Mini Magazine

THE LAST DETAIL

If you want to really appreciate the level of detail that’s gone into Jeff Delve’s Mini, you need to go over it panel by panel and inch by inch. A first glance may not give much away.

True, that blue paint is eyecatching but it will take a while and a much closer look before you really start to understand what’s been achieved here.

The Mini didn’t arrive in the Delve household as part of some master plan to build a show stopper, rather some fond memories of a Mini Clubman owned by Jeff’s wife, Jo, when they first met. “I’ve always wanted a Mini – it was the only car I didn’t get round to owning really. My mates had them and we mosied around in my wife’s one back in the day, and I loved them, I thought they were great little cars. About 11 years ago I was driving along and I saw this one up for sale. It was

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from Mini Magazine

Mini Magazine7 min read
Daft Punk
This Mini isn’t here because it’s perfect. It’s not your archetypal feature car, honed to unimpeachability with every detail minutely scrutinised. The doors could do with repainting to match the body, there’s some creeping surface rust about the nose
Mini Magazine1 min read
Retro Rides Weekender 2023
It was particularly noticeable this year just how massive the Retro Rides Weekender has become. Ever since the first running of the show in 2018 it’s been a diverse and exciting gathering of likeminded souls, but this year the number of cars in atten
Mini Magazine5 min read
Out Of The Blue
If you take a straw poll around the Mini Magazine office to see what everyone’s opinions are of the borderline-retro boyband Blue, you’ll get some mixed responses. Jeff loves them, obviously, because their brand of radio-friendly motherloving beats f

Related