8 replies to this topic

[Jammy]

Ok, so it might go a little to forward the view that all Minis were Coopers, but its quite a bit of praise for our little cars!

Linky.

[Natalie]

Nice little write up

[chrisholland1983]

I nearly cried

ok ok i did cry such a beautiful write up

[Guess-Works.com]

but factually complete bolloxs....

I read the first two or thre paragraphs and thought who ever wrote this know absolutely NOTHING about minis...

Shame really...

Cue "The Anorak"

[Angelic_Fruitcake]

It's still nice to hear such praise for our favourite little cars

[Mini-Mad-Craig]

To be fair though, he did kind of say he didnt really pay to much attention to mini And that was the first time he had driven one.

"You just start smiling, plain and simple. Other people smile at you; it just feels so quirky and fun" Best line on the Internet

[Teapot]

OK, fair enough, but that's just a well-meaning free puff for the London Mini Centre which is hardly going to say anything critical. However, I like this real, affectionate reminiscence among the comments:

"I inherited a 1984 Mini Mayfair from my sister ... it had been stood for something like a year on our drive and had mould in the seats and headlining and moss in all the gutters. It was a bit of a state but I spent 6 months lying on my back with some mould remover and a scrubbing brush and by the time I had finished that headlining was like new. When we bought the car in '98 it was 14 years old and had done just 14,000 miles with one lady owner. It still had the original cushions in the back and everything!

I stuck a small alloy steering wheel on it and a new gear knob and then a stage one kit and then enjoyed nearly 20-odd thousand miles in it in all weathers. It was a pain when cold as the alloy wheel and gearknob were freezing, and in the rain the distributor got wet and had to be cleaned using WD40 but I adored that car. I even took it out over the west pennine moors in the snow, beating range rovers up snow bound hills just because it was so light and on skinny tyres.

The girls loved it, and so did my mates, especially when I showed them the principle of lift-off oversteer! That car taught me how to drive, not the driving instructor two months previously. I had a few near misses in it, like the time I threw it into a 90 degree right hander a bit too fast and then nearly didnt catch the resulting slide, and I showed a few faster cars what cornering speed was all about."

I can dig that!

[rozzer!]

why oh why do people only know the cooper?! there were far more varients than just the cooper. grr!

[mk1leg]

Its becauce the Austin/Morris Cooper "S" Works cars won the Monte Carlo Rally 4 times on the trot, which no other one make car has done since, and in 1966 the french judges disqualified the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place mini's for not having diped lights , they enen stripped them down and measured and weighed all components, and found nothing wrong, then they took a bog stsndard cooper s out of a french showroom and raced it against the winner up a hill and the standard one won., thats why every one knows orf the mini cooper........................

Edited by mk1leg, 25 June 2008 - 09:12 PM.