Land Speed Record Holder 1964 Mini Cooper S returning to Bonneville Speed Week in August 2015
Advance viewing of web series premier uncovering the world's fastest Mini's secrets.
BMW MINI onboard as new sponsor for this years record attempt.
Crowdfundng underway to help the team get to Bonneville (and back!).
In
2012 the Project '64 team set a new land speed record for cars under
1000cc and became the world's fastest classic Mini at Bonneville Speed
Week on the iconic Bonneville Salt Flats. We set the record at 146.6mph -
the previous record was 131mph set by a Geo Metro (Suzuki Swift). The
previous record for a Mini was 121mph. In August 2015 we return to
Bonneville aiming for 175mph - a ridiculous speed for a car that was
always regarded as fast round corners but not in a straight line.
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Speed
Week 2015 is rushing up on us so it's about time we had an update.
Things have really picked up with progress on the Bonneville Mini Cooper
S now that the days are noticeably slipping by. Garry and Guy at Victory R have pulled the Cooper out of the World of Wearable Art and Collectable Cars Museum
and back into the workshop for a complete refresh. Most recently Garry
has been rebuilding the running gear at the rear of the car.
There's
a long list of things to do but we're on target this time. The newly
redesigned 970S race engines are coming together. There's still some
parts on their way from some of our new sponsors: Two companies in Costa
Mesa, California have teamed up to supply us beautifully designed
crankshafts, Heritage Garage, and Marine Crankshaft. Somehow we went all the way to the USA to get parts designed and made by an ex-pat Scotsman and a Kiwi.
There's also been more shiny parts coming in from Specialist Components and Mini Spares, both in the UK, which we really appreciate.
As before Nelson and Bryan at Hartley Engines and Motorsport are building and tuning our engines and Larry Mulholland at Swift Automotive in Christchurch has built the gearboxes.
We're also very excited announce that MINI New Zealand
have come onboard as sponsors for this year's record attempt. We're
very proud to be working with them and are happy knowing we'll be
pushing our Mini off the start line with a new MINI thanks to their
efforts.
We've also been wanting for a while
now to come up with a way to showcase our amazing sponsors and team
members while at the same time giving our supporters some better insight
into the car, and the team. Today we're starting a series of short
films featuring team members and contributors talking about different
aspects of The Road to Bonneville.
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