I am a closet British sports car fan myself, this is a bit like going to AA and admitting you have a problem isn't it?
My first car was a Mk1 850 mini, I drove it everywhere and it fell apart in the end.
I have parked in the back of my garage a 1928 Austin 7 Ulster boat tail racing car, it has a billet machined pressure fed crank, high compression pistons, big valves and has been ported. Its running a 1 1/4 SU and has a race cam shaft. It's not finished yet but its just short of wiring.
I have a 67 Mk3 MG Midget. It's a very early one and looks more like a MK2 as it has all the extra chrome parts. I have owned it for 22 years, used at my wedding. It has positive camber front suspension, mini lites, 11/16" sway bar, urethane bushes, 1 1/2 lowered and uprated springs and shocks and a pan hard rod. When I rebuilt the motor and it was a 1275 cooper to start with, I fitted an expensive "fast road-rally" scatter cam that runs No1 & 4 cylinders at wilder valve timing because these cylinders run cooler, along with fast road med-high comp pistons, extractors and a light porting job. I have a good set of 1 1/2 SU's on the shelf to fit some time as well. It still has its original now rebuilt 4 speed close ratio gear box as I prefer this box over the jap 5 speed ones. For a 45 year old sports car it handles well and goes fast, if I do any more to this car it will involve serious cutting mods and I don't want to change this car into a race car, at Ruapuna it just does 104mph at the end of the front straight before I hit the brakes. It is still a good original unrestored Midget.
I also have my trusty ex army Series 3 Stage 1 V8 LWB Landrover. It has much better parabolic springs with a 2" lift, and Old Man Emu shocks, its running 32" BFG muds, also I fitted a LPG kit. The running gear is mostly from a range rover so it is actually a permanent 3 diff 4WD vehicle. It has diff locks and I changed the high ratio so it just purs along at 100kph to save fuel on the open road. It's otherwise set up as a hunting vehicle.
I also have a Lotus but we are just getting to know each other at the moment.
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