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I don't know but the passenger looked like he was about to take a trip through the screen when he stopped it.

This is another wide bodied car I've come across, very similar to mine and to the car(s) John Miles and Piers Forrester briefly raced (in the UK).



I reckon they may have done three or four of these bodies , here's the same car ...



I think this car's in Canada and still races as far as I know...

Pete,

I sent you a pm but not sure if you got it. Ive measured those jap mag wheels of mine at 7 by 13 inside lip to lip. Or 7.5 on the outside lips. If you pm me with your email I will send you some photos

Chris

Thanks Chris.

7x13 japs and those tyres of mine and your gonna be looking epic pete!

This is quite an interesting shot that I need to get to the bottom of. It looks to me like a test day with Mabbs and Jan Odor at Combe.

Damn, I now don't know which I want the most. Glass car or Unipower....

Vegard wrote:Damn, I now don't know which I want the most. Glass car or Unipower....

v

technically the glass car IS a unipower, so you have answered your own question

Pete wrote:

Pete wrote:

I spotted that the fella on the left looking at the car is Jonathan Buncombe, anyone able to name the others ?

Isnt that Jan to the right ?

Pete wrote:This is quite an interesting shot that I need to get to the bottom of. It looks to me like a test day with Mabbs and Jan Odor at Combe.

Yes, defo not the same car (unless heavely modified)

When I first started researching the car I found a few mentions of it being 1275 S powered such as this from C&CC in early '67 :



But actually they were quite misleading , speculative really because another report in C&CC reports the car to be 1143cc when bought from Janspeed by Harvey (I'll post up later) and is in the up to 1150cc class in both races I've found in Motoring News with Mabbs at the wheel in 1967 (more to find) plus when Goodman ran it in 1968 it was always in the 1150cc class so it looks like it always ran a 1071 engine and that's what's going back in the car.

JC T ONE wrote:
Isnt that Jan to the right ?

I don't think so Jens.
I've contacted Buncombe (standing far left) through a kind member of this board (Fred !) so hope to get his memories of the car. Buncomb's own racer at this time was tuned by Planet who I've got a nice piece about for the main site.
Incidentally Jonathan Buncombe is still very much into his Minis !

More about Harvey here from C&CC :



Looks like it may have attended the Brands Mini Fest in '68, anyone got a race programme ?

Hey Pete,

check your Email = just spoke to a guy, who has photos of your car

And he said it was Red, so I asume they are colour pics


J C

Sounds promising Jens, thanks !

More on the engine, in March 68 C&CC...

Thanks to Jens passing the contact details along I had a nice chat with ex Janspeed Simon Lee. Simon explained that the Leo Mtra name on the side of the car was the name of a local paint sprayer who painted the car (yes that is a paint brush next to his name ). According to Simon the white car pictured at Combe with Mabbs and Odor didn't belong to Janspeed and is nothing to do with my car as I suspected because initially I didn't the competition Unipowers (of which I understand about four were built) were not converted standard cars, I think they were built from scratch with entirely separate moulds. The engine , Simon thinks , would have been built by Janspeed's Norman Clancy, Jan Odor's favoured unit was the 1071 and that the front air dam was indeed pretty ground breaking and fabricated by a local firm in Salisbury. The engine indeed did run a 45 Weber as it still does.

rich@minispares.com wrote:

Vegard wrote:Damn, I now don't know which I want the most. Glass car or Unipower....

v

technically the glass car IS a unipower, so you have answered your own question

Ok, so I definitely want an Unipower. But, would I like the quite aerodynamic body or the not so aerodynamic body??

rich@minispares.com wrote:7x13 japs and those tyres of mine and your gonna be looking epic pete!

They have some savage 10inch Dunplop racing tyres on at the mo.. when inflated they are almost square! Haha shame the tyres of jiggered though..

I second that though rich.. would suit it down to the ground..

Pete regarding planet is that planet engineering from brightlingsea in essex ?

Yes that's them Graham, they had to change their name (to 'Netlap') though because there were too many businesses called 'Planet' at the time. I'll post up an article all about them later on a seperate thread.

rich@minispares.com wrote:7x13 japs and those tyres of mine and your gonna be looking epic pete!

Mm.. maybe, great looking wheel those Mk2 Japs but mine needs 6's on the front and 8's on the back !