Yep.....me too Smokey, unfortunately though, I got a bit squashed in my first Mini back in the '70's, but at least I survived to "wave" another day.

BTW, saw a great bumper sticker some time back and I just gotta get one, "I'd rather be an old fart than a young dickhead".............Yessss, that's the one for me

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On reflection, my reply may have been a bit hasty. I will wave at someone who waves at me if they are complementing my car - I waved at a guy in a Lancer who gave me a thumbs up last week.

I wouldn't wave to a BINI driver I didn't know, unless I believed they were complimenting my car and respecting it, just like that Lancer driver. But if some try-hard is trying to identify my car with their BMW copycat rubbish, I'm not interested.

(I'll stop now before I start ranting!)

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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

Nar but its just a general thing that i've noticed.
These drivers are usually the ones that have owned the car since brand new, and don't think of ever doing something like this.
They are the ones that don't know how to use computers or mobile phones.
They don't communicate with other mini owners, as they are not true ENTHUSIASTS

Interesting......so you're saying you can interpret human motives through hand movement?? That's a pretty serious talent.

Ever think that maybe that BINI driving chick wanted to wave to YOU?

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72 Clubman and a 75 Van.

I dont really feel any particular affinity or affection to BINI drivers and so dont care if they wave or don't. Plus I live at Coogee, work around the Cross and Paddington (no I don't walk the streets) and go to Uni with heaps of students from Asian conntries and the North Shore so if I waived or expected a waive from every BINI I see my arms would fall off. BINIs and Audi TTs seem to be the real Volkes Wagens of the decade.

yes omg
now thats one fine lookin min owner

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Nigel Morton/ Team Brickworx
never late in a 998

Binis don't wave at me and I don't wave at them.
Minis don't wave at me and I don't wave at them.

That is what you get when you drive a Morris 1100.

Riley Elfs wave though! Must be the taillights.

poki is a ok sorta bini owner .... for a sheila
i have had bini owners come up all smiles like hey cool car what ya think of my ubber wagon .... i just smile and think to myself ya just dont know what ya missin
makka

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No. Because she did not wave at me when she drove a new beetle and I was driving the Mini. Plus she does not wave at me when I'm driving the Jackaroo. So in her particular case, its obvious.

The fact that she drives 3" from my back bumper in either car at any speed, and has held me up at green lights while doing her makeup in the mirror does not endear me to her either.

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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 wave at Mini but not bini. (notice capitalistaion???)

but i wave at anyone who waves at me, i'm assuming they are complimenting the car or think it is awesome or something.
but i never EVER initate the wave at a bini

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78 Leyland Mini - Prince

I get people I dont know waving at my mini........and they arent even in cars....and i get thumbs up

Yet to get a wave from another car/mini/bini.

THATS MY SISTER!

Heh... you're kidding right?

just kidding...

anyway i have found that most of the BMW mini drivers wave to me and i wave back, but maybe thats just because i live in a more rural area ?

I get the same thing from people walking on the side of the road - waving and the thumbs up. In defence of the bini, there is a black one in the suburb I live in(full of well-to-do's,,,), a cooper s and he and she wave every time we see each other - maybe they had a common garden variety Mini in a past life...lol

It is all a big keeping up appearances amongst the majority of the bini owner frat, but it is heartening to see some of them recognising their cars lineage(even though i am a lowly clubby driver!!)

I am not worthy!!!!

Rob Forsyth
Miniot!!

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Rob Forsyth
Miniot!!