KEC will probably be rested for next year as I want to develop it further as and when I can.
Only two years ago 4-5k would buy you a nice competition car that would be reasonably quick, but these cars have defiantly dried up, I was tempted by a couple of race prepp'd Metros, but this idea didn't quit click with what we wanted to do.
Forum members kept "in-boxing" me with various cars they had or knew of, which I'm thankful for, and that's whats so good about this forum.
In the end "smoke" came up trumps with a car advertised on the HRCR site, first impression is that it looks like a 1964 Austin Cooper in a later shell (
)(my pet hate !! 
)but the 1964 number that is actually on the car is a cherished plate, and appealingly my first Mini was grey with the digits 595 on the plate, as this is !, as well as being Grey / White as was the original KEC of my fathers Austin Cooper, so altogether nice little coincident's
So with the gear on the car it was too good a deal to miss, and leads to all sorts of opportunities in the future, on further investigation our very own Tom Kidd's brother built the car originally in 2003 ish, another couple of owners then spent a good deal of money on it including the engine and another paint, files full of every invoice, before being bought and converted into a historic road rally car last year.
Car is painted Grey with a white roof, about 4k on a MED (sorry Mark
) rally spec engine, Weber 45, SCCR box, 113bhp, Brantz trip, Corbeau seats, all lines inside, 4 pot calipers, Alloys & Yokos, Mk 1 boot lid, Mk1 Austin Cooper badges and grille, group 2 arches, so a good starter car for Nick, paid a little more than budget, but hopefully be worth it.
, so first run up the road in the car since I bought it, and the torque from the weber exceeds the SUs on KEC, up to 60 it feels quicker, but seems to suffer from quite a bit of torque steer, it looks like it needs tracking up, it on 6 x 10 s and i've got some 5 x 10 s to go on it, think we will strip the suspension down and re bush too.
