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[thesidewalk]

Well last night I got home from work in my boring fiesta, walked into the house turned the telly on and started cooking some dinner, and then all of a sudden I had this urge come over me to just go and drive my mini, but not just round the block, I wanted to go Somewhere.

Turned the cooker and TV off and went into the garage, turned misty the sidewalk over and she started on the first turn, WOW SHE HAS NEVER DONE THAT EVEN IN THE BEST OF CONDITIONS!

So I thought where shall I go, BRIGHTON! so I drove misty from slough to brighton in the freezing cold, got down there, parked up and went for a walk, then drove home, got home at 2 in the morning SO TIRED!

But when I got home i got out of the car went to walk to my front door and turned round to look at my tax disk, I forgot to put some tax on it, month out of date :S.

But have any of you just had the urge to just drive somewhere? for no reason?

Tell me im normal!

[Masoa010]

I did it alot when i first bought mine, but now i just have the fear of breaking down somewhere so i don't anymore + i can't afford any petrol

[LeaLeaCooper]

its my tax disc stopping me from doing this over the weekend :-( It seems to have got lost in the post! when i called them yesterday they told me i still couldnt drive it even though i have paid my tax

But i like taking the car on random little drives in country lanes after picking the hubby up from the train station at silly oclock in the morning - best time ever!

[MaxAndPaddy]

We're a bit too busy to be able to do that kind of run.... but in summer we tend to come up with random/weird excuses to take them out

He looks upset
He needs some love
Yeah I know we should be painting the front windows, but its sunny and the cake shop at Castle Howard is missing us
You take the Volvo honey, I'l manage with the mini
Its sunny
Its Sunday

Edited by MaxAndPaddy, 08 February 2012 - 09:32 AM.

[BlueBell]

Years ago I used to get up on a Sunday, get the local drive through, pickup a brekky and a coffee and then just drive off randomly. I would never have any idea where I was going to go and would decide turn by turn on my route.The general objective waa to avoid roads I had driven before and to stay 'lost' for as long as possible.

I would be gone for hours but I dread to think what it would cost in petrol now.

[thesidewalk]

stay 'lost' for as long as possible.

when I first passed my test I used to do that, ended up in some weird places, ended up someones driveway one day, awkward

[Black.Ghost]

I used to do that. I've done it in other cars beside a Mini as well. If I'm sat around bored I like to jump in the car, turn the music up really loud, and just drive. I have been known to make a CD especially as well, instead of just using the ones already in the car.

[Teapot]

Yes.


In my Mini Cooper BFH203B, bought new in '64, I did 36,000 miles in a year. Admittedly some of that was commuting. Still, driving a mini is driving a mini, eh?

[thesidewalk]

I used to do that. I've done it in other cars beside a Mini as well. If I'm sat around bored I like to jump in the car, turn the music up really loud, and just drive. I have been known to make a CD especially as well, instead of just using the ones already in the car.

YES!!!!

sometimes I get in different moods about which sort of road, sometimes I just want a nice straight bit of single carraigeway with the exhaust burbling away and the music up and other times I like a ncie winder peice of road, luckily my area caters for both!

Once I put a new song on my memory stick and I just went for a drive just to listen to this particular song!

[PSBuckshot]

I do it all the time

[AVV IT]

Yes you are weird!!.... but then in which case I am clearly also weird too!!

I used to do this kind of thing regularly in my mates 1100 special during my youth. Some of the bizzare places we went in that mini in the middle of the night, for no particular reason included:

• Down to London, around Picadilly circus and back again.
• Up to the Pennines in the middle of winter to drive across "Snakes Pass" and back again.
• Down to Dover for a quick look at the ferries and then back again.
• Up to Scotland around Loch Ness and back again (that actually took two days and involved sleeping in the car overnight)
• Down to South Wales (via Gloucester because we didn't want to pay the toll to use the Severn bridge) & then back again via the Severn Bridge because you don't have to pay the toll on the return!!
• The most memorable of all was a drive down to Southampton to look at the ships, followed by a quick detour across to Stone Henge (only to find it closed of to the public at 3AM and also surrounded by 8ft barbed wire fences). So in a mad moment of youthful stupidity, we decided to scale the fence, naively thinking that nobody would ever know because it was the middle of the night. Only to set off a load security alarms and be chased by a team of angry security guards with large dogs. We eventually managed to persuade them that we were not actually vandals, or new age travellers and that we didn't mean any harm, so they agreed not to hand us over to the Police. I managed to catch myself on one of the barbs though, whilst trying to scale the fence to get away from a very large German Shepard and I still have the scar almost 20 years later!!! We finally got back home at about 8am!!

Ahhh to be young, irresponsible and weird again!!!

Edited by AVV IT, 08 February 2012 - 10:31 AM.

[LeaLeaCooper]

Yes you are weird!!.... but then in which case I am clearly also weird too!!

I used to do this kind of thing regularly in my mates 1100 special during my youth. Some of the bizzare places we went in that mini in the middle of the night, for no particular reason included:

• Down to London, around Picadilly circus and back again.
• Up to the Pennines in the middle of winter to drive across "Snakes Pass" and back again.
• Down to Dover for a quick look at the ferries and then back again.
• Up to Scotland around Loch Ness and back again (that actually took two days and involved sleeping in the car overnight)
• Down to South Wales (via Gloucester because we didn't want to pay the toll to use the Severn bridge) & then back again via the Severn Bridge because you don't have to pay the toll on the return!!
• The most memorable of all was a drive down to Southampton to look at the ships, followed by a quick detour across to Stone Henge (only to find it closed of to the public at 3AM and also surrounded by 8ft barbed wire fences). So in a mad moment of youthful stupidity, we decided to scale the fence, naively thinking that nobody would ever know because it was the middle of the night. Only to set off a load security alarms and be chased by a team of angry security guards with large dogs. We eventually managed to persuade them that we were not actually vandals, or new age travellers and that we didn't mean any harm, so they agreed not to hand us over to the Police. I managed to catch myself on one of the barbs though, whilst trying to scale the fence to get away from a very large German Shepard and I still have the scar almost 20 years later!!! We finally got back home at about 8am!!

Ahhh to be young, irresponsible and weird again!!!

I am stealing some of these ideas!

[Black.Ghost]

[*]Down to London, around Picadilly circus and back again.

When mine is sorted, I want to do a big trip around London, maybe at night, and see all the key places and get loads of pics.

[AVV IT]

I am stealing some of these ideas!

Help yourself!!!...... (I wouldn't actually recommend the braking into Stone Henge one though ) Just be sure to put a big sign in your window that reads "AVV IT did this first!!"

At the time there was a load of coverage in the news about the increase in anti social driving behaviour amongst young people (speeding, racing, revving and doing doughnuts in public etc.) For some reason this behaviour was given the term "Hoon" in Australia, they have even passed "anti-hoon" legislation in Australia in recent years to try and combat it. With my mates dad having lived in Australia, he therefore used to jokingly refer to our teenage driving around in the middle of the night during unsocial hours as "Hooning". The phrase stuck and from that day forward these pointless night time jaunts, were referred to as "Hoons" or going on a "Hoon". They actually still are and almost twenty years later when me and my mates occasionally look back and reminisce about them we still talk about "Hooning"!.

So I therefore suggest that from this moment forward, here on TMF we refer to driving somewhere in your mini in the middle of the night, for no real reason as a "Hoon"!!... It's clearly a common concept and I think it's only right that we give it a name/label.

[MaxAndPaddy]

I am stealing some of these ideas!

Help yourself!!!...... (I wouldn't actually recommend the braking into Stone Henge one though ) Just be sure to put a big sign in your window that reads "AVV IT did this first!!"

At the time there was a load of coverage in the news about the increase in anti social driving behaviour amongst young people (speeding, racing, revving and doing doughnuts in public etc.) For some reason this behaviour was given the term "Hoon" in Australia, they have even passed "anti-hoon" legislation in Australia in recent years to try and combat it. With my mates dad having lived in Australia, he therefore used to jokingly refer to our teenage driving around in the middle of the night during unsocial hours as "Hooning". The phrase stuck and from that day forward these pointless night time jaunts, were referred to as "Hoons" or going on a "Hoon". They actually still are and almost twenty years later when me and my mates occasionally look back and reminisce about them we still talk about "Hooning"!.

So I therefore suggest that from this moment forward, here on TMF we refer to driving somewhere in your mini in the middle of the night, for no real reason as a "Hoon"!!... It's clearly a common concept and I think it's only right that we give it a name/label.

Think its already got a name its called....'Dogging'