Later Works Minis

[coop12g295]

Motor racing June 69

[smithyrc30]

Is this any better?
http://acfrua428.activeboard.com/t46933 ... june-1969/

[fricsman]

Rhodes and Handley, looking for a decent copy of that shot and I've forgotten which magazine it was the cover to if anyone remembers, Motor Racing?

Of course, thanks Pete, John Rhodes looks taller than I thought!

[Pete]

Is this any better?
http://acfrua428.activeboard.com/t46933 ... june-1969/

That's great, thanks, thought it was Motor Racing.

[VKA305H]

Did anyone see the Dario Franchitti program on Goodwood? Whilst he was visiting JD Classics there were two excellent shots of LBL 606D. I last saw this car for sale with I think Sussex Sports Cars for £95,000. Does anyone know anything about this car?

[surfblue63]

That show was quite good. For those that missed it you can view it on ITV Player for the next four weeks.

https://www.itv.com/itvplayer/goodwood- ... cars-2015-

[UHR850]

Works Mini Cooper Mk1 JMO969D picture taken in 1982 in Luxemburg Mini Treffen.

http://excoboard.com/forums/13326/user/ ... 346103.jpg
http://excoboard.com/forums/13326/user/ ... 346102.jpg

Kees

[VKA305H]

Great pic Pete, I have not seen that one before. Thanks for keeping the thread going

Cheers

Brian

[rich@minispares.com]

that's how it should be

a collar and a tie when racing ones car

[billycooper]

This auction blurb does mention 45F being rallied after being leaving Coopers Of Oulton (who had several works Minis through their hands) but doesn't mention Platt by name :

http://www.classic-auctions.com/Auction ... 26048.aspx

Just going back to OBL45F then, ive just re-watched the Car SOS with the Sebring Sprite, and in Ronny Whites garage is OBL45F, this looks a totally different car than the one sold in the auction above, big arches on it for a start, are we in a scenario as GRX309D (theres more than one !), or is it the same car that was sold at auction ?

[UHR850]

Found in a magazine from years ago, Cars and Car Conversion January 1976

[coop12g295]

BOO911F that'll be Terry Kaby,had a chat with him at Beaulieu last year
memorable car for me in the 70s

[davidnutland]

Two different cars wearing the BOO 911F reg the first is the ex works car and the second is Terry Kaby's car built in that tiny garage, if you believe the CCC article written at the time.

[LMM76C]

if you believe the CCC article written at the time.

Would you believe anyone wearing those trousers? (Colin Wilson on right, then of CCC, later MSA Press Officer...deserving each other...).

[LMM76C]

Two different cars wearing the BOO 911F reg the first is the ex works car and the second is Terry Kaby's car

Did everyone agree, when discussed elsewhere on here some time ago, that the Kaby/Freeborough RAC Gp2 BOO911F, was the GRX5D shell that was retired before the Mk2 for Canada carried that registration in 68? Last works appearance of that "penultimate" car is listed as Corsica 67 but GRX5D (and the other Corsica car JBL172D, both in Group 6 spec) also ran at the Lydden rallycross the week after the cancelled 67 RAC.
(the Gp6 bulkhead mods seem not to have been re-instated on the 74/75 RAC Gp2 car, so it wasn't "legal")

Has anyone got a photo of the rear of the Kaby club spec car BOO911F? I'd be interested to see if the exhaust ran above the rear subframe, as on his earlier road rally car. I assume the club spec BOO911F was "new" (newly built up), since that was not the reg no of his earlier Mini. I can't recall whether his first car was de-seamed.

[UHR850]

Took these in 1988 MCR Beaulieu !
They told me it was just discoverd !

Kees

[Pete]

The story goes that "LRX 829E" was found trundling around Abingdon as a shopping car in the late 80s, so it must have had a replacement registration number on it and no doubt without all it's rally kit and engine, very similar scenario to Paul's GRX 309D in fact (though GRX 309D was always a rally car with a works engine). Unlike Paul's car though it's now got a works number back on it, which happened in 1988. So what was the number plate on it when it was a shopping car?

[spoon.450]

The story goes that "LRX 829E" was found trundling around Abingdon as a shopping car in the late 80s, so it must have had a replacement registration number on it and no doubt without all it's rally kit and engine, very similar scenario to Paul's GRX 309D in fact (though GRX 309D was always a rally car with a works engine). Unlike Paul's car though it's now got a works number back on it, which happened in 1988. So what was the number plate on it when it was a shopping car?

Good question Pete, that would be interesting to know. "As found " photos would also be good. I remember being fascinated by this story on the old MCR forum, it really fuelled my interest in works cars, especially the discovery of them.

[Martin Price]

The story goes that "LRX 829E" was found trundling around Abingdon as a shopping car in the late 80s, so it must have had a replacement registration number on it and no doubt without all it's rally kit and engine, very similar scenario to Paul's GRX 309D in fact (though GRX 309D was always a rally car with a works engine). Unlike Paul's car though it's now got a works number back on it, which happened in 1988. So what was the number plate on it when it was a shopping car?

Thats interesting, with my limited knowage I hadnt realised that LRX 829E was found without the plate that its currently wearing.
With regards to Paul Bates getting the correct/rightfull registration for his car, I'd like to know the process that the owner went through to get that plate. I've often wondered if any of these works replicas are just wearing cherished numbers rather than the proper I/D that has historicly been associated with that number, not sugesting that LRX 829E is in anyway a replica.
Cheers Martin.

[billycooper]

The story goes that "LRX 829E" was found trundling around Abingdon as a shopping car in the late 80s, so it must have had a replacement registration number on it and no doubt without all it's rally kit and engine, very similar scenario to Paul's GRX 309D in fact (though GRX 309D was always a rally car with a works engine). Unlike Paul's car though it's now got a works number back on it, which happened in 1988. So what was the number plate on it when it was a shopping car?

Thats interesting, with my limited knowage I hadnt realised that LRX 829E was found without the plate that its currently wearing.
With regards to Paul Bates getting the correct/rightfull registration for his car, I'd like to know the process that the owner went through to get that plate. I've often wondered if any of these works replicas are just wearing cherished numbers rather than the proper I/D that has historicly been associated with that number, not sugesting that LRX 829E is in anyway a replica.
Cheers Martin.

In the 80's you could basically apply to the DVLA for a log book, any log book !, im not saying this is what happened, but it was done, only 10 years ago you could apply for a new log book if you had the buff original