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23rd Monte Carlo Historique 2020

October 2, 2020 2:00 pm
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Rauno Aaltonen back at the Monte with Minispares 2nd Mini in Class!! Rauno Aaltonen, also known as “The Rally Professor”, rolled back the years as the Finnish driver drove to a 2nd place Mini to finish in the class III at the 23rd edition of Rallye Monte-Carlo Historique. The professional rally driver strapped his helmet once again […]

THE FUN RISES IN THE EAST (Snetterton Rounds 1&2)

April 9, 2025 12:12 pm
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Despite several interruptions there was still plenty of terrific action in the opening Mini 7 Racing Club meeting of the season from a sunny Norfolk Safety cars and red flags sadly cut into the racing laps over the 5-6 April weekend meeting at Snetterton, but Mini racing fans were still treated to the usual hectic […]

Mini Spares 50th Anniversary Trophy – 3rd & 4th August 2025

March 28, 2025 2:28 pm
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Introducing the Mini Spares 50th Anniversary Trophy for Pre-66 FIA Mini’s Last year’s Brands Hatch Mini Festival featured a thrilling weekend of wheel-to-wheel racing, with the return of a Swiftune-organised Pre-66 race. Due to the incredible demand, we are very excited to add an additional historic race to the Mini Festival roster. The Mini Spares […]

Mighty Minis Race Series – Article 3

March 18, 2025 2:44 pm
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I left the last article explaining the new changes for the 2025 season. Well Dad, Chris and I have been very busy over the past few weeks! We have bodywork to paint and engines and gearboxes to build. We have decided to tackle the gearboxes first. We would be fitting the Minispares clubman straight cut […]

Mini Libre 1380 16v Race Car owned and built by Ian Fraser

February 6, 2025 3:38 pm
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Background I have raced minis since 1984 at the tender age of 14 when I started in Autograss with a Class1 mini. From that I moved on to the modified classes with 970, 1071 and 1400 minis eventually making the big step to circuit racing with the Mini7 club. Having done a stint with a […]

Mighty Minis Race Series – Article 2

February 6, 2025 3:15 pm
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Winter Prep Hi, its James here with the latest update from the Mighty Minis race series. Hopefully you enjoyed the introduction and now I would like to share with you what the drivers are getting up to during the winter preparation season. Most drivers are currently upgrading their cars to the new 2025 regulations.  Dad […]

Sportspack Fitting Template

February 6, 2025 1:55 pm
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These downloadable templates can be printed out to scale to help you fit the Sportspack for: – MS135 – WHEEL ARCH SET OF 4 GENUINE SPORTSPACK ARCHES A4 printable PDF below Large printable PDF below

2A895 Rivet.

January 30, 2025 6:38 pm
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Fitting and removal of rivet The plates were held on by a Hammer Drive Screw — that is to say a screw that is fitted by using a hammer into an interference-fit hole. They are threaded, although the block is not. If you want to remove, do not chisel off and hope to drill out […]

Making of the Cooper Engines with Eddie Maher

August 12, 2024 2:46 pm
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A few years back when writing the article on A series cylinder head types I added the 8 port cast iron head as designed by Eddie Maher and Harry Weslake. Eddie Maher was well known at Morris Engines and in the tuning world as he was instrumental in the Sebring and Le Mans Sprites using […]

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