well on friday night i finished work early so i could go pick up a car around 8 o'clock at night. i arrived around 9ish with my mate in his car, made the exchange of money, signed the papers and headed off in my 1975 hairy lime green clubman s. all seemed well for the trip home until i was heading down grand junction road on the way home and the lights started to dim and the alternator light came on. i decided i would drive it to the next servo. when i got ther the lights wer fine so kept going, i stoped at some lights and then the little brick died
i tryed starting it and with no luck, so stuck it in netrual and rolled down the hill to the nearest servo. which wasnt to far away luckily, the locals wer very nice also, with everyone offering help to get it started. after tryin to start it for about 1/2 hour i gave up and decided to call the RAA. the guy got there about 10ish and got the car going, but said that i prob wouldnt make it home, he was right, i got about 600 metres down the road and she died again. so managed to push it to a lit up area and decided to tow it home on a trailer, so drove home and hired a trailer from caltex. drove back and picked up the brick. ended up getin home at 2:30am saturday morning 
but was glad to have it in the garage and not on the street. ah the joy of owning a mini. 
its not parked with the two others and started striping the front end off. will put some pics up. hope i get it back on the road by the weekend. 
will update soon. oh btw it was the alternater that happened to die in the short amount of time ive owned the car.
