How often do you wish you’d got a second chance? Maybe you’d have revised a bit harder before that exam, left that night out a little earlier and not suffered the consequences the next morning, or taken a chance on that job that would have involved moving to another city. Or maybe, you’d follow in Rob Pike’s footsteps, re-acquiring a car you let go years ago, and giving yourself another chance to finally transform it into the vision you always had in your head. There can’t be many people who wouldn’t leap at a second chance like that.
The Mini you’re looking at here was Rob’s first car. “I think I was 18 at the time, and I originally went to buy a Mk2 1968 Cooper. I did a deal with the seller, but when I got home, found out that nobody would insure me. So I ended up doing the next best thing, and buying a brand new Rover Mini Flame in April 1990.”
It didn’t stay standard for long. “As people do when they’re 18 and into Minis, I pulled out all the insidesnumber, the one it still has today, and people didn’t really notice after that.”
