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1 Dec 2015, 22:01 (Ref:3594866) | #26 | |||
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My interest in the car was purely from the point of view of a long standing Q Car admirer...love the weird and wonderful combinations some people come up with... |
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Hi GTB, it was a weird and wonderful combination alright!!!!
It was a bit rough around the edges but was built like a tank. I don’t know what it weighed but it was quite heavy. It was a point-and-squirt machine. Mike Bennion lived near Silverstone and told me he’d raced it there a few times only. No mention of Santa Pod. I was surprised to see it on the Sept ’67 cover of CCC. He never showed that to me or even mentioned it. The car looks quite different to when I bought it. He had another magazine feature on it in colour – at least four pages – but not on the cover. I’d always thought it was CCC but apparently not. The issue with it on the cover doesn’t have a feature and it’s before CCC went to colour. So it must have been Hot Car or another one. I have been searching for the last 40 years trying to find it. The magazine feature billed it as “The World’s Fastest Morris Minor”. This was half the reason I bought it!!!! It had been electronically timed at Silverstone @ 150mph. |
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The bonnet, boot-lid and doors were all fibreglass. The boot-lid had larger round holes across the top. The bonnet had the scoop at the front for the oil cooler and a large rectangular opening to clear the air cleaner, not the small scoop on top as in the pic at Santa Pod. It had a huge Carter four-barrel carby with big round chrome aircleaner. Side windows were Perspex. The engine was a ‘57/’58 Thunderbird.
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