Wood & Pickett Mini history

This Margrave Mini was originally purchased from Wood & Pickett's Park Royal outlet in the mid-seventies by Bernard Argent, who was an extremely well known society photographer and his then wife Sally, who was part of the McAlpine family, the road and civil engineering family company. The story goes that Bernard and Sally went to Wood & Pickett to have their own Mini commissioned, whilst looking around at Park Royal they saw this car under a tarpaulin. They enquired as to what was under the cover and to their amazement was this Margrave Mini. Then the car was purchased there.

The Margrave Mini is based on a 1275 GT, with fully de-seamed body, twin headlamps, full leather interior, smoked glass, electric windows, electric flush fitted sun roof, twin tanks, and Margrave Walnut dash. The present British owner bought this car from the family (via Wood & Pickett) and loves it!