Ed Westby

In the P6, P5, Land Rover, and Range Rover, Solihull had a heck of a lot going for it.

YouTube video by Twin-Cam Everything Wrong with my Classic Mini

Everything Wrong with my Classic Mini
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YouTube video by Twin-Cam Everything Wrong with my Classic Mini

Everything Wrong with my Classic Mini
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Morning, actually! That’s why the pub and car park aren’t thriving 😅

Metro is a better car, Mini is cuter and more fun.

We may still be high off the non-catalysed exhaust of Susie, my 1984 Austin Mini, but today we’re returning to earth by discussing all the problems she has. Fortunately, none are major, but this is a taste of what we’re going to fix in the coming months. If you’d like to see it, reply ‘MINI’ below.

I have an incredible desire at the moment to find some money and buy a Range Rover Classic. A Spen King masterpiece.

Thank you kindly 🙂‍↕️

Susie by night. This little Austin Mini may be technically broken, but that sure hasn’t stopped me driving it. Since March, we’ve covered nearly 900 miles, which is more than I’ve done in the E46. We’ll soon sort out the ignition system, but for pootling about on the local lanes, she is a gem.

This weekend, we’re going to be driving Susie, my 1984 Austin Mini, again, this time talking through all the problems she has. Here’s me fettling with and cleaning up her ignition system to make all those pixies travel a little easier. If you’re interested, you can see it now over on my Patreon.

I have to admit that I thought the same when I first got her!

Everybody, meet Susie – my dream car that’s taken a mere 20 years to achieve. She’s a tremendously sweet 1984 Austin Mini with only 2 previous owners, a folder full of history, finished in the gorgeous Opaline Metallic. Happiness is Mini shaped. If you'd like to see the video, then comment 'SUSIE'.

Thanks Rob 🙂

YouTube video by Twin-Cam I Bought My Dream Car... and It Broke Down

If you haven’t already seen little Susie’s debut, then why on earth not? 😉

I Bought My Dream Car... and It Broke Down
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Very chocolate lime indeed!

Though Crofty revealing he doesn't know how to merge in turn on the road. Bad driver.

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Nearly forty years of ownership has produced a history file bigger than the car, and while imperfect, this honey of a motor car is everything I ever dreamed it to be. (7/7)

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...Opaline Green Metallic, the car I’ve christened Susie had only two owners before me, the latter of which bought her as a sensible second hand Mini from her local Austin Rover dealer in 1987. (6/7)

...doing, but within a couple of minutes a follow-up came through that read ‘Bad time to go AWOL. It’s Opaline.’ That weekend, Connor ferried us both 260 miles south to Bournemouth, where I found my 1984 Mini Mayfair. One of the last 10" wheel cars and beaming in its fabulously period... (5/7)

...but not at all one I regret. Metros are phenomenal little things, and my profession, my friends, and my weekends have all been shaped by taking that plunge back in 2017.
In March 2025, however, I received a link via a text from a friend. I thought I'd reply once I'd finished what I was... (4/7)

...at where I’ve ended up? Not me. By the time I’d reached seventeen and was learning to drive, however, a Mini had been plucked from my grasp as they appreciated into collector cars. That’s how I ended up in a Metro; the closest substitute I could find for the car I’d always wanted to own... (3/7)

...enough that they weren’t street furniture, but also common enough that you’d see a couple a week.I was that weird kid who would beam at the sight of one. When in Year 2 at school, we had to produce a project of some kind, and mine was predictably titled ‘The Mini Story’. Who's surprised... (2/7)

My dream car has been achieved.
Even in this funny world we all inhabit of ‘liking cars a bit too much’, some people seem surprised that if I could only have one car for the rest of my life, it would be a teeny tiny Austin Mini. I remember being five- or six-years-old, and Minis being rare... (1/7)

I certainly recognise that cream one!

The Lancia Beta is an Enigma
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Looks phenomenal!

Do you know what another word for lobbying is? Corruption.

Because I’m a big weirdo, my new car is premiering on my tiny 16:9 Trinitron.
Brew a pot of tea and tune in ☺️

YouTube video by Twin-Cam I Bought My Dream Car... and It Broke Down

Three hours to go. Be there at midday 🫵

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My fourth car, and I own three at the moment. I have one Metro. The red one was sold at the end of last year.

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