Some Works Minis
1967 winner Altonen LBL 6D Registered Dec 1966
Winner of  Monte Carlo Rally,  Jan 1967.
Driven by Rauno Aaltonen with
Co-driver Henry Liddon. 
Type: 1275 Cooper
Race number 177.
1st overall & 1st of class.
Retained as display car.
Winner of the 1967 Acropolis Rally driven by Paddy Hopkirk.

LRX 830E  Registered Mar 1967
Type: 1275 Cooper 
Events:
1967 Race No. 89.
Acropolis    Hopkirk        1st.
1967 Race No. 40.  84 Hr Nurburgring Marathon.    A. Poole / R. Enever / Clive Baker        Retired from race.
Sold to R.McCartney

 
1966 Winner, but later unfairly disqualified with the other two winning Mini's.

1966, Minis came in 1st, 2nd and 3rd place in the Monte Carlo Rally, only to be disqualified on an odd lighting  technicality.  The Works team were not even presented with a finishers plaque.

GRX 555D  Registered Jan 1966

 

Events

1966 Monte Carlo   Timo Makinen/Paul Easter            1st place
1966 Polish            Rauno Aaltonen/Henry Liddon     Retired
Sold to L. Lamborne

Timo Makinen flies with the Mini.

The fuel injection Mini rally car that never ran!

This mini entered for the cancelled 1967 RAC Rally, and ran on the one televised special stage.   Driver Timo Makinen takes the Mini airborne, with Tony Fall in the co-drivers seat.

 
   

GRX 311D.  Registered February 1966
Chassis K.A2S4 820360 / Engine 9F.SA.Y 39837

Events:
1966 Acropolis        Paddy Hopkirk                  3rd place
1966 German         Paddy Hopkirk               1st place
1966 Alpine            Paddy Hopkirk                  Retired
1967 Scottish         Lars Ingvar Ytterbring      2nd place
1967 Alpine            Timo Makinen                  Retired
1969 Circuit of Ireland   Paddy Hopkirk        2nd place
Sold to W. Cresdee

 
 
 

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