THE FINE SPRINT
As restoration projects go, taking on the mammoth task of building a Mini Sprint from the ground up certainly isn’t for the faint hearted. Luckily for 51-year-old Ross Ferguson, by the time he’d decided to take this demanding plunge, he’d already built up more than his fair share of experience restoring Minis!
“It all began over thirty years ago, when my wife was looking for a car and fancied something a little bit different” Ross smiles, “after looking at various options like Beetles, she fell for an accident damaged beige Mini 1000 which stood out with its unusual NI number plate!” A full strip down and rebuild soon ensued, a process which taught Ross how to weld. “This car would become my wife’s daily driver, commuting between Glasgow and Stirling on a daily basis,” Ross remembers, “from there a love for everything Mini was born.”
By the early 90s, Ross’s addiction to Minis had grown to the extent
