39 replies to this topic

[IainNeon91]

I had my first mini when i was 17  , granted i'm now only 18  ... But my point is, i never desired to have any other car for my first! Every other car people my age gets now are so boring and 'modern', there wasn't any excitement in saying the word 'corsa' or 'punto'. 

 

This pretty much sums it up haha:

 

 

I wanted a car that i had to actually drive, even now i hardly ever listen to music whilst driving, simply because i love the sound of the mini! 

 

Hopefully i will keep owning mini's throughout my life, they are brilliant little cars! 

Edited by IainNeon91, 17 May 2013 - 11:18 PM.

[IainNeon91]

I just love Minis. I bought one because I wanted to own a Mini, with insurance being a bonus. I think it's good that we're getting into Minis at this age (I'm 18) and that we want to get into cars and to learn more about way they run as modern vehicles just hide everything. Insurance made me feel more inclined to purchase one, but not the primary reason. I bought it because i love it. 

Right on the money with this mate! 

Edited by IainNeon91, 17 May 2013 - 11:16 PM.

[xrocketengineer]

Well I got my first Mini at 56. It is great, it brings back all the memories I never had....

[maieth]

A little while after i started my current job teaching at a school and 6th form, around 4 years ago, I spotted a 2nd mini turn up at a house I always passed. Tatty little yellow thing. Over 3 years I watched as the mini gradually underwent a full restoration under its carport. Eventually it dissappeared and I stopped thinking about it for a while.
A few months back I passed the house and I thought another mini was there, this time a gleaming, pristine, mint green saloon with 1275GT badges. And for a week or two it just sat there.

Then one day I drove into work and bit followed me into the college car park, driven by a just-turned-18 6th former.

I'm only 28, but that certainly made me feel old. And jealous. Very jealous.

[dennismini93]

try owning the same car for more than 1/2 your life

my grandad has had the same car since 1960 and hes recorded every journey and its worked out as over 1 million miles!!!

[dennismini93]

I had my first mini when i was 17  , granted i'm now only 18  ... But my point is, i never desired to have any other car for my first! Every other car people my age gets now are so boring and 'modern', there wasn't any excitement in saying the word 'corsa' or 'punto'. 

 

This pretty much sums it up haha:

 

 

I wanted a car that i had to actually drive, even now i hardly ever listen to music whilst driving, simply because i love the sound of the mini! 

 

Hopefully i will keep owning mini's throughout my life, they are brilliant little cars! 

so true. four of us got minis at sixth form because we loved them and our mates with the corsa's etc wish they had a mini after seeing the smile on our face every day lol

[Ministrone]

I feel old when I think the first mini show I went to was 21 years ago!

[mab01uk]

The first Mini shows I went to were Mini 20th Birthday Extravaganza at Donnington in 1979 and the first National Mini Owners Club meeting at Twycross Zoo the same year where I won a prize in the modified concours class. Mini shows were very few and far between back then, the following year there was the Mini 21st Birthday Party 26th August 1980 held at Beaulieu.

Edited by mab01uk, 18 May 2013 - 08:06 AM.

[rids]

i had lots of mini's when i was 17 (early 80's) ranging from bangers to an all out 1380 built as a bet to beat a friends bike down the 1/4 mile. I even scrapped a 1971 1275gt!!! years later i sold my classic triumph to fund a car each for my sons, (a level results bribes) one wasn't bothered what he drove and the other wanted a mini, I found a low milage mayfair and started restoring, got carried away and spent to much on it, It reminded me how much fun they were and kept it for myself... Had to buy another one before he threw his teddy out the pram. Now he has the bug too. Some of his mates don't get it and wonder why he dosn't get a proper car. some days I think I'm getting to old for them, then I take it out for a drive and think sod it, if they make you smile, why not keep it.  Also, the older i get, the tighter i get, I can go for days on 1 tank of petrol and don't begrudge filling it up, other bigger, thirstier classics have me thinking twice about just going for a drive because of the price of a tankfull.    

Edited by rids, 18 May 2013 - 09:15 AM.

[WMU 211G]

I was looking through all my old Mini photos the other day and felt very old looking at a few in particular - the one I took from inside the car going round Silverstone in the 'Mini 40' parade made me shiver, it was fourteen years ago.... then I chanced upon a photo of a freshly restored Mk2 Cooper S taken at Stanford Hall in 1991, closely followed by a shot of the same car at the same place last year... where the hell did all that time go...?!!!

 

My current beastie is off the road undergoing the second restoration in it's forty five year lifespan, but I know that as soon as I get it back and start driving it I'll feel young again...!