............Anyhow back to the minis, I flashed a blue sportpack on starmags in swindon today, based purely on this thread, so see what would happen. I was in my moke, and got absolutely no response. Bird driving, late 20's early 30's and all i got back was a blank stare.....
Not boding well, so far....
Rich
Well Rich, at least you tried, that's the main thing. In defence of the girl driving the Sportspack, p'raps she didn't realise the Moke and Mini were related. They do look a little different after all.
I have to be honest, the whole Mini scene is why I love the cars so much. People generally are friendly with each other (some of us have bad days) and most people don't give a hoot what's under the bonnet, what model it is or what colour it is. The main thing is it's a Mini and it's people like all of us on TMF that keep the whole Mini scene alive.
Some people are restoring classic bog standard 850s (hats off to them) some people are turning Minis into tarmac eating monsters (like yourself by the look of it) and some people like to bodykit a mini or cover it in chromey bling. All that matters is that we keep on Mini-ing and keep the old beauties on the road, because one day they are going to disappear of the face of the planet!
As for Porsches, I actually love the old 356 and I think if I could ever afford to buy/run a Porsche it would have to be that model as everything else is poor in comparison in my mind (I have a friend who has a fully restored model and it really is amazing). BUT, I would never dream of slagging off someone elses Porsche model simply because IMHO it aint the best one they ever built (and that counts for 911s, 928s, 944s and so on). Obviously I am not taking performance into consideration with that statement, I just really like 356s.
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