Mk1 Owner from Wellington

[Neal]

Been lurking around reading some of the excellent posts on Mk1 Forum.

Bit of backgroud from myself. Have a couple of Mk1's projects brought both as rolling shell's.

Orginal idea was a warmed up Mk1 but the project morph when I brought some S brakes which came fitted to a Mk1 Shell. Turns out the shell was an circuit car from a Shell Motorsport series run a couple of decades back in New Zealand. The plan morph as the body turn out to be in quite good nick.

The fresh motorsport log book mentions Cooper S , but it has no chassis tags as the front had been removed and the shell has been extensively modified along the lines of NZ Mini 7 racing. Hard to tell either way so I'm assuming it's just a Mk1 shell.

The plan is to try and get the car street legal to drive to car club motorsport type events. NZ car cert laws are tough now so hopefully I can achieve this.

Engine wise it will be powered by a 1300gt engine with Metro turbo carb and a small ihi turbo. Engine has been built with turbo in mind and it's sitting on a JK SCCR gearbox , Quaife ABT and power sent via hardy spicer UJ's.

[JC T ONE]

Hi & welcome inhere


Sounds like a nice car, with history

[foxy52]

as per jens,s comment welcome to this truly intl forum,...always nice to see anzacs join seeing as u have so many great minis/mini coopers...rgds foxy52

[66S]

Welcome Neal

Al

[Neal]

A couple of pics of the project

[chichestermini]

Welcome

What an amazing history, the pictures look awesome - what a great vehicle to be working with!

Keep the pictures coming (We get all excited)

Look forward to seeing more,

Enjoy!

[KA2S4]

Welcome Neal,

Do you know Neil Whiting, Graeme farr, or the late Quentin Tobess?