Stoneleigh kit car show 2012

I love it when people send over pictures of Mini derivatives at events that they have visited. And reader Colin Baines did just so after he went to Stoneleigh for the annual National kit car show held last bank holiday weekend. Thanks to him you can see here a selection of pictures of Mini based creatures that made it to there. Cheers mate!

ABS Freestyles are often referred to as Funbuggies. And fun they are, I can tell!

Picture courtesy Colin Baines 

The Domino HT (for Hard Top) was launched after the open top Domino Pimlico

Picture courtesy Colin Baines 

That's a Scamp Mk3, last of the Scamps to use the Mini mechanicals

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GTM galore. The red cars are GTM Coupes, I think the white one is an earlier Heerey GTM

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And that's even earlier: a Cox GTM, and a very famous one, too! I love that car

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It was built by the chaps of Cars & Car Conversions magazine over a series of issues

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Great detailing. Then-editor Richard Hudson-Evans raced it at the Nurburgring in 1970

Picture courtesy Colin Baines

UPDATE 9 May 2012. Richard H. wrote: "That white GTM in the photo is a 13" coupe, not a Heerey - look at the front arches and the rear bumper. I think it might be a fully grp one that someone on the GTM forum made the floor for, it’s a well-known car. Richard P. added: Here are some cars that Colin missed. We had two Minuses on the stand on Sunday, which was a big plus! The Berkeley T60 hiding at the back of the arena was originally Excelsior powered but has had the Mini conversion." Thanks Richards!

Sunny colours at the Mini Marcos' club stand in Stoneleigh

Picture courtesy Richard Porter 

Great pair of Mini Minuses. A bonnet bulge is neccessary here and there

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I'm not a fan of Mini powered Berkeleys, but they are a Mini derivative in a way

Picture courtesy Richard Porter