nothing like blowing someone off at a set of lights and when u get to the next one they go all quiet and the girlfriend juz stares as if shes found something she likes LOL

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oil leak?..what oil leak..that puddle under the car is just sweat from all that horsepower

tend to get that in penrifffff no matter wat ur driving

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finally own one

lol next time some says cant u afford a real car, juz tap ur mini and says its real, its in front of u isnt it?

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oil leak?..what oil leak..that puddle under the car is just sweat from all that horsepower

Its is a Real Car and its still going after 30 odd years

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Stop Licking the Dog...I Don't Care Who Started It

Yeah people who say 'real car' crap, simply feel inadequate about themselves and feel the need to be little you in order to make themselves feel bigger.

99% of the tiem things are great, but you do get dickheads, two weeks ago a guy in the school carpark decided it would be 'fun' to sit on the roof of my dad's mini whist I yell at him to get off, well now there are two fat dents in the roof, and he doesn't care.

Meh, i'm over the anger, still considering taking the dude to court. But anyways, don't feel like discussing that, it just shows people are jealous and say or do stupid things to your car for this reason.

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1964 Morris 850, 1330 Supercharged - 81.8hp atws.
1975 Leyland Mini S 1100S powered - Nice and reliable.
1977 Leyland Mini LS - Project LS-T

I grew up in a different era - one with drive in movies, the main street of Parramatta was a drag strip after midnight on a saturday night and then there was the brickies.

Everyone had a mini at some stage and all sort of flowers were offered up in mini's

The real joy these days is to be parked and see a woman of my age walk past the mini and just smile to herself. I can look at her and say - yeah I know !!!!

ah slink that sucks man, if that was me with tiny that guy would of learned a hard lesson on respecting classic cars, he wouldnt be sitting on roofs for a while..or on anything for that matter

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oil leak?..what oil leak..that puddle under the car is just sweat from all that horsepower

I bet thats all you thinking

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Stop Licking the Dog...I Don't Care Who Started It

yeh slink i know the feeling. some bastar% decided to key my mini in the middle of the night. dad wasnt to impressed.

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'73 clubby s "cryo" - sold
Operation Evil Sesame Street!

Slinkey - take him for it! Teach him to respect other people's property.

Pinky, I'm surprised it's easy for you to wear neon green heels in Dubai!

I usually get pretty positive looks, or expressions of absolute shock. My car is loud - very loud. People are always looking for the sports car coming from the distance, then get a shock when it's me! One builder almost fell off a roof in shock when he saw I was the car blasting up the hill! But they usually give me the thumbs up. Same with kids. Although some mothers (even in my neighbourhood, where I drive slowly) rush their kids off the road, and look at me angrily. I reckon they should just keep their kids off the road - it's not a playground! My two year old doesn't play in the street...

Anyway, at the end of the day, whether it's worth driving a Mini isn't judged by anything other than what you think of the experience. And for mine, there aren't many cars that come closer, especially for a reasonable price.

I didn't beleive in the first place someone will do something stupid as that; like yelling at you and be rude to you and your mini. But until a while ago I was driving my mini home after dinner with friends at the Rocks and close to a red night there were some hoons in a crap car keep yelling and intimidating to me and the car just right behind me.

I just took off ASAP when the light turn green, cus dunno if they will chuck their VB bottle at my car (yes drink and drive). Fortunately, they missed their target (my car) by a very narrow margin. Didn't know if they did the same to the car behind since I just sped off.

Then I swear I won't drive a Mini out at night ever again, though it might be a little hard.

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1964 Morris Mini 850 - G13b gti powered - classic yet practical
1968 Morris Minimatic - 1100cc - classic & breakable
Sun Certified Java Programmer v5 310-055

been there done that!!!

chicks absolutely dig them!!

but dont worry about tossers, theyre jusy jealous,

thing they dont realois is that because its old, doesnt mean its cheap..

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-jamie-
1963morris 850
1965 solid side van
1994 rover racecar

the look on MY face is priceless when they stop 40cm from my bumper

i so far have had nothing but smiles from people with my mini.......and they reckoned that bmw stands for Brings Me Women

slinkey that sucks man! i hate it when people dont respect peoples cars.....i got my nice little nicks and bangs on the bm from D***HEADS who leant their doors against my paint, swung doors open sudenly. the best one is on my bonnet from some F*** who sat on there with jeans on with those metal stud things..... etc ive allready informed my friends that if they toucha my car...i will kill them....well not literally of course....

edit: i didnt add that was at my school...i just abuse the randoms who do that now..STUPID UNI !!

Sure it's no problem at all! You can go out in whatever outfit you want. But if you wear a mini skirt you can be sure all the Indian workers will stop and stare

Get a new understanding of "abuse" ... ride a bicycle to work ...