SPAX Dealer Of The Year!
Mini Sport have just been awarded SPAX One Make Specialist of the Year due to ‘record performance in both customer service and sales in 2011’ Mini Sport are proud suppliers of SPAX shock absorbers and have been for several years whilst providing all the customer…
Mini Rebuild Finished!
The Green Mini that we have been following has today been collected by its proud owner. The car transplant begun some weeks ago now, with the original Mini being stripped and assessed for reusable parts but today the Mini rolled through the Mini Sport gates…
Mini 850 Goes to Monte Carlo
Why take an underpowered but beautifully balanced car such as our 1961 Austin Mini Seven on the world famous Rallye Monte Carlo Historique? Although the 1300cc Cooper S has done well over the last 15 years in this rally no one has triumphed in a…
Rally Monte Carlo Historique 2012
This year celebrates the 101st Birthday of the Monte Carlo Rally, making it the longest, continually run rally in the world with the exception of two world wars. The event was opened in 1911 by Prince Albert I and organised by the ‘Automobile Club de…
Mini Sport Garage: The Engine Goes In!
On Wednesday our Workshop technician has begun work rebuilding the Mini that has come for renovation. It has so far spent most of its time in the Bodyshop, with a new shell primed and painted, along with receiving a new roof lining and having subframes…
Mini Sport Workshop: Inner Wings
This week we have had an increasingly rare Mini Clubman Estate visit us. It is here to have a new clutch fitted but our mechanic couldn’t fail to notice that the whole of the Inner Wings had been removed! This is a perfect opportunity to…
New Range of of 175/30 R13 Tyres – Limited Stock Available!
Mini Sport have managed to get their hands on not just one range of 175/50 R13 tyres but five including tyres from Dunlop, Yokohama and Continental. They are great value but have only limited stock so get them whilst you can!
Mini Sport Bodyshop: Mini has Subframe Fitted
The subframe has arrived back at Mini Sport with a nice powder coat now applied. This is for the Mini that is being re-shelled. The Mini is only having a rear subframe fitted as the front subframe was in reasonably good condition and was deemed…
Mini Sport Workshop: MG Valves replaced
Steve Irvine has now finished his season in the MGCC Luffield MG Car Club Northern Championship, albeit with bent valves which he did on the last meeting of the season. The valves were bent due to over revving, most likely on a down-shift, the exhaust valves…
Mini Sport Bodyshop: Mini has new Roof Lining Fitted
You may have recently read about a Mini being restored here at Mini Sport. It is currently in the Mini Sport Bodyshop awaiting the subframes that have been sent away to be powder coated. In the mean time, wiring loom, headlamps and the head lining…