1974/75 Austin Mini

Lot details
Registration No: BND984N
Chassis No: XK251-55739A
Mot Expiry: N/A

Minis have probably catalysed more competition careers than any other car and this racer, starting as a standard round-nosed 850, has been extensively developed into an award-winning sprint/hillclimb car. It has been built to MSA regulations to contest the modified production up-to-1400cc class, and holds a current MSA competition logbook. It took six years to develop, and has competed in the Longton and District Speed Championship, The Mid-Cheshire Gold Cup and other north-west sprint and hillclimb meets. In October 2007, it won the Best Prepared Car award at the Three Sisters Sprint meeting, and its last event was Oliver's Mount in May this year. The bodyshell uses a lightweight glassfibre removable frontage and boot lid, six-point Safety Devices rollcage, fire suppression gear and a 1-gallon fuel tank. For the driver, there's a Cobra Monaco seat with Willans harness, an Autogauge revcounter, brake bias valve and hours gauge. The engine is a GT thick-wall block now displacing 1380cc, with MED knife-edge cross-drilled crank and two-bolt centre main strap, Impulse Developments race head with 37mm inlet and 31mm exhaust valves, 1.5 ratio roller rockers, Kent 310SC race cam, split Dell'Orto 45s on Longman manifolds and electronic ignition. This drives through a Quaife straight-cut close-ratio competition gear kit with Jack Knight 1:1 straight-cut drop gears and four-pin competition diff with 4.3:1 ratio. Suspension comprises heavy-duty Rose-jointed bottom arms and tie-bars at the front with AVO dampers, and the rear runs a beam axle with AVO coil-overs. Brakes are four-pot alloy callipers operating on 7.9in discs front, and Minifin drums on the rear. Earlier this year the car was changed from 13in to 10in wheels, which are new 6x10in Revolutions, to suit Mini Miglia regs. The Hoosier slicks the car sits on have covered only one event and the Yokohama wets have never been used. The vendor describes the Mini as "very good all round" - and it comes complete with a Brian James trailer, plus a useful box of spares. This is only the bare outline of its specification, which is exhaustive, and we recommend close inspection of the car and paperwork; a well-sorted competition car with only 10.5 hours since refurbishment that could be made into a circuit racer relatively simply.