A rare timewarp Mk1 Mini sold at a UK auction at the weekend for a staggering £52,875, having been kept by the last owner for 57 years and not driven for over three decades.
The low-mileage 1965 Cooper S ‘1071’, finished in a rare Almond Green paint, went to the block having spent the last 34 years in a garden shed in the midlands.
In the year it was produced, the Mini would have set buyers back £778. When the