Mini Bug/Scorcher/Safari 6/Trek |
May 2005 - Barry
Stimson has now created a new 'Bug'. Fil Baker would like to be
reunited with his Stimson Mini Bug Mk2 - If anyone knows the
whereabouts of it's current owner, Fil can be contacted at
Fil@FilBaker.com Fil Baker's web site is
also worth a visit to see his Mini Bug and his other
interesting cars, past & present. Stuart
Williams modified Stimson Mini
Bug Simon's Mk2 Mini
Bug Dino has now acquired
this bug (Pictures by Fil Baker July 2002) Matty's MK2 Matty has taken on quite a challenge with this Mk2 Mini
Bug! (May 2005) Bob Coster would like to trace his old Mini
Bug>>>>>>> Bob writes:
This time based on a Ford Fiesta.
"You simply buy the five door Ford Fiesta you like, 1997 to 2002 and
then drive or trailer that vehicle down to Design
Developments
factory in Portsmouth. Transformation work from stage one to stage
three to is then carried out for you.
At the completion of a stage three conversion the vehicle can be
collected and driven away." Visit
Design
Developments web site
for pictures of
this great looking buggy.
Stimson Mini Bug Mk2
(MOC)
Simon
Jones
Stimson Mini Bug Mk2
Stimson Mini Bug Mk2
Modified Mini Bug!
(The CS 2) (MOC)
Stimson Safari Six (MMOC)
Stimson Safari Six (MMOC)
Click Image for info
Stimson Scorcher (MMOC)
Link to Ryan
Andrews site
Stimson Mini Bug Mk2
Stimson Mini Bug Mk2
Stimson Mini Bug Mk2
Mini Bug Mk1 chassis
Fil Baker's
Stimson Mini Bug Mk2
Stimson Mini Bug Mk2
Stimson Mini Bug
(Modified)
Stimson Mini Bug
(Modified)
Stimson Mini Bug Mk2
Stimson Mini Bug Mk2
Stimson Mini Bug Mk2
Found abandoned a few years ago.
(October 2002)
Matty's Mk2
"I built the Mini Bug KBD 491 L while living in
Northampton area, I lost track of it when I sold, though I
later saw it in Banbury are.
I would very much like to know if it still exists, if anyone
has any information it would be gratefully received. Please
email me on sb-coster@supanet.com or call me on 01833
660033
Much appreciated, R C Coster"
Stimson Trek
Stimson Trek
Click
Here
Barry Stimson has created some wonderfully
weird, Mini based, kit cars over the years.
He now runs Stimson
Designs in Portsmouth, England.
I am informed that he is working on a new design (October 2002), I
look forward with anticipation
Barry's new car has now been unleashed on the world (See article by
Giles Chapman in the Motoring
Telegraph
"Type my name in, you'll find nutters" Filed
01/03/2003 ) - Surely he can't mean me!
Anyway his new vehicle is the Stimson Sting
The Sting is a 3-wheeler using a Suzuki 1200 Bandit
powertrain
He has also designed the Storm using the Bandit forks and
single wheel at the front
New for 2005 - The
new Stimson Buggy
Back to the Bugs.......
I owned a Stimson Mini
Bug Mk1 during the 70's.
The Mk1 Bug did not have the lower body mouldings, screen surround
moulding or the roll over bar moulding, which can be seen in the
pictures of the Mk2s shown above.
The Mini Bug used a Mini engine/gearbox and subframe at the front and
had Mini trailing arms with coil-over-shocks at the rear. There was a
square section, spaceframe chassis under the glassfibre
mouldings.
Latterly the Mini Bug was marketed as the CS 2.
The Stimson Safari
Six was a spaceframe and glassfibre,
open topped, Mini Clubman fronted, 6 wheeled pick-up.
The Stimson Scorcher was a three wheeled, Mini engined car which you
'rode' astride the central tunnel.
The Stimson Trek, this was a small front engined, Mini based,
off-road style, four wheeler.
I now have pictures of a complete Trek and a part assembled Trek
thanks to Dino
- Click here for details
& photos
If anyone has any interesting photos of Stimson cars - please forward
them to me so that I can add them to this gallery.
Credits:
Many thanks to Simon
Jones, Ryan
Andrews, Stuart
Williams ,Fil
Baker and Matty for the pictures of
their Mk2 Mini Bugs.
Thanks to Richard Porter of the Mini Marcos Owners Club for the
pictures of the Mk2, the CS2, Safari Six and Scorcher
- these and many other Mini based cars can be found on the Mini
Marcos Owners Club web site at http://www.minimarcos.org.uk.
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Douglas Anderson:
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Date Last Modified: 05/12/2007