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"Hang on a minute lads"

Shortly after the Minis 30th Anniversary Practical Classics featured us in their magazine in 1990.

 

 

From right to left. Gareth, Daryl, David and Antony Davies

Nearly twenty years on and still rolling on...

Since we recreated the Italian Job Minis to celebrate its 30th Anniversary at Silverstone in 1989.

 

On its first release in 1969 Daryl, Antony and myself (Gareth) saw the film on the Big Screen and were instantly captivated by the 20 minute car chase featuring the mini coopers as they roared around Turin (and through Coventry sewers) to avoid capture with the old "over and under routine"?.

Four years later and I'm seventeen and guess what my first car was a Mk2 Mini Cooper POJ 121G not the green Mk1 below this will eventually be repainted to become the Red Mini.

Sky Movies premier the Caine season with the release of Zulu and The Italian Job in HD at the Soho Hotel London.

 

 

 

 

From right to left. Gareth, Daryl, Antony and David Davies
"I've got a great idea"

30 years on and still going strong…

I purchased POJ 121G privately only a mile away from my parents house in Balsall Common in 1974 who I recall could hear me driving home from the pub as the car only had a straight through exhaust.

In 1987 I started a complete ground up restoration replacing the Mk2 body shell with a 1967 Mk1 shell to match the film cars.

"Why Mk1"- The car chase scenes were filmed during 1968 but used the 1969 Mk2 registration letter 'G' to coincide with the films release in 1969. "not alot of people know that"

Clock the Mk1 spotbar which I made in 1979 from Solid bar as the first prototype.

 

Many viewing hours went into perfecting the spot bar in its current form along with the bonnet straps, spot light stone guards and roll cage.

 

Gareth (1979) in his ground up restoration Mk1 mini which he would sell to Daryl who would then sell on to David to become the Red Mini.
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