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[Realminiman]

Did anybody notice the group of about 10 bmws on the drive at brighton yesterday..? Me and my mate who has worked on Minis for 30 years were fasinated to see how 'different' bmw drivers look and seem to be different kind of people...... compared to real mini drivers, anybody else notice this...?

Anyway surely it would be better for these guys to have there own run.. ?Has this ever been discussed..?

Great day anyway!

[mab01uk]

In my experience MINI drivers/owners on the whole whether enthusiasts or not are just as varied and friendly as classic owners when you get to know them.........equally there are also good and bad members of both camps as well as some oddballs!

The L to B Event is now sponsored by Miniworld and Modern MINI magazines (same publisher) tickets form was in Modern MINI magazine as the organisers LSMOC want to encourage more MINI's to take part to ensure the long term future of the event.

Edited by mab01uk, 16 May 2011 - 06:28 PM.

[JoneseyBoy]

In my experience MINI drivers/owners on the whole whether enthusiasts or not are just as varied and friendly as classic owners

i dont agree to be honest i did a little test the other day that every BINI i see i would wave to and i didnt get one wave back just funny looks and even a finger. Most of the peple driving BINIs are girls who think they are a fasion accessory same with the beatle and the fiat 500.

i thinks classic car shows should purely be classic

[Realminiman]

In my experience MINI drivers/owners on the whole whether enthusiasts or not are just as varied and friendly as classic owners

i dont agree to be honest i did a little test the other day that every BINI i see i would wave to and i didnt get one wave back just funny looks and even a finger. Most of the peple driving BINIs are girls who think they are a fasion accessory same with the beatle and the fiat 500.

i thinks classic car shows should purely be classic

whatever opinions I think i feel quite sorry for these guys because 99% of em dont 'get it' as you have pointed out, perhaps its better to let bygones be bygones and let them have there own L-B seperate from the real mini run...

I must day those latest ones they have tried to make are hideous cars and they still call them minis .. ?

[AVV IT]

I'm gonna get in here early before it all turns ugly and this thread gets closed! Yes I agree the guys stood around the Bini section on Madeira Drive certainly looked different from the average classic mini owner! But then they are modified modern car enthusiasts after all, so they are much more likely to be the stereotypical single males in their twenties, who are into cruising, big ICE systems, ridiculously low profile tyres and reading fast car magazine.

Owning any modern classic is about restoration, preservation and getting your hands dirty, where as modifying a modern car is about making yours faster and lower than the next guys, it really is two completely different pass times so there's little wonder that it appeals to two very different types of people. It's for this reason that I don't think that the shared Mini/Bini thing really works, to preserve the longevity of these types of events we would be far better teaming up with other classic car groups like VW or Classic Ford owners, at least that way we would have something more than just a car name in common!!

[.998TANGO.]

I'm gonna get in here early before it all turns ugly and this thread gets closed! Yes I agree the guys stood around the Bini section on Madeira Drive certainly looked different from the average classic mini owner! But then they are modified modern car enthusiasts after all, so they are much more likely to be the stereotypical single males in their twenties, who are into cruising, big ICE systems, ridiculously low profile tyres and reading fast car magazine.

Owning any modern classic is about restoration, preservation and getting your hands dirty, where as modifying a modern car is about making yours faster and lower than the next guys, it really is two completely different pass times so there's little wonder that it appeals to two very different types of people. It's for this reason that I don't think that the shared Mini/Bini thing really works, to preserve the longevity of these types of events we would be far better teaming up with other classic car groups like VW or Classic Ford owners, at least that way we would have something more than just a car name in common!!

and you would never see a classic mini with a stupid sound system and rediculous body mods. and i bet theres a fair few classic owners that dont look like the usual mini owner if there is such a thing.

i dont see whats wrong with bini's being there the owners must have a slight interest in the classics other wise they wouldnt come along to a show where there was over a thousand of them, and at the end of the day quite a few of those binis looked very nice! just my opinion. dont take it to heart.

Edited by .998TANGO., 16 May 2011 - 09:12 PM.

[adam_93rio]

i completely agree, its a completely different scene and i dont think they should be at the same event. and to be honest i dont see why teyd be interested in doing the l2b, their cars will drive practically forever so i cant see the appeal to them. its an accomplishment for us classic owners. not just a weekend away to look over the top of all the cars queued up

[minidream94]

Lets think though, l2b isnt exactly going to die out in the next year or 2 if all the bini's wernt allowed to go will it? i mean judging by yesterdays attendance, if it was solely classics it will still go on for about another 10-15 years or so

[Merlin-Mini]

s we would be far better teaming up with other classic car groups like VW or Classic Ford owners, at least that way we would have something more than just a car name in common!!

I agree with this so much, i am also part of a classic ford club and those guys are so similar to mini owners and just as much fun, that would be my perfect show where mini's and the likes of cosworth's come together to be social. May be we should organise something?

Rich

[electricjim]

my only quibble to be honist is if i have one in front i cant see the rest of the convoy lol, the Bini owners i know are nice people who embrace the mini scene.

[minidream94]

we would be far better teaming up with other classic car groups like VW or Classic Ford owners, at least that way we would have something more than just a car name in common!!

Well technically, we have teamed up with the dub boys, look at the blenheim vw vs mini show

[adam_93rio]

and another thing is during the run, the bmw mini owners wtendtojust be like all the rest of the london traffic. igotcut up by a bini that was doing the run about4 times, and it wasnt just when hewas in the wrong lane which i could understand, he just did it for the sake of changing lanes. never waved or anything, which with a classic owner theyd hav the desency to look around then id wave them in and get thanked for it

[AVV IT]

s we would be far better teaming up with other classic car groups like VW or Classic Ford owners, at least that way we would have something more than just a car name in common!!

I agree with this so much, i am also part of a classic ford club and those guys are so similar to mini owners and just as much fun, that would be my perfect show where mini's and the likes of cosworth's come together to be social. May be we should organise something?

Rich

I'd certainly be up for that I love Classic Fords, but sadly don't own one . I also thought that the Knebworth Mini & VW last year was brilliant, it was great to have a look around some other classics as well as all the minis for once, I'll certainly be going again this year!!

[mab01uk]

I'm gonna get in here early before it all turns ugly and this thread gets closed! Yes I agree the guys stood around the Bini section on Madeira Drive certainly looked different from the average classic mini owner! But then they are modified modern car enthusiasts after all, so they are much more likely to be the stereotypical single males in their twenties, who are into cruising, big ICE systems, ridiculously low profile tyres and reading fast car magazine.

Owning any modern classic is about restoration, preservation and getting your hands dirty, where as modifying a modern car is about making yours faster and lower than the next guys, it really is two completely different pass times so there's little wonder that it appeals to two very different types of people.

A large section of the classic Mini scene today and in the past has always been "about making yours faster and lower than the next guys" all part of what has made up the wide variety of interest at Mini shows.......I was driving in a standard restored 1960 Austin Se7en yesterday and was passed frequently on route by plenty of classic Mini's driven by "stereotypical single males in their twenties, with big ICE systems, ridiculously wide 7 x 13" wheels and quite low profile tyres! Not really my scene anymore and a different type of 'people' as you put it maybe, but live and let live and a friendly united Mini/MINI scene is without doubt still the best way forward for the future. I also like to look at Honda Vtec Mini's as much as a factory concours early Mk1 Mini Minor 850 but I would not define a modern Vtec Mini conversion as either restoration or preservation or want them banned from the shows because of that.
Neither did I want the re-introduced Rover Mini Coopers banned from shows back in the early 1990's because they were brand new 'showroom' fresh cars, although many so called early Mini enthusiasts at the time thought they had no place in either shows or concours and were very rude to their owners!

In the modern MINI scene I know of older owners who have had classics in the past, others who like me have both classic and new, younger owners with their first car both male and female, hands-on MINI owners who like radical tuning and modifiying, track days, etc, in fact the whole range of enthusiasts pretty much similar in make-up to a typical cross-section of classic owners. It should also be remembered that the entry level price of the early MINI One's and Coopers and even some Cooper S is now less than a similar age good rust free classic Mini MPI or well looked after earlier classic Mini, so like it or not MINI's will become the way many younger drivers starting out get first introduced to the Mini show scene in future years.......and hopefully some will go on to develop an interest in classics after meeting all their friendly welcoming owners!

[x.Millie.x]

Me and my mate who has worked on Minis for 30 years were fasinated to see how 'different' bmw drivers look and seem to be different kind of people...... compared to real mini drivers, anybody else notice this...?

I actually read this as "they seem to be kinda like real people... compared to real mini drivers"

haha well, it IS 4am... lack of sleep + slight paranoia that we are a little odd = complete nonsense