Monday 11th February 2002

BJT Open Day

A four wheel drive twin engined Tiger and a Mini darting about on two wheels made for an entertaining afternoon!

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[Roadrunner]

Acceleration of the twin engined tiger is very impressive, although it's just a shame about the made in a shed 60's design. How about this much poke in an elise / exige for the 21st century please.

[PetrolTed]

That's a bit harsh. The engineering on this thing is extremely impressive. It would be nice in a sexier body I agree but the engineering criteria no doubt limited the number of cars that could host such a conversion.

[Roadrunner]

What's the name of the audi? Now that looks sexy!

[PetrolTed]

it's the 99 Le Mans car (unless you're talking about Stig Blomqvist's Quattro )

[lewser]

The z-car was impressive but going on two wheels in a mini was the highlight for me though. I also liked the bacon butties!

[phil hill]

Can't believe you haven't seen Russ do the Mini stunts before, alway worth a view. Perhaps you should hit a few Mini shows this season

Saw the Tiger at Autosport show along with the video of the fastest 0-60 attempts. It achieved 2.8 secs on street tyres with minimum suspension setup. Z-cars who built it are well known in the grass-track world where this twin bike engine stuff started, and some of those are very effective but very agricultural !!

Scary thing is the car was built by the owner of Z-cars, who is also a police man !! I guess the name is a bit of a give-away, but conflict of interest ??

Phil.

[PetrolTed]

It wasn't Russ, it was his son Paul.

[phil hill]

Like father, like son eh ? Last I saw of Paul he was 2 wheelin' a lawn tractor. Guess he's all grow'd up !!