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Who has a Mini as their Daily Driver?
I have a Mini which I use as a Daily Driver 53%  53%  [ 32 ]
My Mini isn't my Daily Driver 27%  27%  [ 16 ]
My Mini isn't on the road 18%  18%  [ 11 ]
I don't have a Mini and i'm sad 2%  2%  [ 1 ]
Total votes : 60
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 3:08 pm 
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every day

trying to get a few motorbike days in before summer is over though.. hence not driving it today

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 3:21 pm 
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Coming up to 33 years daily driver in November, still on first issued number plates. :D
However needs some work on the body now, which is what I am learning at tafe this semester. Teacher is a crusty old school panel beater and is showing us how to actually manufacture a panel or part thereof from scratch, lead wiping, how and when to apply modern "bog", proper paint preparation using the latest two pac paints and structural welding.
His informal talks on how to recognise impact sites, structural damage and dodgy workmanship are priceless. Needless to say tafe are stuffing him around with "rationalisation" and he's thinking of retiring, what a waste :cry:

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My Moke is my run around car but don't use it everyday. Good for zipping around town when needed...


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what sort of tafe course is this??

id like to do something like that after hours

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my pano was a daily, then my flippy was a daily.

now i don't have a mini. :cry:


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NAV is a daily grinder 4 me at the moment. But when the missus joins me in brissie we'll both drive him and the other fat thing.
It's been a while since something has gone bang so i'm waiting for it.

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One is a daily drive about 80k's round trip
The other will be completed by Aug/Sep

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voted off the road, but it will be a daily driver after its registered... when/IF it gets through licensing.... which will be ssoooon ;)

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Garry my 1992 Rover Cooper gets driven to work 3 oout of 4 weeks (he doesn't like it though). So I'm planningon resting him a bit & registering a cheap clubbie.


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PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 6:51 pm 
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yep viv is the daily (well shes been out of work for
the past two weeks so she will be back to normal next week som
time (Stanmore to parra everyday) and boy have i missed driving a mini everyday.....
new cars are overrated, boring and hopeless in traffic
(i have been driving the folks commodore!!!!)

bring on the daily driver minis!!!!!!!!
plus then i can honk and wave when i pass Gafmo's
wife in traffic on parra rd on my way to uni and her way
to work!!!!


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PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 7:09 pm 
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Charlotte is a daily driver but crap keeps on breaking so she comes off the road for a few days every month.

Brakes sidelined her for 3mths
Stuffed front drive flanges took 2mths
Starter motor/solenoid took about 3 weeks to sort out
lastest drama is me stripping the rear wheel hub locking nut.

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 5:39 am 
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Dorothy (62 Saxon green 850) was daily driver for 18 000 miles after full restoration before she went on club plates
Queenie (64 Austin super deluxe 850) was daily driver for the following year before going onto club plates
Austin 1800 and morris 1100S where daily drivers untill we got Elfis (66 MKII Riley Elf)
Elf is my Current daily driver 1800 sold 1100 being sold Austin super deluxe is going back on full rego untill mini K van finished.

I live totally in a Issigonis world

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Mini-Ha-Ha was a daily driver until I `retired' from Rheem.
Now I just work 3 days a week, down the road, so take the POS EA Ford instead. But he gets a run every couple of days.

Barney is a garage queen at the moment, he may become the wife's daily driver soon.

Son's `78 Clubbie... still off the road for body repairs, then we'll have the hassle of registering him with a `74 motor in.. and Honda discs..:cry:
Might have to transplant Barney's old motor in there! It's got the `approved' engine number prefix... :!:

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mutant mini wrote:
We have five minis all up:

Mini K 1970 Van - Not registered at the moment. Very, very standard.

Rover Mini Cooper 1.3spi 1993 - My daily driver

Rover Mini Cooper 1.3spi 1994 - My husbands daily driver (around 110kms per day round trip to work)

1968 Mini Deluxe - Registered but not used very often

1973 Mk 3 Mini 1000 UK Import (mutant) - Registered but not driven every day. Shows, club events usually.


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PostPosted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 12:04 pm 
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yeah i have only owned minis so they have all been my daily racer :)


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