I would just like to say

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Thanks for all the info it basically depends on the previous owners we had are defender from new and it has been pampered I was invited to watch it being assembled that was interesting as it has some non normal items so now I have a dilemma. Sensible - pick up . Hart classic efi . Or L322 😨😨😨
Can’t help with your personal dilemma, what are your reasons for a new/second vehicle?
I was working away and needed M to have a very reliable vehicle.
The P38 was starting to show to many niggles that at the time I couldn’t spend enough time on it.

J
 
Its built on a Metro, Obviously a MG as the red seat piping gives it away.

Banham

J

Metro superbug 🤣 🤣 🤣

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Been down a bit of a rabbit hole with this one.
Close you should get it from this..........

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I was trying to see if it was a kit based on the modern Mini, but came across this lot

This link from it took me flying back down memory lane as quite a few of my members had Mini based kits, and my dad used to drink with Jem Marsh of Marcos fame most evenings killing time in a pub in Bradford-on-Avon before being able to pick me and my bruv up from prep school after, tea then prep.
 
Its built on a Metro, Obviously a MG as the red seat piping gives it away.

Banham
There was one of those in my club and it wasn't like that.
His was like this.
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(The bloke who built it said it was atrociously hard to build well build properly, and he was no idiot. In fact he was the guy who gave me the MG Metro that I used to build my Mini Cooper look alike and go alike. He'd only got it to take the seats out for....... his Banham! BUT his was a hardtop.)
since checked and it does appear to be a more modern Banham, one I have never seen before.
 
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Been down a bit of a rabbit hole with this one.

I was trying to see if it was a kit based on the modern Mini, but came across this lot

This link from it took me flying back down memory lane as quite a few of my members had Mini based kits, and my dad used to drink with Jem Marsh of Marcos fame most evenings killing time in a pub in Bradford-on-Avon before being able to pick me and my bruv up from prep school after, tea then prep.

🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

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Do they?
God I have been away from this world for a long time.
Last I heard some bunch, possibly on the Isle of white were doing copies but with opening boots, mybe Tifosi.
1 company on IOW done kits to make a disco chassis into a forward control. Cost too much but looked good.even asked for specs so I could bend my own cage but no joy.

All the banhams are mini/metro based motors . And as they use all the car you keep the reg.
 
1 company on IOW done kits to make a disco chassis into a forward control. Cost too much but looked good.even asked for specs so I could bend my own cage but no joy.

All the banhams are mini/metro based motors . And as they use all the car you keep the reg.
Quote from Wiki:
"Paul Banham by mid 1999 had the newly launched X99 kit which was selling well but with its separate GRP doors and other extras that needed plenty of work it was considered by some as a labour intensive build to make to a professional standard, it also needed painting to make a finished car. "
This I think I remember now as being the reason my mate said it was such a hard thing to build. I thought his had a Targa roof as well but I may be mistaken. He spent absolutely ages messing around with fibreglass to get decent panel fit and shut lines.

I love your cheek with the forward control company!
I cannot remember when SVA first came in, but it cannot have been before 1995 as that was when I regd my last kit.
 
Aha!!!
Found it!

(Again from thee Wiki thing on Banhams!
"

Banham Sprint​

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By far one of the most popular kits offered by Banham was the sprint, this was a close replica to the original Austin frogeye Sprite. The whole vehicle was based around the mechanicals of an Austin Mini making it front wheel drive not rear wheel drive like the original, the bodyshell was GRP and had a small bootlid again unlike the original but helped access the boot."

Can rest easy now!
 
Worra day. Me matress arrived. After explaining worrit is to edgar he finks eye sleep in a flower bed. Eye has bin spring cleaning castle hippo most of the day. Mostly hovering everyfink. Yer can tell it needed done. Made henry sneeze. Went to toby anorl. Full plate. Ate the lot. Lick yer later.
 
Its one from your link, mini based kit cars some right belters in there. 🤣 🤣 🤣
I scooted past a lot of it looking for specific pics, but William Towns did make a load of funny kit cars, a lot of which were real boxy.

I spent a load of time looking for the Mini Marcoses until I finally clicked on the last page and found them there but not named in the link I clicked on. They used to use Cortina Mk1 rear lights, which I loved.
 
Can’t help with your personal dilemma, what are your reasons for a new/second vehicle?
I was working away and needed M to have a very reliable vehicle.
The P38 was starting to show to many niggles that at the time I couldn’t spend enough time on it.

J
As we are so isolated if a vehicle fails to start or is being worked on it would be a 5 Klm walk to the village no fun in bad weather have walked up once in the snow as taxi could not make it blizzard conditions 2 cases 500 mm of snow almost killed me I now no why people give up and go to sleep in these conditions when exhausted a 4x4 pick would make the most sense and would pay for it's self around the land ??
 
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