(Taken off the moke forum what got you into mokes topic)

Me dad had a mk2 cooper s and sold it in 1980 to go to poland for a holiday and to start progress to bring my great grandmother out to aus to live with his parents my grandmother hadnt seen her mum since ww2 started

So i got the leyland mini in 09 cause that cooper s every one who knows him for them days always talks about it all the time

And he likes driving it

I had nothing to prove

When I got my licence a million years ago, I wanted the best car money could buy. Since I only had $65 so I bought a mini. Loved them ever since.

Was competing at a Hillclimb at Amaroo Park (Sydney) in 1982 in my Datsun 1600 Rally Car and had my arse well and truly handed to me on a plate by a whole bunch of Mini's. The Mini infection was caught then, and whilst it took me a while to really get serious about Mini's, the disease of Mini obsession is well and truly now coursing right through my veins.

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1965 Mk1 Cooper S Sprint/Hillclimb/Rally Car
2012 Land Rover Defender 90

Got my first moke when I was about 11. Found out they shared alot with the mini and was hooked from there. Don't go a day without a thought of Mini running through my head.

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1963 Morris 850 Smoke Grey
1963 Morris 850 Shadow Blue
1965 Morris Mini Smooth Van
1966 Morris Mini Van
1969 Morris Mini Deluxe Resto
5/72 Clubman Gt

It all started after watching the italian Job.
Now I am up to my 4th mini plus other cars in my collection.

Felix

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1967 Morris mini Deluxe
1968 Buick Riviera
1979 HZ Kingswood
1979 CM Valiant
1982 Jaguar XJ6 series 3
2002 VX HSV
2013 Mazda 6
2018 Gt Mustang

A fellow at school got one in white with red stripes and essentially no floor.

I just loved their shape. I loved how accessible they were, you can open the rear passenger side window from the front seat.
I liked them all around. Still do.

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SooperDooperMiniCooperExpertEngineering

All garage work involves equal measures of enthusiasm, ingenuity and a fair degree of irresponsibility.

was at Calder Raceway, and watching Peter Manton beat all comers and even held the lap record of 58.6 sec, on the old short race track, and ever since I just wanted a mini.

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Watching Mr bean on tv when I was a kid. Haha

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Tim
Dusk Blue
1964 850

I was 10 years old when I got a drive of Warwick Agustin's rally Cooper S at a WDCC Christmas motorkhana in 1982. The adults were doing this as a treat for all the kids there who they figured were capable. I remember distinctly that it was the Trefoil and at each flag Warwick yanked the handbrake on and yelled "hit it" (meaning throttle) to get us around. It was an absolute ball and I have been hooked ever since.

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the world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page
66 Mini Minor sponsored by http://www.lifeonthehedge.com.au/ The Dog Harness Specialists
It was a pleasure ausmini. I'll miss all you misfits and reprobates

Have always had a mini or riley elf in our family growing up in nz, have always loved them. My old man was a copper back in NZ, there is a movie goodbye pork pie which when it was released that weekend over 10 yellow minis were stolen from around the country!

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1965 Riley Elf
1974 Ex Army Moke
1997 Rover Cooper
2002 JCW Cooper
2003 JCW Cooper S

I got into Mini's at a very young age. My first ever memory of being in any kind of car was when I was about 2 or 3. My mum and dad picked up a white Mini K (last of the roundys) and I was put in a car seat and apparently I was just so excited and happy and fell in love then.

Since then The Italian Job and Mr Bean helped continue my love as a child and family always owning them.

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I wish I had some sort of witty quote in my signature

He still has that car and it does GO!!!

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Learnt to drive at age 11 in my Grandmothers 850. Loved them ever since

My oldest brother had raced mini's in speedway & road racing years ago , so when i was about 16 he picked up a Morris 1100 for me at the right price, as a first car . He had it parked out the back of his service station and one night some deadsh!ts jumped all over the roof of it and destoyed it .

Next thing i know he found me a mini deluxe for $200 and thats how i become hooked on them , have had 4 mini's + 1 moke since in 30 + years .