“I’ve always wanted one, when I moved to Nelson I bought one and in the same week I ended up buying my house and I had to sell it to pay for the kitchen,” he said. Elmsly was determined to by another one and when the couple saw a bronze 1978 Mini Clubman come up for sale two years ago, they jumped at the chance to buy it.
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The couple met through the Minis In Nelson Inc. (M.I.N.I.) club and now own three Minis between them. They bought the car from a woman in Hastings, whose late husband had been restoring it with the dream of taking it to a Mini Nationals and on the Pork Pie Charity Run.