The Classics Mini Club.

We exist to share our passion, our problems and the history plus the future of our classic cars..

The Classics has existed since 2017 and provides an interesting calendar inclusive of all Mini drivers and Classic Cars, covering a wide variety of social, community development and mildly competitive events, allowing members many opportunities to enjoy using their vehicles in good company. .

actively promotes events that provide interest for partners too, including regular club meetings. Social life continues throughout the year with monthly gathering, giving members the chance to continue contact, form new friendships and assist each other with knowledge, wisdom and parts.

Once or twice a year there are weekends away and we join other Car Clubs for events and Car shows. We also have the occasional continental "Kak Praat Session"..

History of the Mini

The Creator

The Mini's creator, the late, great Sir Alec Issigonis, was a genius. The Mini was entirely his work and not the work of a whole team as happens today. He designed the Mini to be a small, cheap, economic wee car with safe handling...little did he know that the car would go on for 40 historic years. He had a marvellous ability to visualise the completed car during its design stages. There are many examples of this, such as the one where an engineer asked him what size to make the wheels. Issigonis held his hands apart and said "this big"...the engineer measured the distance between his hands - 10 inches.

The Plans

and made the wheels exactly that size! Casual sketches made my Issigonis could almost be used as blueprints by the engineers assembling the first prototypes. He called himself "The Ironmonger" because he preferred to be hands-on rather than paper-based. "Market research is bunk" he said..."the public don't know what they want, it is my job to tell them". with more than 5.25 million Minis produced, who can argue?Sir Alec designed many other successful cars including the legendary Morris Minor and Austin 1100/1300 range.