Thread: 1960/70's Mini Racing Photos
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Old 26 Jan 2023, 10:15 (Ref:4141269)   #243
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Originally Posted by mab01UK View Post
Some photos of the late Chris Tyrrell (Mini Se7en Champion in 1974, 1986 and 1987) - with beard/white T-shirt - and his Mini Seven. I think the Leyland Mini Challenge sticker on the rear side panel says 1978. Chris was always a front runner and produced many of the leading Mini race engines and cylinder heads at the time from his small workshop in Leatherhead, Surrey.
Excellent stuff, thanks for posting Chris was quite a character (and actually did me a head for my Mini Se7en).
Before my eyes had got to the back of the drivers door in the first picture I know whose car it was!
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