Boat stretch

[cuthound]

25 minutes ago, MtB said:

 

True!! 

 

A sad loss to music, Mr Bolan. ISTR his Mini was a Radford Cooper "S", or do I have that wrong? 

 

 

No eye deer, but the Radford Mini's were lovely. They even had a record deck built in IIRC.

[Guest]

Looks like an ordinary 1275 GT to me.

[Guest]

4 hours ago, Jon57 said:

Yep. You need a rainy week so you can watch all the episodes.🤣 only took 10 years or so .

 

Well I watched the last episode in their play list, no. 38 and Binky still isn't fully complete. That episode was released six months ago.

 

 

That was supposed to be a link to their play list, not the first episode.

Edited November 18, 2023 by M_JG

[David Mack]

9 hours ago, magnetman said:

Is the Suez canal saucer shaped

Since the Ever Given managed to get both ends aground on opposite sides of the canal, I would think it probably is!

[NickMc]

Very nice looking boat and stretch, well done.

 

How much was added in length and weight and do you know what it handled like afterwards compared to before, lastly what engine is in it.

 

Many thanks

[Martin Kedian]

12 feet in length and it handled very well 

it was a Russet Newbury 

[Clanky]

17 hours ago, cuthound said:

 

John Cooper did it with a Mini, it didn't end well.

 

http://www.theminiforum.co.uk/imgreq/img/ba1995be04d9d62405fd6bf0840d9dc612320784/89c2ec4879f339546606be8b218032941cf3fad3.jpg

 

"There were two Twini Mini's (and a Moke). One was built by John Cooper, in which John Cooper had his near fatal accident on the Kingston By-Pass. The other was built by Downton engineering and was the car which raced in the Targa Florio. Is main problem was weight which was not much less than a GTO Ferrari against which it had to race, Cooper's accident was the same week as the Targa."

This is an account of Cooper's accident taken from Rob Golding's book ˜Mini“ Thirty Five Years On.

"Failure seemed to dog the tracks of the Twini and enthusiasm was even further dampened when John Cooper had a horrific accident in a road-going Twini. It was the third in a series of accidents in which Cooper was involved and very nearly his last. He was returning from Fairoaks airport having been to collect his Tri-pacer light aircraft. This had crashed some months earlier when he and Lotus chief Colin Chapman were aboard with a professional pilot at the controls. It had cartwheeled on landing without causing injury to anyone. When he collected it, it had sustained further damage while on the ground. The tailplane was badly bent and had he failed to notice it before trying to take off, he could have been in serious trouble again. As it was, he was in a hurry on his way home to collect his wife, Paula, at Surbiton to join Salvadori for dinner.
The Twini was equipped with two 1300cc engines, which were to have been tweaked up to 135 bhp apiece with fuel injection. Batting along the Kingston bypass at 100 mph, the steering arm that had been welded-up to the rear subframe came adrift. As the rack had been removed, the steering link had been used as a suspension arm. The wheel was suddenly free and made a sharp right turn. The car catapulted end-over-end into a wall, throwing Cooper clear but fracturing his skull. Few who saw him thought he would live. The first car on the scene “one that Cooper had just overtaken“ contained a lady who suffered a nervous breakdown as a result of seeing the accident unfold, and she tried unsuccessfully to claim for compensation from Cooper's insurance."

There is quite a bit about the other Twinis in the book. The first one was a Moke that Issigonis built in early 1963. It had a 950cc engine at the front and an 850cc one at the back. John Cooper was shown the car and he and Issigonis both decided they would build a Mini-bodied version. Cooper completed his one day before Issigonis and had it ready for track testing within weeks. John Whitmore did the test driving. By April 1963 both engines were fully-tuned Coopers and the result was a 2.5-litre vehicle developing 175 bhp, and wheelspin on all four wheels.

 

The pic below is the Twini Mini (931 RFC) on the 1963 Targa Florio, drivers were Sir John Whitmore and Paul Frere. Two separate 998cc engine/gearbox combinations were used....interestingly....when the rear engine failed they just drove it around on the front, hence their poor placing."

You can also see the air vents cut into the bootlid.

 

"There were two Twini Mini's (and a Moke). One was built by John Cooper, in which John Cooper had his near fatal accident on the Kingston By-Pass. The other was built by Downton engineering and was the car which raced in the Targa Florio. Is main problem was weight which was not much less than a GTO Ferrari against which it had to race, Cooper's accident was the same week as the Targa."

This is an account of Cooper's accident taken from Rob Golding's book ˜Mini“ Thirty Five Years On.

"Failure seemed to dog the tracks of the Twini and enthusiasm was even further dampened when John Cooper had a horrific accident in a road-going Twini. It was the third in a series of accidents in which Cooper was involved and very nearly his last. He was returning from Fairoaks airport having been to collect his Tri-pacer light aircraft. This had crashed some months earlier when he and Lotus chief Colin Chapman were aboard with a professional pilot at the controls. It had cartwheeled on landing without causing injury to anyone. When he collected it, it had sustained further damage while on the ground. The tailplane was badly bent and had he failed to notice it before trying to take off, he could have been in serious trouble again. As it was, he was in a hurry on his way home to collect his wife, Paula, at Surbiton to join Salvadori for dinner.
The Twini was equipped with two 1300cc engines, which were to have been tweaked up to 135 bhp apiece with fuel injection. Batting along the Kingston bypass at 100 mph, the steering arm that had been welded-up to the rear subframe came adrift. As the rack had been removed, the steering link had been used as a suspension arm. The wheel was suddenly free and made a sharp right turn. The car catapulted end-over-end into a wall, throwing Cooper clear but fracturing his skull. Few who saw him thought he would live. The first car on the scene “one that Cooper had just overtaken“ contained a lady who suffered a nervous breakdown as a result of seeing the accident unfold, and she tried unsuccessfully to claim for compensation from Cooper's insurance."

There is quite a bit about the other Twinis in the book. The first one was a Moke that Issigonis built in early 1963. It had a 950cc engine at the front and an 850cc one at the back. John Cooper was shown the car and he and Issigonis both decided they would build a Mini-bodied version. Cooper completed his one day before Issigonis and had it ready for track testing within weeks. John Whitmore did the test driving. By April 1963 both engines were fully-tuned Coopers and the result was a 2.5-litre vehicle developing 175 bhp, and wheelspin on all four wheels.

 

The pic below is the Twini Mini (931 RFC) on the 1963 Targa Florio, drivers were Sir John Whitmore and Paul Frere. Two separate 998cc engine/gearbox combinations were used....interestingly....when the rear engine failed they just drove it around on the front, hence their poor placing."

You can also see the air vents cut into the bootlid.

 

 

Citroen did it with the 2CV Sahara in the 1950’s. They weren’t very popular. A mint one today would value at £85000

 

https://www.hagerty.co.uk/articles/automotive-history/cars-that-time-forgot-citroen-2cv-sahara/

 

Edited November 19, 2023 by Clanky

[IanD]

16 hours ago, cuthound said:

 

That looks like an ABC eco hull...    

 

It does, the difference being that it works and the eco hull didn't... 😉

 

(for reasons that should have been obvious but I'm not going to dredge up again...)

Edited November 19, 2023 by IanD