It Was Once Called The Only Rear-Engined Front-Wheel-Drive Car In Captivity!
A friend has just moved to Ainsdale and I once went to see cars racing on the flat sandy beach.
One of the cars I saw was the Cooper-Buick, which was a 1964 Mini-Cooper with a 3.5-litre Buick V8 engine in the boot, driving the front wheels, through the back axle of an E-type Jaguar.
This page on the Road and Track web site gives more details.
It certainly threw a lot of sand about!
The Anonymous Widower 
I bet that was fun! John Cooper famously built a Mini with an Austin 1100 engine and gearbox at each end for four wheel drive at about the same time. A bit of a beast, I am led to believe. THere used to be a Mini in Eastbourne with a Fiat two litre engine in it, the wheels stuck out each side an extra four inches.
Comment by jagracer | May 28, 2021 |