Just a few days ago, a garden variety right-hand-drive 1964 Mk1 Austin Mini sold at auction for $35,000 on Bring a Trailer. It is a nicely cloned Mk1 Cooper S, but if there's anything that makes me ...
You can trace a straight line from the cramped, fuel conscious streets of postwar Britain to the moment the 1959 Austin Mini Seven rolled into view and quietly rewrote the rules of small car design.