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Ride It Like You Stole It!
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The Mini and MINI thread
- Thread starter Drago
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Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
It's quick, handles well, better even than the petrol version due to lower CoG. Regenerative braking can be fierce but can be adjusted. Cramped for someone my size so wouldn't be any use as a daily for me.
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
The only pic I could find, taken shortly after I bought it in late 1994. Sorry the quality is crap, because it's taken by my dad with a 110 film camera, and he couldn't take pics for toffee...
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Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Call me old fashioned, but are you not supposed to be inside the car whilst driving it?
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
Our friends in Vancouver drove us in their restored 1960's Mini from their home to the car park of Mountain Equipment Co-op, a big outdoor camping/hiking/climbing shop. The Mini slotted into a canyon between two huge Macho Man 6 litre Turbo pickup trucks.
Half a dozen people came to marvel at the tiny specimen, and ask the owner about it.
Half a dozen people came to marvel at the tiny specimen, and ask the owner about it.
dicko
Guru
- Location
- Derbyshire
I have owned four proper Minis two 850’s and two 998’s. My first in 1968 our last in 1998. We bought a second hand 2007 BMW MINI from a MINI dealer it was total rubbish. It was forever going back, steering loss, camshaft sensor etc silly things that were fixed by the dealer. Got rid of it asap bought a 2012 Ford Ka 1200 and it’s the best car we have ever owned for eleven years now. Never buy a car without a spare wheel.
I had a 1970's Mini Countryman in.. Errr.. The 1970's.
You used to be advised to put a Marigold (other brands of washing up gloves were available) over the distributior car to stop it getting wet. It had wood, as did I in those days.
I used to grow mustard & cress in the side rear windows as they always jammed up when the runners swelled so I thought I'd grow a snack.
You used to be advised to put a Marigold (other brands of washing up gloves were available) over the distributior car to stop it getting wet. It had wood, as did I in those days.
I used to grow mustard & cress in the side rear windows as they always jammed up when the runners swelled so I thought I'd grow a snack.
Sadly, that is just a stock photo, not my actual car. I must have pics of mine, somewhere, if only I could find them.
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Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Have you seen the prices of restored Mini's, £20k some of them.
Even Mrs D's new one cost me 38 large. The BMW dealer isn't used to people actually buying cars and couldn't take more than 15 grand a day from a customer on bank transfer, so I had to pay over 3 days.
Fortunately the JCW toy is being bought from a friend and is rather cheaper, will leave me with a few shekels to buy some crusts and gruel.
Going back to the original Mini, one of the funniest pursuits I was involved in as a copper was chasing one that suddenly accelerated away from me like the Millenium Falcon going into hyperspace. The S60R's we were using at the time were no milk floats, but it was like I had the handbrake on. We caught the guy at home a few days later and the rear engined, 600BHP tune volvo 5 cylinder turbo conversion turned out to be the source of the almost comic book levels of thrust. Far better than dilithium crystals it would seem.
Jody
Stubborn git
I did wonder why it was a LHD
Jameshow
Veteran
You'll need the cas at the petrol pumps going by a MCS!
Wow a 600bhp mini, wouldn't mind a V70r!
