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1965 MKII WOLSELEY HORNET<br />
THE BUILD CONTINUED...<br />
An 18-point cage<br />
from Safety Devices<br />
keeping things safe!<br />
The Yamaha R1 came<br />
from Tom’s uncle’s bike!<br />
he could build it and get it running,<br />
before turning to that subframe, which<br />
Tom admits was a very tight squeeze!<br />
“The engine hit the Hornet front panel<br />
as it was meant for a <strong>Mini</strong>! I had to grind<br />
the lips off the front panel and even a bit<br />
off the bike engine mount! “I then bolted<br />
up the rear subframe, which had been<br />
treated to more KAD goodies, in the<br />
form of rear adjustable camber brackets,<br />
alloy rear arms, a rear disc conversion, so<br />
it could finally sit on its own wheels.”<br />
Then came the biggest headache of this<br />
build — sorting out the wiring, even<br />
though Phil at Pro-Motive had converted<br />
the Yamaha engine’s wiring. “I knew this<br />
was going to be painful, as I had cut the<br />
old wiring loom out, so I got a nice new<br />
one, but as it’s such an old car, there are a<br />
lot of control units for the original dash<br />
which I used none of. It just took a bit of<br />
patience,” Tom recalls.<br />
The pedal box came next, then,<br />
considering the power uplift over<br />
standard, Tom thought a nice, new Safety<br />
Devices 18-point roll-cage from <strong>Mini</strong><br />
Sport was a good idea. Before it went to<br />
paint, Tom made the Goodridge braided<br />
brake and clutch lines up. Then, off it<br />
went. Ross Wilson at A B Cook has done<br />
a top job with the Porsche Miami Blue<br />
and gloss black roof paintwork.<br />
FINALLY ON THE ROAD<br />
Tom finally got his Hornet back from it<br />
being painted on 15 July 2017, then with<br />
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