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Originally Posted by driftwood
i think Mike parkes had the first maguire Mini
was your mini 1300 cc class car?
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Yes Driftwood you are right, Mike Parkes did have the first Maguire Mini,his car ran in the 1000 cc class,ours,as you guessed ran in the 1300 cc class.
The engine was a conventional 'A' series with a short stroke Allen crank and an 8 port Weslake head running on 4 Amal carbs,which was no match for all the BDA engined cars that had appeared in the class,but never the less David did a fine job at hanging on to them for as long as he could,even taking fastest lap off Peter Baldwin and Co at Donington on one occasion !
Our car was on show at the racing car show at Alexandra Palace in 1978 on the Mini Spares stand,if anyone has any photo's of this car I would be very grateful to see them as I seem to have very few of this car.