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My very first plans with the clubby was to change the colour as at the time I thought it was proper naff. After getting the mini ready for on the road the colour was starting to grow on me, also by this time my better half Claire had already named the clubby “Treacle” as she said the colour reminded her of Treacle LOL !!! . After a little research we found out that there was only a few Antelope Beige clubby’s made, and being one of the 1st ever clubmans I thought that maybe one day I may convert all the mods back to original so things like interior ,wheels, subframes etc. have been kept just incase.Treacle had only had 1 owner and even though he’d (yes Treacle is male lol) only done 30k he had not been that well cared for as he was full of dents and knocks, solid as a rock for a car of this age but as I say absolutely full of dents even the roof.After a few years of driving him as he was, except for new subframes, interior and engine fitted I managed to save enough money up to have him restored so he was booked into MiniMine to be painted and get rid of all those nasty dents.

While he was being painted I’d asked to have both sills replaced as these had a bad repair to both front edges back in “1996”. With the sills now off we couldn’t believe how solid he was, the inner sills were still like brand new.The weird thing was the doors, no rot at all from the outside of the doors, but badly rusted from the inside, for this reason we had the door skins replaced, it just wasn’t worth painting them as it was only a matter of time for the rust to pop through . Due to new hubs, awesome brakes and the suspension set up a little hard for many but I love it, it handles amazingly and with the engine spec. it pulls like a train. Its appeared at many rolling road days and on a good day produces 105hp at a restricted 6k not bad for a little old A series.

Watch this space, future plans for ‘Treacle’ is the fitting of a Mini Sports 7 port head and Weber carbs also the fitment of the new 123 “tune” dizzy, just got to win the lottery!

CLUBMAN EXPRESS

I bought this clubby as I was sick of welding old tired minis back together, I wanted something nice and tidy that I was able to use and if possible show.

BodyOriginal 1969 Mini Clubman (998cc) registered Dec 69

Sprayed back to its original colour “Antelope Beige”

Panels replaced: both sills due to tiny repairs made back

in 1996, two door skins, and the bonnet due to rot on the

front edge Mk1 (early) bonnets are different and are as

rare as hens teeth, they mount different on the hinges.

Arches: Group 5 Euro’sWheels: 7x13 Allycats with Dunlop 175/50-13.

Engine1380 (big bore) A+, Omega pistons, lightened, balanced and

polished rods and lightened ,balanced ,wedged and heat

treated crank. Centre main strap and comp oil pump.

Mini Sport Stage 4 head, twin HS4 carbs with Calvers ITG

filters and stub stacks.Filter King adjustable fuel pressure filter, Maniflow

balanced inlet manifold. Large bore Maniflow LCB, Fletcher

stainless back box, 286 Kent cam.

Mini Sport 1.5 roller rockers, Piper adjustable Vernier

timing gear, straight cut close ratio gear box, straight

cut drop gears, Mini Sports 4 pin diff with 3.2 final drive,

central oil pick up pipe and rear magnetic oil trap.

Mini Sport ultralight flywheel and back plate, grey clutch

cover, paddle clutchMED heavy duty CNC machined clutch arm, Mini Sport twin

belt ‘toothed’ water pump pullies and alternator pullies.

Super 2 core radiator, oil cooler

123 distributor, 70amp alternator, Omex rev limiter and

Omex launch control.

Suspension and running gear

Hydrolastic suspension was removed, so both front and rear

subframes replaced with new heritage subframes fitted

with fast road coil springs, adjustable rear camber/track

subframe brackets, adjustable lower arms and tie bars.

Spax adjustable gas shockers and lowered front suspension

mount with competition bumpstops and poly bushed rear

subframe trunions and a 2.2 turn steering rack with

longer track rod endsMetro hubs with vented disk and four pot stoppers up front

and Alloy spaced Minifins on the rear with adjustable rear

bias and a auto brake servo and pedal box.

InteriorCustom made 6 point (45mm) roll cage with added dog leg door

bars and Italian Job ‘style’ rear parcel shelf bar.

Custom made speaker stealth shelf with two 6x9 speakers

Custom made fibreglass dash with 1275GT speedo

Kad quick shift gear selector

Sportspack accelerator pedal

Momo (snap off) steering wheel

Newton commercial full carpet set (same as a Mk2)

Newton ‘monte carlo’ door cards with alloy door furniture

Original GT rear seatCobra ‘Monaco’ seats on custom subframes

Rip Speed DVD player

CLUBMAN EXPRESS

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