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[oltonlad]

this mini should be stuck in a scrappy! tried to kill me several times on the way home...

why?....what happened?

[retroracer1275]

back end came out and I hit a curb.. ripped the sill off, bent the subbys and bent the wheels lol, never mind... its going on ebay later!

[oltonlad]

back end came out and I hit a curb.. ripped the sill off, bent the subbys and bent the wheels lol, never mind... its going on ebay later!

oh................

[oltonlad]

when i entered our car into the 1970-1979 class, the bloke on the P.A didnt even speak to me about it..............but he always speaks to us when my missus is with me............and she wasn't there today.............bit of a coincidence that............lol

Edited by oltonlad, 01 April 2012 - 05:30 PM.

[TORZIEnJIM]

Guy on the pa seemed a bit of a plumb tbf

[oltonlad]

Guy on the pa seemed a bit of a plumb tbf

he is, he has no clue about mini's whatsoever, andrew greenwood has no interest in mini's either, he just likes to sit at home and count the money that he makes out of the shows, its a different case when he does a classic ford show though, he actually bothers to turn up to those!!

the only time that he talks to us is when my missus is with me, he doesent even know what our car is........he's a total prat!

Edited by oltonlad, 01 April 2012 - 05:42 PM.

[TORZIEnJIM]

"it's got, well, let's call them sports seats"

My quote o the day...

[oltonlad]

"it's got, well, let's call them sports seats"

My quote o the day...

my point exactly........

[cradley-heathen]

http://i52.photobuck...pril2012050.jpg

thats my blue one on the extreme left there (the one everyone seemed to think was the one i was offering for £600!)
and my dads 73 that picked up second in the 70s class is the green one a few cars across.

Edited by cradley-heathen, 01 April 2012 - 05:53 PM.

[mini_gurl84]

pa guy....... what a plonker! that other old guy judging was a bit of an idiot too, wouldnt even entertain our car, because its 'not standard', still got runner up in modified section, and well done to Ben H who won it! : )

[oltonlad]

when the "so called" judges looked at my car - one of them pointed at the bits of surface rust under the bonnet..........well it will have bits of rust...its a 32 year old mini ffs, and its an unrestored 32 year old mini, unlike most of the other cars in the same class!!

[oltonlad]

http://i52.photobuck...pril2012050.jpg

thats my blue one on the extreme left there (the one everyone seemed to think was the one i was offering for £600!)
and my dads 73 that picked up second in the 70s class is the green one a few cars across.

haha....i saw the for sale sign and it was blatantly obvious that it wasn't the blue car for sale..................it did say "V" reg mini for sale........the blue one is obviously an "M" reg.......some people are sooooo thick!!

[oltonlad]

one of the judges asked me to lift the bonnet "which i did" and he said something about the twin carbs............and i pointed out to him that there was an option with a lot of the BL cars in the 70's to have what they called an ST plus pack (and i have the paperwork to prove it) which comprised of twin carbs, a modified head and a freeflow exhaust.....these guys really need to know what they are going on about before they start saying that a car is "not factory standard"

Edited by oltonlad, 01 April 2012 - 06:02 PM.

[cradley-heathen]

http://i52.photobuck...pril2012050.jpg

thats my blue one on the extreme left there (the one everyone seemed to think was the one i was offering for £600!)
and my dads 73 that picked up second in the 70s class is the green one a few cars across.

haha....i saw the for sale sign and it was blatantly obvious that it wasn't the blue car for sale..................it did say "V" reg mini for sale........the blue one is obviously an "M" reg.......some people are sooooo thick!!

i thought it was pretty obvious too, but some people were still kicking the tyres on it. i saw one guy on the floor hammering at the sills with his fist, i went over and asked of he had fallen over! lol

another guy asked me if i would take 600 for it on the day, i told him the brakes are worth more than that, then pointed out it wasnt that car!

[mini-luke]

I saw that Mini, thought it was the one you've been offering here. The fact that it had an engine was a bit of a give away in my book!