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A fast Mini.
Posted: 13 Oct 2007, 13:59
by Kevboy
Hi Check out this Mini,
Rick combine you love of bikes a Minis, see the small video when it's loaded.
:yipeee:
http://www.zcars.org.uk/
Kevboy.
Re: A fast Mini.
Posted: 13 Oct 2007, 15:29
by SkippyBing
Me want!
Re: A fast Mini.
Posted: 13 Oct 2007, 21:07
by DispatchDragon
ROFLOL that looks vaguely familar - cept mine didnt have LEDs , I didnt wear a Nomex suit and a brain bucket - and there
were footprints on the headliner
Leif
Re: A fast Mini.
Posted: 13 Oct 2007, 21:13
by Chris Trott
Bet it didn't have a motorcycle engine for power either.

That's a pretty cool vehicle.
Re: A fast Mini.
Posted: 13 Oct 2007, 22:19
by VEGAS
0-60 in 4.55?! Thats the dogs...

Re: A fast Mini.
Posted: 13 Oct 2007, 22:36
by DispatchDragon
Chris it wasnt much more than that actually - My 64S had a 1100 (read 1071cc) 70BHP engine- But I could still outrun Cortina's
2.5PIs and even one time a Pontiac Firebird given the correct road ;-)
Leif
Re: A fast Mini.
Posted: 14 Oct 2007, 23:01
by cstorey
Leif : you may be interested to hear that I have a 1965 1275 S which I use almost on a daily basis. Unfortunately although the car may be fairly original ( a bit like the broom with 4 new heads and 5 new handles!) the motor actually comes from a Morris 1300 Gt of about 1969 vintage, and the gearbox is a straight cut affair which has ratios which really are too high for a road car ( max of 50, 70 , and 90 mph in the intermediates). On any curving road however, it is a great blast
Chris Storey
Re: A fast Mini.
Posted: 15 Oct 2007, 03:09
by DispatchDragon
Chris
Mine was an"out of the box" so to speak white over beige S - until a certain Dan AIr Trolley Dolly drove it into the back of a
parked jag on the M1 in a real pea souper in 74- Some nice gents in Redhill (Crystal I believe) grafted one of those all
in one tilt forward fiberglass bonnets on it , but it was never the same - I sold it soon after and bought an Audi 80 for
my sins - It stayed with me till I returned to the US four years later. But the Cooper was a thing of beauty - it taught me more
about rally driving than anything - and kept me alive,

One of my colleagues has this new BMW Abomination - I cant
bring myself to ride in it - let alone drive one.
Leif
Re: A fast Mini.
Posted: 15 Oct 2007, 07:21
by jonesey2k
Heh that looks fun
Anybody ever see the video of that Go-cart with a 130hp bike engine in it?
Re: A fast Mini.
Posted: 15 Oct 2007, 13:53
by calypso