Never “ apologise. Never explain. Just get the thing done, and let them howl.” So said Agnes Macphail, the first woman to be elected to the Canadian House of Commons, thereby leaving mankind a handy and quotable mantra for doing things that may raise eyebrows. It’s all too easy to do things that you think people will like or approve of rather than things you actually want to do, for the sake of an easy life; this is particularly true in the sphere of car modification, especially in an age of the immediacy of social media. Perceived deviations from the accepted ways of doing things can be met with an instant backlash – ‘You’ve done that wrong,’ ‘You’ve ruined that,’ ‘That looks terrible,’ blah blah etc. Who cares? You only live once, your brief glimmer of time on this Earth is far too f leeting to worry about what a bunch of wallies on the internet may be judging you for.
Mollie Challice appreciates this all too well. “The biggest challenge I have with my Mini is getting over the fact that someone else hasn’t built it for me,” she says. “The look on people’s faces when I say
