Let me give you a quick intro. I live in Hampshire, and have done most my life, Im 25 and in the last five years or so i have owned and sold about 5 or 6 minis. when i first started playing with minis, I was studying down at uni in Southampton.
Just up the road from me, about 20 mins from my student digs was a place called Minis - r - us, great for getting parts quickly and conveniently.
When i first started going to this place 5 years ago i thought it was great, they had a really nice collection of minis on the forecourt, and a good selection of spare parts.
5 years on and I'm sad to see that nearly all of the cars i saw back when i was at uni are slowly rotting away still in the same place on the forecourt. What once were nice usable and very saleable cars are now BIG projects.
I was driving past today and stopped to have a count up, sat there in the pissing rain with windows and sunroofs open i counted 45 minis, and two land rover series IIIs
I just don't understand why they are just being left to rot, I have been in there recently asking if any of the cars are for sale, and the chap running the shop rarely seems to have anything for sale, and when they do its at a ludicrous prices. A 1989 city e with a large amount of bodywork needing to be done, a whole new interior, no MOT or TAX and hadn't run for some time, he wanted close to 2k for it.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING MAN! these cars need to be loved and restored not just allowed to die a slow rusty death.
It just upsets me knowing that the dream project car for myself and I'm sure plenty of people on TMF is just sat there, not for sale rotting away for absolutely no reason.
I hope that the owner sees this and bucks his ideas up a bit.
Do the right thing and give these cars another chance.
Im not sure what else i can do to try and save these cars.
Thanks for reading
Mini_mezza