160 BHP Supercharged Mini - Modern Performance with Classic Charm ! 

It has that ability to put a smile on your face :-)

Hi there. Thanks for the comment :-)

It sure does 👍

Wow, thats great to hear. Mark was very good letting me drive his baby. Thanks for the feedback on the conversational style. Glad you enjoyed it as I've filmed another one today with a Lancia Delta HF Integrale rally car !!!

Thank you MarkZ for your comments. I have put many , many hours into this car & it’s great to hear positive comments such as yours. Regards, Mark.

evomark4077 what wheels are they? 6x10 deep dish ultralights??? Are you using spacers or is that the standard offset you get with them wheels? Awesome car by the way 👍🏻

Hi Mango Very sorry for taking so long to reply to you. They are 6 x10 Ultralights from Huddersfield Mini Spares. No spacers as such, but running Cooper-s front hubs & Superminifin rear drums which does introduce a degree of “spacer’ in effect. @@MangoJago1984

Thanks Jack. Glad you enjoyed it. This is still one of my favourite cars I have driven on the channel so far. Just full of character :-)

He sure is. We are now great friends 👍

Thanks Mike 👍

Mate...it was bonkers ! Such fun to drive and I really didn't tap into it's full potential. Mark car drive this car like you wouldn't believe !!

I'm glad he didn't go the turbo route!

My pleasure Bill :-)

I love this car 😍

If only mine would consume petrol at the same rate that it consumes oil & water. Slurps at about 16MPG when really going for it! Regards, Mark.

Great to hear Beverley. Mark is such a top bloke and his car is VERY special :-)

A very addictive noise !

Thank you for your comment Finlay. I love owning it & it is wonderful to discover that others like it too.

Beautiful isn't it :-)

I’ll pass on your comment to Mark the owner. He will be chuffed 👍

Sounds like a nice ride. I hope you have watch the original Italian Job too ? ;-)

It's a proper pocket rocket and Mark is indeed very kind :-)

Indeed 👍

I was very lucky to get behind the wheel 🙏🏻

Thanks Richard. Glad you enjoyed it :-)

Thank you for your kind comment Richard

Cheers Robert, this is a supercharged comment and I'm glad you enjoyed it :-)

Mark is a VERY cool guy for letting me drive his car and he was egging me on to go quicker !!

Good luck with the project. Get cracking and let me know when it's done :-)

Petrol Ped. I might even do that. ;)

Mine too James !

It's a little corker :-)

The beginning of a great friendship 👍

I bet you wish you still had it ? It would be worth a fortune now !

Agreed !

Cheers, will do 👍

Glad you enjoyed it :-) Thanks for sharing your Mini story too. Such great little cars.

It is indeed very special !

I wish I could have this one that’s for sure 😍

I love this car !

I know...it was a very special car :-)

He was very trusting :-)

Cheers Mate. Great point and glad you enjoyed the vid :-)

LOL...I bet the lamp post won !

I think Marc Bolan was in the same situation....Different ending though.

Thank you 🙏

Many thanks for your comment.

P.s., love tha the whole Mini character is retained by keeping it A series-ed, as they are torquey little things !!

Thanks Geof. I thought you would like this one !

Thank you for your generous comments Geof. I am very proud of the car & appreciate feedback such as yours. Best Regards.

evomark4077 You are very welcome Mark. Took me back to a time in my life when Mini's were everything. I passed my driving test in one back in 1971 (in the snow) & owned several afterwards. Now I'm a fan of the 'new' MINI, on my 7th, but never forget those wonderful times. All the very best, Geof.

Hi elm Thanks for your positive comment, if you could let me know what you mean by ‘wring it out’ I’ll be happy to answer you further. Best Regards, Mark

evomark4077 haha! It’s a colloquial term meaning hit the redline in every gear :) if you’re ever in New Zealand, hit me up and have a play in my Suzuki...

Oh I did that :-)

Be quick prices are going up 😜

Finlay Downham-White I'm hoping to get enough to mod my mrk 4 golf (not rice)

Finlay Downham-White i have one for my first car just have t9 figure out try to find 1275 3000. Or bike or honda diahtsu

Thank you for your comment Abdullah.

Thank you for your positive comment Larry. I’m glad you enjoyed the video. I sooooo know why you wish you’d kept your 1071 (bank balance!!!!). :-)

Thanks Larry. This is still one of my favourite cars so far on Petrol Ped :-)

LOL...they are fab little things !

Oh no 🤦‍♂️

It's a fab little car isn't it :-) So full of character !

Hi Jackie. I’m glad you enjoyed the experience, but if you were only a “little scared”, then I’ll have to try harder next time!

Right on!

Cheers 👍

Thanks Peter. I was a very lucky boy being able to drive this brilliant little car :-)

Hi Mike Thank you for your interest & your comments. I do enjoy the fact that it still has an A-series engine & I believe that they only handle like Mini’s with the original engine. I enjoy driving it very much & I am pleased that you enjoyed the video. Best Wishes.

You needs bigger brakes at the front. Spring suspension instead of rubber. But beautiful. Having the original engine. And 160 horses. Double the cooper s power.

Evomark 4077 I Love your mini I’m looking into doing the same thing to my mini 1275 any advice to give me Please if you do not mind

You will love it when it's done :-)

Sounded like a Spitfire ;-)

LOL...love this !

Hi Clark, you’re clearly a very knowledgeable man regarding old Mini’s. Very few people recognise the dash as being a Rokee & even fewer would notice the column lowering bracket! I’ll award you 100 points out of 10 if you can tell me where the rear-view mirror came from!!!!

You've got me there, because I'm only really familiar with British cars of long ago. I'm in the USA and minis weren't imported after 1967 or so. But one thing I did notice was that a bit of the music early on was taken from The Italian Job movie (1969), and you, as owner of the car, must be a big fan, too! "Croker/Bridger" on the sticker on the back of the car were the names of the characters played by Michael Caine and Noel Coward in the movie! To get back to this car - the one feature that I think would make a world of difference, and of course improve driving pleasure, would be to swap out the gearbox with a close ratio Cooper S one. Jack Knight and KAD make gearboxes that have not only the 4 close-ratio gears that the Cooper S had, but also a 5th (overdrive) gear, but of course these boxes are quite expensive. Your excellent video brought back many great memories. I can just imagine the sense of accomplishment in keeping such a treasure operating as if new. The mini did so much for the economy that the designer, Alec Issigonis, was knighted. When Soichiro Honda, stepped down from running his company, he mentioned that a large part of Honda's success should be given to Alec Issigonis's, who's venerable mini design ushered in a new class of car - with front-wheel-drive and a transversely mounted motor. Your classic car is a little piece of history.

You are spot-on regarding the gearbox. A close-ratio 5-speed is one of the few things left that I plan to do to the car, hopefully over the winter of 2018/19. You are correct regarding the ‘ItalianJob’ references & of course I’m a fan of the film, what Mini owner wouldn’t be? :-) The rear view mirror btw was from a De-Tomaso Pantera & features indicator repeaters in the mirror glass itself. One other item that is now very rare is the centre console, it was standard equipment in the 1979 Mini Special, but they are as rare as hens teeth these days. Many thanks for your interest in my car & the Petrol Ped channel, your enthusiasm & knowledge are impressive.

I have driven many cars in my 50+ years of driving, and the most satisfyingly FUN driving has been behind the little thick black foam (11"?) steering wheel that I had installed on my Morris Cooper S (selecting the MGA spline). Driving it felt like driving a go-kart, with only 1 7/8 complete turns of the wheel from all the way right to all the way left. It's all about power and weight, and my mini was pretty evenly-matched to the V8 powered Mustangs and Camaros I would drag race from stoplights. The mini had a bit under 1/2 the power of the small V8s, but the mini also weighed less than 1/2 of these American "pony" cars. And, as I mentioned earlier, it was more fun to drive than any of the other cars I have owned, including: an Austin-Healey 3000 BJ8, Sunbeam Tiger, English Ford Anglia, 2 MG 1100s, an Austin America, 9 or 10 Morris Minor sedans and Travellers, a Jaguar XJ6, a 1966 Buick GS400 convertible, a 1971 BMW 2002 Alpina with 2 2-barrel Weber carbs, a ZF close-ratio 5-speed, etc., and many others cars. I love my 18 year old Saturn wagon with it's 128 hp DOHC engine, MacPherson strut front suspension, front and rear ant-sway bars, close ratio (automatic) gears, and plastic body panels. But what I love about it is it's light weight! It actually weighs less than a new, tiny, Fiat 500! But when I dream? I dream MINI COOPER Ss!

Thanks, and yes she is :-)

Or the meet in October 😂

WOW...I'll take that :-)

@@PetrolPed truly awesome, I absolutely love your fanaticism, I like to see a happy face when regarding cars that should never have seen such expectations tbf, subbed all day, only wish I could have done it sooner ;)

Thank you for your kind comment Don

Thanks for the Sub Don. Welcome to the channel :-)

This car is VERY loved !

👏👏👏

Thank you Andrew.

I love it Mark. I agree with your comment in the video - I don't see anything wrong with restoring and updating the car as you've done, especially as it started life as a fairly ordinary Mini 1000, not a Mk1 Cooper or something that's in short supply. You've made it relevant to current road conditions and I think updated it sympathetically. The supercharger installation looks very neat and the exterior colour of the orange with the black roof looks great to my eyes. I think if memory serves some of the racing Minis had a 5 speed gearbox, so there must be room for it to fit. Sounds like you have plans underway already! Having had it 30 years (amazing in itself) no doubt you'll never sell it, so I hope you continue enjoying and no doubt improving your car for many years to come!

I'm in the process of rebuilding my 1400cc Vizard spec 1981 Minivan, as a retirement present to myself. (It featured in CCC mag October 1982.) Nothing to beat it.

My pleasure Colin, such a great little car :-)

Thank you for appreciation Colin.

Thanks 👍

He was probably thinking that for the whole time to be fair :-)

You were indeed following me, I’m an Audi spotter! :-)

Hi Andy. I agree with your sentiments exactly!

So did I :-)

Many thanks for your comment Dale.

@Jax Teller ok you clearly know far better ... I must regurgitate that dinner they took us to at the allysley hotel

@Jax Teller you obviously know better

@Jax Teller come on tell us your version

Hi David. It was great to meet you & Gayle too. Glad you liked the video (& the dogs!). 😁

How cool 😎

Great cars :-)

She's a corker !

Thank you for you kind comments.

She's lovely isn't she !

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