“The idea was born in 2015 as I read a post on the German Mini forum. Someone asked if anybody had ever tried to recreate a Broadspeed GT. As I’ve always been fascinated by Broadspeeds, I followed the post but nobody answered. If you check past MiniWorld articles on my Minis you’ll see I said that my dream car was a Broadspeed GT.”
If nobody had created one then Matthias figured that it couldn’t be an easy task but the seed of an idea began to germinate in his mind. “I realised that it had taken approximately nine years for each of my past Mini restorations and, at that rate, how many more could I do? In the end I could be doing it from a wheelchair so I decided that the next project should be something where I can set the bar high. I decided to build a Broadspeed GT but I couldn’t find or afford an original one and I actually wouldn’t want an original one because I’m not a fan of the material mix of metal and fibreglass in the middle of a surface. I’m pretty sure that’s why only six are left now. I was also pretty sure that the German MOT [TüV] wouldn’t like that either so that’s why I decided to build a ‘full-metal’ Broadspeed.”
The original 1960s Broadspeed fastbacks were created by removing the rear section of a Mini, reducing
