RISING SON

When you’re brought up into a world of building rally cars, it’s highly likely you’ll become a life long petrolhead. Josh Barker may only be 25, but already he’s been involved with modifying cars as long as he can remember, and he shows no signs of slowing down. “I’d often help my Dad build rally cars which were usually MkI/II Escorts and Mitsubishi Evos and I couldn’t wait to have my own car,” he recalls, “I ended up choosing a Mini which sadly got written off, ever since then I’ve always fancied getting myself another Mini.”

That first Mini which met an untimely fate was a late Cooper Sportspack, which Josh had already begun to upgrade, swapping the shock absorbers and exhaust. “I passed the word around I was looking for