I was quite the opposite a few years ago, but have come to understand it as I have seen a few mini businesses fold. Northern mini parts (for good or for bad, and its just ONE example) had a couple of dozen sliding window doors hanging up upstairs. All gone now.

That along with the sea of individual and more everyday parts have gone for evermore. They may be on a farm in north east Melbourne somewhere, at least what has not gone to the scrap, but all the same I can't just role up at a moments notice any more to get myself out of a bind with a broken mini.









And Winabbey will know the feelings this conjours up...