Need help from Brunton expert(s).....

[Thumper88]

I have inherited this one and know nothing about it, and haven't been able to figure out how to find anyone who had been affiliated with Brunton. It's a V-8 etc.,  the bright green one that was a kind of a poster child the Brunton web page. It's titled here in NC as an early-70s Lotus 7, which it obviously isn't. 

I guess what I need for starters is to figure out the details on this one. It's pristine, as my dad kept it in his aircraft hanger, and we've been through it to look for flaws of any type, runs perfectly etc.

But I know literally zero about this sort of car and what little I can find on the web about Bruntons makes it seem pretty complicated.

And yes, that is my nutty dad, and no I was not able to keep my daughter out of it.

If anyone here is up to speed enough on these things to explain it a bit to me via DM or however you want to do it, I'd sure appreciate it. Thanks much!

Will attach a few photos from last couple years....

Edited November 24, 2025 by Thumper88
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[CBuff]

@Anaximander you seem to know a lot of the brunton world 

[Thumper88]

Ha! No, it's just that I basically do research for a living across a broad number of topics I know little about initially..... and did a fast drive-by on what I could Google. And I think the conclusion I came to was this is very very similar to his two small planes, that there is a huge variability based on options and conditions I don't know anything about, and really couldn't without having followed their history for years in forums and such.

The instrumentation on one of the planes could have changed the value of it by something like the value of a new Toyota. And the differences in the motors in those things just made me dizzy... the different power plants that were possible, the importance of the number of hours on them etc was something I wasn't familiar with, when it last had an "annual" and so on.
In short, I figured out enough to know there was a lot I DIDN'T know and probably couldn't without spending months on it and really getting immersed in the world of experimental aircraft and aviation generally to the kind of level possible maybe only for people who are really in love with, in this case, a type of plane called an RV-6. This is the same, and I suspect the variability in Bruntons may be even more complicated?

Edited November 24, 2025 by Thumper88
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[Anaximander]

35 minutes ago, CBuff said:

@Anaximander you seem to know a lot of the brunton world 

Sent Thumper88 a PM. I guess I know a little about them having owned 6 of them and having helped build my last one during the Covid lockdowns.

[Thumper88]

4 minutes ago, Anaximander said:

Sent Thumper88 a PM. I guess I know a little about them having owned 6 of them and having helped build my last one during the Covid lockdowns.

Good Lord! trying to remember If Ive ever owned six of anything, let alone a car like this....

[Anaximander]

The manufacturers 4 digit (first two digits are the week of the build year and the last two digits are the year of build) date code on the Toyo R888 tires will give you a good idea of the build date e.g. "3714". I am suspecting about 2014 M-Spec Stalker with a LS3/430 V8 engine, Tremec 6-speed and a CTS-V rear differential.  Thumper88, I sent you a PM.

Edited November 24, 2025 by Anaximander

[Thumper88]

44 minutes ago, Anaximander said:

The manufacturers 4 digit (first two digits are the week of the build year and the last two digits are the year of build) date code on the Toyo R888 tires will give you a good idea of the build date e.g. "3714". I am suspecting about 2014 M-Spec Stalker with a LS3/430 V8 engine, Tremec 6-speed and a CTS-V rear differential.  Thumper88, I sent you a PM.

That's some detective-level thinking... I would never in a million years have come up with that, thanks! Will check PM

Edited November 24, 2025 by Thumper88
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[Anaximander]

Thumper88, PM me your name and phone number and I will give you more information that you are interested in.

Anaximander

[Anaximander]

The more I get to looking at the Stalker, without knowing the dimensions from just the pictures, it appears to me to be a M-Spec Stalker Classic R build. Minehart knew that the more purist se7esqe folks preferred the more conventional look of the rear fenders rather than the more aerodynamically shaped rounded rear fenders that he produced in his original M-Spec car to reduce wind buffeting.

[JB455]

While I don't really know much about Bruntons, I do know this much.... If you're new to the car, take it easy! And keep anyone who does not have good decision making skills out of the driver seat! That much power in a car that small, bad things can happen quickly. I know that teenage me would have hopped in and pushed the limits... and now at 55, I'm not sure I've gotten any smarter in that regard.