just a heads up from the Mini Mania forum, (reference to 'Patina' is an Australian plastics company, Patina.com.au).

http://www.minimania.com/web/threadid/9 ... thread.cfm

The Miniman is already selling them over here.
http://www.ausmini.com/forums/viewtopic ... her+bottle
Cheers Pete

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A recent study found the average Aussie walks about 900 miles a year
Another study found Aussies drink, on average, 22 gallons of alcohol a year
That means, on average, Australians get about 41 miles per gallon

Kind of makes you proud to be an AUSSIE

Dunno what type Matt sells. This is what was on the other forum.
Anyway $18 for 12 seems like a bargin to me. Just trying to help reduce your costs.

You know I was looking for these mythical bottles for a while. the wife used to see them all the time in chemical laboratories. Now Matt has them remade I have one of those. 17 bucks for 12 is nuts, and the difference would be barely noticeable in a normal engine bay.

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SooperDooperMiniCooperExpertEngineering

All garage work involves equal measures of enthusiasm, ingenuity and a fair degree of irresponsibility.

I think the reference to 'Patina' is the colouration of the old bottle. Patina is the colour that metals take on with age - that enhances its appearance - as opposed to rust. I think it is coincidence there is an Australian Plastics firm with the name Patina

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David L


My greatest fear in life is that when I die my wife will sell my Mini and tools for the price I told her I paid for them!

Beats the price of an original one.

Lokk at the price of this one that sold on ebay recently

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll ... 0233470341

Brenton

Mine are starting at $30 each now the rush has finished & yes they are an exact copy of the original

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No offence intended here but--> anyone writing a book about minis 30 years ago may not have experienced such worn or stuffed-with components as we are finding these days.

You should put your heart & soul into everything you do.

Matt , how did you get the new ones made , did you have to find a perfect original one to take a mould from or were they able to make the mould from looking at a worn one or just measurments/photo's ? How many did you have to order for them to make them , hundreds or thousands ?

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Like Matts going to tell you Ian lol

Yeah , good point Ty , I can't imagine them making a mould etc for less than 500 bottles and with the mould and production it can't have been cheap to setup .

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