ESTATE OF GRACE
Mike Waterjohns has come a long way since he was tinkering with the family Minis and towing his grandparent’s gang mower around the field in a Minivan at the age of ten. The brains behind M-Tech, Mike is renowned for building immaculate Minis that are as satisfying to look at as they are to drive.
Mike is mostly self taught and he learnt more working with Leo Jack (the talent behind mokepanels.com) than he did in the classroom. Although his grounding in automotive engineering at university gave him some solid theory to build upon.
Whilst working for Leo, a newly graduated Mike built the ‘96 Almond Green Estate that we featured back in 1998. From that car things really took off. “A guy saw the car and was very keen to have one built, but when he realised that it was for sale he bought it through an agent in America.”
The client who commissioned Mike’s current project also saw that article and always had in his head that he would love to have one for himself. It took him
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