1962-67 Mini Countryman Island Blue mgb Tommy Sopwith and Roy Salvadori

Tommy Sopwith and Roy Salvadori

regulations permitted the use of 'special bodies'

The car sold for £7

As you’d expect

Nevertheless

1962-67 Mini Countryman Island Blue mgb Tommy Sopwith and Roy SalvadoriThe Mini was arguably the most influential British car of the 20th century. Designed by Sir Alec Issigonis and launched in 1959, the mini was in production for over 40 years. In the wake of the Suez crisis in 1956, the market for German bubble cars increased dramatically but Leonard Lord, the head of the British Motor Corporation, hated them so much he laid down the basic specification for the Mini. Over the many years that the car was in production,