Regular readers may know me, others may not, but I have had the pleasure to work as Art Editor on Mini Magazine for the last nine years. I have worked on car magazines for nearly sixteen years, ranging from Fast Car to Classics Monthly; I have always been a bit of a petrolhead - however, Minis were always where my true heart lay.
Like many people I first got introduced to Minis through my friends, as at the time you could pick them up fairly cheap and they made a good runaround car. Some of my earliest memories are of going out and about with my mate Ross, who back then had a little Red Hot Mini. I remember being sat in the car bombing around town thinking this is ace, it was like being in a go-kart - and that was it, I was hooked. I knew that when I got to seventeen I wanted a Mini too. At the time, our mutual friend Oscar had a lovely 1976 Damask Red Clubman too, so I couldn’t let the team down...
My mate Brad, who I have known since I was 5 and is bit of a fellow petrolhead, had also caught the Mini bug; he had started earlier than me and managed to get himself a 1978 blue Mini Pickup - not bad for
