If you have read this month's new issue of MiniWorld magazine, you may have come across editor Karen Drury's foreword: "We welcome Jeroen Booij to the MiniWorld team with the first of his From the Archives articles on significant and unusual Minis. The first article focuses on the Humberstone Design Mini Clubman. One of these Minis was supposedly commissioned for Julie Andrews by husband Blake Edwards, which is really rather cool"
Yes, I am now a MiniWorld contributor and Karen's words do make me feel very welcome. There are some great stories to follow, ones that I've always wanted to write but never found the right outlet for - too long for the Maximum Mini books and -weblog, too specialized for the non-specialist motoring magazines. So it was about time to team up! The Humberstone Mini story is a good example and Karen and the team have taken out no less than 8 pages for it. Another cool feature in the same issue is that of the German-built Broadspeed GT replica. I'd say: buy that magazine to do yourself a little favour for Christmas this year.
