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[Bungle]

sitting in the camper Sunday morning with the curtains drawn a car starts up outside


baring in mind this was a busy camp site with many cars around us (mainly VW's)

Bungle jnr looks at me and says mini, it sound like a mini so i open the curtains to see one driving past


is it right a 2 year old can tell what a car is but its sound ?

[Mini-Mad-Craig]

Lol! nice story. Proberly is.

[Rhyd]

Children have fantastic hearing, I remember reading how quickly sensitivity drops off with age but I can't remember how much now

I may not be 2, but I can recognise a Mini no problem. Early Fiestas / small bore Escorts too (no other cars have tappets that rattly!)

Maybe if you train him up on engine sounds he'll be famous for it one day

[Doctor_63]

I the same with Rolls-Royce Merlin Engines, years of watching Battle of Britian and Dambusters

[Pauly]

You have trained him well Mr. Bungle

Paul.

[jordie 08]

ah,there be another enthusiast on the way
he has the mini thing,a bug thats imposiple to get rid of

i could tell cars far away by the style,if it had no balges i could tell
i think i was 3 and loved cars,got a pic in ma overalls since i was 4

Edited by jordie 08, 04 August 2008 - 07:57 PM.

[Brawlyrox]

Bungle thats brilliant. Can he rack off all the special editions yet?

[giz]

my nice (wayne123's little girl) was walking along the otherday and pointed at a MINI and said mini, no one has told her that they are mini's i guess she just thought they looked familiar. i would of washed her mouth out with soap

[captainjack15]

Ye have trained him well Young bungle *says in crazy man voice*.

[Rhyd]

To be fair, it does look like a child's drawing of a Mini

[davej]

Bungle Jnr is a legend, thats pretty damn good for a 2 year old

[giz]

To be fair, it does look like a child's drawing of a Mini

lol never thought of it like that, good point

[minicooper1.3i]

and pointed at a MINI and said mini, no one has told her that they are mini's i guess she just thought they looked familiar. i would of washed her mouth out with soap

My eldest has just turned 3 and is just the same, apart from my missus and I have conditioned him to call them 'BMW Mini's'. But he gets really excited when he see's any other mini on the road. It's damned distracting when we're driving along and he suddenly spies a Mini in a car park or wherever and scream's "Daddy! There's a Mini over there....look over there....it's a (insert colour here) one and it looks just like yours! Look it's overe there!!!!!"

Nice going there though Bungle! But it is quite true, there's no other sound like that of an proper Mini engine. By that I mean an 998 or 850 with the clattery tappets, whining diff and feeble farty exhaust

[AdamMk1]

My niece is 2 and knows the difference between a split window camper and a bay window lol and of course she knows what a mini is,doesnt know the difference between them though.
She knows the sound of a flat 4 aircooled and my mum said one day when i was driving up the road in my mini that she said "Adam" before she could see the car.

Edited by AdamMk1, 04 August 2008 - 09:35 PM.

[Bungle]

if Bungle jnr see's a BMW mini he says big mini