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[Warren t claim]

I think history is being kind to the Mini.

I kept a 1978 S Reg example as a pool car for whatever lucky* lady I was going out with at the time back in 1992/3 and it was an uphill battle to keep up with the welding and brake cylinders. Oddly enough the subframe was decent due to the constant coating of oil caused by me leaving a leaky can of 20/50 in the boot. 10" wheels meant that it drove well enough with a flat tyre though. I'm sure I've said either on here or the vanilla that I owned a 1972 VW camper and a 3.9 Range Rover at the same time and I used the Range Rover more than the camper because it was more economical? Well, the Mini was far more thirsty than the 1982 Escort RS1600i I owned at the same time.

[mercrocker]

I kept a gallon can in my Mini boot. Not for oil - to ensure I had a receptacle for the inevitable trudge to the nearest garage every time the laughable flickering gauge and legendary* fuel consumption caught me out. A fume-filled empty metal can. Just the thing you want to fall across the battery terminals and explode. We were very jittery in the IRA 1970s......

Needless to say, the recycled egg-boxes they made the battery cover out of had long since dessicated itself.

[Warren t claim]

I do love the shade of blue used for the main beam warning light though.

[Hooli]

We had a tweaked Minivan when I was a kid, dad had rebuild it rather like the road rally Minis he used to do. It'd accelerate to 'E'.

[DodgeRover]

As if an automatic Harvest Gold Mini wasn't enough of a rarity, some cunt would do a manual conversion, as if there were a shortage of manual cars. Give me strength.

What about cutting the body off and putting it on the bottom half of a golf to make it safe* to drive in modern traffic

[Hooli]

Automatic or manual Golf?

[Drum]

Minis are worse than series Land Rovers for having dodgy IDs. You'd want to know what you're looking at before splashing £x000 on one.

My mum had a '64 mini estate (not the one with bits of wood). Be worth a bob of two now, although it was a rotbox 35 years ago.

[mercrocker]

I swept the last Mini I owned out of one of my garages over 15 years ago. It had a V5, two new subframes and not much else. The reg. no is now on a green Morris instead of the maroon Austin project that I sold. I alluded to the Mini resto brigade elsewhere on here recently - I have yet to meet one who is not above ring-a-dinging. I don't think it is necessarily always fraudulent in the criminal sense - rather that they don't give a shit despite banging on about motoring "history".

[64A60]

Highline!



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[Warren t claim]

I know these were the worst made Powervalves but I'd still love it even at £4500.

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