# Pilbeam MP88 (hillclimb)

- Source: https://racingcarnetwork.com/wiki/pilbeam-mp88/
- Publisher: Racing Car Network (racingcarnetwork.com), the race car marketplace
- Type: car · Brand: Pilbeam
- Discipline: hillclimb
- Series: hillclimb
- Era: 2000s
- Last updated: 2026-07-06
- For sale on RCN: https://racingcarnetwork.com/for-sale/pilbeam-mp88/ (0 live listings right now)

The MP88 is the Bourne line's 2000s form: the Pilbeam hill single-seater's modern chapter — the bike-and-V8 spectrum's mature packaging — the heritage marque's contemporary customer car.

## Specifications

| Spec | Value |
|---|---|
| Engine | Bike / V8 fitment spectrum |
| Power | ~200-540 hp per build |
| Construction | Modern spaceframe/composite |
| House | Pilbeam (Bourne heritage) |
| Ledger | Modern class campaigns |
| Diligence | Fitment identity + class currency |
| Years | 2004–2010s |
| Class | Heritage in service |

## History

The Pilbeam hill line reached its 2000s form with the MP88 (2004): the heritage marque's contemporary chapter — the mature packaging (the MP-line's decades of hill scholarship in the modern spaceframe-and-composite grammar), the spectrum constant (the bike-engine classes' builds beside the V8-ambition examples — the fitment breadth the Bourne customer model always served), and the heritage-marque position (the BRM-lineage house's name carrying the discipline's history into the modern paddocks the Gould-and-Force era owned) — racing the modern spread: the British championship's class campaigns (the 1100-and-upper categories' careers per build), the national-and-Irish calendars, and the heritage-continuity function (the marque's presence keeping the Bourne story alive in the discipline it founded modern form for).

The construction context frames the chapter: the modern hill classes' machinery had converged on a common grammar — composite panels over steel spaceframes, bike-engine packaging, and data-logging as standard — and the Bourne house's version carried five decades of institutional hill knowledge into that convergence, the accumulated setup scholarship the customer relationship's quiet asset.

The contemporary-heritage economics frame the type: the fitment-spectrum law (the per-build identity the line's constant grammar), the modern-class fit (the current categories' rules the eligibility frame), and the heritage-premium honesty (the name's history against the modern rivals' pace).

The continuity identity structures the market: the build-specification documentation, the class-fit realism per car, and the living-heritage romance the marque's presence carries.

The present is heritage-contemporary custody: fitment identity, class currency, and the Bourne continuity throughout.

## Palmarès

Modern class campaigns across the British-and-Irish hill calendars — the heritage marque's contemporary ledger.

## What to check before you buy

Living-heritage law: fitment identity first (the bike-versus-V8 builds' per-car truths — the spectrum's grammar the line's constant), modern-class fit (the current categories' rules framing each build's home), build-quality documentation per the customer-line craft, and heritage-premium honesty (the Bourne name's history a romance layer, the modern pace question answered by specification not badge). The continuity case prices the type: the discipline's founding modern house still on the hills — the MP88 trading as heritage-in-service at the hill market's honest stakes.

## Did you know

- The heritage stayed in service: the Bourne line racing on in the discipline it shaped.
- The spectrum never narrowed: bike and V8 builds sharing the line's design grammar.
- The name carries the history: BRM-lineage craft in the modern paddock's company.

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