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Le Mans Classic 2025 - Mini Marcos and Unipower GT

Picture Richard Dredge

Le Mans Mini Marcos project: the 2nd set of wheels

Once more: just like in 1966

Mystery Peel Viking is a survivor!

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5 Stimson Scorcher replicas / rip-offs

Unipower GT: lost film footage found, director's daughter tracked down and a heavy crash

The 4-wheel drive Mini derivative - made by the Ford Motor Company

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What happened to Alec Poole's Unipower GT 'RBL 25F'?

Is that really the Luna Bug prototype turning up..?

Harold Dermott - where are you?

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Background discovery: the crashed Mini Marcos of the 1967 Targa Florio

Peter Sellers and the Unipower GT 

Mystery Mini derivative (89)

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How a lost Outspan Orange Mini turned up again

The Biota in the field - still there!

O'Youngs Unipower GT at Macau - where is it now?

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Peels are coming back to Peel on the Isle of Man

And this Peel Viking is ready for the party - after 44 years

While this is the actual Turner Ranger prototype - it lives, too

More about Sonny's Unipower GT

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1970 Stunners: Sonny and his Unipower GT 

Agricultural mysteries: frontal-, central and rear wheel driven

Mini Trafalgar Coupe in Australia

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The Best of 'Minis at Le Mans'

The Ogle that almost made it to Le Mans

Le Mans' coolest trick: the Marcos' modified roof

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Unipower GT Competition car in Canada

'JOM 132E' - Not your average Mini Moke

Many Mini Marcoses for sale

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Ogle & Unipower for sale - good & bad ads

ABC Tricars - an appearance and a disappearance

Mini Marcoses at Le Mans Essais '66 & '67 + a request

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Big update on the Le Mans Mini Marcos project - full picture report

A rainy afternoon with a Unipower GT

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Paola GT - closer to revealing its real identity

Phoenix City Car explained by its creator

Unipower GT of Ecurie Canada

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Wild Heerey GTM found in France

Unipower GT goes continental

Butterfield Musketeer at Racing Car Show '62

Barn find Unipower in Kent

Almost forgot to mention this. I learned more about the Unipower GT that was spotted in a barn in Kent last month (click) and found out it was owned by a garage holder in Elvington named Wayne. I phoned him up and he told me he had indeed taken over the car from Nick Gerolomou. O learned that Nick had already started work on the car. According to Wayne he'd paid £7,000 for the paint job alone. The rebuild of the engine, suspension and transmission had also been carried out under Nick's supervision. A number of parts had also been missing but were sourced or remade, the Perspex rear screen in the first place, which supposedly came at £900. The rare headlight surrounds were also gone with new ones being found.

UPDATE 10 November 2023: ...Offered for sale on Ebay now... (click here).

UPDATE 15 December 2023: ...Article heavily updated, amended and shortened on request of the car's current owners.

This picture caught my attention. It wasn't too hard to track the car down, next

Picture courtesy Gerrit-Jan Kreeftenberg

I learned it was fully complete and for sale, too. And at an absolutely fair price...

Picture courtesy Gerrit-Jan Kreeftenberg

Original 1275 Cooper 'S' engine had already been fully restored as well as suspension

Picture courtesy Gerrit-Jan Kreeftenberg

 A £7,000 paint job had been carried out, rear screen remade and missing parts sourced

Picture courtesy Gerrit-Jan Kreeftenberg

This Unipower GT was one of the very last cars made and first registered in 1969

Picture courtesy Gerrit-Jan Kreeftenberg

Nick's Unipower GT - found in a barn

I lost track of Nick Gerolomou who I saw last in 2016 to celebrate the Unipower GT's 50th anniversary (click here). Nick bought his Unipower in the early 1970s from dealer Monty & Ward, drove it for a few years only to put it in storage back in 1977 (click here for more). He planned a restoration but I don't know how far he ever got to it, and the last thing I heard is that he was in hospital with some serious ailments. I've tried to get in touch but to no avail and can only hope he is okay.

What happened to his car? I had no idea either but was much surprised to be sent a picture from it last weekend. It turned out to have been taken by a fellow-Dutchman who bumped into the car in the UK by pure chance. I got in touch and he was kind enough to go back and take some more pictures. This left me in no doubt that it is indeed Nick's GT, a very late car, and it certainly seems that the restoration has been started. I've tried to obtain more information from the owners of the barn, but haven't heard from them yet. Do get in touch when you are the new owner as I'd love to hear from you.

The Unipower GT of Nick Gerolomou was found in a barn in Kent last weekend

Picture courtesy Gerrit-Jan Kreeftenberg

 This is a very late car, first registered in 1969 or 1970 in Scotland

Picture courtesy Gerrit-Jan Kreeftenberg

 Nick bought the car from dealer Monty & Ward in the early 1970s and stored it in '77

Picture courtesy Gerrit-Jan Kreeftenberg

 "Monty told me that mine was the last car made, being pushed out of one end whilst the recievers came in the other end. Its a nice story if nothing else."

Picture courtesy Gerrit-Jan Kreeftenberg

 The car's dashboard, full of gauges and switches, makes it easy to identify the car 

Picture courtesy Gerrit-Jan Kreeftenberg

The car came with a 1275 engine, which looks to have been restored already 

Picture courtesy Gerrit-Jan Kreeftenberg

 Nick Gerolomou with the car in his own barn, when I visited him in Kent in 2014

Picture Jeroen Booij