Bliss was it to be alive, Greg, and to be young was very heaven....

I recall transporting both him and Nigel Denver from Farnborough to Euston station, in the back of my min-van - both of them three sheets to the wind of course, and hysterical that they were going to miss the sleeper to Glasgow. It says much for the resilience of the mini, and it's road-holding qualities, that the journey was completed to schedule and without incident.