Twenty years ago, production of the original Mini ended

[JR]

You left off the deaded water pump by pass hose:tired:

Oh yes , just going to my cousin's wedding, had to keep stopping to fill up the rad and return home .
As for fitting the oop:oop:oop:oop:oop: thing. Absolute nightmare.

[Mini Me]

Thank God for Consumer Reports..........I knew these things were dreadful back in the day! You lot have only just reconfirmed it.
Still they were rather sporty looking in a boxy sort of way.:smiling: Rick H.

[JR]

Thank God for Consumer Reports..........I knew these things were dreadful back in the day! You lot have only just reconfirmed it.
Still they were rather sporty looking in a boxy sort of way.:smiling: Rick H.

They were Rick, held the road like glue, the Cooper versions were fast .

[spanner570]

Ah, memories. You can't wack them.

Mine? I had a dark green with a black roof Cooper. Twin S.U. carbs I seem to remember. I had it for a while, including the first 2 years or so of my married life. We used to sling my eldest son onto the back seat in his carry cot. When he got too big and heavy, we had to sell the mini and bought a V.W multi windowed Samba instead.

My mate had an all white 'S'. I remember it just had a small chrome S on the rear end.
We had many a dice from Chester to Belle View in Manchester to see the stock car racing. I never could catch the b****r

Here's me with the Cooper in 1971. Plus roof rack, a C2 slalom canoe and a trophy. In the background is my other motor, a Ford Anglia 100E. That is how I used to drive it around. No wonder the cops wouldn't leave me alone!


I once parted with the canoe, complete with roof rack on a twisty road heading for the River Tryweryn nr. Bala in N.Wales.

Happy days and Tony, sorry for the slight excursion down memory lane.

Yours in the ex. fast lane.
Roy Salvadori

[skinflint]

Hi Ron,
Pleased to have your trip down memory lane in the thread, thought you might have signed yourself off as Russ Swift.

[spanner570]

Nah, I could get my cooper into a far smaller gap than that - In the dark too!:dizzy::upside:

[dave]

WRT shortcomings, wasn’t the distributor originally located right in the splash zone at the bottom front of the engine? I seem to remember that wrapping it in a plastic bag was essential for reliable running in wintertime.

I think it was, I certainly remember sitting on the hard shoulder in a mates mini in a downpour trying to get something dry so we could get the engine running.

[Graeme C.]

Count yourselves lucky, my nephew has one, guess who has to help him with it!
Great fun though, still wish I hadn't sold my 92 mini, that I bought new.

[boatman]

yes that was one of the advantages of a small car easy parking
chris