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PostPosted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 8:10 pm 
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Heard it before I saw it, sounded niiiice -- Red Rover Mini, white (sportspak?) wheel arches, black/white chequerboard roof, white bonnet stripes.

Big dude, big bushy greying beard behind the wheel ;)

Don't know about anyone else, but this is the first Mini I've seen on the roads in inner Melbourne in months. Roadgoing Mini's are getting rarer...

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 8:56 am 
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That be me in the wife's Rover because mine is dead :cry:

Reminds me, I should really do something to quieten it down a bit - but she likes it that way :D


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Whats Jan getting around in?
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She prefers to drive the Kia during the day so that the girls don't complain (as much) about lugging their school bags into the back of the Mini :lol:


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The mini reffering to Mutant or something else?
Wait....it's cause you don't want to be seen in the kia, not the girls in the mini.
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No Mutant is still tucked in bed (she's a bit of a late riser, especially in winter :lol: )

With the demise of my Cooper, what's going to happen is that I'm getting a new car from work (unfortunately not a Mini) which Jan will use as her daily driver (bugger), and I'll use the Kia for all the miles I do commuting (at least it has air) seeing as it's only worth a few thousand as a trade-in so I may as well drive it into the ground for a few years.

But in the mean time until the new car arrives we're a daily driver short so Jan's Cooper has been employed on a short term contract to bridge the gap - and the girls don't like it if they have to drag their school bags into the back seat - so Jans using the Kia still and I've scored the Cooper

It's all as clear as mud really :?


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Are you glad that you didn't sell the Cooper John :?:
Funny how things work out eh

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Yes Bob - it's handy having it, but if we didn't we would have had to manage some other way.

It's only a bus + V-Line train + 2 x Met Trains + a km walk to work - let's see after about 2 days of that I reckon I would have bought another Mini anyway :lol: :lol: :lol:

It's done the Cooper good anyway. It didn't get enough driving and was running rough. After 2 weeks it's now running smooth as 8)


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