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This was my all time love. I ended up selling in 2005 and have missed it ever since... a cult car and will become much rarer


The only car I've ever had that when I put my foot down properly I really couldn't get my eyes to focus. Fantastic fun but hairy in the wet.

The road rally prepared 1294cc Mk1 Mini I co-owned for three years beats everything else hands down.


http://www.photograph-er.co.uk/MK1Mini.jpg


The picture shows it at the end of Le Jog (Lands End To John O'Groats) 1500miles, over three days, and about 8 hours sleep. I remember thrashing through some forest in scotland, nearside wheel in a ditch dragging me through a corner, as I chased down a Lotus Cortina, with all the rocks banging off the sumpguard and thinking "Life doesn't get much better"


When we finally sold it I was gutted. Met my co-owner about a year ago and we both said we wish we'd bought the other one out. Even now I still scour eBay for it. Sold it to someone in Ipswich who bought it and left it in his garden for 8 months without using it, then sold it to a guy from Holland....


If it ever appears I'll have to buy it back...


Current fun (When I sort out an MOT) is my Austin A40. Cool car for cruising in....

I'm struggling on this thread. My current car is a Skoda with flat battery/no MOT. My first was a Reliant Supervan Mark III that needed a CWT of gravel in the back to keep it stable, with a host of interesting ones in between. How's a girl to choose?

LostThePlot Wrote:

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> Recuerda Wrote:

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> > I had this for a while last year. Lovely.

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> Fiat 2300 Innit? Nice (non standard?) colour

> though!


It's a Fiat 130 Coup?

More about them here: http://www.channel4.com/4car/ft/buying+guide/used+car+buying+guide/1140/1

LuvPeckham Wrote:

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> Moos

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> Wasn't that the popular choice for bank robbers

> and Gangsters, is there something about your past

> life you wish to confess (starts tape machine, DCI

> Luv interviewing Moos on past life, 14:11 Thursday

> 29th Jan 2009)


I could tell you, Luv. But then I'd have to send the boys round.

Moos Wrote:

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> LuvPeckham Wrote:

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> > Moos

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> > Wasn't that the popular choice for bank robbers

> > and Gangsters, is there something about your

> past

> > life you wish to confess (starts tape machine,

> DCI

> > Luv interviewing Moos on past life, 14:11

> Thursday

> > 29th Jan 2009)

>

> I could tell you, Luv. But then I'd have to send

> the boys round.



Yeah, but are they a match for my "Peckham Boys"

Luv (speaking with a mouthful of cotton wall like what Marlon as The Godfather does in the film of the same title)

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