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[Juju]

matilda has a friend

Not sure they're friends yet. I think it's a boy. He's a checkmate with SP arches & fat wheels & I caught her growling at him on friday night....bad girl..... >

[Ethel]

The Mini was sold with an 11/16 AF wheel brace - coincidently this happens to be the same size as the wheel nuts used on many small British motorcars.

[charlie_the_miniboy]

Minnie Mouse first appeared in a Disney Cartoon in 1928, 51 years before the Mini was launched.

erm i think your maths is wrong, you'll find thats 31 years

[minimender]

The Mini was sold with an 11/16 AF wheel brace - coincidently this happens to be the same size as the wheel nuts used on many small British motorcars.

Found one of those in the garage yesterday, its a red one with a flattened end for getting yer hubcaps off.

anyway,

In 1994 it was believed that more british people either learned to drive in a Mini or had a Mini as their first car.

and

If you parked all the Minis ever made end to end they would reach from London to Sydney, Austrailia 10,568 miles away. It would take 188 gallons of unleaded to drive there as the crow flies.

[Juju]

The weight of a mini is roughly equivalent to 0.137 adult African elephants, or one of these prize-winning pumpkins:

[A KIRK]

Did you also know a mini has 7 wheels including a spare

[Ethel]

Minnie Mouse first appeared in a Disney Cartoon in 1928, 51 years before the Mini was launched.

erm i think your maths is wrong, you'll find thats 31 years

Just the maths then?

[Ethel]

Did you also know a mini has 7 wheels including a spare

I'll raise that bid to 8

[A KIRK]

You got me there as I can only think of 7, unless you have 2 spares

[Juju]

In order to reach the height of Nelson's Column, you would have to stack 42 minis on top of each other.

[Juju]

Last one (I promise).....

The area beneath a mini is 0.9 times the surface of The Prince of Wales.

[Elfie]

Big puddles+ mini = the bumper somehow coming off, then me running over it and a cracked numberplate. Not chuffed I tell thee

[Haynes Emmanuelle]

Last one (I promise).....

The area beneath a mini is 0.9 times the surface of The Prince of Wales.

Bestest one so far!

[minimender]

I knew this would get silly when the kids got home from school.

never mind,

The mini was the first British car to win the the European Rally Championship

and

The late James Hunt's (racing driver) first ever racing car was a Mini in 1966

and

Niki Lauda's (racing driver) first racing success was behind the wheel of a Mini Cooper on a hillclimb event

and

BMC had a Mini hatchback ready for production long before the Metro or Fiesta arrived. Designed by Issigonis and code named 9X it was shelved as a Mini replacement in 1968

[Juju]

Sir Alec Issigonis = Oil gases in crisis?