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Post by Guest on Feb 19, 2007 22:48:17 GMT 1
What was your 1st Mini or why did you 1st get a Mini?
How long ago was it?
Where is it now?
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Post by alice on Feb 19, 2007 22:53:24 GMT 1
my first mini is the one i have now.
studio 2.
bought a mini because it was the only car i had ever really truely wanted!
i'd wanted a mini for as long as i can remember!
my little girl is already asking me to keep it for her - she's only three!
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Post by stuart on Feb 19, 2007 22:58:27 GMT 1
First mini I had was a T reg mini city Which had horrible chocolate brown interior which I rescued from my mates drive before the DVLA crusher got to it.
Got it home and started to strip it down to see what was wrong with it, At that point I realised I should have left it there. It was like something out of the flintstones. LOL
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Post by acidminis on Feb 19, 2007 23:03:22 GMT 1
My first car was a Mini and I had a 1275GT in flame red and vinyl roof, bucket seats, huge Cibies and walnut dash back in 1990. It died  |
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Post by quiff on Feb 19, 2007 23:24:29 GMT 1
Luckily coop is my 1st car and mini, got lucky that he was fairly good when i got him, its a 94 cooper in brg, only thing i curse is that its an spi
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Post by gar1380 on Feb 20, 2007 23:43:47 GMT 1
my first mini was a 1972 clubman (fcy 865k still remember the plate) which i learned to drive in, its probebly a corned beef tin now  fab little min it took me every where and never let me down  |
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Post by timsmini on Feb 21, 2007 19:25:52 GMT 1
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Post by timsmini on Feb 21, 2007 20:41:03 GMT 1
hit a wall
broke jaw, cheekbone, eye socket, nose, elbow, dislocated and broke both ankles, got about 100 pins and 2 plates in face. (before G says it i'm still ugly bugger)
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Post by acidminis on Feb 21, 2007 21:00:48 GMT 1
Couldn't you polish that out, the car I mean!!!  Did they Wax-oil the plates first or is that a something you have to do before the winter |
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Post by dai9fxey on Mar 3, 2007 22:30:51 GMT 1
My 1st official mini was a 1963 mongrel (A plate). Cost me 110 notes, paid my pa back £2 a week back in 1976. What clinched the deal was a set of wide steels & 1in spacers. I brush painted it BRG with a white roof, went through at least 3 1098 engines in a short space of time. It got chopped up eventually. I kept the wheels as spares, just as well really, they turned out to be LP883s. SPAWNY GIT or what!!!!!. dai.
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Post by dai9fxey on Apr 21, 2008 20:18:25 GMT 1
Just thought I'd bump this thread. It Hasn't been used in ages.   |
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Post by TAFF on Apr 21, 2008 20:34:30 GMT 1
My first mini was a T plate clubman, I was offered a fibreglass flip front so cut a perfectly good clubbie front end off..... Doh.
it had rubber lugs on the sides to hold the front to the body, the amount of times i drove off with the lugs undone, only to find out at the end of the street when the front end smashed into the road... lights smashed every time.... lol ahhh the good old days
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Post by dai9fxey on Apr 21, 2008 20:43:30 GMT 1
;D They must have loved you in B & S spares. |
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Post by byron101 on Apr 21, 2008 21:21:20 GMT 1
being a newbie to the mini scene as most of you know i love my capri's but have to admit they have definately grown on me. as julie always says when i come back from driveing sooty i have a stupid grin on my face for ages + have to admit i do love driveing her mini + can't wait till my 1st mini finished ( the kernal ) due to it's KFC number plate. doing up my cabrio + doing a couple of jobs along the way i.e fitting roll bar, chequar plate on strengthend sills, change steering wheel, fit new cream hood + paint the car yellow. roll on the summer ;D
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Post by thereddwarf on Apr 21, 2008 21:31:59 GMT 1
My first was a 1974 (m reg) mini 850, made up of 2 minis (the other one was an r reg 850 in green) and a lot of new panels....my friend max took at least a few months doing it up for me and making it safe to drive, i even passed my test in her many moons ago.
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Post by taffy1967 on Apr 24, 2008 21:19:52 GMT 1
My first Mini was passed on to me and it was a 1975 MKIII Mini 1000 in beautiful Tahiti Blue.
I passed my driving test in it, crashed it a few times and then sold it on for a profit.
I'd had so much done to it that it was still on the road some 7 years later.
I wish I'd kept it now because there's nothing like your first Mini, although I'm passionate about the one I have now anyway.
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Post by irishstick on Apr 24, 2008 21:24:16 GMT 1
oi taffy gonna spam this thread, what the hell,,
they were filming dr who in st wollos the other day, and the papers say the xmas special was filmed in gloster, there was false snow everywhere where i live mate!!!! nonsence, filmed in wales! i swear!!!!!!
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Post by taffy1967 on Apr 24, 2008 21:34:17 GMT 1
They've been up my way filming a few times, but it's harder than trying to meet the royals though and we didn't get autographs.  |
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Post by irishstick on Apr 24, 2008 21:39:35 GMT 1
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Post by taffy1967 on Apr 24, 2008 21:52:39 GMT 1
Yes it's hard to meet the stars of the show, unless you go to a convention and pay lots of money that is. |
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