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We were contacted by Sam who asked if we could carry out some work on her Vespa Smallframe. Sam has owned the Vespa for over 25 years and had taken it off the road to restore it. The little Vespa had been through various workshops and mechanics but after a few years the work on…

David Carters Grey Mini Turbo project (on the website as “late mini cooper“) that we finished building last year has just had a full 8 page feature carried out on it in Februarys edition on Mini Magazine. We are very pleased to hear that the reporter was very impressed by the one of touches that…

This season we have been working with Ian Williamson who was taking his first steps in to the world of motorsport this year. Ian had purchased an already built and run Citroen Saxo stock hatch and bought it to our workshops for a set up and check over. With the car declared all fit and…

We recently had Ken Hunts MBC Racing/ Pirtek Mini in for a suspension set up. We made a few changes to the car and in his second ever race Ken managed to go a second a lap quicker and collected a trophy for 2nd in class. Ken noted that the car felt much more composed…

We were contacted by a thoroughly frustrated mini owner who’s SPI Mini needed a push forward. The company that were restoring it had taken ages to not do very much so McNair Motorsport stepped in and collected the project and took it to our workshops where it was assessed before making a plan of attack….

Our workshops were paid a visit by Rhys and his mini Sonic for a make over. We started by identifying any rust and then fitting new front wings, front panel, windscreen scuttle panel, rear hinge panel and various other small repairs. The mini was shipped to our painters where it was painted in a fetching…

McNair Motorsport had a visit from racer Chris Brown who owns this very modified and very well built Ford Fiesta. We carried out a full suspension set up on the car including corner weighting and making sure the Fiesta complied with the minimum weight regulations. Chris instantly noticed the difference out on track where he…

The workshop was honoured to have a visit from a Cooper Car Company Mini Cooper S for some work to be carried out. We were contracted to plumb the fuel and brake lines with all the hoses running through the car, finish the fitting and connecting of the wiring loom, fit the twin fuel tanks,…

The workshop had an interesting car booked in for some fabrication work an MG ZR. This particular car had been fitted with a Rover 220 turbo engine and gearbox and required some finishing off plus a face lift front end fitted. With the front end removed a new front panel was welded in before the…