March 2021
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Categories: Mini Servicing & Services at Mini Sport
Detailing Your Mini!
Our next blog on ‘Home Servicing’ can be undertaken by ANYONE, no matter your level of Mini expertise! Get your Mini concourse ready by washing and polishing your Mini – all it takes is a decent detailing kit, and a little elbow grease of course! You could even get your kids involved (same household of course) as a much-needed break... -
Back in March 2016, we were tasked with a restoration on quite a special Mini indeed... Alex Munday's 1996 John Cooper Works Mini Cooper S, an original from the John Cooper Garages, production number 79, and allegedly previously owned by British rally driver, Alistair McRae! When following his life-long love of Mini's Alex purchased this Cooper for family adventures, it came as a...
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Categories: Mini Sport News
50 Years of Mini Sport
The seeds of what would become Mini Sport were sown not long after the Mini itself was launched, when in 1961 Brian Harper – at the time working in the family bus and truck business – acquired a brand new Tartan Red Mini 850. After using the Mini for everything from commuting to hill climbing and rallying, Brian realised the car’s... -
This Mini arrived with us in 2020 for a full restoration & had changed dramatically since new, change of paint work & interior, it was in a pretty poor state all round... It was quickly decided that a new Genuine British Motor Heritage Body Shell was needed due to the sorry state of the body. The Mini was to return...
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Our next project is getting underway here at Mini Sport this week... We are joined by one of the last ever Mini Cooper 500's! A new purchase to Alex, only collecting his Mini Cooper this week, no time is being wasted! Our very excited customer is already going all out to get this beauty ready for Summer! Thinking ahead...