JD Classics are pleased to announce the recent acquisition of two of the most iconic Mini Cooper S cars from the 1960's; the original factory Demonstrator Broadspeed GT 2+2 registered EOP 89D and the only Factory Works Broadspeed GTS Race Car registered EOP 88D.

Both cars were the brainchild of Ralph Broad, the Birmingham-born saloon car racer and tuner and produced by his company Broadspeed Engineering. Broad's career in the automotive industry began at the early age of 14 when he took over the family garage business after the death of his father. Broad was a confident man with a zest for life so it is unsurprising that he took up racing and was one of the pioneers who first saw the competition potential in the new BMC Mini, securing a class win in his maiden Silverstone race with a Mini in 1959\. His lap times were fast enough to comprehensively demolish the class lap record and the publicity value of such performance was not lost on Broad who soon offered private Mini customers a full race conversion for £340.