The iconic Mini was celebrated at a day devoted to the car held in the grounds of a Black Country stately home.
From classic Minis to four wheel drive versions – and even a double-ended Mini – there was a host of vehicles on display at Himley Hall, in Dudley. Thousands of fanatics had travelled from across the country for the show staged by the British Mini Club.
And there were Mini traffic jams surrounding Himley Hall yesterday as drivers queued to both display and view the vehicles.
Lorry driver Phil Maine, of Henley-in-Arden, was among those at the show. The 34-year-old was proudly exhibiting his monster wheel Mini which he bought on eBay. He said: “It cost me about £2,500 back in November. I get gobsmacked looks wherever I go in it.”
Stourbridge’s Black Country Wheels Project was also at the show with its double-ended mini.
The car has been built over the last two years by teenagers on the project which has its base on the Gainsborough Trading Estate.
Project leader Jan Lear said: “It can drive forward in both directions in a push me pull me way.”
Teaching assistant Samantha Foster and her partner Phillip Ray, both aged 29, of Willenhall, were showing their Mini Clubman 1979.
The two devote their time to keeping the award-winning car in immaculate condition. The Minis On The Chase club from Cannock were also on the hunt for their third successive Club Stand award with a Mini Monopoly theme.
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Nice write up on the show. Shame your picture only shows new minis though, which, thankfully, are still in the minority at these events. I’d have thought, being a midlands paper, you would have preferred to show pictures of real Minis. Oh well. Thanks for reporting on it so nicely anyway.