That’s right … a Historic Mini Van, race-car !
Back in the day you sometimes saw, albeit quite rarely a Mini Van racing with the saloons.
At Playmini we love something a bit different – so here’s the build of our Historic Mini Race Van ! Its been on the back burner for a couple of years but we have finally got round to building.
As usual we have selected a high end rust free donor for our build.
After a complete panel restoration by Endaf Owens the van has had a superb Owens Fabrication FIA spec roll cage fitted
Second stage of the build, all the panel fine tuning, special features and paint compliments of Ian over at Dusty’s Auto Distillery
With all the body fine adjustments done its off to Dusty’s Auto Distillery spray booth !
The finished shell back at the workshop – Another better than superb job by Ian over at Dusty’s Auto Distillery !
Bill Sollis has waved his motorsport wand over the van shell and its now ready for battle
Sign-writing by Mark over at Apollo Signs ( 07860 709236 )
Now if your wondering why the signwriting says “Paddys Garage” and not Playmini or Historic MiniRacing, well thats the special part of this build, Many moons ago Nick’s grandafther owned and ran Paddys Garage, a car repair shop and fuel station.
The opertunity came along to purchase a 1962 Morris Miin Van, and we thought this would make a great homage to Nicks grandfather, with fuel in the blood as Graham, Nicks father was of course a Downton Engineering mechanic back in the day who also had a Mini van – so in true Playmini style it was rebuilt to a concourse level, sporting 135 of Swiftune’s finest horses this little Mini van can certanly DELIVER the goods !
Panel work completed with an FIA roll cage from Endaf Owens, Ian over at Dustys Auto Clinic did his usual impecable job on the paint then everyones favourite driver / mechanic, Bill Sollis set to work installing all the nessesary “race” mods and completing the build for us