Paul has an eye for a good shape. He spends his working days as a clay modeller, shaping top secret vehicles of the future. “I work for Jaguar Land Rover within the Design Studio. I predominantly work on exterior and interior models for Land Rover from concept through to realisation.” He’s probably not allowed to say any more than that unless we all sign the Official Secrets Act.
The basic Mini saloon ticks the right boxes for him and perhaps his first car, a 1977 (Mk4) Mini saloon bought in 2004, might have set him thinking about design as Mini has done to so many others. Rather than wait for his retirement years before recreating his much-loved first car, he has managed to do it only a few years down the line. Lockdown, and owning a single garage, provided just enough temptation to reimagine his much-loved first Mini but with a budget rather better than he had as a youth. After all, Jane Austen would have got it totally right if she had ever said: “It is a truth universally acknowledged
