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[mab01uk]

Just found a shoebox full of some of my 1980's 'period' Mini racing photos in the bottom of a wardrobe and thought they may be of interest. Any additional  information on drivers or their cars feel free to add.....I think there are many more photos of interest so will add more as time allows.......also more from the 1970's in other boxes!

A wet Brands Hatch paddock early 1980's, Wendy Wools Saloon Cars.

Driver Peter Bray




Interesting arches on this Clubman.....Driver: Pete Daniels, his teamate in the matching 1275GT/Clubman behind started on pole position (see grid photo below).

 

[alex-95]

Great photos, Thank you very much for sharing them.

[Tommyboy12]

The wheels on those Clubmans are tiny. Are they 10s with low profile tyres?

[Devo]

Many thanks Martin great pictures!! The rear brake light on the first and second picture look like the land rover defender ones, if you were to put an orange on both sides too for indicators maybe it could be road legal?!

[jpw1275]

Great photo's and cheers for sharing..... Now get the 70's ones out hehe

Cheers james

[mininuts]

Yet again, some great pics.
Keep 'em coming, these are great! Thanks for posting

[Artful Dodger]

1980 mini challenge pics please, will be a strong possibility of finding race pictures of my mk2!!

[lucas1amps]

1980 mini challenge pics please, will be a strong possibility of finding race pictures of my mk2!!

SAME! our racer raced in the Wendy Wools Saloon Cars/ challenge as well!  interesting looking at the other cars wonder what happened to them all

Edited by lucas1amps, 17 August 2014 - 08:36 AM.

[mr cooke]

Absolutely mint

[Ivor Badger]

The wheels on those Clubmans are tiny. Are they 10s with low profile tyres?

 

10" tyres off the front of a 6 wheeled Tyrell.

[megamini_jb]

Awesome! Thanks for posting mab :) look forward to seeing more!

[minimaxie]

Awesome pics mab! I wonder where all these gems are hiding these days, probably locked away in some dusty barns across the country. Wouldn't it be cool if they all still had their race livery and mad arches and wheels still on them! I'd happily own one of these just because of their history! 

[Oldskoolcool]

I can shed a bit more light on the subject.The clubman with the big arches was built by my father (Peter Hill), it was raced by himself from 1975 to 1978.

It originally was a mini miglia (998). In 1977 he was able to obtain some set of tyres from the Tyrell 6 wheeled F1 car .
These were fitted to 8x10 mamba solar 3 piece split rim wheels .The front brakes were also from the Tryell, these were huge vented discs that were x-drilled and pegged with copper rods. The calipers were modified alloy F3 GR units with cortina brake pads. Probably the first vented disc set up inside 10s.

The arches were hand made and were originally polished alloy and looked a hell of a lot better! He only ever raced the car once with those arches on, as the scrutineers were not very impressed. He sold the car in 1978 to build a brand new miglia.

The other clubman was his brothers(Charles hill) old miglia that was also running with the Tyrell tyre set up.

[mab01uk]

'Oldskoolcool' thanks for posting the extra photos and information.......very interesting to hear confirmation of the 6-Wheel F1 Tyrrell background.

Edited by mab01uk, 20 August 2014 - 06:27 PM.

[lucas1amps]

indeed I heard that the p34 Tyrell used cooper S hubs on the front suppose it make sense to use it. amazing you mange to get hold of those parts back then  wouldent dream of fitting anything of a current f1 on a mini maybe a wing mirror if your lucky great story.

Edited by lucas1amps, 21 August 2014 - 09:04 PM.