Over to more Mini based cars, seen at Blyton Park during the Maximum Mini / Mk1 Performance Action Day of last weekend (click here for part 1). I agree with Ogle-owner Guy Loveridge who said: "Really great gathering, which the weather did NOT spoil!". TiCi owner Ian Mitcheson wrote to me: "Blyton Park seems to have established itself very quickly" and I can only confirm that. Let's make the 2016 version even better.
Goff Allen's stunning Mini Jem Mk2 came over fresh from its restoration
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Back in 1968 Goff bought another Mini Jem from Robin Statham, he shows the original invoice here
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He paid 225 pounds for the shell at the time and swiftly built it up from an old Mini. The car was registered XWW 98G and Goff wonders what happened to it after he sold it in 1971.
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Surprise! Colin Baines brought over his Broadspeed GT replica. The car was built in a record time prior to the show, using an original wrecked car from Japan as a template.
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Other then the original, Colin, who owned a Broadspeed GT in the late 1980s, has decided his new car will have a full fiberglass body. And except for the doors, that's just what it is!
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You will know that Neville Trickett has relaunched the MiniSprint for some years now and this is a stunning example of one such recently built cars
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The primrose yellow suits the car particularly well and is great with the blue/grey interior, I think. But then open the bonnet and you find a seven-port cylinder head...
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And what's better then one Trickett MiniSprint? Another two of course!
Organizer Mark Forster's blue car on the left
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While this one is owned by journalist Keith Mainland, here with his lovely wife Angélica,
who is a veteran on the Carrera Panamericana road race
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Ed Darwinkel's beautiful Midas Gold was driven all the way from Rotterdam
- via Calais-Dover - a 500 mile trip
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What would the Blyton Park event be without father and son Wilkins? This is Nick in the Biota Mk2...
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...And that's Derek in the ex-Cars and Car Conversions Cox GTM, of course driven on the track
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Another car that was seen on the race track was Paul Ogle's Fletcher GT - 49 years after it was raced for the last time at the Nurburgring - see here
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Parting shot - a GTM Coupe, which gave its owner a huge smile on the
Blyton Park track - that's what it was all about!
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