Dream Weaver
21-09-2005, 05:11 PM
Now this is totally O/T !!!
A Stimson Minibug (ever heard of it ?) which is a fibreglass body on a steel chassis bolted to a mini front subframe.
Originally designed by mad kit car genius Barry Stimson, this one is the first one made by Mini Motors of Bolton after Stimson went bankrupt (or something) - hence it is chassis number MM-001.
Neither Stimson and MM made many of these things so its a rare old thing.
Basically its a seventies design, there are no doors and no roof, you just jump in and out. Has a very substantial rollbar and a vinyl cover for when you get fed up with people looking at you !
Fitted with a 1100cc engine tuned to Cooper spec. with twin SUs etc., its only 55BHP but as its so light thats no real problem. You can spin the front wheels in any gear and as the rear is so light, you can slide the arse out no problem !
Fitted with dinky 10 inch alloys over Cooper S discs.
It is great fun, real bugs in your teeth biggles style motoring, and guaranteed to get you noticed. If you stopped at traffic lights in this thing, you would get girlies jumping in just to be seen in it. It is utterly barking mad !
Has a long MOT and ready to go but the SUs were tuned to pass the MOT so a bit sluggish until they get richened up.
PM or email for more details and price.
Here are some links about them. Looking for it in Google words like nutter, lunatic and insanity keep popping up - I wonder why ?
French website (http://www.miniplanete.com/04decouvrir/01histoire/05special/01kitcars/stimson/minibug/minibug.htm)
Daily Telegraph article about Barry Stimson (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/main.jhtml?xml=/motoring/2003/02/28/emfstim01.xml)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/nige999/bug/bug1.jpg
A Stimson Minibug (ever heard of it ?) which is a fibreglass body on a steel chassis bolted to a mini front subframe.
Originally designed by mad kit car genius Barry Stimson, this one is the first one made by Mini Motors of Bolton after Stimson went bankrupt (or something) - hence it is chassis number MM-001.
Neither Stimson and MM made many of these things so its a rare old thing.
Basically its a seventies design, there are no doors and no roof, you just jump in and out. Has a very substantial rollbar and a vinyl cover for when you get fed up with people looking at you !
Fitted with a 1100cc engine tuned to Cooper spec. with twin SUs etc., its only 55BHP but as its so light thats no real problem. You can spin the front wheels in any gear and as the rear is so light, you can slide the arse out no problem !
Fitted with dinky 10 inch alloys over Cooper S discs.
It is great fun, real bugs in your teeth biggles style motoring, and guaranteed to get you noticed. If you stopped at traffic lights in this thing, you would get girlies jumping in just to be seen in it. It is utterly barking mad !
Has a long MOT and ready to go but the SUs were tuned to pass the MOT so a bit sluggish until they get richened up.
PM or email for more details and price.
Here are some links about them. Looking for it in Google words like nutter, lunatic and insanity keep popping up - I wonder why ?
French website (http://www.miniplanete.com/04decouvrir/01histoire/05special/01kitcars/stimson/minibug/minibug.htm)
Daily Telegraph article about Barry Stimson (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/main.jhtml?xml=/motoring/2003/02/28/emfstim01.xml)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/nige999/bug/bug1.jpg