Historic Racing Mini Collingrove Hillclimb 60th.mpg

First upload. 60th anniversary celebrations for Collingrove Hillclimb in the Barossa Valley in South Australia. Featuring Mini Cooper S historic racer. First time up the hill in 10 years with old tyres and rusty driver. Thanks to Aaron Armstrong for the clip of my little off track excursion.

[@emonaro1]

sounds like a sweet engine.
What time did you do ?

[@imylapins1018]

Best I did was 40sec. I came out of retirement, the car had been sitting in the shed since its last outing in 2005, the engine was not at its previous best and had 10yo wooden tyres but I didn't expect fast times, just wanted to be part of the occasion. Best I ever did was 37.78 and should have beaten that with the better engine in 2003 but bent a valve there because the clearance was not enough even though it survived Mallala that weekend - Thems the breaks.