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Gear Shift

It sounds like the start of a bad Netflix documentary…you gave your car and a bunch of cash to a guy called Shifty who you met on the internet,” Sean laughs. Sean “Shifty” Whitfield has been fascinated with Minis since childhood and is known on the scene as a bit of a Mini expert. He’s admin on The

Mini Forum and certainly knows one end of a spanner from the other. When it comes to Aiden’s blind faith in him, he’s certainly got a point… but when you see the state the car was in and how beautifully it is coming

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