SECOND CHANCE

The lovely Mini featured here is actually making its second appearance in Mini Magazine, having graced the pages back in 2010. And it still has the same owner: Alex Groves. It even looks similar to how it did back then but quite a few things have happened, and changed, during the intervening years.

LEARNING CURVE

“I’ve actually owned this Mini – originally a Mini Mayfair – since I was fourteen-years-old,” reminisces Alex. “This was back in 2001. It was going to be my first car. My mother actually started teaching me to drive in it. But, she just couldn’t get on with the Mini, gave up, and bought me a Fiesta MkIII instead! The Mini was put to one side, and wasn’t used until 2006, which was when I fitted a