pixie is finished took a few years
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Jul 22, 2014 01:33PM | pixieracing | |
Jul 7, 2014 04:26PM | pixieracing | |
Jul 7, 2014 04:11PM | pixieracing | |
Jul 7, 2014 03:40PM | scooperman | |
Jul 7, 2014 07:44AM | LIMIni | |
Jul 6, 2014 06:40PM | AJCady | |
Jul 6, 2014 02:41PM | pixieracing | Edited: Jul 6, 2014 02:45PM |
Jul 6, 2014 01:23PM | Cup Cake | |
Jul 6, 2014 11:52AM | Air2air | |
Jul 6, 2014 11:39AM | pixieracing | |
Jul 6, 2014 11:35AM | pixieracing | Edited: Jul 6, 2014 11:45AM |
Jul 6, 2014 11:28AM | pixieracing | |
Jul 6, 2014 07:20AM | Cup Cake | |
Jul 6, 2014 05:59AM | pixieracing |
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hi scoop yes it was shown in the video twice but on the side line i belive from data i have BLC put roll bars and tweeked 20 850 super minis, which had 997 engines i belive which turned into cooper's in 1962 , they sent the 20 cars to lime rock then to mosport and then i belive to monterey , but info is fuzzy, i have only seen 2 white black ones but someone told me there were three . i have a lot of pictures form mosport some posted here .
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hi the car is like many old racers fixed many times with over 300 race weekends and a few major crashes its been put back together , the roof is mk1 the floor pan and rear is mk ?? the front is a mk11 clip but all well done and part of its history , blc works re bodied the car sort of in 64 to show the new cooper "s:" 1275 Ted was a blc contract driver, they sent grill , rear lights and badges , 1275 engines and disk brakes, ted converted the cooper to a ":s": with the parts , when I bought the car 1989 it came with loads of works parts aluminum doors and hoods 4 sets of minilites magnizium, lots of 1275 blocks and heads. all gone now.
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there are still a couple of the old "operation 850" home movies on the web, from the BMC introduction junket with Innes Ireland, Denise McCluggage, Juan Manuel Fangio, Roger Ward, Pedro Rodriguez, etc. Bob's car is probably in there somewhere...maybe here? //www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xNU5_iZH7A
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The car looks great. I grew up watching SCCA Minis and this takes me back to Mid- Ohio and Road Atlanta. Just out of curiosity, when did it aquire a MKII front clip? Was it a replacement for some of the accident damage seen in the pictures? These old racers always have such an interesting history as to how they came to be what they are today. We think posterity would dictate keeping it original and preserved, but we know from experience that parts, pieces, panels and everything else was expendable. These cars were tools and used until they wore out!
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If it hasn't sold by September, PLEASE bring it to Watkins Glen for the festival and/or races.
Beautiful car with a great history.
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im a 13 year medic for bahamas air sea rescue so i knew when i was having a heart attack, chest pain, sweating, shortness of breath and pain in the left arm.
yes did my own wire loom used a special scotch tape double back and over two layers of tape, get the right tape and it works the cheap stuff will shrink and open up.
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There're probably only a few of us around who witnessed those races.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. G.B.S. Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit. Oscar Wilde
//www.cupcakecooper.ca/
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What a tidy little racer Bob...I dig the bare-minimum approach. Looks like you did your own loom?
If you don't mind, what were your symptoms and how did you decide you needed to go in when it happened?
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Fangio and ireland at the race at mosportpart of the 850 super tour, BLC outfitted a trailer full of new 997 coopers with roll bars and sent them to usa and Canada for demo racing
all the big names drove them at limerock, monterey and mosport. Innes was fooling around and started backwards. he rolled the car in corner 5 and got disqulified when he middle fingered the starter who wanted him to come in.
Ted powell bought the car and raced it in gt and trans am.
Thanks cupcake i was trying the link thing with photobucket.
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Pixie is a 1962 cooper ( works upped her to a "s" for racing in 1964) BLC prepaired race car for the 850 super "cooper" series in 1962 which Innes Ireland drove at mosport , then ted Powell ran in Trans am in 1967 and 1968 the raced by me for 15 years , she is finialy finished. this car had a 50 percent podium ratio over 300 race weekends. you can see the car at //www.hemmings.com/classifieds/carsforsale/austin/cooper/1664388.html
sorry never did fiqure out how to post pictures here.