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Yorkshire racer Giles Cooper has kindly sent in some pictures for Retrograsser from the mid-nineties. The pictures are mostly of Class 4, 5 & 6 Minis, but there are a few Class 7's in there too.
Giles started racing in 1991 in a class 5 mini pickup but used to travel a lot as a family from about 1981 to spectate and watch his Dad race.
Giles' Dad used to be Chairman of Barnsley Autograss Club part of the North Yorkshire League in the late 70's early 80's which eventually became Whiterose Autograss club.
Future British Rallycross Champion Mark Kaye in his Nationals winning class 5 at the MAP Open
Isle of Wight racer Colin Attrill's Nationals winning Withy Class 4
Randy 'Randyman' Billingham in 2 shots of the same car with different colour schemes. He was a character!
Chris Pope was a front runner in class 5 before he moved to class3 and then 8
Alistair 'Hoops' Hooper's immaculate class 5 pickup with 'Perrett Power'
One third of the Spadwick Motors team - Dave Hadley in his class 5 pickup was a Nationals winner in the 80's
Colin Hadley's multiple BAS winning class 4 which used many bespoke parts. He still has it apparently...
Ollie Perrett won the BAS with this ex Tim Fry pickup before moving to Mini Se7ens where he had a fair amount of success
Paul Pearce's Fiesta dwarfs this Teifi pickup
SR50 Andy Whittingham
Rolling Road proprietor Tommy Williams in his 1460 Class 6 Mini pickup
Rob Corbett in his Green & White Class 5 pickup
Carl Wilde's well designed but not overly complicated car was the one to beat for quite a while when the Minis ruled class 5. Apparently Carl now does Motocross.
A familiar battle in the early nineties between Withy partner Keith Allington and his 'customer' Carl Wilde, both in very quick class 5 pickups
Future Mini Miglia driver Endaf Owens cut his teeth in the class 5 minis gaining a second at the 94 Nationals in his ex Darrell Reynolds car
Glynn Bailey's class 5 pickup complete with Weber IDA sticking out of the bonnet.
North Shropshire had some of the best Mini drivers in the country in the early 90's. This is Cardiff based racer Andrew Chamberlain who later took the BAS title in a class 4 version
My car!
The best class 5 racer never to win the Nationals? Huw Beynon
Jonny Brown's class 5 pickup was a BAS championship winner with Jonny's wife Maria who went on to race in the mighty mini circuit racing series
WR28 Stuart Baldwin
Concord racer Andy Lodge was as quick as any of them on his day
When the A Series Minis became swamped by the much more powerful 16 valve Novas Alun Rowlands did not take the easy route to class 4 or 5, he simply fitted his pickup with a 16 valve Honda VTEC engine to take on and beat them...
Adrian Davies in his ex Paul Garrett class6 pickup
Mark Weeks from Kent could seriously peddle a Mini winning the Nationals and Champion of Champions in 94
A very tidy pickup for Gary 'Sam Tan' Pugh
CM32 Doctor Peter Noakes holds off Huw Beynon and Ian Jones
Pete Fry's very quick class 6 1450 Mini at MAP
Endaf Owens class 5 - now with the Teifi club
Dylan Hughes was very competitive in class 4 with his Withy pickups
Adam Clark - son of well known Rallycrosser Roy 'Boy' Clark won the North of England championship with this ex Mark Booth class 4 pickup
Green & White employee Lance Foster was probably the last competitive A series racer in class 6
A couple of class 4 pickups for Andy Warriner and 'Ady' from Athelstan
Tony Aspinall's class 6 clubman powered by a Yamaha FJ 1200 engine was a Nationals trophy winner in 95
Mid Kent racer Dave Bowles was always handy for some cheap Mini body panels. Seen here in his class 5 Tyler pickup
Gary Bowman(?)
Long time class 4 racer Steven Davies has always driven well prepared cars, and along with sister Nicola has got some good results
Yorkshireman Alan Parker raced this ex Russ Tyler car in class 4 with reasonable success
Matt Thompson raced this ex Kev Nash car with a Longman engine for the 96 season
Hubert Jones
Keith Adams won every title except the Nationals in this Tyler powered pickup
Michael Robins of BP Grassing fame
CA321 Wayne Mathurin leads this East Anglian dice
Pug 205 from Nottingham's Peter Riley
Pete and Janet Ellis' rapid class 7 Metro
Michael Johnson's Clio Cosworth
Cosworth Turbo powered mini pickup of John Hardman from North Wales
Russ Tinkers Escort with Yankie V8 power
One of Dennis Pugh's early class7's - a chevy powered mk5 Escort
