What setup are you guys using on your early cars, mine didn't have any handbrake mechanism. I've picked up some GTM cables and am happy with the setup at the wheel end but would like some options at the lever end. I see the CCC car has the lever on the top like the later GTMs but I'd like to hide it within the tunnel, like the one that was at Blyton earlier this year, unfortunately this is the only photo I have and I forgot to ask the owner. I have an early Mini handbrake lever which will pull on the two cables but I think this will take up too much space within the tunnel. The lever I have on my Frogeye operates from the side of the tunnel but only pulls one cable.

Hi Andy,
If you can find enough space to put the handbrake inside the tunnel offset towards the passenger side why not, my tunnel seems pretty crowded already and was a proper fumble measuring up and fitting gear change rods, the same goes for a single cable, I thought early mini's were a single cable?? almost anything can be made to fit, I remember my old Cox having a very poor handbrake and having to make extensions to give more leverage on the bits sticking out of the back plates.
John

The early Mini lever had two cables connected to it and the later Mini lever had one cable which connected to another cable along the back which linked the two sides together. The twin cable lever looks like an easier system to setup on the Cox but takes up more space in the tunnel.

Space in my tunnel is in short supply, I'm thinking the 2 hoses from the air condition compressor will have to go outside the tunnel??
John

(John) Remember the Cox tunnel is quite a bit bigger than a later Coupe one.

Andy, the best one I've seen, that you are asking about, was cut into a recess on the passenger side of the tunnel with a single cable. Which went to a half moon shaped (quadrant or handbrake fork) at the rear of the tunnel.

Time for a new gear knob on that second picture!