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Peel discoveries continue to turn up, this time right from its birthplace: the Isle of Man, where RTV owner and Maximum Mini reader Ian Sims lives. He wrote: "Hi Jeroen. Here are the images that I have of the fibreglass Mini that I mentioned. It was very hard to get to as it has been sat in the orchard for many years and everything over grown. It was never built into a running Mini. I believe this guy had the original mouldings and this was the last one out as it was in the mouldings when he got them. No real evidence of all this but I’m lead to believe it is true."

"The original moulding again I’m told are in a collapsed shed on the same site but I have never been able to get close enough to investigate, although I know the owner but he is a very eccentric man and as you found with Cyril Cannell this man would be aggressive if he didn’t know you. I did try to buy it from the chap (Martin) but he would sell, however that was about 8 years ago. I have been since but i could never find Martin there, he lives like a hermit. The house got so bad he moved into a caravan, this is now uninhabitable so goodness knows where he is living. As you can see this is just a small area of the site, it is like a rubbish tip! All this I have mentioned to the owners of the Isle of man motor museum, obviously they are very interested too."