Re: Share your photos
Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2021 5:25 am
Loving all the great photos! It’s giving me a chance to reminisce about all my minis I’ve owned over the years. Here is my 69 pup I had for a short while.
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Re: Share your photos
Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2021 6:16 am
Some years back...
Re: Share your photos
Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2021 9:57 am
Early 70s , Me kicking my heals up , Bomber car racing 
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Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2021 11:18 am
My daily driver from 2003 to 2006 - the only Mini I've owned on anything over 10'' wheels and it was decidedly twitchy on those big 13s....
Re: Share your photos
Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2021 12:38 pm
This rekindled my interest in Minis after 40years! complete restoration job.
Re: Share your photos
Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2021 1:18 pm
My Morris Mini Mk1 850 1967, bought in the early 80th and sold it some years later.
Unfortunatuly it was distroyed in a barn fire with several other classic cars.
Kees.
Unfortunatuly it was distroyed in a barn fire with several other classic cars.
Kees.Re: Share your photos
Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2021 1:47 pm
My old '64 on the roads we used on the Mk1 tour the other year
Al
Al
Re: Share your photos
Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2021 2:20 pm
And what fun it was too!
Bloody COVID!
Bloody COVID!
Re: Share your photos
Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2021 12:49 pm
Funny to see your old numberplate there Kees, a friend of mine built a Peel Viking Sport from a scrap 850 with 88-49-EP. I think Jeroen Booij wrote about it on here.
Re: Share your photos
Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2021 2:54 pm
Yes that's a well know Peel Viking by now.
I bought the mk1 for FL 200,= guilders in the early
80th from an old lady in Loosdrecht. Here husband did repair the rust hols with the outside from an refrigerator.
He made a measure from de hole and cut it a bit larger out the metal. He than drilled holes around it and put rivets in it, than some primer to cover the white colour from the fridge.
I bought the mk1 for FL 200,= guilders in the early
80th from an old lady in Loosdrecht. Here husband did repair the rust hols with the outside from an refrigerator.
He made a measure from de hole and cut it a bit larger out the metal. He than drilled holes around it and put rivets in it, than some primer to cover the white colour from the fridge.
Re: Share your photos
Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2021 1:37 pm
Here is my two Mk1s parked together for a photo shoot!
Re: Share your photos
Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2021 4:43 pm
Not the most pleasant photo to share, but this is what happened after a BMW driver failed to pay attention earlier today...
Re: Share your photos
Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2021 5:53 pm
i can see the insurance company writing that off . You may well have the right to buy the salvage if they do . ... ken
Re: Share your photos
Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2021 6:32 pm
This type of rear end shunt happens so often on Mini forums now, I think it is essential to fit a high level led rear brake light in any classic Mini, modern drivers are just not used to cars only having the low down and quite small brake lights of many classic cars. Quite discreet LED strips can be fitted as below....
LED High Level brake light:-
http://mk1-forum.net/viewtopic.php?p=273042#p273042
Re: Share your photos
Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2021 6:59 pm
Like this one mab01uk , 
Re: Share your photos
Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2021 7:13 pm
I think the main problem is a lack of driver attention nowadays and too many driver aids. As I write this I realise I am sounding like my dear old dad who in the 1960s could not see the need for a heater and always drove with his window open! Oh yes and the need to pass a driving test but not actually realise you never stop learning. Always a new hazard around the corner!
Re: Share your photos
Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2021 9:01 pm
I know nothing about today's cars, however it strikes me as completely irresponsible that manufacturers produce cars with screen based menu systems that are not disabled while the car is moving. I watch Harry's Garage on YouTube and last week he was driving the new BMW M3 and while driving was flicking through the menus changing suspension, gearchange and throttle settings, all while looking at the screen and driving. How do they get away with that?. It's just as bad as reading or sending messages on your phone when driving. No wonder there are accidents like this.
Re: Share your photos
Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2021 9:25 pm
Mmmm Dum Dum the full 1lb 'Smell you later'
Re: Share your photos
Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2021 10:05 pm
Couldn't agree more Robin.111Robin wrote: ↑Sat Apr 17, 2021 9:01 pm I know nothing about today's cars, however it strikes me as completely irresponsible that manufacturers produce cars with screen based menu systems that are not disabled while the car is moving. I watch Harry's Garage on YouTube and last week he was driving the new BMW M3 and while driving was flicking through the menus changing suspension, gearchange and throttle settings, all while looking at the screen and driving. How do they get away with that?. It's just as bad as reading or sending messages on your phone when driving. No wonder there are accidents like this.
Driver aids (most of which are needless if you actually pay attention to what you are doing and the surroundings) .. whilst travelling in the Mini I often wonder how I actually get to where I need to get to ...
Re: Share your photos
Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2021 3:07 pm
An early one from me.
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