1970 | Morris Mini Cooper 'S' 1275

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With just the one former registered keeper, ‘WON 615J’ is a fully restored Morris Mini Cooper S, making it a Holy Grail of the Mini Cooper world.

And it gets even better because the seller’s father knew the Mini’s original owner, so the family have been aware of it for the past half-century, so when it became available in 2013, albeit as a restoration project, they knew they had to have it.

His father did the bulk of the work over a 10-year period, and given he won a Best in Show award for a Rolls-Royce he’d previously restored, it’s fair to say he knows how to restore a car to a very high standard.

Which is exactly what this MKIII Mini Cooper S is. Utterly sublime and finished to a nigh-on concours finish, it benefits from the later Mini’s factory wind-down windows, larger doors with concealed hinges, a 130mph speedometer, twin fuel tanks, and a 76bhp 1275cc engine that means it can crack the ton (with a following wind) after passing 60mph in just over ten seconds.

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