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There has been a photo of the Skitsu on the site recently. I passengered my old man from 1969 and often came across the Greenwood Mini charging through from its back of the grid starting possition. The open front wheel soon persuaded a passenger to ease in a bit.

Agreed, the Greenwood Mini did encourage passengers to ease in a bit when it was around, had a number of races in which Owen and Terry were running.

Despite opinions about the thing, rightly or wrongly, it was a superb piece of not only engineering but thinking too. Owen had already successfully rebuilt a Trumph lump to a horizonal motor by dry-sumping it in a effort to lower CoG. Then he looked very carefully at ACU regs for Class C lots, not to see what he could not do but specifically what the rules allowed and thus the Mini was born.

The Halec and Greenwood Mini at Race Retro

and some interesting comments

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