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[Tim61]

Hi all, just a quick intro!

 

My interest in the Mini was fueled from watching club saloon car races at Silverstone in the early '70s and of course from the Italian Job.

My Mini ownership goes back to the early 80's, my first car was a very rotten G registration Mini 998 Cooper, bought for just £395 it was Ford purple with a black vinyl roof and had a truly awful home-made wooden dashboard. It was soon re-sprayed Tartan Red and the vinyl removed to display a white roof, it was finished of with Special Tuning wheel arches and a leather bonnet strap it looked very Works!

 

Numerous Minis came and went and i was a member of both The Mini Cooper Club and the Mini Cooper Register, the last a Mini I owned was a 1275S, sold due to lack of use and a somewhere suitable to keep it, a decision I truly regret as it would be worth 3 or 4 times what I sold it for now!

And then recently the Mini itch started again but with with prices of Coopers soaring and out of my reach I decided on a Paul Smith Mini.

The one I found has had a body restoration and drives nicely but needs a little TLC to get it to where I want it, I intend to use it to commute (only 5 miles each way) in the better weather. 

 

 

[DeadSquare]

I must get some new glasses;  That's the second time this month that I thought someone lived nearby in Herefordshire

[unburntfuelinthemorning]

Welcome to the forum.  If only we kept the cars we used to own, I used to have a pick up and I still mourn for it even though I have a van now.  I would love to have had a sixties Cooper, still the van's probably more useable these days for every day driving.  I'd say drive your Mini as much as possible even if the weather isn't so great but that's me.

[MiniMacPS]

Hi all, I am also the proud owner of a Paul Smith 1998, love the car and i got married in it this time last year. Had it around 14 months so far and have no intention of selling it. One of the benefits of this lock down is the time I have been able to spend on it.

 

Only yesterday I finished replacing the cones, trumpets and shockers on all 4 corners. It is currently sitting a little high for me but I am sure it will bed in a little over the next few weeks before final adjustment. The front was running on the bump stops pretty much so the steering is a lot lighter now and it is nice to have the improved dampers as the ones I replaced were the original by the looks of them. No life left in them at all. The Bilstein B6 dampers were the ones selected (I also put a set on my Defender and they were fantastic on that too), with hi-low adjustable trumpets and red spot cones. Like I said, needs some driving to aid it bedding down but it is already a vast improvement!