extended far beyond the track day sessions on offer - here’s to more of the same next year people!
On into June and following a very successful and enjoyable June club night held at the Newburn Hall Classic Car Museum, quite a few members took part in a Navigational Scatter organised locally by Hadrian Motor
Sports Club. Highest placed of all of them, in a highly credible second overall at their first ever go at an event of this kind, were Neilson
Miller and Peter Ellis with 26 points, followed by regulars Mark
Lewis and Sally-Ann Hewitt, 25 points, and Keith Proudfoot and
Richard Jewers in sixth with 17 points. Well done everyone!
Neilson Miller and Peter Ellis stop to hunt for a clue on the scatter
Niall Cook
Keith Proudfoot and Richard
Jewers map marking on the
Hadrian scatter
Ray Cunningham arrives at SF1 on the Tour of Hamsterley Rally
Cheers,
i in May, we had the Historic Motoring Extravaganza at Thirlestane
J John Heatlie drove his newly modified Austin Mini and had it on
John Heatlie’s modified Austin Mini t to Edinburgh! Needless to say, the car received a lot of attention; t the car.
Finally our 67 Cooper S, DKG and SOH made up the six. Patricia had been organising the stand at Beaulieu and had a total of 15 cars on display.
Many thanks to James Palmer who brought along much of his fleet, Richard Clutterbuck, Bryan Moore and David Halfpenny for making up a great selection of cars!
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David Dyson’s latest build on display
Scottish Region/The Mini Works stand at Beaulieu
On the silly front…Simon decided that he needed a challenge. So, with SOH having not moved under its own steam for years, and DKG needing a new engine, he thought it would be good to build two new engines and have them ready within a couple of weeks for Beaulieu. I think the only re-used parts on both cars were the Webers. For those interested in the ensuing chaos, there is a separate article in this issue covering what happened.
Next up for the region is the Scottish Transport Extravaganza at Glamis Castle in mid-July. This is a huge event for us, with a lot of local members attending plus some from other regions coming as well. Patricia, who is putting the stand together, has approximately 30 cars attending over the 2 day event. We are now beginning to see more people from other regions attend this fantastic show, so please consider popping up next Year!! Full report on this show in the next issue of the magazine.
General View
The Rover Coopers of Lorraine Hampson and Lee Crabb
We recently took the decision to do a mailshot to all members in the Thames Valley area with an RG or GU postcode. The hope was to persuade a few members to come along to our regional meeting and join us over the summer months.
For our meeting in June we had a record number of cars, certainly more than in recent months. Also we had a call from Len Chandler asking if it was OK for him to join us with some friends and their scooters one month. So the day before our meet he called to say they would be over tomorrow as the weather looked fine.
The venue car park looked quite impressive with all the cars and scooters.
Next month we will report on the July meeting and the next meeting will be held on
Wednesday the 27th August from 8pm.
Thanks everyone for coming along.
Len’s Lambretta
Some of the scooters
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Dear All,
Mike Hardy has decided to step down as regional co-ordinator for the Dorset region due to other commitments. We are therefore seeking a volunteer to replace Mike and help co-ordinate the region.
If you are interested, could you please contact Patricia Käsehagen Webb at regions@minicooper.org, who will provide you with further details.
It’s probably been a while since we provided a report so hold tight, here goes.
It’s fair to say we’ve been struggling a bit recently. There has been an absence of enthusiasm, an absence of activities and hence inevitably poor attendance at our meetings. It probably doesn’t help that we have not published our venue, which is because, since moving, our stopgap location isn’t quite what we want.
Anyway, that’s the bad stuff over with. We are determined to get a hold of things and so our June meeting was a chance to discuss what’s gone wrong and start to fix it. So, now we have a cunning plan starting with three key things. Finding a new meeting venue is top of the list and some good suggestions have been made to which a recce will be needed, but by next month we hope to be able to let everyone know where we’ll be. The two other things I can announce immediately are, that the meeting night will now be the 4th Wednesday of the month
(changed from Tuesday) as this suits more people; and the Region’s name is to change to Warwickshire Region, which more appropriately reflects where we are. We regularly see members from Warwickshire, Coventry, Gloucestershire, Leicestershire and Worcestershire.
We also now have a long list of activities and events which we would like to do, some of which would be ideal to invite our neighbouring regions to, so watch this space.
In the words of Columbo “one last thing”, whilst attendance in June wasn’t good, everyone turned up in a 1960’s Mini which was great and some very interesting cars they were too.
The Wiltshire Region was in attendance at the Back to Downton
50th Anniversary car show, held alongside the Downton village
Cuckoo Fair on Saturday 3rd May. What a joy it was to find this year that the gazebo came supplied with substantial pins for pegging it to the ground! Blessed with marvellous sunshine and soft winds, the MCR gazebo was a sanctuary for those who had not packed their sun cream, and this led to much social engagement and exchange of tales of Mini adventures old and new.
Wiltshire region members were ably supported by members from the Dorset and Thames Valley regions, with a total of ten cars on display. These included a MINI Cooper diesel, a John
Cooper works S, a Cooper Monte Carlo, MPI and SPI Coopers, a
Cooperised early Mini 850 and a re-shelled Mk 3 Cooper S.
A rota system was established to enable attendees and their partners to enjoy the car show and also attend the Cuckoo Fair a short walk away. Questions from the public ranged for enquiries about the Mokes display at Beaulieu, whether a particular type of master cylinder was right for a Mk 1 Cooper S, and how much a new basic MINI cost! Copies of CooperWorld and membership forms were handed out, and a very enjoyable time was had by all.
Thanks to Steve and Brenda Harris for ensuring the MCR display could be accommodated.
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Opening hours in the UK: Mon-Fri 8am-8pm, Sat 9am-5pm.*Terms and conditions apply, call for details. †Based on an average customer, saving 28% when compared to buying three separate
Carole Nash policies. Average customer = 57 year old male with full 10 years plus NCB, driving a 1965 MG B, 1973 MG B and 1972 MG Midget.^Voucher Offer must be quoted at time of purchase, terms and conditions apply. Carole Nash Insurance Consultants Ltd is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.