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[millermilla]

Just interested to find out whats peoples car history has been. Has it always been a mini or have you stepped over to the darkside before.

My car history is pretty varied especially in the last couple of years. I started with a min and Ive always had a love for them like you would your first real girlfriend. After a 5 year lay off ive now got 2 mini's in the garage, one of them a project for my cousin and the other a new project for me.

1981 Mini 1000HL original and the best
1981 MK3 Ford Escort 1.3Ghia very first of the Mk3's and what I would call a proper Ghia i.e 1" thick carpets as standard
1985 Ford Orion 1.3L grandad car
1989 Ford Escort 1.3 nice car a bit dull but credit for the 125000 miles on the ole pushrod mota
1986 Mini 1275 originally a City E broke down on average every 100 miles
1991 Mini Rover Cooper 1.3i bought at 60000 miles and run until 130000 original engine!!
1987 Mini Piccadilli 1.0 Project car, bought and sold too quickly it was a little gem
1998 Mini Cooper Sports Pack 1.3i my baby bought brand new, spent over 14K in total and sold in better than new condition for 6K (DOOOOHHH)
1994 Ford Escort 1.3L one for the Mrs and probably one of Henry Fords worst creations
1990 Mini ERA Turbo £6K Restoration project. No expence spared and a real 130BHP awesome car, makes me cry knowing I sold it
1993 TVR Chimaera 4.0HC Wooof Torque galore
1996 TVR Cerbera 4.2 The fastest car in a straight line ive ever driven and the olnly car that really scared me. Had to be respected
1999 Lotus Elise 111S sorry to dis the mini but if you want to get from A to B in the quickest time there isnt much to beat it
1999 Nissan 200SX Touring S14a Drifting turbo stupid overboost fun
2004 Ford Mondeo 1.8LX (Current) Boring but very practical and rarer then a BMW 3 series
1994 Mini Mayfair soon to be retro Cooper on 10's (Current)

+ 1975 Cessna 150M G-BPAX (Current) Mile high fun and can do Brighton to Newquay in 1hr 30 with a tailwind

[mattyoung69]

This is from 1998!!

1) 1982 Mini City - more holes than a holy thing.
2) 1978 Clubby Estate - holy but not as bad as above.
3) 1994 Fiat Tipo - mm
4) 1993 Ford Escort -
5) 1997 Fiat Punto -
6) 1994 VW Golf - Thirsty!
7) 1998 Ford Puma -
8) 1995 L/Rover Discovery - killed by a corsa
9) 1994 Subaru Impreza - noisy and thirsty
10) 1996 Fiat Bravo 1.8 HLX - not bad...
11) 1999 Subaru Impreza - miss it loads!!
12) 1994 Suzuki Vitara -pap on 4 wheels
13) 1996 Fiat Brava 1.4 - killed by a bus
14) 1993 Ford Fiesta - never used...
15) 1993 Renault Laguna 1.8 (Current)
16) 1979 Clubby Estate (Current)

[mini93]

short list

1) 93 mini mayfair (the not so soon to be race car)
2) 77 mini clubman (the daily drive)
3) 96 honda civic (about to sell bought when herb's engine died)

all i still own aswell

[The Matt]

Hmmm, I'll try and remember! In reverse order:

1971 Mini 1000 (well, now a 1380, AKA the FReaK). <--- Still got!
1997 Pug 306 XSi (sold it two days ago)
1987 Pug 205 1.9 GTi.
1995 Audi 80 Avante.
1986 Mini City (I bought it as a rolling shell, then scrapped it because it was totally bodged up with filler and bits of newspaper).
1989 Astra SRi (now being rallied AFAIK).
1986 Fiesta XR2 (got written off by some eedjit driving in the back of me).
1985 Mini City E (convertible, ERA turbo bodykit, now stripped to bare shell). <----still got it, going to be converted into roadster with Honda 16V engine soon, owned it since 1995
1986 Astra 1.3.
1985 Fiat Panda.
1979 Mini 1000.
1986 Dacia Duster (tee hee, nobody EVER knows what they were). <---- That was in about 1993 I think.

I think that's about it. It's a strange mix, but there are enough Mini's in there!

[Bungle]

can we merge this with the other topic what cars we have had

[The Matt]

can we merge this with the other topic what cars we have had

Yeah! If you find it and link it!

[A KIRK]

1988 Renault 9
1988 yugo 45a
1983 1.0 metro
1994 1.3 metro
1983 MG Metro
1982 1.0 Metro
1981 Ford Cortina
1984 Vauxhall Caverlier 1.6 blew up in 2 weeks
1988 Talbot Samba Convertable
1988 Montego
1983 Mini city
1988 Ford Orion
1981 mini
2000 Saxo VTS
2001 Alfa Romeo 156
1991 VW Golf
1985 mini mayfair
1998 Ford Mondeo Estate
1993 1.4 AStra
Renault Kangoo Van
1976 mini van current
55 WV Caddy van current
1991 Ford Transit Luton current

I think thats it plus varios company cars etc

[Doc]

Kirky how the hell could you have owned a motor in 1988 you only a year older than me, that would of made you 9!!

Mine is very short and sweet and has a regular theme. These are the cars I have owned not that I drove as I did poodle about in my mums Escort for a bit when they were off the road.

1984 Mini Mayfair
1983 MG Metro in scrapper, was for donor engine
19?? Mini Clubman Estate
1994 Mini Cooper Monte Carlo current
1987 Metro in scrapper, was for spare engine

That's it all the cars that I have had my name on the log books to. Soon to buy an Alfa tho, just tring to decide between a GT or a 147

Edited by Doc, 23 May 2007 - 08:20 AM.

[Many Minis Make 1]

After Passing my test in 1981, didn't think I owned many cars until I added this up.
(1) 1974 Ford escort mk1 estate.
(2) 1967 MG Midget 1275 (still have after 25yrs, but only drove it for 3 years, lets say was on 1st name terms with RAC man.)
(3) 1970 Hillman Avenger (never let me down)
(4) 1982 Metro 1.3L (spent more time with Rover)
(5) 1979 Triumph Dolomite 1500 SE (Loved this car)
(6) 1982 Honda Quintett (This was the 1st & last Green car other cars pick on it)
(7) 1982 Honda Civic
(8) 1989 Ford Sierra 1.8 LX Estate.
(9) 1988 Toyota Space Cruiser (kiddie wagon)
(10) 1994 Nissan Micra 1.0
(11) 1998 Vauxhall Corsa 1.4 sports
(12) 2001 Ford Focus 1.4 zetec
(13) 1997 Jaguar XJR (Still paying the credit card bill for the fuel)
(14) 2004 Chrysler Voyager (Another Kiddie wagon)
(15) 1989 Mini Mayfair Current(Just put a 1275 engine in it)

[Many Minis Make 1]

Doc they are the year the car hit the road, not when Kirky bought them....lol

[Doc]

Ah I get ya

Better edit my post then, ha!!

Edited by Doc, 23 May 2007 - 08:18 AM.

[Bean]

1997 Pug 306 XSi (sold it two days ago)

Well done, you! --->


My car history :

1991 Ford Fiesta ... "Sydd" - Bought for £50, worked fine for a year then his door fell off and his clutch went - He's still on the road though, someone was doing him up!

1999 Fiat Seicento ... "Tibs" - He's a pain in the bum! bought him in 2005 off ebay! He's great fun, though

1984 Mini 25 ... "Ronnie" - YAY!

[fatmini]

1988 mini mayfair
1986 mini mayfair
1994 mini 35
1992 mini cooper spi
1969 mini minus
1995 pug 306 1.9d ---- my god this was the slowest car i have ever ownd,sold it within a month !
1996 ford st24 2.5v6 -----not a quick car either !
2002 ford fiesta

Edited by fatmini, 23 May 2007 - 08:41 AM.

[Sam]

started at age 11

1970s grasstrack round nose
1975 grasstrack clubman (was a beautiful car when it was first built)
at the same time as above another roundnose racer
1974? grasstrack clubman (still own)
70's 1275 clubman (still own)
1971 mini 1275 GT (still own)
1988 mini mayfair (bought to break for spares)
1974 Mini 1000, nasty car, sold
1990 205 GTi (still own)

Edited by Sam, 23 May 2007 - 08:49 AM.

[adammini]

Well started with...

1989 Mayfair (Current)
1971 Clubman (oh why oh why did I sell it!)
1996 Corsa 1.4 GLS (Current) My grandmas old car, gets me about when the mini is broke (most of the time)

Bikes on the other hand....

1986 Honda C90
1968 Honda PC50 (Current) its fantastic, you can cycle faster than it!
1990 Suzuki TS50
1992 Suzuki RG125 Wolf - Oh how I miss the smell of 2 stroke