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As we were unable to go to this year’s IMM in Italy, Jim and I decided to make the most of our annual pilgrimage to Cornwall for the Riviera Run, organised as always by the Cornish Mini Club. As it was previously supported by MiniWorld, we’ve been visiting this long-running event for many years. The first Riviera Run was held way back in 1995, and these days it’s based in and around the Pentewan Sands Holiday Park, near St Austell.

Our BMH-reshelled 1990 Racing Green LE, known as Sheldon, had a few post-winter issues to get sorted beforehand, but we were soon on our way… once we’d stocked up with plenty of road trip snacks and loaded up with some essential

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