The car was purchased in early 2006 from Rupert Hinde/Hendersons Motorsport who had been racing the car previously under Rightline Motorsport as a standard Mini 7 .

Photo courtesy of Paul Sands.

We don't know much about the car prior to this and would be interested if anybody could provide some history on it (who drove it, when was it built etc).  If you have any information then please mail me at tim.joslyn@dilgenter.com

The car was bought as a Se7en but the decision was made to convert the car into a Se7en S Class.  S Class is a new initiative witin the Mini 7 racing club that provides race cars with a longer life span albeit they are not as quick as the fastest Se7ens.  The conversion involved:

• Scrapping/Selling the existing 1000cc engine and building a new 1293cc to S Class specification
• Changing over the AVO shock absorbers to mandatory Spax items
• Removing the existing rear anti-roll bar and fitting the mandatory item
• Removing the Exhaust system and manifold and replacing it with the mandatory Maniflow items.

When I say I converted the car I actually mean that the guys at Pitstop carried out the work.  Special mention must go to Darren Thomas who tirelessly prepped the car and built the engine from scratch.

End result was the car seen below that debuted at Croft in September 2006.

Due to some regulation changes in early 2007 we took the decision to convert the car back to a standard Se7en.  At the same time we opted for a respray to firmly put our mark on the car:

Here is the car ready to race at Silverstone in April 2007:

The specification of the car is roughly as follows:

• 2 x 1000cc engines (1 x Selby and 1 x OAP) both sitting on JKD dog boxes
• Electric Water Pump
• Kubota Alternator
• Samco hosing
• Metro Radiator
• Curley Carbon Front-end
• Curley Dashboard
• Lifeline 2.25ltr plumbed in Fire Extinguisher
• Corebeau Revolution Seat
• Facet Fuel pump
• Maniflow Exaust System
• Mini 7 S Class spec rear anti-roll bar
• Curley bootlid
• Perspex windows all round