Of the 107 Minis that raced at the Mini Festival at Brands Hatch earlier this month, there was one in particular that stood out from the crowd and really inspired. Unlike the variety of ‘saloon’ versions, Nick Paddy’s Mini Van was something completely different.
It was making its race debut at the event and looked resplendent in its ‘tweed grey’ colour scheme. It had turned heads even before it arrived at Brands: the van’s builder, Mini racing supremo Bill Sollis, joked that it had caused chaos on the M25 when travelling to the circuit on an open-sided trailer because motorists were transfixed by it!
