What on earth is this?

[minimatt1967]

I visited Goodwood yesterday for the Top Hats classic saloon car practise day and I found this lurking in the pits

I've seen most mini based kit cars over the years but I could not place my finger on what this was! Can you help oh PH mini massive?

Here's a nice picture of the two immaculate Swiftune prepared Minis at play

[phumy]

Thats a Mini Jem from the 70's

You will find more info here;

http://minimarcos.org.uk/mmhmj.html

[the mini mole]

Looking at the site posted above it could possibly be a Mini Dart...
http://minimarcos.org.uk/mmhdt.html?

[Ferg]

It certainly looks like this D.A.R.T.

[minimatt1967]

Wheels-Check
Colour-Check
Mirrors-Check

I think we've found a winner
So its a D.A.R.T then thanks guys

[Ferg]

Interestingly a different bonnet though......
Surely not a bigger engine!

[minimatt1967]

She was running a webber and they certainly ttake up some space on a standard mini, so it must be quite a mission to fit one in that!!

[selnic]

Different car - first one has external hinges.

[minimatt1967]

selnic said:

Different car - first one has external hinges.

Think that door is just resting in place!!

[selnic]

It must be a bloody good fit then, unless you reckon they are different on each side

[Ferg]

It's certainly an external hinge door in the second picture. You can see the sliding windows.

[selnic]

Well spotted

[eccles]

The Dart was the prototype made by Dizzy Addicot (Dizzy Addicot Racing Team) that spawned the Mini Jem and was allegedly copied to make the Mini Marcos.
I had a Jem for many years (see profile pic), great fun car that could be made to go license losingly quick!

[guru_1071]

the original dart was exported to japan many years.

this one is either the fake that was built in the mid 1990's and touted around as the original by the builder and the people daft enough to buy it from him (though is was unpainted and a rusty half finished mess for years), or a newly built example built to race at goodwood.

its based on a mini van