I had a guy walk past me this morning as i was getting into astro...heavy northern accent (uk not elizabeth )

'im : 'ows ya mini goon?
me : it's goin' great thanks, mate.
'im : ah yoos too 'ave won ov thorse, yoos too go lahk tha clappers, did it.

and he walk of up the road

i gave him a little rev and a toot as i drove past him, for good luck.

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They all had a Cooper S, too!

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Yeah, everyone "used to have a cooper s".

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- Simon -

yeah i used to have one about 19 years ago......

(im 18 hence the joke? ... but no one would know that here so i had to tell yall)

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I have a problem.. apparently

There hasn't been a single time yet that at least one person hasn't told me their story about their mini whilst I'm out working on mine in the street..

Last saturday, one bloke was telling me about a mini he used to have, and then about some old volvo he has now (which he preceeded to drive around to show me). Then another bloke came and told me almost his life story, and how a mini was his first car. He did his driving test on it, and was supposed to fail cause he hit the curb going round a corner. But the instructor let him pass anyway... then told a few other events he had in his mini, including trouble with the police, etc.. Then this old man came passed and told me he just GAVE AWAY FOR FREE a Mini K which he had put front discs and a 1275 on.. anyway turns out he lives up the road from me.. And told me to come round to his house one day, cause he still has heaps of old parts that I can have
Lastly my neighbour (who is a regular drunk) came passed and told me he'd give me a hand to push the car in the middle of the road so I could do an insurance job on it. I think it's cause he see's me working on it all the time..

I'm done.

Bwahahaha I like it. Nearly did that to mine on saturday

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Cheap, Fast, Reliable. Choose two.

Stu mate, let me know when and i'll gladly steal it for you

grr.. my dad used to have several (no more than 2 at a time tho..) ex-racing cooper s's.. apparently his mum could hear him coming home from a few k's away...

They used to live in upper beaconsfield and after the fire went through there was metal blocks sitting out in the paddocks.. they were the gearboxes that my dad used to destroy on a weekly basis..

Apparently these mini's he had would smoke the tires (both, LSD..) until third gear..

if only he still had them now !!

My aunt actually had a hotted up Cooper S that she rallied... after it was stolen and recovered for the 4th time she sold it. Each time she'd get it back it had been thrashed and mistreated by joyriders.

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- Simon -

looks like its not just the old guys that used to have a cooper s!!! just kidding.

smoke in 3rd gear! WOW

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78 Leyland Mini - Prince

my grandad accually did have a cooper s, it was blue with a white roof, and recaro seats, sports steering wheel, 1400 engine with and 8 port head etc etc, in the end he handnt paid the rego on it and left it in a graveyard in england somewhere ( quote marvin the martian: this makes me very angry ) he also had a white s, a green 850 and a hell of alot of other nice cars, got rid of all of em

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Potato

I'm an old Mini owner.........or should that be the owner of an old Mini........or even I used to own another Mini in my youth........but thats the one that got into the fight with the cement truck...and lost.

Ah, memories

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Rod
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v607/Rodney/

i actully went into a drive through a few weeks ago and a guy sez is it a real gt ......... me gobsmaked wow someone who knows the difference lol
turns out in 72 he bought a brand new never been driven gt clubby but sold it due to growing family and wanted to get another .... he was also the nephew of a racer of the time not bob holden but someone bob knocked around with back then
makka

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If only these people knew what there coopers would be worth these days they'd all be rich I wish I had one

ps does anyone know a mini with plates DIMINI

I am an old Mini driver, had 3 off them in my younger days. Started with a 998 Deluxe in 1968, then a 1100 roundnose in 1972 and last one was a 1100 clubbie in 1978.

Now as an old Mini owner, I have my Moke and a 998 '77 Clubman LS..

Long live the Mini and old Mini drivers...