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Meet Hunter!This 1979 Mini 1275 GT has been fully rebuilt and features a huge spec. Fast, clean, retro and a little obnoxious! He's enjoyable on the road but it's itching for some competitive use.This mini was tuned on a rolling road recently and produced 99.7 bhp and 90 ibs/ft with plenty left in…

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Spec sheet

100mphTop speed
276Miles from new

1979Year

£30Build cost

100bhpPower

Meet Hunter!

This 1979 Mini 1275 GT has been fully rebuilt and features a huge spec. Fast, clean, retro and a little obnoxious! He's enjoyable on the road but it's itching for some competitive use.

This mini was tuned on a rolling road recently and produced 99.7 bhp and 90 ibs/ft with plenty left in it. With both seats fitted and fuel in the tank it weighs 594 kg, the cross corner weights are within 0.25%!

Body:

Bare shell rebuild, multi-point weld in CDS roll cage, enlarged rear shock turrets, stiffened toe board, aluminium boot floor, lightened steel boot lid, lightened steel doors, fibreglass front end, fibreglass bonnet, tubular front bumper, CDS front subframe mounting points tied to the roll cage, crash cans behind bumper mounts, adjustable bucker seat mounts, flush harness mounts, fully functional roof scoop, white body, black roof, full stone-chip underside, waxoyl injected sills, sill stand tubes installed (stands included) external battery cut off and extinguisher pulls, LED headlights, spotlight ready (wiring in place). 

Mechanical:

Alloy front brake callipers and 7.5" discs, alloy finned rear drums, titanium handbrake levers, adjustable front tie rods, adjustable bottom arms, polybushes, red dot cones (front), Hi-Lo adjustable trumpets (front), Spax gas dampers (front), custom rear beam, custom radius arms (CDS) with rose joint adjustment, Avo coilovers (rear), reinforced front subframe, solid subframe mounts, alloy fuel tank with baffled trapdoor pickup and VDO sender, Facet fuel pump, 10" Exacton alloys in black wrapped in Yoko A032r tyres.

Internal:

Full carbon dash, OMP Corsica steering wheel with Go-Race quick release, Stack tachometer, Stack oil pressure gauge, Stack water temp gauge, Stack fuel gauge, GPS speedo, full bespoke wiring harness, relays and fuses mounted in dash, co-drivers map light, Sabelt drivers bucket seat, Cobra co-drivers bucket seat, 6 point harnesses, internal gear linkage, hydraulic handbrake, rear brake bais valve, battery isolator, extinguisher ready, heated windscreen, rood mounted air vents, polycarbonate side and rear windows with sliding front openings.

Engine:

Benross performance engineering built 1275cc +40 (1310cc), ported head, 35.7mm inlet and 29.5mm exhaust valves, 1.5 alloy roller rockers, alloy rocker cover, AE pistons, peened and balanced rods, ARP rod, main and head fixings, lightened knife edged and back drilled crankshaft, lightened billet flywheel, orange clutch cover, straight cut drops, straight cut close ratio gearset, semi-straight cut crownwheel and pinion, 4.1 ratio, plate LSD, long alloy inlet manifold, Weber DCOE 40, Mangoletsi twin cable DCOE linkage, K&N deep filter, Filter king filter and regulator with glycerine filled fuel pressure gauge ceramic coated manifold LCB manifold, silicone coated centre pipe, silicone coated repackable silencer, polybushed alloy RH top engine steady, custom alloy LH top engine steady, LH & RH gearbox steadies, braided oil filter return, front mounted full width radiator, 10" electric radiator fan, alloy swirl tank, silicone hose kit, Nodiz ignition ECU, Ford coil pack, 8.5mm silicone HT leads, NGK plugs, MED crank sensor kit, MED lightweight crank damper kit and trigger wheel, high-torque starter motor and Denso alternator.

There's also a spares package that comes with him including driveshafts, engine and gearbox parts, complete jog for replacement radius arms, crash cans, suspension and steering components etc.

All in all Hunter is a next level Mini that has it all, could be used for rallying, hillclimb or track days or just a weekend B road blaster.

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

This is a GUARANTEED DRAW SUNDAY the 18th February 2024 at 8pm or before on sellout!

Opening offer £9.99 72 hours ONLY. Then sale price £12.49 until 80% sold then regular price £14.99 80-100%

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The draw date for this competition is 18/2/2024 at 08:00pm unless all tickets are sold beforehand, when it can be held earlier. Our draw dates are GUARANTEED, we never extend them.

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This competition has a maximum of 2499 entries.

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

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