i drove up to hervey bay last week from the gold coast bout 4hr drive in a regualr car took me bout 5 and a bit hrs. car went great didnt over heat nothing except used a fair bit of oil. on the way back was the trouble it absolutly pissed down nice wet carpet dizzy got wet and i thought it was all over but the clubbie kept on charging after a quick dry hehe. so we made there and back thank god, got back today 5 and a half hours in a mini is a decent drive i think.

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legs get sore??

yeah its a drive

i aam from Bundaberg so i drive back there fairly often to see the olds

i still remember driving back at the end of each year of uni and that with all my stuff tv, computer, 4 bags, towles blankets absolutly everything piled to the roof and boot full
did it in just over 4 hrs in a 998

hell yea my legs get sore and my back was fun but

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I do newcastle to tamworth every month that takes 3hr 15-30 mins and the legs always need a good stretch after. It was pissing down rain last time couldn't see a thing and the mini is so light it just difts across the water on the road.

ahh those are the days

well i went to albury and back for minis on the murray with 5 psi o/press when hot

And it was blooody hot. Overnight up there i broke my rod change housing mount so it was flopping about, and maybe with the same hard knock (speedbump, 5 people in car) had dislodged the ring gear (yes, i know this sounds impossible, but it is otherwise unexplainable) and so starter motor engaged approximately 1% of the time :D

Hence i decided to make a beeline for melbourne after breakfast. In around mid-30s heat she started overheating too, so i put the heater on.. so add another 15C or so.. it was at least 40-50 in my car. So i'd do 60mph, then have to drop back to 45/50.. then back up... all the while sweating myself silly. And i couldnt stop either because if i did i might not be able to get it started again Eventually i settled into a kind of sideways driving position with left leg across the car, sometimes switching to left foot on accelerator to give the right a break. Anyway, made it in about 4 hrs i think and with about 1/8th of a tank left. Next week it went in for its new engine so all was good

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My longest trip(s) in a mini (NAV) was from Canberra to Coffs Harbour in one day X2
I only stopped twice, both for fuel and food/drink, it took around 9-10hrs.
I have also been to Coffs From Brisbane twice as well, so 5 hrs each way easy peasy.

Late next year my mates and i are planning a run down to the great ocean road in our minis. Why cause we want to

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Might plan to meet up with ya

I want to take my Deluxe to Melb via G.O.R.... once its all finished

yeah danielle and i want to take a mini down GOR

longest trip in a mini for me was to hay but i had them cumfy buckets out of a 626 in it got out of the car and got drunk
makka

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Now that comes well recommended, always a good day, until u get stuck behind the toyota coaster full of Jappo tourists
Or in the case of the below pic, a toyota corolla

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Spectacular... are they REAL mini roads?
Like lots of nice twisty parts, or only occasionally?

ha ha,,,Brisbane to Melbourne & back quite a few times now,,,not to mention (i don`t know how many) trips to Syd & back to bris,,,umpteen times

a couple of times we did bris --> syd & back in a moke,,,one of them without wipers & guess who had to sit out the side of the moke & hand opperate the wipers with string attached,,, in the middle of the night, fogged out like a white out, freezing my tits off ???,,,yeah!!!,,,never again tho

I would rather drive long distances in a mini tho (well,,,as long as it had major grunt ,ok ok, i am a bit power spoilt), i am more comfortable in a mini than anything else tho, been in them that long that i think my body has formed the shape of the mini seat

try brisbane to Tasmania & back in an old split window combie ute with the race mini on the back of the tray & all the rally gear & camping gear & all the tools & equipment & a complete spare front & rear suspension assys & also a complete spare power unit & & & ...Hell YeaH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the dam thing was on the bump stops the whole way there & back...never again but then, i do have a photo of the speedo doin 75mph with all that crap in the dam thing

Minis are fine on long trips,,,as long as they have been prepared & maintained well, shouldn`t be a problem driving them around Australia a few times.

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No offence intended here but--> anyone writing a book about minis 30 years ago may not have experienced such worn or stuffed-with components as we are finding these days.

You should put your heart & soul into everything you do.

Screw the 998, Willsta. We'll have to load up the LS with about 196 Mp3 CDs and we're off. 1293= Ooooh Yeah. Sounds fun. Make it a date

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Cheap, Fast, Reliable. Choose two.

I'm with you on both counts Matt - when I get out of my conformadore after a 3 hour trip I'm tired and sore, the same trip in the mini and it's like I just drove around the block....