"The reason I bought it was for the colour… You don't see many Fiesta Yellow Minis."
Brian Birchall tells us: “I’ve owned Minis for a long time. I’ve owned and restored them all. I had a Mk2 Cooper S, a Traveller that was in MiniWorld and a Mini Pick-up, but I had never done an Austin Seven.” He had to get it out of his system and, in June 2007, found a perfect candidate: a rusty 1961 Austin Seven De-luxe which most would have walked away from. Over the next 12 years he spent around five years working on it, on and off between other car projects.
“It failed an MOT and they chucked it in the woods, where I found it. It was rotten. There
