John Maguire Racing - Page 5

big andy · 26 Jan 2011, 17:39 (Ref:2820940)

there is a maguire frame for a mini on ebay never used could be a good by for sombody !!

megapin · 30 Jan 2011, 12:08 (Ref:2822663)

Took a bit of finding but as promised.
Auto Performance was one of the better Clubman magazines of the era.

andy97 · 31 Jan 2011, 16:56 (Ref:2823323)

I'm sure that you can all guess why I'm posting on here, now, but if you had not seen already in the threads on Special Saloons & Modsports etc the CSCC is organising a reviaval race for such cars at its August Bank Holiday Monday meeting this year. We'd love to get as many cars as possible on the grid for a 20 min race and then, if interest & commitment is high enough then maybe we can do another Modsports/ Special/ Super Saloons etc type race at the end of the season before developing a new series for such cars (& similar cars) for next year.

If you have such a car, please get in touch with the CSCC to register your interest. It is intended that this Modsports/ Special Saloon revival race is FREE (although you will be invited to join the club @ £35!).

If anyone has contact details for Mr Maguire & Dr Enderby then I'd be grateful if you could pass them on as I am sure that we'd love to invite them along. Perhaps Dr Enderby can be persuaded to re-commission his car??? We already have interest from several owners of original cars & this looks like taking off well.

Andy

WOCCOWAYCER · 9 Feb 2011, 16:23 (Ref:2828529)

[QUOTE=Keith M Taylor;2816490]Hi guys
A bit more info on John Maguire space frames....i had a quick look and found no mention of a Bernie Saunders (Used to do a lot of development work with David Vizard) in this thread so... who ran a yellow Maguire from the Cotswold's, Based workshop near Stow-on-the-Wold, Huntsmans Quarries, we took all the measurements from Bernie`s car, with Johns permission and built the main frame myself. Bought all the F/G panels & Front/rear coil springs from John, this was at the old workshop in Stony some thing Rd in Coventry, Roof, doors, front, rear panels boot ect..and got it all in and on a mini van, and back to Cheltenham in one go!!
__________________________________________________________________

I remember Bernie Saunders, we used to go and see him at the quarry.

He was doing hillclimbs and sprints with a conventional mini in the same yellow colour scheme as his Maguire car, sharing it with his (brother ?)

The Maguire car was circuit raced for Bernie by Malcolm Allen and very quick it was too, having an 8 port engine on fuel injection.

He had got the upper hand of our Maguire car at Donington one day but the throttle linkage broke and my brother went on to win !

Malcolm had a huge accident in it, I think it was at Combe and it caught fire, he was quite badly burned but both he and the car were repaired to fight another day.

I have attached a poor quality photo of Bernies car at Combe.

Do you know if Bernie is still around the area ?

oneofapair · 9 Feb 2011, 20:21 (Ref:2828692)

[

If anyone has contact details for Mr Maguire & Dr Enderby then I'd be grateful if you could pass them on as I am sure that we'd love to invite them along. Perhaps Dr Enderby can be persuaded to re-commission his car??? We already have interest from several owners of original cars & this looks like taking off well.

Andy[/QUOTE]
Just spotted this!! An ad selling an engine David Enderby!Might be useful!!!

http://www.motorsportads.com/car-par...nes/19370.html

andy97 · 10 Feb 2011, 07:02 (Ref:2828893)

Excellent, thanks!

LCP · 13 Feb 2011, 19:15 (Ref:2830689)

Thought Id post a few pictures of the old mans car, sorry for the poor quality pics, think I was about 9 or 10 at the time.
Picture 1 & 2 Weston Speed Trials

Bernie Saunders still runs a garage near Bourton on the water,

andy97 · 14 Feb 2011, 08:52 (Ref:2830892)

Does your old man still have the car?

thrasher · 15 Feb 2011, 14:47 (Ref:2831616)

I found this somewhere on tinternet a while back which might interest you guys. It's an invoice (1980) for a spaceframe Mini - not sure if it's Maguire or not. I'll have 2!!

davyboy · 15 Feb 2011, 18:05 (Ref:2831710)

By the increase in average earnings over the past 31 years... GBP1,000 in 1980 is GBP4,950 in 2011... so you can work out what all of that lot would be in today's terms.

**chunterer** · 15 Feb 2011, 20:29 (Ref:2831791)

Interesting little document there thanks thrasher! Welcome to our forum!

As davyboy rightly intimates, that's a sizeable outlay for equipment, but perhaps not unreasonable although one would also need an engine!

If I had some spare cash and knew how to put one of those things together in the 80's i'd have bought one.

big andy · 15 Feb 2011, 20:49 (Ref:2831805)

in the early 90s special saloons were going out of fashion looking back through autosports of the time maguire minis/imps could be picked up for less than 3k wish id bought a few with the cscc doing a series next year the price are bound to rocket

**chunterer** · 15 Feb 2011, 20:53 (Ref:2831809)

Quote:

Originally Posted by big andy

in the early 90s special saloons were going out of fashion looking back through autosports of the time maguire minis/imps could be picked up for less than 3k wish id bought a few with the cscc doing a series next year the price are bound to rocket

Yeah I remember lots of Mini's, Escorts and Imps etc in the classifieds. I used to dream as a schoolboy that if I ran the paper shop and not just a paper round, maybe, just maybe.....

davyboy · 15 Feb 2011, 21:35 (Ref:2831831)

Quote:

Originally Posted by chunterer

Interesting little document there thanks thrasher! Welcome to our forum!

As davyboy rightly intimates, that's a sizeable outlay for equipment, but perhaps not unreasonable although one would also need an engine!

If I had some spare cash and knew how to put one of those things together in the 80's i'd have bought one.

I was offered a race winning Stiletto roller for GBP1,500 in 1989 and thought it was overpriced so I turned the guy down

big andy · 15 Feb 2011, 22:16 (Ref:2831853)

Quote:

Originally Posted by davyboy

I was offered a race winning Stiletto roller for GBP1,500 in 1989 and thought it was overpriced so I turned the guy down

whats that old saying???

what goes round comes round !!!!!

Gerry Taylor · 15 Feb 2011, 23:45 (Ref:2831894)

Dated 17th June 1969.the following estimate from GEORGE WHITEHEAD of WRA Engineering.For work on my third Race Anglia.
How does this sound?

NEW CRANK TUFTRIDED £24.10 SHILLINGS.
BEARINGS £8.10.
MODIFY SUMP & PICK-UP £15.0.0
FULL SET RACE PISTONS £20.0.0.
DOWEL FLYWHEEL TO CRANK & BALANCE ASSEMBLY: £7.0.0.
BALANCE RODS & PISTONS £6.0.0.
HIGH TENSILE FLYWHEEL BOLTS: £18.0.0.
SET OF GASKETS: £2.10.0.
ASSEMBLE ENGINE: £20.0.0.
Add On: TO REMOVING ENGINE, REFITTING & SET UP TO INCLUDE MODIFYING AND CONNECTING ALL LINKAGES: £15.0.0.
ALSO: SPARE DOWNDRAUGHT CYLINDER HEAD: £98.0.0.
MANIFOLDS: £20.0.0.
ONE PAIR OF SPACERS & O Rings: £2.10.0.
MANIFOLD GASKET: £1.0.0.
TOTAL: £ 121.10 SHILLINGS.

I may have added it up in a hurry, but it's not far out.
May I add. GEORGE WHITEHEAD WAS A MOST UNDERRATED SALOON CAR DRIVER, HE ALWAYS REMINDED ME OF A PROFESSOR. A LOVELY MAN, A REAL GOOD ENGINEER.

morninggents · 16 Feb 2011, 10:16 (Ref:2832029)

Those certainly were the days, though incomes were a lot less too. This was before the days of ' it's motor racing so we'll treble the price'.

The high tensile flywheel bolts stick out as being a bit pricey compared to other bits - almost the cost of a set of race pistons.

I agree with your comments on George as a driver - never met him as an engineer.

Keith M Taylor · 22 Feb 2011, 16:26 (Ref:2835255)

Quote:

Originally Posted by andy97

Does your old man still have the car?

No i don`t, Andy, the car on the trailer, is as i sold it many moons ago ;-( i didn`t think my son had any pictures of it. I seem to have lost all of mine!
I must ask for them.

Keith M Taylor · 1 Mar 2011, 13:23 (Ref:2838407)

I think some one mentioned this in an early post, stumbled on this....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H8Fy...eature=related

Keith M Taylor · 1 Mar 2011, 17:55 (Ref:2838578)

I also thought this would bring back some nice memory's!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkxxp...eature=related

And Les Campbell, Maguire Stiletto at Boyndie Sprint....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xnvxd...eature=related

Keith M Taylor · 5 Mar 2011, 10:18 (Ref:2840498)

I have just (Through this forum) had contact with my old mechanic James Ebdon 30 years ago: Who kindly found some pictures of my old mini and e mailed them to me....CURBOROUGH SPRINT 1980 bit blurry but... if any one has pictures of this car Prescott, Curborugh, Weston Sprint, Shelsley... Car was in light blue then, i would love to see them!!

chuck111 · 29 Mar 2011, 22:47 (Ref:2855653)

Quote:

Originally Posted by driftwood

No idea on definatly how many cars where built of minis imps stilletos
guesstiimate
Minis 12
Imps 10
stilletto 10 tops
however not a guesstimate
Skoda 1 1300 bda
Esprit 2 1 1500 bda 1 2 litre hart 420R both march corners

Hello, new forum member here and I am the current owner (since 1997) of this second Maguire Esprit. March 792 corners, ex-Hart 2.0/FT200, Geoff Farmer. Now 4.5 Buick V6

Chuck

andy97 · 30 Mar 2011, 07:56 (Ref:2855738)

Get it registered for the CSCC Special Saloons/ Modsporets/ Thundersports/ Donington GT Revival race at Mallory on August Bank Holiday Monday!

Its an invitation race and there are already 40 people interested but you never know. The CSCC are keen to establish a regular race series for these sorts of cars next year, so if you are interested e-mail the club.

maguire imp chassis no1 · 29 Mar 2014, 17:36 (Ref:3386134)

Good evening
Thread has went cold just thought I'd say hello again
Long time since I was on !
K

Neil Duke · 6 Apr 2014, 20:23 (Ref:3389453)

I have just bought,what I think is,a Maguire Metro,would there be an ID plate on there?.
Car is in bits at the moment,as The engine is out.I will post some pictures later.

Similar Threads
Thread	Thread Starter	Forum	Replies	Last Post
John Webb on Club Racing	Alan Raine	Racers Forum	41	7 May 2014 16:06
No John B&Q	Les	Touring Car Racing	5	10 Sep 2001 17:49
John who?	RIKB	Touring Car Racing	18	15 Mar 2001 17:16