lol......i yet to do a proper 'mini handshake" but while speedin along doncaster shopping town today some1 who was not driving a MINI beeep at me but i didnt have enuff time to react so i didnt beeep back.......sorry...

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lol...one of the guys that i see around in another yellow clubby goes pretty spaz when he sees me....i dont actually know him...he just gets really excited

cush....greenhill road is good......but it can be pretty scary! btw is that a classic adelaide map uve ripped off there?

I live in that area and drive my yellow mini around that roundabout quite frequently. But it's not a clubby

why cant someone live out near golden grove?
i've seen some wicked mini's in my time, there was a yellow clubby van with a kit on it in my area. haven't seen it since i got my 1100. Everyone at work asks me if mine's a cooper s coz of the stripes... THEY'RE NOT EVEN IN THE RIGHT POS! lol.

cooper s is the only thing people know about mini's, ooh and their uncle's, cousins, mothers, brothers, twice removed step-neice's boss used to own one. they obviously had a ride in it. ooh and how can i forget, it went like the clappa's

i swear there was a community cooper s that everyone got to go in. coz anyone 40+ knows someone who had one. even the van's were cooper s's!

lol...quite true 850......i had a guy try to sell me his "cooper s" van (rusted out waste of space in reality) and i've lost count of how many old guys have told me they used to own one.......thats cool though, at least everyone looks and pays attention

the strips on the bonnet were there so pit crews could distinguish one cooper from the next .... the strip is up to the indervidual
makka

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You younger Adelaide boys missed the days of REAL cruising....

Back when i had my first mini in 1998, i went thru the whole "street racer" thing, and decked my STOCKIE 850 out with roll cage, harnesses, gauges, stickers n crap.....


did i mention stickers???

Mine eventually had a number 6 on the doors...... I had a friend with a grey mini who had the same things done... and he had a number 7

We used to go fanging around the suburbs together, in and out of back streets - people didnt know what the hell was going on!!!! When we pulled up in servos, people would walk over and look thru em.... and we'd tell em LIE after LIE..... was the funniest crap ever!!!

Back then, there was also the purple injected convertable (RIBENA). It didnt like summer at all, it overheated a few times....



imagine seeing my old 850 (top picture) TOWING the purple convertable thru the city one hot saturday night....followed by 2 other minis!!!

There were organised cruises almost every fortnight, tons of hang out spots, the start of the RICER era...... imagine the TTP carpark FULL of young hoons, people doing burnouts, a mass of panic when the cops EVENTUALLY arrived..... Now THOSE were the days!!!

but NOW, all the parking spots have gone, there are HEAPS more defect stations, people just dont do the things we did... and the cars have disappeared... If only i could take ya's back

(...waiting for the REAL oldies to have a dig at me....)

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Oh yeah, about the yellow clubby.....

Did it have 10 inch minilites in the same yellow??

If yes, the guy shops at Brickworx, fugged if i can remember his name....

If no, are the spotties on a chrome nudge bar??? Is there a small white sticker on the top of the front window??? Ive seen this one getting around lately, and knew the previous owner....

OH and finally, if anyone sees this white mini with red roof (VCK-587)......



....Say HI for me, it was my first mini (had lots of stickers once, see 2 pics up).
Took this pic at a workshop last year, the car has been resto'd, and is now aparrently a genuine Morris Cooper (tell him its really a morris 850 ) But it looks really good....

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lol....has it become one of steve's 'genuine morris coopers'? ....not that it REALLY matters.....a while back, before brickworx moved, there were two BRG morris coopers side-by side and i actually couldnt tell the difference....i spent AGES looking and just couldnt find anything different on the replica. They must have spent ages adding all the bits and pieces

thommo classic adelaide it is.. shhh... and speaking of the CA ,,, you said a bit ago that you entered?....


super850

yellow spots and a nudgebar would be the one..

and i've seen the the yellow one with the yellow wheels too..

we need a new section....

Grouped by state

listing the Users, with a pic of their car underneath, and their region (optional)

i could have a go at it... always wanted to learn some php....

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That'd be awesome, kind of like user profiles but with pics of their cars and location?

itd make it much easier if people wanted to organise ausmini meets etc.

hey cush, nah cant say ive entered...that would be too cool...but i am doing some marshalling (i've done it for a few years now), usually time control but a bit road closure too (SO BORING!)

anyone else here involved at all?

like i said a while we should organise a morning cruise to one day of the event....you know....good roads for our minis and it'd be fun hanging out in a bunch of minis for the day

oh i see..

so do you marshal in the same place or is it random..

thought i might find out where you're marshalling so i can pester you ....

"YOU MARSHALL LIKE MY GRANDMOTHER!!!!"



plus i can get a good spot for pics with a friendly marshall


oh yeah... admins i think i'm getting up to speed on php now, won't be long.

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nah all over the joint mate, i usually try to do the stages that Hedley Bachmann is running (they always run the smoothest)....last year i did chain of ponds, norton summit (that was hedleys stage...won stage of the year ) and one other...cant remember which, but usually the stages like the eagle and the more open ones are better for pics where you can see the cars coming otherwise with a digi cam you miss them cos of the delay before the pic is actually taken i only got the back end of every car last year cos of this

LOL thommo

u do realise most if not EVERY digicam is set like that so u hold the button halfway down and it focuses, then press all the way for the pic and it's instant..

silly boy