BMC fiberglass mini test informatiom

[IAIN]

I found this on youtube while looking for something else. It might be of interest here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX4jZUs55NQ

[Pete]

Amazing what turns up in a car boot sale !

[Tupers]

Wow that's quite a find, I wonder if there any still surviving anywhere?

[bill773mini]

At least 2 of the 6 BMC built cars survive.

[minimk1man]

Ex Fibreglass Ltd. test car survives. One of 6 prototypes built at Cowley

[mab01uk]

Very interesting, thanks for posting.
Some screen shots taken from the video below:







The Mini Cord GRP Mini website:
http://www.minipassionmini.50megs.com/m ... acorca.htm

[Tim]

I worked with a fisherman from Chile, many years ago. He'd been a mini enthusiast too, so we got on well. He told me that GRP Minis were fairly common back then, and he'd had a few of them. He reckoned that if you could get a good one they were very good, but he said that they had developed a bad reputation because it was so easy to 'fix' them at home. Apparently there had been a number of amateur "cut and shuts" that had broken in half through the middle.

Tim

[bill773mini]

Jan 2011 Mini World.

[999 ORX]

I've seen photos of the fibre glass minis in scrap yards in Chile, and they look very similar to the photos above! a real cringe moment! I got pally with a lad from over there a few years back and he used to send me photo etc. Wonder if they sold of the moulds?

[bill773mini]

The moulds didn't last long and needed replacing quite often. I have the factory (from Chile) record stating how many shells were taken from each mould, it's printed in the MW article.