TOTAL BARGAIN IAM GIVING IT AWAY ,LAST PRICE DROP TO £900 LAST CHANCE TO BUY THIS UNIQUE CAR,The Sabre Sprint is a GRP monocoque with a Mk1 mini front subframe and bespoke
beam frame at the rear with coilovers. It's mainly mini parts, with the
exception of the door handles/lock and the headlights, which are Metro
items. The rear lights are from a Triumph Acclaim. All the other Sabre Sprints I
have seen have the (standard) twin front light, this is the only one I know that has been
converted to the Metro lights. I think it works well and suits the car.
The shells were built in Walls End in the ‘80s, somewhere between 30 and 100
were made and several are still in daily use as this one. The history of the
car is nicely summarised in Jeroen Booij’s excellent book on Mini based specials
Maximum Mini. This particular car seems to have been completed around 1986,
but it's difficult to be certain as it retains the reg of the mini it was built from.
The moulds for the shell were sold to a company who used the basics of it to
make a GRP mini shell, which goes to show that the shell structure is great even
if the styling is not to all tastes. Personally, I think it’s well proportioned
if a little angular. You can still buy the complete mini shell from
absmotorsport.co.uk/index.php/classicmini/body%20shells-50a119eb4bbee/FRABSKIT-50a122783678d-detail
So basically what we have here is a mini in disguise that wont rot (some may
like the disguise others may not).
The car is correctly registered as Sabre Sprint (and not a Q plate). I have all
the history from the DVLA of the previous owners and what car it was originally
built from. Plus I have some magazines from the day with write-ups of the first
cars, the build manuals and some sales bumf.
I have run this car with a turbocharged fuel injected 998cc engine for the last
few years, but this has now been removed for my other mini special project.
However, the ECU and all the wiring remains, should you wish to reinstate it.
The fuel return pipe and intercooler are still in place if you wanted to put a
turbo back on also. Owing to the engine bay being larger than a Mini, it would be
easy to put something like a K-series or vtec in if that was your bag; I’m a
traditionalist so stuck with the trusty A-series.998 cc (+040),
SW5 cam,
MG metro head with pocketed block
Megasquirt mapped ignition (with all the wiring still remaining for the injection)
LCB and RC40 exhaust with extended 2" tailpipe
Solid state electric fuel pump (return pipe remains if injection or turbo is wanted again)
MX5 seats with uprated speakers in the headrests (which is great)
5.5x13 minilights
Spax adjustable dampers all round
Adjustable brake bias just had brand new front calipers,discs,hoses and rebuilt brake cylinder
10 months mot taxed until november can retax
It's a lovely little engine with around 50bhp.
So there we have it. It is what it is, you either love it or hate it, but unlike
minis it'll not dissolve and will still be here with all the cockroaches
following nuclear war. Sure, it's not in show car condition and it could do
with tidying up in places, but it's not a lot of money for a truly individual
car that you can drive away in. And it'll never need welding!!!
a totaly unique car
ring 07989639483
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beam frame at the rear with coilovers. It's mainly mini parts, with the
exception of the door handles/lock and the headlights, which are Metro
items. The rear lights are from a Triumph Acclaim. All the other Sabre Sprints I
have seen have the (standard) twin front light, this is the only one I know that has been
converted to the Metro lights. I think it works well and suits the car.
The shells were built in Walls End in the ‘80s, somewhere between 30 and 100
were made and several are still in daily use as this one. The history of the
car is nicely summarised in Jeroen Booij’s excellent book on Mini based specials
Maximum Mini. This particular car seems to have been completed around 1986,
but it's difficult to be certain as it retains the reg of the mini it was built from.
The moulds for the shell were sold to a company who used the basics of it to
make a GRP mini shell, which goes to show that the shell structure is great even
if the styling is not to all tastes. Personally, I think it’s well proportioned
if a little angular. You can still buy the complete mini shell from
absmotorsport.co.uk/index.php/classicmini/body%20shells-50a119eb4bbee/FRABSKIT-50a122783678d-detail
So basically what we have here is a mini in disguise that wont rot (some may
like the disguise others may not).
The car is correctly registered as Sabre Sprint (and not a Q plate). I have all
the history from the DVLA of the previous owners and what car it was originally
built from. Plus I have some magazines from the day with write-ups of the first
cars, the build manuals and some sales bumf.
I have run this car with a turbocharged fuel injected 998cc engine for the last
few years, but this has now been removed for my other mini special project.
However, the ECU and all the wiring remains, should you wish to reinstate it.
The fuel return pipe and intercooler are still in place if you wanted to put a
turbo back on also. Owing to the engine bay being larger than a Mini, it would be
easy to put something like a K-series or vtec in if that was your bag; I’m a
traditionalist so stuck with the trusty A-series.998 cc (+040),
SW5 cam,
MG metro head with pocketed block
Megasquirt mapped ignition (with all the wiring still remaining for the injection)
LCB and RC40 exhaust with extended 2" tailpipe
Solid state electric fuel pump (return pipe remains if injection or turbo is wanted again)
MX5 seats with uprated speakers in the headrests (which is great)
5.5x13 minilights
Spax adjustable dampers all round
Adjustable brake bias just had brand new front calipers,discs,hoses and rebuilt brake cylinder
10 months mot taxed until november can retax
It's a lovely little engine with around 50bhp.
So there we have it. It is what it is, you either love it or hate it, but unlike
minis it'll not dissolve and will still be here with all the cockroaches
following nuclear war. Sure, it's not in show car condition and it could do
with tidying up in places, but it's not a lot of money for a truly individual
car that you can drive away in. And it'll never need welding!!!
a totaly unique car
ring 07989639483
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