The Restoration Bug

Restoring a classic Mini can sometimes prove to be a seemingly endless task full of unforeseen hurdles. Incredibly, David Bromley could easily have avoided the unenviable commitment of taking on this neglected 1995 Rover Mini Sprite project at all as his dad had just bought him a fully restored VW cabriolet to drive around in. “The VW was a nice car, but it just wasn’t me,” David tells us. “I’d much rather be driving a Mini, even if it means a lot of hard graft to get there.”

This is David’s first ever automotive project of any shape or form; armed with a bodged rolling shell,