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[Archived2]

Bring it out if you can while you can.

There can always be a debate on what to do with it after.

Legally of course as we don't want you "dobbed in" by the friendly welcoming members

Personally I don't need you to prove yourself and don't feel I have the right to make you do anything to do so. If you have the chance then seize it while you can.
There will always be 'precious' people willing to tell you that you've done wrong or it should have remained where it is. But then its enjoyed by no-one.
Maybe it should be removed and just kept as is or restored or neither but that debate is pointless if its lost forever down there isn't it?

Go do us all a favour and don't let the minority spoil it for the majority.
Minis were fun and remain so to this day... A mini is to be enjoyed and not to be treated as the holy grail and only loved from afar.

Edited by johnnypoopoopants, 16 November 2012 - 10:27 PM.

[mab01uk]

Bring it out if you can while you can.

There can always be a debate on what to do with it after.

Nice thought but it has already been mentioned that the tunnel entrances are now bricked up to door size only and it is unlikely any large Site Development company is going to authorise or help to get it out unless there is some good corporate publicity in the story for them..........perhaps BMW could be convinced there was a positive media story for the Mini brand in them financing the rescue of it and displaying it in their Mini Museum in the old toolroom at the Cowley, Oxford factory with all the other historic classic Minis they have on show for visitors there.......but the history and current state of that 1275GT/Clubman probably means that a 'rescue' is unlikely to make sense to anyone but a small minority of diehard Mini enthusiasts like us?

Edited by mab01uk, 17 November 2012 - 10:52 AM.

[megamini_jb]

What the hell... leave it where it is. It's been down there for all this time and now you've got some plonkers wanting to get it out! I'm sorry but it belongs where it is. It's home is the tunnel!

[megamini_jb]

It's not yours to take, it'd be stealing and we would be the first to dob you in seeing as you've admitted it on a public forum.

Leave it be, it has heritage there, not outside. To bring it out will lose its story and meaning and will become "just a shell".. If it ever does reach a museum it wont mean much without a story.. the story is the tunnel.

+1

[Hegnirst]

ever though, it may of been left there as a memorialable icon?!

[stevem4323]

thanks for all the replies this is what i was really after was a public opinion and i have to say it is pretty evenly split and thanks for the offer of being "dobbed in"
.The mini was left down there 30 odd years ago i remember seeing it in tha late 80s when i working in the cabs working on mini drive shafts i knew it was there everyone knew it was there and nobody wanted it ..it had been dumped ..no iconic graveyard ..no moisture testing ...just dumped ....a bit like the factory and the thousands of men who was dumped on the scrap heap.....ime not going to get all political about it but i will say this again ...nobody wanted it..............
except me ....the mini will be restored at a cost to myself and like all the other pieces i have retrieved ......LEGALLY I HAVE TO ADD....they will go on display to show the world what everyone else was willing to throw away.......

the last mini left longbridge at 5.45 pm on the 8th of november 2012 it will be restored to its former glory i am doing this not for any personal gain as its going to cost me a fortune to get done i am doing it for the memory of all the thousands of people myself my mother and father being just 3 who helped to make this car what it was .....i await your comments

[Lee_bash]

wait, its out?

I'd have said, get it out, but re-create the tunnel section it was in and place it in a museum with some info of the story behind it- best of both worlds then really.

But anyway, good luck on the restoration! Mind me asking how you got it out?

[megamini_jb]

Good for you, but like you said it's been down there for 30 odd years in the corner, even if it was going to be restored, I persoanlly think it should stay exactly where has been for all this time!
I can understand why you'd want to get it out and good on ya, just seems a shame to get it out from what kind of is it's proper home. Fair enough would be a cool little story if it was restored or even taken out and kept how it currently stands, but as silly as it may sound I would rather it be where it is because it makes it one special little mini down in the Longbridge tunnel.

If the mini could talk I bet it would say "this is my home now, and I will die here" quick.... give me a tissue, I'm sobbing up nah seriously though, it belongs where it is!

[stevem4323]

again no museum wanted it....nobody wanted it

[stevem4323]

if you had ever been down there you would of said ....get it out ...i wouldnt leave an animal down there

[megamini_jb]

Is it out then?

[myredmini]

Wait... its out ?

[Lee_bash]

pics or it didn't happen!

[DeanP]

I have no opinion either way on the car being removed.


Be interesting how the V5c transfers ownership. I know BL would have been the original owners, but I wonder who DVLA will write too? The MG Rover receivers? Or the landowners?

[jaydee]

This one have no v5 or registration, and to be honest, i think the car legally does not exist and will end up on a Q plate if rescued.