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jonny
Lovely. 25 years ago I had a mini sprint / hill climb car built by an ex Special Tuning engineer who built racing and rally minis for BMC in the ‘60s ( he worked on paddy hopkirk cars) and he always had a 6R4 in the workshop as he looked after Tony Ponds cars . At the time I was a “ weekend warrior “ that helped out at an F1 team in Bicester ( Leyton House/ March F1 ) on my days off. Anyway I popped into his workshop one day and he had a black 6R4 trimmed in full leather that he had built for an Sheik so he could go yumping in the dunes . It had about 600 hp and would allegedly do 0 to 100 and back to 0 in about 9 seconds . On gravel. It was evil.