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‘I have always had a passion for classic cars and loved Minis in particular through watching Mr Bean and liking small, quirky cars. I even used to visit scrapyards and take bits off the Minis even though I didn’t own one!
‘Minis were always the first cars that I’d look for when I started going to shows and I was always pressurising my dad to buy a restoration project. He got this Mini for me but kept it under wraps for a while until he felt that I was ready to take it on. I was very excited when I first saw it, ready with my spanners in my hand!
‘The car was in fairly rough shape and someone had fitted all sorts of aftermarket decorative add-ons so I switched the car back to original, having managed to get hold of a couple of scrap donor cars. I also managed to fix the seats, which were a bit saggy.
‘I used the money that I’d earned from ‘flipping’ an old Astra that I’d bought to overhaul the front and rear suspension with all new dampers, brakes, calipers, boots, ball joints and bushes, and stabiliser arms. I had to remove the petrol tank just to get at the dampers.
‘The engine is original and just needed a bit of a clean-up. I have sorted the exhaust, overhauled the wheels and painted the underneath, which had been in all sorts of different colours. Whether this was from the factory I don’t know, but it was having a bad effect on my OCD, so I had to sort it.
