Mini Countryman Woodie MKII Tartan Red mgb The GT was soon dubbed

The GT was soon dubbed the poor man’s Aston Martin and seeing it next to contemporary cars

Built between 1959 until 1967 as a collaboration between Austin and Donald Healey

The Cooper S won the Monte Carlo rally in 1964 with Paddy Hopkirk at the wheel

with red interior trim

Mini Countryman Woodie MKII Tartan Red mgb The GT was soon dubbedThe 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,