Can you remember back to when you bought your first Mini? It might be only a few weeks ago, or decades ago. What made you want to buy one?

Many moons ago my mother had a Cooper S. One of the first off the production line!! She used to tear around the neighbourhood in it. Then she traded it in on a stock standard Mist Green Deluxe She still regrets that she says, and then in '76 she bought a Clubby. So I guess with Mini's in the family genes I developed an interest. I bought mine 2 years ago, and it was the $500 price tag that got me. I was actually looking for an MGB at the time......

Over to you lot......

i saw an automatic
i can drive automatics
i bought the automatic

oh yeh and i had a looooong hard think about depreciation, intial sick-mayte sports car costs, arrogance, and pulling mortgage money out of my parents and my pocket, the long hard ignorant life of ricers and those who have been swept into Rice Creek who are now are half way up crap Creek, well almost there... theres that hideous wing left to put on
so an old car did me fine, just as long as it runs, i thought the only old car that would suit a 19 yr old kid was a mini!

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Inconspicuously Conspicuous
Appreciation without Depreciation
forever chasing clearer skies...

just split up with ex bitch took me for almost everything i had i was left with 600 dollars and my clothes needed a car cheap and ecconomical so i bought a cheap mini 500 bucks
and i have not looked back since
makka

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Anonymous moderation means the agro that is built up towards the mods isn't aimed at an individual (fewer "Makk" attacks). Less stress for mods means less moderator "retirements".

My mate took me for a ride in his 850 back in 1963 (see my bent Mini thread). After the first corner I was hooked. It only had 5.20x10 crossply tyres on 3.5x10 rims too.
I had to get one. So I bought a S/H 850 with twin carbs off the local dealer at Dural. Local hotshot mechanic had owned and thrashed it, it went like a shell until I busted the crank...!
Then it started... engine upgrades- 850->1056->1098->1220->1275.. Then I fell in love with a Fiat 124S.. I bought it to pull chicks..
The next week I was sorry I sold the Mini....

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

Cause they are cute!

Mate had one in hi school, always liked em, never had the balls to buy one, dad always talked about buying one again, father in law loves them, went to US, saw then doing up mustangs and crap for short course motorkana and thought, man a Mini would rip these US hunks of junk on this course! bought one for cheap, won't stop there...

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Lillee - 1969 Morris Mini K

well it all started like 2 months ago.....saw a couple of minis running around and found them very "adorable" so i ran out and bought myself one in BRG....

it was actually meant to be a gift for my sister who felt in love with that red mini in italian job but has hence has gotten herself a new car and didnt really like the handling on the mini so im stuck with it....=)

right now im looking for the MGB V8 tat i sold couple of years ago...maybe then i'll let my mini go in exchange for the mg

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98 brg rover

SHOCK HORROR! let mini go! Bad Ryan! Bad! *whip*

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Lillee - 1969 Morris Mini K

i guess im attracted to chrome or anything that blinks!...

heee but mgb has always been my first love - i still remember that i spent the night in my mg when i first bought it...then had it converted to a rover v8 plus bare metal respray ...had a power steering thingy installed plus telescopic shocks on all four wheels, custom seats as i was way too short....cant freakin see the road unless i had like a 10inch cushion on the original seat

i treated that mg like a princess n now its time to come back to ur daddy!!!

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98 brg rover

mine was in the genes too, (hmmm.. mini in my jeans.. )
mum owned one when she was a lass and my dad showed me that movie....

turns out my mum had the same year/colour/model as the one i just bought... nice..


i wanted one as my first car, and now... a magna,mazda,nimbus,laser later, i've finally got one.. hmm.. they've gotten smaller and smaller as i've gone on... i guess it's a trojan for me next

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is the trojan for the mini in your jeans????

i was trying to think of a condom related joke when i wrote that, but couldn't


thanks..

but while we giggle....



the biggest collection of trojans barring the bins out the back of a brothel


ah.. that feels better

i'm sure you couldn't get more than 3 greek soldiers in one of them....

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I was selling my Holden Calais POS, and looking for a cheaper smaller car for running to work, and buzzing around town in general. Couldnt find anything with a reasonable price, until my mother spotted the ad in the local rag. Popped around to have a look, and bought it the next day. The only thing I look back on, is all of the broken bits she's left lying on the road.

So far, that would be my Top Engine Steady Bracket. The front end of the exhaust. The front wheel bearings. The Drivers seat squab. The Interior fan, the passenger window winder. The indicator stalk. And finally the rear exhaust mounts, which gave my car that great speedway Demolition Derby look. Might even be one or two more in there somewhere LOL

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"He's always been a dickhead, He always is a dickhead, He will always be a dickhead. So stop complaining when he acts like one."

When I was growing up my Grandmother had a 998 Cooper. Some family members cliam this was the first car I rode in - on the way home from the hospital when I was born. It was traded on a new Torana in 1978!

I grew up watching the Italian Job, but also watching Herbie movies. When I was getting close to my 16th birthday my Grandfather offered to buy me my first car. I wanted a Beetle as my first choice, a Mini as my second. After looking at a lot of Beetles, we could not find a good one. Then my Grandfather found a Mini in the local paper. 1968 Mini Deluxe 998cc - White with Red trim, NSW reg AJR.413. A couple of small rust spots but otherwise immaculate, with just 70,000 miles on the clock and owned by one family from new. He bought it for $1300 and gave it to me. That one started the addiction...

I sold it in 1991 to buy a Gemini and expected never to see it again.

After passing through two owners it has now been restored and is owned by a Mini Car Club of NSW member. So it is good hands anyway!

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Brett Nicholson
Greendale (near Ballan) VIC.
1971 Morris Mini Moke
1966 Austin Mini
1965 Morris Mini Traveller
1973 LR Series 3 88
2007 LR Freelander 2

I remember my first mini. Scarlet O'Hara red. I was driving an apple green Datsun 120Ybother and I spotted the mini and thought back to the days when an old school mate and I used to fang around his back yard in a Clubbie van..
$800 later and I had my first mini... sigh.. I've gone all misty now lol

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You're only supposed to blow WHAT off?

First car Morrie Oxford - from an little old lady who got side swiped by a 10 ton truck - price $50
Second car - Morrie Minor - gearbox blew up 2 hours after delivery.

Dad's advice: "Second hand cars is just buying someone else's problems. Buy a new car son."

Only model new car I could afford was the Leyland Mini. Year was 1976, and I took a shining to the very 70's Hairy Lime green van in the showroom. Stock standard, no money after the credit company had had their pound of flesh, but Brand Spanking New.

Dad was right