For the first part of his life with me, he was pretty much a go kart. I spent the whole of summer 2006 bombing him round a field, easily the most fun i've ever had.
This kinda leads onto how i named him. Led Zeppelin was the soundtrack of 2006 for me (and the soundtrack of my life to be honest). All i think of when i think of summer 2006, is that Mini Chelsea and "Good Times Bad Times" (First song off Zep's first album).
So after buying him at the age of 12, and having lots of fun with him. The thoughts of restoring him arose in my head. I put him in a stable, and not knowing what i was doing, slowly took him apart (which explains why all of the nuts, bolts and screws are missing!
)Nowadays, he looks like this.
He has since been moved from the stable (as you can see), into an open fronted barn. (The stable was too damn dark to see anything, and there wasnt a huge amount of room!).
The original plans where to retro this Mini up. But after thinking long and hard about that, i've decided originality is the way to go.
Someone once told me way back, that they had contacted the dvla at one point, to ask how many where left (he'd done this around 2003/4 time) he said that when he asked, they came back with the figure that there where about 500 left (out of the 1500 production run). So this is another reason to go back to original, there cant be many left now at all! so all the posts you see of me planning things, now mean nothing. Its' original now, retro is happening to the mayfair
Many thanks for reading!
Jono.
Edited by Knebworth 79, 05 August 2009 - 02:01 AM.
