I know its not very romantic but these just aren't really the cars they are based on in any tangible way. Affectively you can engineer any body shell to fit around modern running gear. Its just silhouette racing which is still very active in the UK and also lets be frank touring cars are silhouette race cars.
The Mini silhoutte cars which look great, are really shells on top of what are basically formula 3 running gear....
Not romantic, but factual, i still think for some there is a disconnect, maybe a safe delusion.
This has lights from a mini and maybe the grill and that is about it.... so it isn't a mini. But it is cool...
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