Mini Magazine

THE LAST DETAIL

If you want to really appreciate the level of detail that’s gone into Jeff Delve’s Mini, you need to go over it panel by panel and inch by inch. A first glance may not give much away.

True, that blue paint is eyecatching but it will take a while and a much closer look before you really start to understand what’s been achieved here.

The Mini didn’t arrive in the Delve household as part of some master plan to build a show stopper, rather some fond memories of a Mini Clubman owned by Jeff’s wife, Jo, when they first met. “I’ve always wanted a Mini – it was the only car I didn’t get round to owning really. My mates had them and we mosied around in my wife’s one back in the day, and I loved them, I thought they were great little cars. About 11 years ago I was driving along and I saw this one up for sale. It was

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