{"id":11766,"date":"2017-02-23T17:35:42","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T17:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.totalkitcar.com\/?p=11766"},"modified":"2017-02-23T17:35:42","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T17:35:42","slug":"grand-touring-mini-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/02\/23\/grand-touring-mini-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"GRAND TOURING MINI RETURNS"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11767\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11767\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.totalkitcar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/news_hambly_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11767\" src=\"https:\/\/www.totalkitcar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/news_hambly_2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11767\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hard to believe the little Coupe is fifty this year<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It\u2019s fifty years since Bernard Cox first launched his super little Mini-based Grand Touring Mini at the Racing Car show of 1967. Over 600 were sold in various incarnations, the lion\u2019s share via Paddy Fitch and the late Peter Beck\u2019s GTM Cars operation between 1980-1996.<\/p>\n<p>Former GTM racer, Derek Hambly and his son, Ed, are resurrecting the little car and plan to unveil their new demo car at this year\u2019s Stoneleigh show (National Kit Car Motor Show \u2013 April 30\/May 1) although due to the current custodians of the \u2018GTM\u2019 name not allowing its use, they will probably use the \u2018Primo Coupe\u2019 name.<\/p>\n<p>The project moved to a Worcestershire-based company called Primo Design run by the late Peter Leslie in 1996. Peter made a few amendments to the car, mainly in the name of gaining SVA compliance, which he achieved although produced just one car sadly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll keep you updated on Derek and Ed\u2019s progress as the show approaches although in the meantime visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamblysportscars.co.uk\">www.hamblysportscars.co.uk<\/a> <strong>ENDS.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>It\u2019s fifty years since Bernard Cox first launched his super little Mini-based Grand Touring Mini at the Racing Car show of 1967. Over 600 were <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/02\/23\/grand-touring-mini-returns\/\" title=\"GRAND TOURING MINI RETURNS\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}