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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 […]

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 […]

21A1286 & C-AHT182 4.5×10″ steel wheels

March 25, 2024 4:22 pm
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The Cooper S 4.5″x10″ Dunlop wheel 21A1286 (LP883) was an optional extra introduced for the Cooper S MK1 and painted in Old English White (WT3). The same option available for Mk2/3 was painted Dover Grey (GR34). This wheel was made to fit over the 7.5″ disc and S caliper with the extra inch being internal […]

New Old Stock

March 24, 2024 5:57 pm
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What is new old stock parts? New old stock refers to original parts made and sold by the manufacturer when the vehicle was still in production. The Mini had many distinguishing change points over its lifetime and restorers or owners look for the exact original replacement which might not be readily available new any longer […]

Hydrolastic Springing

July 10, 2023 11:37 am
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The Design and Development Story, as told by Alex Moulton, the Originator of this Hydraulically Interconnected Rubber Springing System Used on the  Morris I 100 Car Each of the rear Hydrolastic units has its axis approximately 15 deg to the horizontal and the piston of the diaphragm-type displacer is deflected by a short arm projecting […]

Interior lamps made by Mini Spares

April 21, 2023 11:27 am
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These are the two early interior lamps we have remanufactured. Either early type Pointed ends or Blunt ends for any Pre October 1974 models. 14A9148 with the pointed ends and black switch was fitted to Mk1 Mini to Oct 1964 and Elf/Hornet MK2 1965. Lamp body length is 13.6cm(5.35″) by 3.40cm(1.34″) body width and listed […]

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