Hi All,

Has anyone built a Mini Clubman Van into a track car, I'm thinking outside the box here (I guess)?

What are your thoughts, Pro's Cons??

Thanks
Mick

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1967 Morris Mini Deluxe 1310 with lots done, and almost ready to play.

http://www.affmotorsport.com

Previous;
1970 Mist Green Mini K
1967 Deluxe
1965 Deluxe
and a few for parts.

They are lighter than sedans (depending on model) although may not be as rigid but once it has a cage it will be same same. The longer wheel base will be more stable. I'm not sure about aero dynamics with the van back....

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Respect mine and I'll respect yours.

alot of room in the back for a non standard engine

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Nick

http://www.ausmini.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=86675

It has been done. You can get fiberglass one piece rear doors that save a heap of weight.
The vans flex too much at the rear, but bracing or fully tied in cage would stop that.

Aero is slightly "less worse" than the sedan.
Weight is heavier than a stripped out sedan.

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Too many cars, and too little time.

i raced a mini van at speedway for about 14 years

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No offence intended here but--> anyone writing a book about minis 30 years ago may not have experienced such worn or stuffed-with components as we are finding these days.

You should put your heart & soul into everything you do.

& yes 1415cc stroker, sc/cr, super light car bigweber, long manifold, huge head 13.7:1 comp ratio etc etc etc

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No offence intended here but--> anyone writing a book about minis 30 years ago may not have experienced such worn or stuffed-with components as we are finding these days.

You should put your heart & soul into everything you do.

oh & also racing my road mini van basically my whole life in motorkhanas, hillclimbs , autcross & street & circuit sprints too also 1415cc stroker

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No offence intended here but--> anyone writing a book about minis 30 years ago may not have experienced such worn or stuffed-with components as we are finding these days.

You should put your heart & soul into everything you do.

this is me & Marly over taking & puttin a lap on Tony & viv (convertablemini on here)

notice the race number is (sort-of) our phone number too


& of course we won more than just about anyone else out there

Dad used to Rally his old red van/wagon too





& all our delivery vans used to get a proper thrashing at Autocross, hillclimbs & soly rallys etc too


i have heaps more pics in my old computer of this stuff if anyones interested? I don`t want to bombard you all with too much crap tho.

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No offence intended here but--> anyone writing a book about minis 30 years ago may not have experienced such worn or stuffed-with components as we are finding these days.

You should put your heart & soul into everything you do.

every now & then they kicked me up a grade cause we were winning so much in every category so we ended up in the saloon car races with grand national cars running methanol injected V8`s & such,,, & we still did the business on them hee hee

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No offence intended here but--> anyone writing a book about minis 30 years ago may not have experienced such worn or stuffed-with components as we are finding these days.

You should put your heart & soul into everything you do.

Gotta love the old speedway days .

Google BabyBee... One through lots

Cheers, Ian

They're great photos Matt!
I'm not bored, put as many as you like up.

Cheers Shane

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If it's not a Cooper S, the mini was designed to be modified!

Great Photo's Matt, Keep them coming

I'm thinking more tarmac based for us, also already have a one piece Fibreglass Morris front end to go on or could use the Clubby fibreglass bonnets I have.

Just thought it would not be common a van running around, good space for stickers on it, options to Mid mount something later on.

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1967 Morris Mini Deluxe 1310 with lots done, and almost ready to play.

http://www.affmotorsport.com

Previous;
1970 Mist Green Mini K
1967 Deluxe
1965 Deluxe
and a few for parts.

This one is an old Aussie factory converted wagon (from a van)
we sold this to a friend of mine (hope to get it back one day)
& ended up with a clubman front & such, but anyways, it was one of ReadSpeeds old delivery vans for years n years & then my brother had it for a while then my mate got it & the whole while it was raced in morokhanas, autocross, hillclimbs & Lakeside circuit sprints



this thing has also done sooooo many trips to Melbourne & back it would make you all dizzy
still going but parked up waiting for me to grab it back off him

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No offence intended here but--> anyone writing a book about minis 30 years ago may not have experienced such worn or stuffed-with components as we are finding these days.

You should put your heart & soul into everything you do.

anyone care to have a go at racing this mini van ???



this was an old "Royal Brisbane Hospital Ambulance" ,,, eventually turned into a "laundry van" for within the grounds of the hospital for years,,, there were 5x of these if my memory serves me correctly,,, but dad ended up buying this one after the hospital wards-men were racing them around the hospital grounds & crashed this one into a big pole,,, we fixed her up & ran it as a delivery van for years & also a lunch van for race meetings now gone to the big mini scrap-metal yard in the sky sadly

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No offence intended here but--> anyone writing a book about minis 30 years ago may not have experienced such worn or stuffed-with components as we are finding these days.

You should put your heart & soul into everything you do.