LIMITED APPEAL

When Peter Demetriou went looking for a Mini, he had some very specific ideas in mind. “I wanted one with 10 inch wheels, ideally something like Dunlop D1s and a centre clock dash,” he explains. He wasn’t looking for anything particularly rare or unusual, simply a car that would help him reconnect with the Minis he had owned in his youth. “I’ve always had Minis since the 80s – I saw the Italian Job and that was it for me. My brother-in-law had owned a grey MkI which I loved. One day he told me it had to go, I didn’t understand why until he lifted the front mats and you could see the tarmac under the car…”

“His next car was a 1275GT, black with the gold stripes, Wolfrace wheels, Weber carb, big valve head. At the time, I