Mini Magazine

Variety is the spice of life, or so the old saying goes. And given that we’re all still ploughing through a relentlessly chilly winter, this month’s Mini Magazine offers as spicy a stew as we can muster to warm everybody’s cockles. Ingredients herein are chunky and nourishing, with perhaps the most piquant being our cover star: Jake Lockett’s Clubman. Conceived in a café racer style, this is a show-stopping build brimming with ingenuity and youthful energy. Elsewhere in the mag we have a second appearance for Jay Cobbold’s project, reinvented with a colourful Garfield twist. We’ve got a fabulous restoration on p.52 of a Morris Cooper that was thought to be beyond saving – its impeccable finish today gives us all hope! Neatly counterbalancing that we have a couple of…

restore • modify • enjoy mini magazine ■ ISSUE: 337 Kelsey Media, 5 Yalding Hill, Downs Court, Yalding, Kent, ME18 6AL ■ EMAIL: minimag.ed@kelsey.co.uk ■ FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/minimagazine EDITORIAL ■ EDITOR: Daniel Bevis Email: daniel.bevis@kelsey.co.uk ■ ART EDITOR: John McAllister Email: hijohnmac@yahoo.com REGULAR CONTRIBUTORS Adrian Brannan, Jon Cass, Jason Dodd, Jeff Ruggles, Tim Harber, Martyn Collins, Nigel Death, Andy Saunders, Ian Shaw ADVERTISING Ad Manager: Robin Dean Tel 01732 445328 Email: robin.dean@talkmediasales.co.uk PRODUCTION Production Executive: Katie Hollands Tel 01732 445325 Email: production@talkmediasales.co.uk MANAGEMENT Chief Operating Officer: Phil Weeden Retail Director: Steve Brown Audience Development Manager: Andy Cotton Brand Marketing Managers: Debra Hagger & Nikolas Lovely Events Manager: Kat Chappel Print Production Manager: Georgina Harris Print Production Controller: Kelly Orriss Subscription Marketing Director: Gill Lambert Subscription Marketing Manager: Rochelle Gyer-Smith SUBSCRIPTIONS 12…

As many of us do, we remember the cars we used to have fun in back when we were in our early twenties, and this is what happened to 59-year-old Chris Jones back in 2011 when he decided one car he would have liked at the time was a Mini. The search started by scouring the internet, followed by viewing a few. It was soon decided that the ones Chris was considering had been restored to some level, but not the level he would have expected for the price, and they seemed just a little too expensive for what they were. This led to the idea of buying a project Mini, and it was a friend of Chris’s son Nick who came up trumps with a potential car. A visit…

■ Held at the charming Pentewan Sands Holiday Park, the Cornish Mini Club’s flagship event – the Riviera Run – is coming back with a bang this year. With an action-packed programme of events running across the weekend of 29th April-1st May, you can expect to see live music in the bar with a fourpiece band playing on Saturday night, as well as a show-and-shine, soundoffs, engine tuning, and drive-outs through the picturesque local scenery. Booking is now open for camping slots and static caravan accommodation; you can find all the info you need on the website: cmcrivierarun.co.uk…

Great Northern Classics (GNC), due to open in summer 2023, is set to offer an exciting and diverse new automotive destination for motoring enthusiasts. Based at the former Victoria Ironworks foundry in Derby, this is a specialist hub for the classic vehicle industry, providing workshops for businesses in the sector as well as presenting a calendar of enthusiast-led events. The site will bring together thirty specialist restoration and fabrication companies, with a visitor centre and event space that will cater to the curious as much as customers – with attractions including a wire frame of Thrust SSC. Shaun Matthews, founder of GNC has, inspired by his own career journey, placed apprenticeships at the heart of the site with resident businesses contributing to a not-for-profit training school that promises to hone…

■ Bicester Heritage’s popular Scramble events raised £20,691 for their charity partner StarterMotor during 2022, the charity’s largest donation to date. Based at Bicester Heritage, StarterMotor aims to put the next generation in the driving seat, and is a firm favourite at the Scramble events, offering rides around the site to young enthusiasts and their families in cars from their fleet. The donation will provide valuable funds to StarterMotor, who have an action-packed calendar of career awareness days, representation at classic car events and work experience opportunities lined up. 2022 was a busy year for the charity, having sent a team to Shelsley Walsh in April and with four Ambassadors driving two cars for the London-to-Brighton Veteran Car Run in November, with numerous adventures in-between. In October, the charity welcomed…