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Chipping Away

Will Harris has come a long way since his dad bought him his first Mini when he was 18. He didn’t know how to replace a wheel back then and spent an early run trying to get the car into fifth and wondering why the gears kept grinding! Fast forward a decade and Will has fabricated his own custom subframe and designed and fitted a 1.8 K-Series to his Clubman project. He certainly knows one end of a spanner from the other… even if these spanners do have a habit of flying out of his grasp at the most inopportune moments (a fact, clearly illustrated by the assorted chips

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