Trip to Beaulieu Motor Museum... Mini Alert

Heard they had a Mini exibition on to celebrate the cars 45th birthday so i had to go and though they exibition wasn't as big as i thought still some nice minis and plenty of other cars. Some of the pics are captures from a video stream so apologies for the quality

Very early mini with sliding windows and a start button on the floor



1966 Mini Cooper S (damn railings in the way )





ERA Mini, probably the fastest one there and really quite rare too





These pictures really illustrate just how well packaged and small the mini really is








Mr Beans Mini




Mini Moke varient (not exactly a land Rover rival )



Believe it or not the AA actually used mini's aswell 8)



Thats about it for the minis here are some other cars i managed to get snaps of before i ran out of film still in the stoneage here no digicam

F40



Oh and what do you put next to a really nice dino? well its obvious Bloody Del Boys reliant van really the placement of these cars was really random


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1959 Cooper Climax, really influencial car this. strangely hidden away by a load of light switches LOL


Again placed in a really stupid place a GT40 right under a platform so the light was rubbish





Quite a few more pics to follow which i seem to have not transferred onto my memory key ops: (uploading at local library)

[TT]

Some nice pics! Did you scan them or were they put on CD when developped?

LOL at the Reliant & Dino picture.. pretty strange to place them like that!

Originally Posted by TT Some nice pics! Did you scan them or were they put on CD when developped? LOL at the Reliant & Dino picture.. pretty strange to place them like that!

I fired up my parents old scanner, real slow but most of them came out o.k. just annoying that i didn't transfer them all to upload them. I was really suprised at where they put the cooper racer aswell hidden away in a corner (see the background)

Really having a digicam would have been an advantage as so many cars to shoot and i forgot to bring another film ops:

[1zippo1]

That min cooper cut in half is quite cool to see indeed.

I didn't know of the existance of an ERA mini. I suppose it has a turbocharged version of the 1.3 of the S

Originally Posted by 1zippo1 That min cooper cut in half is quite cool to see indeed. I didn't know of the existance of an ERA mini. I suppose it has a turbocharged version of the 1.3 of the S

Indeed if my memory is correct it has a 1275cc motor with a Garrett (i think ) turbo though i may be wrong and i've lost my book with details on all the different models What i do remember is that there wern't many made and quite a few of them went to japan, oh and they wern't cheap!!

[TransAm]

Originally Posted by AL123 Originally Posted by 1zippo1 That min cooper cut in half is quite cool to see indeed. I didn't know of the existance of an ERA mini. I suppose it has a turbocharged version of the 1.3 of the S Indeed if my memory is correct it has a 1275cc motor with a Garrett (i think ) turbo though i may be wrong and i've lost my book with details on all the different models What i do remember is that there wern't many made and quite a few of them went to japan, oh and they wern't cheap!!

It's a mini with a 1275cc (A+ series) metro turbo engine in it. A heady 93hp!

Look up MG Metro Turbo on the web for full engine specs.

[No.1]

^^^

Nope there was a faster one in evo magazine a few months ago. It had 400+ HP and was ridiculous.. i will post it in a bit

[coombsie66]

I saw a programme on one bloke in england, he's put 2 hayabusa engines in his minni!!!!!!! i think it wasnt even 4wd, had one engine per rear wheel!!!!!!! LOL, fuckin ridiculous!
A guy i know who is an electrician was minni mad as a youngster, and i think he put the 1.3 turbo from the metro in his, but still with drums all round!!!! :shock: FOOK THAT!

[TransAm]

Originally Posted by dani_d_mas Didn't know there was a Turbo Mini... It was an official Mini or just a preparation???

It was marketed by Austin Rover but it was a modification carried out by a company called ERA.

I don't think they sold them for very long, though, it was like a limited production.

It's a fairly common modification in the UK to 'copy' that setup by putting a MG Metro engine or MG Metro turbo engine (like the ERA Turbo) in a mini, it drops straight in.

In 1995 I had a 1983 Mini with the MG Metro engine which was bored out to 1310cc, larger carburettor, an aftermarket 285 profile cam and upgraded exhaust and ignition coil, I reckon it put out maybe 80-85hp. It would go off the speedo (90mph) in third gear.

[No.1]

Originally Posted by coombsie66 I saw a programme on one bloke in england, he's put 2 hayabusa engines in his minni!!!!!!! i think it wasnt even 4wd, had one engine per rear wheel!!!!!!! LOL, fuckin ridiculous! A guy i know who is an electrician was minni mad as a youngster, and i think he put the 1.3 turbo from the metro in his, but still with drums all round!!!! :shock: FOOK THAT!

Here is TT's Scan that includes a 'Busa powered mini

:arrow: http://www.motorworld.net/forum/show...highlight=mini

[coombsie66]

^^ Cheers, i actually had read that magazine b4, and forgotten!! But it is a twin engined one i am talking about, although that holeshot one seems equally ridiculous!!
The cadburys mini i have seen in real life a few times, at shows, and race meets etc. I know the bloke who's raced it in a championship in england (i forget the name of the championship) but his name is Neil Cunningham, well nice bloke. The builders of the cadburys mini wanted to put it in the british GT championship i think, but couldnt get an entry as it aint a GT car!

[Ford Capri 2.8i]

Thanks a million AL3 for the pics, once observing the pics of the mini bring me some good sensations(ive always adored the mini), the pics of the escort MkI of rallying, the ferrari dino, and the F40(its should be one of the F40s that run in the italian championship of GT in 1994), although i prefer the black mini turbo era rather than the bordeaux one,(by the way....this mini launch was an official launch from MG..in a similar way to the cooper...however, very few units were made, and right hand drive all of them..in two colours as far as i know, the black and the bordeaux one...the mini turbo era was a mini with the same engine as the metro turbo..a 1.3 turbo garret engine with around 93bhp, and some improvements on suspensions, brakes from the cooper)....and there is no pics of a hayabusa engined mini either(the 5th gear broadcasted a minis 45th year aniversary last spring, and this hayabusa mini was shown in the program)

Finally dani...watching the V6 mini must be amazing for the eyes......and although its not a mini...the white ford sierra cosworth in front of the mini V6 brings deserves to be commented for me as well, once i miss really the racing tuned ford sierra cosworth, the E30 M3....

[68-998]

Thanks for the pics.

I don't like the body kit on the turbo much, but I wouldn't mind the engine!

[SilviaEvo]

the F40 is crazy so is the F1

Originally Posted by SilviaEvo the F40 is crazy so is the F1

Right can i just ask one thing please...... What the fuck are you on about?, that was such a deep comment it reminds me of someone, AZSUNNYD infact