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Meet Ernie, our best ever competition offering!He started life in 1995 as a 1.3i Mini Cooper and was fully restored in 2014 at a huge cost, painted in his original British racing green paint.Under the bonnet hides the best engine I've seen in a Mini! Get ready for this.........A Specialist…

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120mphTop speed
150Miles from new

1995Year

150bhpPower

Meet Ernie, our best ever competition offering!

He started life in 1995 as a 1.3i Mini Cooper and was fully restored in 2014 at a huge cost, painted in his original British racing green paint.

Under the bonnet hides the best engine I've seen in a Mini! Get ready for this.........

A Specialist Components 1293cc Turbo engine producing a whopping 150 BHP with 156 Ibft at 1 bar boost, so loads left in it. This engine and gear box cost £12,000!

1275cc engine block was acid dipped, re surfaced, had new cam bearing, machined for centre strap then rebored & honed to 1293cc with 1293cc pistons, IASA forged, VP2 bearing + thrusts, SC steel rods + ARP's.  Avonbar PH2 cam, centre main strap, ARP head bolts, SC 5 port EFI kit inc air filter, light weight flywheel and fast road clutch kit, SC EN24T flywheel bolt/washer, billet alloy pack: new timing case cover assembly, oil filter head, braided transfer pipe. Fusion Fabs manifold and downpipe. Monster Garrett GT1752 turbo. On top of all of this the crank was balanced, wedge/blade and ground. This engine has done 150 miles since being fitted.

Gearbox was acid dipped and bead blasted then a SC gearset & 4 pin diff were fitted.

Stepping inside you are greeted by a brand new Newton Commercial red leather interior with matching door cards. Original wooden dash houses all the important information, John Cooper signature alloy door furniture, Cooper leather steering wheel, SC gearknob all finished off with a CD player with 6 discs and infinity speakers in the doors and rear shelf.

Underneath the car is everything that you'd expect in a Mini of this level! Gaz adjustable shocks, adjustable tie bars & camber arms. Minisport 4 pot calipers with 7.5in grooved & vented discs, colour coded rear superfins. SC 13inch classic split rims 10x7 wrapped in sticky Yoko Advan-032 semi slick tyres.

In summary this is the best Mini to date, it's got it all!

Opening offer for 72 hours only, this price will NEVER be beaten, so take advantage!

This is a GUARANTEED DRAW SUNDAY 11th of December at 8pm or before on sellout! Our recent competitions have sold out!

Opening offer £12.49 72 hours ONLY. Then sale price £14.99 until 80% sold then regular price £17.49 80-100%

HOW IT WORKS

1 Choose the competition you wish to enter and select the number of tickets you would like.
2 Answer the question and follow the instructions to complete your purchase.
3 That’s it! You’re entered into the draw. Your ticket number(s) will show in "My Entries" & "My Orders" in your account area. 

The draw date for this competition is 11/12/2022 at 08:00pm unless all tickets are sold beforehand, when it can be held earlier. We never extend the closing date of a competition.

YOUR ENTRY

This competition has a maximum of 2499 entries.

You must answer the question correctly when you enter for your issued number(s) to be valid in the live draw.

Competition will close and be drawn early if all entries are sold prior to end date.

Your ticket numbers are emailed to you once you complete your order and can also be found under ‘Your Account’ area.
A full list of entries for each competition will appear on our Entry Lists page after the completion of the competition and before the Live draw.
By entering online or by free postal entry route you confirm that you have read and agreed to our terms and conditions. Entry into one of our competitions and successfully answering the qualifying question does not guarantee a prize, only entry into the LIVE draw.

LIVE DRAW

To ensure all our competitions are run in a completely transparent and fair way we use Google’s random number generator to pick the winning entry. We pick the winner LIVE on our Instagram/Facebook Page. Follow our Instagram and/or Facebook page to ensure you don’t miss any of our live draws or launch of new competitions.
Tickets will be available until 8.00pm on draw day unless all tickets are sold beforehand, when it can be held earlier.

Results

Recent winners

  1. Dean Andrews

    MEGA LOW ODDS 12,208 mile Cooper S (Frank)

    #965

  2. Neil Skinner

    1.3 MPI Paul Smith (Nelson)

    #29442

  3. Al Ford

    Cooper S JCW 210 (Olive)

    #9840

  4. Guy Murch

    MEGA LOW ODDS! Cooper S JCW GP2 (Sonny)

    #571

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