THIS OLD MINI I BOUGHT WITH A VERY LOW 30,000 MILES ON THE CLOCK
THE FRONT PANELS WERE VERY ROTTED FROM SITTING AROUND IN THE CARPORT.
THE PANELS WERE REPLACED WITH NEW FIBREGLASS PANELS
THE SILLS WERE REPAIRED
THE CHROME WAS GIVEN A VERY GOOD CLEANING IN MY DISHWASHER! 
THEN THE BRAND NEW PANELS WERE RESPRAYED ALONG WITH THE ENTIRE CAR.
WHEN MY BELOVED MINI WAS RETURNED TO ME, IT LOOKED LIKE A BRAND NEW MINI STRAIGHT OUT OF THE SHOWROOM!
I paid a visit to a local mini breakers yard, when they saw the condition of this old mini, the owner of the scrap yard started shifting through a huge pile of jumble.
Proudly he found four ancient old hub caps off an original mini. He gave them to me as a present for my newly fibreglassed and resprayed red mini!
FOR THE LOVE OF A MINI ON A MISSION
This mini belonged to a young lady who had inherited it from her father. Alas she was not confident with driving and sold it to me.
I resold it on a few years later to a young couple who were aiming to drive across Europe in her!