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A dedicated team at MINI Plant Oxford will offer a service to convert original Minis into electric vehicles. A MINI press release said: “The MINI Recharged project is an opportunity to continue telling the story of the classic Mini in the 21st century, in a sustainable way.” Customers can hand over their Minis to be fitted with modern electric drive and only reversible changes will be made. “Careful handling of the historical heritage is an important part of the concept. This makes it possible to restore the classic Mini to its original condition at a later date.” The original engine of each vehicle will be marked and stored for a possible retrofit of the engine. Bernd Körber, head of MINI said: “With MINI Recharged we are connecting the past with…

CORONAVIRUS NOTE: Please be aware that these events will only be able to take place if government guidelines allow. 2022 March 5-6 Minis Down Under Mini event at Rosehill Gardens near Sydney, Australia, to celebrate 60 years of the Mini in Australia. It was due to take place in 2020 but was pushed forward to 2022. Organised by Mini Car Club of NSW. www.miniclub.com.au 13 Mini Fair Fantastic event at Bingley Hall, Staffordshire County Showground. Perfect shopping day out for Mini fans due to the large amount of Mini-specific traders and autojumblers. Plus club stands, British Mini Club’s show 'n' shine and the Premier Concours final. www.britishminiclub.co.uk 18-20 Classic Car & Restoration Show Multi-marque event at Birmingham’s NEC. Demonstrations, food outlets, live restorations, club, trade and autojumble stands. www.necrestorationshow.com 27…

Ask Tim Email: mw.ed@kelsey.co.uk Post: MiniWorld Q&A, Kelsey Publishing Ltd, The Granary, Downs Court, Yalding Hill, Yalding, Kent, ME18 6AL, UK Tim Mundy has worked on Minis since the age of 13. In the 1990s he worked for Oselli Engineering and has been writing for MiniWorld for 25 years. He has owned more than 20 Minis and built two from scratch. New cam, new carb? I have just had a 1293cc engine, which is tuned with a modified head and fast road cam, installed in my Mini. Could you recommend a suitable carb set-up for this engine as the current carb is the original SU HS4 which, I think, is going to be too small. Whatever I get it will need to be bought second-hand due to spending too much…

By the dawn of the 1970s there were a lot of Minis running around with worn dampers. Saloons from mid 1964 were, of course, equipped with Hydrolastic suspension which had damping built into the system but earlier dry suspension Minis and LWB variants had mostly covered quite a few miles and the handling would have been suffering. In the 1970s worn dampers (aka shock absorbers) received quite a lot of publicity with a general guidance that, if they were more than 40,000 miles old, they would need replacing. A lot of companies started advertising this and a number of aftermarket, uprated units became available. The best known at the time were Armstrong, who made the BMC/BL Special Tuning dampers, and Spax, who made adjustable-on-the-car units and still do today. Spax…

MiniWorld staff and writers reporting on their month in, under and around Minis… In addition to all the TV footage, ECC documented the whole build process as this was the first Mini they have fitted with a new Tesla heart. I have to thank Richard Morgan, aka ‘Moggy’, for the photos and technical details I’ve included this time. If you managed to see the episode you will have seen some of the challenges they faced but here we can delve a bit deeper into how it was done. Stepping back for a moment, the fact we had no engine for the car is one of the reasons I wanted to talk to ECC in the first place, to go through the detail of what an electric conversion could offer. What…

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This event is usually hosted annually in December by Victorian Mini Club but the virus rules all and it was able to go ahead on 9 January. For a while it was an indoor event but it now takes place at Bundoora Park, around seven miles north of Melbourne, which has a tiny hill known as Mount Cooper which is apt for a Mini event. There were Minis of many types in attendance. You can easily spot the English Minis as they have Austin badges as all early Australian Minis had Morris badges. There was also a rare Fang racer with Mini engine, built by Nota Cars in Sydney in the 1970s. I drove one in the 70s which was fitted with a 1275 and was pretty energetic. Find out…

ISSUE: July 2011 “I began,” said Neil Davison, was originally going to smarten it up and use it but it got out of hand and a full restoration the owner of this City E, who was only 17 when he bought it. He was in deep… “It was in very poor condition with a horrible paint job and rust everywhere.” He decided to fix some of the rust but there was much more to be found. “The biggest shock, while removing rotten panels, was how much more rust was waiting underneath.” Thankfully he worked as a welder and fabricator so he was capable of taking on the mammoth project once he got stuck into it. “I did find it a lot different to what I’m used to at work, as…

FEBRUARY 2021 Downton-tuned Mk1 Mini Cooper Modified 1979 Mini Pick-up Incredible VTEC-engined Estate Mini suspension know-how MARCH 2021 Australian Works Cooper S racer Restored Italian Innocenti Cooper Cooper-converted Flame Red LE VIN and engine plate identification APRIL 2021 Restored 1275cc ’66 Mini Cooper S Stunning Mk3 Wolseley Hornet Fantastic 1961 Morris Minivan Mk1 heater refurbishment guide MAY 2021 30 years of specialissue 30 amazing featureMinis Superb restored 1960 Austin Seven Beginners’ Mini buying guide JUNE 2021 Woody-styled Clubman Estate Mk3 Riley Elf rat-rod 1964 970cc Cooper S Mini brake and fuel plumbing JULY 2021 Retro-styled 1979 saloon Superb modified Mini City Lovingly-restored Mini Moke Mini cooling system plumbing AUGUST 2021 Pro-restored 1960 Mini Van Tesla battery-powered Estate Rover Mini with Mk1 vibes Modified 1966 Riley Elf SUMMER 2021 Low-mileage Cooper…

When the Mini was introduced it had an 848cc engine producing 34bhp. Having a transverse engine mounted above the gearbox was a novel idea and the concept worked well; too well really because, endowed with the Mini’s handling, the whole package cried out for more power. Gearboxes were improved over time but, despite this, the transmission needs to be rebuilt more often than it would on an in-line power train (with separate transmission oil). Clutches wear, the transfer gears are subject to wind-up and the gearboxes wear along with the engine due to the oil being shared by the engine and transmission. Regular maintenance, especially changing the oil, becomes very important, so does investigation of any noises, vibration or slip as soon as it begins. It is a good idea…

Back in 2018, my husband Graham and I were on a foreign holiday and, whilst in the swimming pool, Graham suggested that we bought another Mini for me to drive. He already had a 1977 Mini Clubman Estate, which had been converted into a Van known as ‘The Vandal’. Without even taking a minute to think I said “yes, OK”. We didn’t waste any time locating it as, within a few days of returning home in the October, we had bought one from Mini dealer GC Motors in the South East of England. This particular Rover MPi Mini Seven, in white, was offered for sale in March and April 2018 through Mathewson’s Classic Car Auctions in West Yorkshire; a company known for its TV programme Bangers & Cash. It didn’t…

A country race track ‘somewhere in Victoria’ in 1961… a Morris 850 has suffered a DNF, due to oil on the clutch, on its maiden run. This was the inauspicious start for a pairing that would soon become legendary: Peter Manton and racing Minis. Gerald Peter Manton was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1922. He lived with his parents, then later his mother. He had two sisters, Audrey and Judith, and was considered by all who knew him as a true gentleman and all-round good bloke. His first competitive drive was in the 1939 Sun Rally, in his mother’s Austin 16 that he had borrowed without her knowledge. That wouldn’t have gone down too well as he broke the differential on the event. His first racing car was a pre-war…

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Crystal Palace Park is no longer available as the starting point for the 35th London to Brighton Mini Run so organisers London & Surrey MOC have arranged a new start point of Cheam Recreation Ground in Sutton, Surrey The 2022 event will take place on 15 May and, as usual, camping will be available on the Saturday night with entertainment, including an inflatable assault course, bouncy castle, face painting, racing simulators plus food stalls. Tickets for LSMOC members and clubs are already available and general tickets will go on sale online on 7 March. L2B organiser Jono Eales told MiniWorld: “After a long break due to the most troubling times, it’s great to be back. We hope everyone will be able to get together and meet old friends and make…

MiniWorld staff and writers reporting on their month in, under and around Minis… Even though I have now owned Popsie for over 20 years I still sometimes go out to the garage just to admire her. Sadly, though, admiring has been pretty much all I have been able to do for the last couple of months as Popsie has been a bit of a prima donna. She is a single point injection (SPi) Rover Cooper and these models get a lot of bad press but, on a good day, they can be an absolute delight to drive. On bad days though, and you never know when that day will be, the little rascals will cough and splutter and run very roughly. Basically they are being just horrid. Back in November 2021…

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