https://a473.info 2025-04-30 daily 1.0 https://a473.info/assets/images/image02.jpg https://a473.info/assets/images/image01.jpg https://a473.info/assets/images/gallery01/8204569e.jpg A473 HDX sees daylight for the first time in years, as it is liberated from a garage on the Norfolk broads - ready for its journey back to Cambridgeshire. https://a473.info/assets/images/gallery01/116d5a0d.jpg February 2019 and the Mini lands at home. https://a473.info/assets/images/gallery01/f8e940c7.jpg Our story of the Mini re-joining the family made National, Regional and Local Press, TV and Radio. https://a473.info/assets/images/gallery01/74367698.jpg One of the most evocative images of the restoration. At times, it was stressful! https://a473.info/assets/images/gallery01/b14a1839.jpg Looking sorry for itself whilst the wheels were having new tyres fitted. https://a473.info/assets/images/gallery01/6f8ea46e.jpg Working on the car whenever possible, we were able to get it roadworthy within just three months. 24 hours after passing its first MOT for 21 years, it was pressed into the Ipswich to Felixstowe Rally 2019. Here's the car, posing on the prom. https://a473.info/assets/images/gallery01/53887149.jpg Back in Felixstowe for the first time in 25 years. https://a473.info/assets/images/gallery01/03b78b3a.jpg Summer 2019 was spent touring various classic car shows and events. Pictured here at Festival of the Unexceptional in Buckinghamshire. https://a473.info/assets/images/gallery01/75c3607d.jpg When COVID arrived, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to begin the necessary repairs to the car. Not wanting a garage queen or full restoration, a sympathetic renovation began. https://a473.info/assets/images/gallery01/bbacc8e4.jpg When COVID arrived, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to begin the necessary repairs to the car. Not wanting a garage queen or full restoration, a sympathetic renovation began. https://a473.info/assets/images/gallery01/b4e72524.jpg After a long wait for repairs to be completed, in Summer 2024 the Mini returned home - pictured here with the fourth generation of family to call it Bessie. https://a473.info/assets/images/gallery01/dbec230a.jpg Spring 2025, and the final touches are yet to appear. Photographed here in glorious Bedfordshire sunshine without sill trims or decals.