Mini Coopers in the 1965 RAC International Darryl Sleath Articles 2 Comments The Pathe News archives are a gold mine for car bores like us, and hark back to a time when gravelly-voiced toffs would bring tales of derring-do...
The Little Austin on the Prairie – Classic Mk1 Mini Barnfind Steve Swanson Articles 1 Comment Are you tired of hunting down a classic project only to find your quarry is nothing more than a rusty turd? Don’t give up hope. Canadian, Al...
The Murky History of the original Italian Job Minis Darryl Sleath Articles, CarClub 18-30 - The Cars In 2011 the Mail Online ran a story about how three of the original Italian Job minis, or what remained of them, had finally resurfaced from a lock...
Meet the Moke, the Mini’s Simple Country Cousin Darryl Sleath CarClub 18-30 - The Cars Crude, gutless and rejected by the military, this is the unlikely story of how the reinvented Moke charmed civvy street to become a 60s style...
British Leyland – Half-Arsed PR and The New Avengers Darryl Sleath Articles 1 Comment This is the farcical story of British Leyland's press department and how they managed to cock up their primetime product placement on some of the...
The Last of the Giant Killers: the Longman Mini 1275GT Darryl Sleath CarClub 18-30 - The Cars Everyone knows that I have an unnatural fondness for British Leyland. But I’m not deluded; I know they were mostly poorly built, unreliable and...
Eight Facts about the classic Mini that you probably didn’t know Darryl Sleath CarClub 18-30, CarClub 18-30 - The Cars 7 Comments We love these little buggers, even though our rally project is still sitting, a little unloved, under a tarp'. Restoring a rotten one, like ours, is...
BMC Buckboard – The Army reject that became a style icon Darryl Sleath Articles The BMC’s Buckboard was meant to be a feisty little attack terrier – a pintsized British alternative to VW’s Kübelwagen, fashioned from Morris...
