BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS
Words Holly Daffurn
Father and son team, Glenn and Lee Hazelden both share a genuine love of classic cars with a particular soft spot for Minis. If something unusual is up for grabs, the Hazeldens are always the first on the scene.
“Our friend has an Outspan Orange Mini, when he went to pick it up he noticed there was a Unipower GT in the weeds that the guy was going to bin. It’s an ex-works one and I couldn’t bear the thought of it going to ruin, so we went over and rescued it. It was only a bare shell… and a rough one at that. There wasn’t much of it left. We quickly realised that we couldn’t realistically do it up, so we put it up on eBay and hoped for the best. It went nuts!”
“People from Germany, Holland, Italy and further afield were all fighting over it. We were inundated with messages saying ‘Don’t sell it – whatever you want we’ll give you £1000 more’” Eventually, one guy said I’ll give you a lot of money for it, or if you’d rather I’ll give
