Hi all

Thought i would introduce myself and say hello, im Stewart from the sunny UK, i currently own the Cooper Sport 500 you see in my sig, a very loved and cherished example which is garaged and only used in the dry during the summer

My good friend Scott introduced me to this site, he setup the cooper sport 500 register here in the UK last year but has since moved back to Aus (with his 500) and is a member here.

Anyway, i will have a browse around and come back regularly. Hope your all a friendly bunch (some forums in the UK can get a bit picky and un friendly)

All the best

Stew

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Used to have 2000 Cooper Classic Sport 500, No 338, currently miniless

oh and for some pics see here :-

http://ccgi.appletonmews.plus.com/500Fo ... owtopic=74

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Used to have 2000 Cooper Classic Sport 500, No 338, currently miniless

Hi Stewart, welcome

Very nice example you have there, stick around, you must only get to drive that thing like..1day a year? that's about all the sun you get in summer isn't it

We're a friendly lot for the most part, there's the odd bitch fight . ..always sorts itself out though Must be a mini thing...

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Welcome Overseas Man.
I hope very much that you can become a regular visitor

A magnificent little monster in the mini you have. Its great i likes it a lot.

I am friendly i know
fights happen
they add to the forum spirit though

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thank you for the welcome people i'll be staying out of the fights then.

but alas, yes the weather isnt as good as you get, sigh.... no where near, but since our move from the south west to the south east the amount of dry days has improved greatly. Managed to do about 2500 miles this year. A grand total of 6700 miles on him now.

oh and he's named 'Bungle' because hes like a bear he hibernates in winter, and over in the UK we used to have a kids show which had a big bear in it called bungle.

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Hi Stew, welcome to our little corner of the world, nice to have a fellow 500 owner here hope you like it, theres plenty of nice people here you might go away learnig something about aussie mini's

Maybe together we can educate them on what a 500 is all about

Monaro

Gidday-Stewart.Also welcome.Shame about the bloody cricket!!hahaha
Shane Warne knows all about the 500Club!!!!
Cheers.

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Is it the number of cars that overtake you every time you go for a drive?

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Too many cars, and too little time.

No not cars-but double-deck buses or black taxis......

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lol, yeah they aint that fast in standard trim, the late MPIs are known to be as bad at 50 or so horses thats all... terrible.

im happy just cruising, dont have the funds to make it a road burner, as wife and kids and mortgage now

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Used to have 2000 Cooper Classic Sport 500, No 338, currently miniless

Stew speak for yourself there is 8 mpi's here in aus 5 of thoses are Cooper'ed and 3 are stock mpi's. Out of the 5 Cooper's its 3 S Works all 90bhp, 1 Sports 5 85php, and 1 John Cooper LE 90bhp, the others are all non Cooper'ed but played with ie bolt on go fast bits, bringing them upto 65ish (lol) The scary bit of all this is that I own three of the bloody 8,

And Stew I know your car and its no slow bunny neither, its got the pipercross and a few other tweaks

Monaro

sssstew;
Welcome aboard!
In Oz, the Rover minis have to use a black plastic fuel cap (see pic) in order to comply with the design rules surrounding the unleaded fuel. I was wondering whether it is the same in the UK, and where you got your Aston filler cap?

http://photos.carsales.com.au/3423730.jpg

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G'day Stew and great to see we have another Englishman in the forum
Love you'r little beast and great to see photo's of the Sports moddel's
we have those ugle 1/4 windows down here.

Hope you enjoy the banter and the help that happens in this place

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