CLASSIC TAILS
DON’T JUDGE ME – I WAS ONLY YOUNG!
A few issues back, I rattled on about a sort of ex-Works Escort Sport that I built from bits in 1987. A year before, I’d built a Mini from a bare shell, and there was a rather tenuous ex-Works connection to that as well.
What happened was that in the summer of 1986, I’d bought a Mini Clubman Estate that despite its V registration (DTF 455V if I recall correctly) was in fact a 1974 model. It had been accident damaged, but was appealing because it was
