As many of us do, we remember the cars we used to have fun in back when we were in our early twenties, and this is what happened to 59-year-old Chris Jones back in 2011 when he decided one car he would have liked at the time was a Mini. The search started by scouring the internet, followed by viewing a few. It was soon decided that the ones Chris was considering had been restored to some level, but not the level he would have expected for the price, and they seemed just a little too expensive for what they were. This led to the idea of buying a project Mini, and it was a friend of Chris’s son Nick who came up trumps with a potential car. A visit was arranged to see it, a
