The Mini's first shakedown! 

One of the most fun cars money can buy!! We can't wait to show you how it is going to look. What is your guess?

Fantastic to see the Mini completed. Certainly sounds the part and boy does it look quick

I'm such a fan of the Brundle drivers .. from your Dad in F1 and WEC to you and your adventures now, that seeing THAT helmet being put on and getting into a racing car gives me a thrill every single time. Legendary

Thing is, I LOVE how it looks RIGHT NOW !!

I’m all but 70 years old and when I was in my teens, I use to build mini’s with my friend. We built quite a few cars and I was studying and training to become an engineer and my friend now brother-in-law was training as a mechanic. We were both mad on cars and every car we have had is usually modified. Anyway, we build these mini’s completely on our own including every nut and bolt of the engine. Yes we modified the engines usually 1275’s bored out to 1310, and as I was an engineer and had full access to all machining facilities. We did a lot of work to these mini engines and mini’s and they were quick for the day, over 100mph in third was something I remember. Lot of work to achieve that though and Oils were not as good in those days. I use to love the sound of the engine brupping on low revs due to the cam a 649 or 731. We got a reputation locally for producing quick mini’s and I remember a guy telling me he had been advised by a policeman to contact us for help in making his mini quicker. They were great days. Love the old mini.

You did a great job Alex. You a class act just like your dad.

Amazing video as usual! Awesome to see the lil thing on track as well.

Cracking video Alex, I was laughing out loud watching you throwing angles and embarrassing ostensibly much faster cars. As for the commentary, you're a chip off the old block, so enjoyable listening to you. Looking forward to the new livery! Had a bunch of Minis back in the day, may or may not have finished up in the odd field when the talent ran out, but they are the most brilliant fun.

Looks and sound awesome Alex! great content as always! Thanks 🙂

It sounds glorious!😀

Alex’s voice is so similar to the old man’s.I saw historic mini’s racing at Brands couple of weeks back beating mustangs and jags great little machines

The car I learnt to drive in many years ago. Such an amazing car. Well done Alex

A mini is so much fun driving on the pea gravel roads of Western Australia, I miss my mini, and I miss the Dwellingup bush. Beautiful resto.

Nice to see the completed project. I like the colour. [By the way, if your can find time to take the car onto the back roads of the Ardèche, the Vercors or the Alpes du Sud in winter...you'll understand why the Mini Cooper S was so outstanding in its day.]

Everyone should have a drive of a Mini at least once in their life. The younger generation don't know what they are missing.

Congratulations, hope too see you in Australia.

Awesome little car so love the colour it looks fantastic all the best to you going forward

Excellent! I ended up prepping my sons Vauxhall Nova 1.4 SR for track days and I totally get the excitement of the 1st time out after major mods and finding that it’s as fast as you hoped👍 We first used drive it to track days and then after an engine failure it got a bit silly and ended up with massive brakes, 200hp 1.6 on TB’s and slicks😂. Nice to be chasing down Porsches on circuit and leaving braking as late as the Caterhams🤭

Sounds great,nice checkpoint in your project,looking forward to next steps 👍

Great build on this mini hope it races well. Enjoy all your videos not so keen on the rock music on this one just detracts from a great little film . Can you get MB out in a mini for this years Goodwood revival would be great to see you both racing it in the 2 driver race.

Great great great. Followed the whole building process so far and I can't wait to see the livery and seeing you race with it. As I am an avid sim-racer and love to race the classic mini in the sim, I would love to recreate your livery for the virtual version too. (If that's fine for you)

Loving this series. Always wanted an original mini for racing and this isn't doing anything for the future of my bank balance. 😆

Looked like a ton of fun

Looks great! Can't wait to see the livery. They build such fantastic cars and engines. Might you be tempted to own one of their Madgwick's?

For some reason at the supermarket I always gravitate to my chips being ‘straight cut’…

That is the coolest car ever! Have you ever thought of doing impressions of the F1 grid walk guy off the tele? You sound just like him!

Flying Shoebox, Tiny Terror.

How about red on right / white in middle / blue on left Italian job trio and matching Junior and Senior's helmet colours ?

Just found you channel -great content Alex. On the Mini I couldnt see much sign of torque steer, does it have an LSD. I assume in modern machinery you left foot brake, is it hard to go old school?

Noticed that the Speedo doesn't work lol but I suppose that was deliberate.

A back to the 60’s ,flower power,psychedelic colour scheme.

Doesn't like second through Graham Hill for some reason- third is too high and bogs down. And LH rear tail/brake light not working. Otherwise, looks and goes great.

cable speedo disconnected, for extra 1/2 mph gaine on the straight

What’s it putting out on the dyno? 🤔

Mk1 minis frequently had badly fitting doors ... just like this one!

A PROPER Mini Cooper S, ( Not a horrible insult to the classic Mini, I HATE LOATHE DESPISE all new Minis to call them a Cooper is INSULT to John Cooper!!!!! ) in their day a Cooper S was a Quick car they won many many rallies. Unsure IF this is an original engine/gearbox did not quite sound right. I was taken for a in a made up Cooper, 1100 motor, cam, weber carb etc, trust me it was QUICK!!

Nick doing his due diligence. Well there are worse jobs🙂

Not fitted with twin fuel tanks? My ‘67 Austin Cooper S was! Lol

WICKED

I pitty the fools who never drove a proper setup Mini. One of the most affordable fun cars.

Driver's door doesn't fit properly.

Excellent! I ended up prepping my sons Vauxhall Nova 1.4 SR for track days and I totally get the excitement of the 1st time out after major mods and finding that it’s as fast as you hoped👍 We first used drive it to track days and then after an engine failure it got a bit silly and ended up with massive brakes, 200hp 1.6 on TB’s and slicks😂. Nice to be chasing down Porsches on circuit and leaving braking as late as the Caterhams🤭