Looks like they will be going up in price again soon... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...ng-Crystal-Palace-training-Austin-Cooper.html
Only had one - a 1961 Austin Se7en in 1974 - put new subframe on it - only for it to be stolen - so I bought a MG Midget instead.
A great car..drove one many times in my youth...road holding is fantastic, stick to the road like glue they do.
Do they - or does it just feel that way because 40mph feels like 100? I think they are great for that very reason, the current crop of motors only come alive if you are well into three figures, took a mk7 Golf GTI out for a test and it felt dull as until licence losing speeds.
Agree with the latter point completely - very hard to exploit any fun out of cars that stick to the road like the proverbial doo to a blanket. My first two cars were original Mini's - one was a genuine 1275GT (Wish I still had that one!), he other a boggo 1 litre on remoulds!
Nothing handles quite like an original Mini, an engine/box with wheels on, with a body hanging off the back, great fun
First car was a mini van. Would be worth a mint now. Bought it for £400 in 1997 and then sold it a few months later for the same money to a bloke who knocked at my door on the off chance.
Remember driving out of Whitby about 4 years ago on the A road and coming round the corner to a convoy of about 20 minis and the first flashed us which resulted in me having to frantically flash all rest Love seeing them but a bit to big to drive one so havery no interest.
I had a 1978 brown mini and it was cheap to run and good around town with easy parking. It was about 5 years old and already rusting nicely. The classic minis are now collectors cars, especially the early 60's ones and I see a few at summer car shows, one has only done 8500 miles from new and one old lady owner. The current owners reckon its now worth around 20,000. Its all original with no welding.
Had one for a while . Bought it for £750, ran it for 2 years, sold it for £750 back in the late 80's.
I will never admit to owning two metros, one might have been the MG version the other was the worst car I've never owned, and I've owned many.
My mate had a mini clubman in the 80s. Ten years old at the time. It was well rotten. I tryed to change a headlamp bulb and the headlamp fell out with half the front panel. The best laugh we had was the time we stopped outside the local paper shop and the radiator burst shooting rusty brown water like a water pistol between the n/s wheel and arch on to and old woman's shopping. Not funny now but we were only 17.
I had the heater matrix go in mine on the dual carriageway...instant moving sauna. My mate at college Maldwyn, infamous for buying brake pads from scrap yards, laughed like a drain. His went a few days later on the M4
I had a metro, I called it the Klingon war metro as it had so many dents from other cars that I swore it had a cloaking device fitted
Weren't Metro's specifically designed to last just 60,000 miles? Mini, I borrowed an 850 van with a 1275cc engine driving through the original box. It was very rapid and a lot of fun, but was destroying the box and one had to hold it in third lest it pop out into neutral.
Ah yes first car was a dull as dull maroon 850 one, great fun! Box went & I ended up with 1 forward & 4 reverse gears I ended up buying an engine & box for about £20 and just swapped the lot as it was an 1100 then found that the oil drain plug was threaded so I metal welded that in & filled it with oil with the view that when this one blew up I'd just get another £20 engine but I crashed it before I needed a new engine! Bought a cream metro for £80 & ran that between Leicester & Northampton for a year, kept hearing noises as if bits were falling off! Turned out to be the remoulds loosing chunks of rubber! Also had an MG Metro turbo, that was a bag of Only car I wish I'd kept was the gold hill man imp with a very tasteful brown vinyl roof Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Second car was a cracking 998cc Morris Mini Cooper, bought with 80,000 on the clock but just one fastidious owner; island blue with a snowberry white roof and a GOLD spoiler under the front bumper. Fitted a 10 inch steering wheel which meant it needed just a flick of the wrist to change direction. First few weeks wages went towards 5" Astrali alloys; still miss it too Had a 1275 GT much later with those diabolical Dunlop Denovo tyres, it was a shed, bought privately soon p/x'd (for slightly more) against an Opel Kadet. Very sensible. Didn't last, Kadet went, Alfasud arrived. Yes.
