Well last night Queenie's fuel pump decided it didnt want to pump anymore about a kilometre from home. Being a kilometre from home it wasnt worth calling the RAA plus I didnt have my mobile on me. So had no option other to push her home.

I am glad I dont own a big heavy V8 muscle car because even the mini gets pretty heavy after about 500metres.

I know Matt (sswanab) pushed a mini for two kilometres across the Hay Plains before giving up due to a stuffed water pump.

What marathon pushes have you performed in your years of mini / classic car ownership?

Cheers
Matt

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WB Statesman around a block - no power steering, one person = bloooooooooooody heavy!

points failed in the mini at the summernats. had to push it up the hill from natex to my uncles place at kaleen. lucky there were two of us. not sure how far that actually is, but it seems a long way now....

cheers
michael

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66 Mini Minor sponsored by http://www.lifeonthehedge.com.au/ The Dog Harness Specialists
It was a pleasure ausmini. I'll miss all you misfits and reprobates

minis are great and easy to push gotta love em

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Not so much a distance thing, but as an apprentice I couldn't afford much so when the starter motor let go I relied on push starts for about 6-8 months. This combined with wipers that didn't work made for interesting conversation after 'pickin up'...My favourite answer being - I left the crank handle at home this morning!

Daniel

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weni first got my mini i cldnt get it into reverse so for a few months id just ope the door and use my foot

my old navara ute ran outta of fuel once and i had to push it around 500 metres that wasnt fun as the car weighs nearly 2 tonne

ive pushed the mini for probly 2 or 3 ks from oakhurst to rooty hill wen i kept blowong fuses

cheers bob

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1978 NUGGET GOLD 1275 LS

You could have used a start for a while, probably not good for the start but if you have a plug spanner, you could have removed the plugs (so it doesn't compress) and gone from their.

My solinoid to starter cable decided, on friday that the nut holding it would come lose and the cable would touch the oil cooler and jam in there so it couldn't be moved.

I had to push start at the fuel station, got help from some guy who kept telling me about his mate who has the SC12 kit in a Morris Minor, not a Mini he reckons.

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1964 Morris 850, 1330 Supercharged - 81.8hp atws.
1975 Leyland Mini S 1100S powered - Nice and reliable.
1977 Leyland Mini LS - Project LS-T

I used to like to "play" in the forests around Canberra in my younger days... and once had the electric fuel pump fail... no co-ercion would get it to go again.... and these were the days before mobile phones.....

Luckily I had a 1ltr empty oil container - and using the breather hose off the fuel tank was able to siphon out fuel into the oil container. I then manually poured fuel into the float chambers (twin SUs) drive for a km or so - stop - top it up again....repeat many times... eventually made it back to civilization - and a phone box !

Have also had the experience of dropping off a femle friend after a night out.... then having to go back and have her push start the mini .. (No offer to stay the night )

Otherwise had a faulty car alarm "immobilse" my CRX on the Hume Hwy at 2am... pushed it 2km to the Maraluan servo - as no way was I going to leave at the side of the highway... looks pretty flat until you are pushing a car !!

my late uncle who lived at Largs bay on the esplanade restored a Rover 90. We tried to push it out of his yard (mostly sand) & six of us couldn't budge it. That's when I decided the only british car to own was a Mini

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1967 Cooper S - new front bearings to do.
1965 Cooper S shell - Slow progress. No time or money!
1966 Deluxe- next rustoration!
Mk 2 & XJ6 Jags. Less said the better.

i had a old mini austin 850 flash paint and it looked real good but the engine had a small over heating problem out in the middle of no where my brother was droping me and the chick i was going out with at the time, off at her place on a farm we were about 5-7 kms away from her house and just as we were going over a real huge hill the unthinkable happen steam started pissing out the bonnent (remember im in new zealand so theres millions of hills and corners) so we pilled over and started rolling it down the hill,and we all tock turns pushing this mini to my girls house after about 1 hour we got there we toped it up with water and gave it a reast then my brother started off home it was so imbarsing as i was only going out with her for a mouth.

i towed the mini 2 days ago, lucky i had a quad bike

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A mate and I were in his ute. It coughed and spluttered ran out of fuel. We pushed it for 300 Mts to the top of the hill - a servo at the bottom - just past a set of stop lights.

We had to time the lights correctly, to get down the hill and across the lights - and wheel into the servo - much to the amusement of the other servo customers.

I hate pushing Utes!

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It's not a mini, but still a bloody lot of fun! (and keeps me poor)

i had my yellow clubby stored at a firends house for a while but she had to move 1km away around the corner so me an the brother inlaw took turns pushing this thing while one of us sat on a milk crate on the driver side steering it
we had 1 main road which was thankfully light on the traffic

st mary's as a few people on here isn't exactly as dead flat as it could be
but we got a few weird looks on popondetta road leading upto raven rd

but 6 months later me and the brother in law lifted the shell over what was left of the subframe and the motor to get that out along with the blown hydro bags

it now resides in my front yard where i have had a few people stuff me around with selling it i have since purchase a 1976ls which we towed on a 900kg car carrier
with a 4cylinder toyota camry - yes the ls is for sale for the right price pm me

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why does everyone want a Cooper S when you ca have a better Clubby

if you were pushing any sort of car in st marys it would look like you stole it,

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i found the mini in the middle of the school oval once when i was doing it up. some-one(s) had pushed it out there with the handbrake on. i had to push it back to where it was along the bumpy oval because i had no permition to start it.

i learnt my lesson, i keep it in gear all the time now.

i usually push my mini around the servo because it is faster then starting it when others are waiting to use the pumps and i am sticking around to wash the windscreen.

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