CASINO CAST-OFF

David Nutland has been a part of the Mini Cooper scene since the beginning of time. As both a collector of cars and a competitor in various forms of amateur motorsport, he has owned a string of British-built Mini Cooper S models. One car he has a particular soft spot for, however, is his 1972 Bianco Avorio (Ivory White) 998cc Innocenti Mini Cooper Mk3, which he has owned for over four decades.

"In 1979 the design studio I worked at was across the road from Westover Motors, in Bournemouth. One particular day I noticed a Mini in a colour that I recognised as Bluette, a colour I had seen on Innocenti Minis during a trip to Italy. I immediately went across the road to see what turned out to be an Innocenti 1001. Enquiring about the Mini I found out that it had been traded in for a new Mini 1100 Special and