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Andy Saunders grew up in Bournemouth fascinated by the custom cars of the 1970s. By the time he was 16 he was customising his first car and only three years later he had finished his fourth. He now had the experience and the imagination to create something really radical; he was going to shorten a Mini. “Everybody said it couldn’t be done,” Andy remembers, “but that just spurred me on to prove them wrong.” For £60 he bought a MkI, 1964 non-runner which had been painted with a brush. “I started to cut it up thinking that I had little to lose if it all went wrong. I cut the floor at the heel board and again along the rear of the cross member and based the whole build on that.” Andy explains as if