Hmmm - 8+ years of Mini ownership and countless Injuries, the shining stars are....

4" instantly cauterised cut in left knee from angle grinder suddenly slipping. .
Every knuckle torn and bleeding during a "roadside impromtu radiator hose changing" - 2 times in the one night
left ankle squished (forgot to get it out of the way of decending subframe)
left index finger cut to the bone during a particularly nasty ball-joint change (man those locking washers can get sharp!!)

sure there are many more, but I'm repressing them.......

J

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Very impressive.

I'm glad I can get the 'other half' to do all the dirty work. All I'm required to do is help bleed the brakes ocasionally and drive the cars.

Yes, I am very lucky.

Cheers
Julie.......

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Julie.............

My dad had his cooper S a few years before I was born (I'm now 28 and a smig) and was racing around some streets of south sydney. He went to go around a bend, the car refused, he went straight thru a paling fence and fliped it over a cliff. It landed on the roof, crushed it forming a moould around him. Dad had to be cut out and taken to hospital with critical injuries. If anyone else was in the car they would have died instantly. All he can remember is waking up in the ambulance and throwing-up everywhere.

Moral of this story: If someone builds you a car and says "You will never roll this mate." Be sure to ask about flipping it!

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I have burnt my self on the engine many times.

I have always hit my head on the bonnet while working on the engine.

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Jet Red Mini K

Slammin my fingers in a Car Door.
Mum's old Musted roundy and a frends place and forgot to take my right hand out. Tops of three fingers
i was around 10

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

i skinned my knuckles so bad trying to reinstall the radiator after changing the timing chain but the worst part was i hadnt taken the bonnet off the hinges, i had just moved the prop stand thing forr the bonnet higher up the side of the car, i little to much shaking doing up the alternator bolts and down she came with the pointy bit of the bonnet catch whackinging into my lower back, just beside my spine, end result the ugliest coloured bruise i had ever seen and one sore as #$%^ lower back, i learnt a valuable lesson that day!!

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Ahh the joys of having a Moke.. No doors to slam fingers in and you can take the bonnet right off and out of the way...

But can add that plenty of skin has been removed from hand and arm trying to fix wiring behind the dash..

None... yet. And I can't help but laugh at some of you guys with bonnet mishaps, sorry... now where's a tissue to wipe my eyes

I'm with you smokie about the bonnet part

moving an engine with big willy and clubman on a sack truck
the engine started to fall off so i tryed to stop it but i over powered me and my hand got stuck between the engine and a wall
nothing to bad just a little cut, blood rule as willy and clubman called it,


another thing that happen not to do with a mini but to do with a mini person
big willy,
giving him a guard lift on a scooter (as us youngins do)
i lost footing steped over to the side near the zorst
willy toke of and as he went the zorst went up against my leg
left a nice burn and a bit of pain for about an hour
alls good now tho
all in the name off fun


oh and had the tipical head bang on the bonnet and sure back from bending over
and grease from my engine falling in my eye when workin under it,

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Nigel Morton/ Team Brickworx
never late in a 998