... but back in 28 October 1971, when everything was in black and wite, Mini Cooper S, fitted with an eight port crossflow cylinder head.



This picture gives a good indication of an Eight-port cylinder head and Amal motorcycle carburettors. At £545 the Special Tuning package was more than half the price of a Mini Cooper 1275S.

and to think that today you could build 2 sports cars and still have £ 45 left over!!!!

Bill Richards Racing will still build you one if you want - probably still half the cost of a mint cooper S unfortunately.

The Arden 8 port heads can be got from MiniSpares (for a price!). I think they use modern bike carbs or webbers these days as those old Amal carbs are rocking horse poo.

I saw a car with that setup fitted when they were current in the 70s. The same car is still on the road now but I think it has a standard engine in.