I offered a standing $10k well over a year ago but that wasn't enough. Now I have no money left and 3 mini shells in the garage.

Hanra solve all your problems at once. Move south! Away from the "original inhabitants" and the bogan locals who think a big car says you're a man.

I have a standing rule that has come from observation on several continents: The hotter the climate, the nuttier the locals.
People from Canada are nice, those from Louisiana - nuts.
People from Sweden are nice, those from Iraq - nuts.
People from Chile are nice, those from Mexico - nuts.

In Qld:
Brisbane - Borderline
Rocky - Not quite right
Townsville - Odd (why live in a desert surrounded by an oasis?)
Cairns - Nutty as

So, you want to have a feature wall, you want to do interior decorating, you want to have a mini, you're single. Get a place in New Farm! You'll have way more cred than you need.

M

I probably shouldnt of been so greedy back then...

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http://www.youtube.com/user/Hanras

Send me a PM and let know what it would take now

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"I'm sorry, but a lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part!"

The other way to think about it is that I don't drive a mini to please anyone else. I drive it because I like driving it and working on it - I don't care if my friends tell me to buy a real car etc.

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"In two years time your car will be like a lady's clothes, out of date, my car will still be in fashion when I am dead" - Sir Alec speaking to Pininfarina

I just think my tastes have changed now that Im older (much like all these punk kids will find later on in regards to there tattoo covered bodies). I was 14 or 15 when I became interested in Mini's and bought this thing when I was 16 going 17.

Maybe in some ways its like one chapter of life ending? Time to get to work on something else and gain more knowledge.

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i can understand that, but i always plan on having a mini, even if its tucked away somewhere not being driven.

I can sympathise Hanra. Interest in Minis can come and go for some people. I'm one of them.

I had a Mini for about 18 months as a first car. I really liked it, but I felt like nobody else did. This was an era when a really nice non-Cooper Mini was worth $2000. My mates had faster/bigger/better cars. I started to get frustrated with my Mini. So I bought a "cool" Gemini and I was part of the crowd.

It took five years and then it happened. I wanted a Mini again, desperately! So I did up a van and was happy with that for another six or seven years.

Eventually my eyes wandered again. I sold the van and chased another dream, my Corona Coupe.

Now almost five years after I sold the van I'm thinking of selling the Corona. Why sell it after going to so much trouble to get it and so much expense to restore it? Because I want to do up the Traveller I've had in storage for almost ten years. I want a nice Mini (as well as the Moke) to drive around in again. So I guess I'm on my third cycle of this Mini-love.

We've see this happen before on this very forum. People sell up, bugger off and do something different. Then they reappear years later looking for a Mini again.

I reckon you might be the same. If you sell it now, you will probably be back in five years or so.

In the end, it's your car and your choice.

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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 still want it so put off selling it for another 6-9 months when my cash situation isn't as rooted.

I'll turn the blue shell into an Nb car and yours can be my road car. Perfect! In a few years time the purple (originally camino gold) shell can be built up with my boy as his car.

M

you should just boost it, it will get you that fun mini power you want.

you could have a very nice fast mini.

you don't drive it every day anyways.

i guess if you have worked on it so much you can get over it.

f it was me & i had the money and it was my toy car i would boost it.

First thing you need to do is REMOVE IT FROM ITS BUBBLE. Then you you will find it so much more accesable and you will want to drive it.

In another words you feel like you're lacking something.....something a little personal.... perhaps?
Just go and get your self the XB you've always wanted and after a year or two after the V8 wankers thrill is gone, you'll be like everyone else......regretting you sold the little red car.

people tastes change, but like others have said, how can you enjoy it when its in a bubble. i know you've spent heaps on it but minis are meant to be driven and enjoyed. you wont get anywhere near what you want for it though - its just the way it is.

You won't properly appriciate it or truely miss it until it's gone for a little while.

Sell it. Then in a few yesrs you'll miss it, buy another and never sell it.

Your 'tastes' I doubt have changed, just looking for that little 'experiment'.

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I have a friend who has in the past 15 years owned 5 or 6 different cars including a mini, HQ with 351, an old chev truck with 454, a GT falcon. He would buy one because the other one just wasn't fun to drive, no street cred, got over it. The thing is, he kept all of them covered up in the back shed and never got them out.

Cars are meant to be driven. They are not enjoyable if you just wrap them up and put them away.

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Ryan Filippi
Minis In The Gong
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www.minisinthegong.com.au

It'll be best to sell it Hanra.
Get rid of it.
Sell it on to someone that'll treat it right and drive the thing how it's meant to be driven.
Someone who'd throw that carcoon to the shizenhousen and wont be scared to get a bit of road grime on it.
You've had it too long, you've lost interest in it, you don't need it anymore.
Go out and get your v8 taxi and be forever happy in your new boring mainstream image.

Happy motoring.

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'72 English Van...'72 Export Moke ...63' 850...KZ 750E1...'74 P76

Sell it. Buy a mini you're not afraid to get wet/drive/use normally. Maybe you would appreciate it more if you're not too anal to actually use the damn thing.

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tim
68 Deluxe 1293, HIF44, megajolt/EDIS4, daihatsu alternator..

'a mini is for life, not just for christmas!'