Come on everyone...
What's your reason or if your partners asking.... Excuse for having so many!

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New from the UK and wanting a NICE little British car!

I only have one, but id love to have more. I think because there is so many different models and different ways to mod them if at all.

After having a look at a rover mini up close this week, i really like the modern style along with the modern comforts that come with it. But i still love my no frills 850.

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Tim
Dusk Blue
1964 850

just because

who can define any reason?

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65 panel van Sprog
73 panel van Iggy

I wish I loved mine enough to get it finished after 5 years of rebuild. Just no time and other things going on. I miss the riding inches off the ground at speed.

Hooroo

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Rob Forsyth
Miniot!!

Driving a Mini is the only way some of us fat ugly blokes will ever get a pretty girl to smile back

Best not tell your Mrs though.......or mine

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My '78 Leyland Mini on flickr

100KMH in a Mini feels like 200KMH in anything else.

I was a Morris Minor 1000 fan until I drove an 850 around some corners in 1964, I've been hooked ever since.

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

My wife coined the answer: "Mini is not a car, it is a collection!"

But I'm with Kevin...I left canada's Hwy. 1 flat out onto the circular offramp at Abbotsford and caught the following Porsche driver...eyes wide open, leaning back, braking and saying whoa!!

2nd story...heading up California's Big Sur coast on US Hwy. 1, I have the warmed up 998 singing and jump a BMW sedan and Mustang convertible over a crest and dive into the cliffside turn without braking. Later at a stop, a woman asks me if she can take a photo of her husband with POOH (then a worn looking dirt brown Canadian Mini 1000 with the fugly crash bumpers). My answer, "Of course."

Turns out they were in the BMW...having flown out from Michigan to LA to pick up their new car and drive home across America to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary. On DAY 1 it was a tired looking, 22 year old Mini that captured his imagination.

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Select a gear, bring up the revs and release the clutch...off you go!

They take up half the space of other cars so straight away you can have two minis and you can custom make one for your partner, auto, air con, shiny bits, pretty paint etc etc they can't argue with that.
Or you could just use some other expensive cars as comparison, "I could spend 10k on a mini or 50k to 100k on a Monaro or a GTHO"
Or the environmental approach, "It only uses 6L/100km which is better than the average new car and it takes about 20 tonnes of CO2 emissions just to build a new car even before it's started for the first time so keeping old minis on the road is better for the world, I'm just trying to improve the world for our children honey."
Or "I earn the money, I'll do what I want. What's for dinner?" But that may not work out too well .

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Respect mine and I'll respect yours.

Its the only car that will put a smile on my dial on the way to work at 5.30am. Like the Dr said you can drive them hard and still not loose your license try driving a v8 the same way you drive your mini and see how long your points last probably not long

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66 Van 1275
69 K Sedan
69 K Van Teabag
66 austin Countryman
68van

1 for each occasion like women have shoes.

Car 1, You got to have a road registered reliable to back up your modern daily drive and take the Min to anytime you feel. This car is used to get others addicted BTW.

Car 2. Competition car. of course this one comes with a trailer so when the %#@&( breaks you tow it home.

Car 3. Concourse d'elegance. The show-off car. This one's used for tempting others into the fold. Dont dare take people for a run in this car. Let 'em drool and dream

Car 4. The variant. Moke, BMW MINI, \and in my case on the farm its a composite mini buggy. 1098cc in the wind at 70kph seem like 200kph and scares the living crap outta your relatives

The downside - one pair of shoes

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..still waiting for the Italian Job sequel to see if the bus went down

Because I can fit 2 minis, a dirt bike, 6 surfboards, and assorted crap in the garage and still have room for her car!

Couldn't do that with many cars and my humble 2 car garage......

My daily driver is in the driveway though......

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Cooper S Mk2
Cooper S Mk1
ex Cooper S Mk2, various Morris 1100s, 1300s, 1500s, Leyland Sherpa!

Cause they're sooooooo quick

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Lillee - 1969 Morris Mini K

A go-cart with a tin roof...what more can say!

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If it's not a Cooper S, the mini was designed to be modified!

What..?? You need an excuse to have a Mini????



If I ever get asked by the other half about the Mini's I just ask back "where is my sandwich?"

For me its a combination of the old school style made of solid steel.
Combined with memories of an engine that came on cam at around 3500 and pulled like a freight train to redline.
Not really practical around town but more fun than a barrel of monkeys.

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82 BJ42 just completed resto
64 850 Modified(about to start rebuild)