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September  1989 Cranford Balsall Common first
ever pictures of the three minis since 1969.

Summer 1987 is when Gareth decided it was time to put all three Minis
together. We had David's green mini which was re-painted Tartan Red
having had a ground up restoration by Gareth who also provided the build
funding as well as the Blue and White Mini's.

The following year in 1990 David would set up a
Business 'Ménage Motorsport' sponsored by T Davies
making The Italian Job Mini kits plus restoration work.

Gareth and David  Davies only had two weeks before
the 30th Anniversary at Silverstone to turn the
three cars into 'The Italian Job' Minis.

The Blue and Red minis were almost finished only
requiring a weeks work to complete but the White
mini had  just come back from the paint shop
as a bare shell not having time to do the
body work ourselves.

The final two weeks were flat out, it was literately
two weeks  24/7 to get the Job done. 

Gareth had almost completed his Blue mini at his home in Reading, much to the relief of his wife Allyson and neighbors as the welding and grinding had stopped.

In the final two weeks we also asked family and friends for help, we were still finishing the cars as they were loaded onto trailers. Sadly we had no time for MOT's.

Silverstone 1989 was full on, with the Mini's in position the Mini fans descended on them in their thousands.