Tigger wrote:

Pegleg wrote:

Very nice. Dunno how you could have parted with such a beaut

Thanks. If you think it was sad having to part with it from that photo, check out what it looked like underneath, even after I'd done 47,000 miles in it:

Click image to enlarge

The thing that killed it for us in the end was simply the lack of space; neither my wife, or my daughter, wanted to sit in the back anymore

Pegleg wrote:

EV,
I used to visit Longbridge regulary as part of my job. This was some years after the 'troubles'.
I thought Rover had begun to turn things around, R600 wasn't a bad car and R75 was a big improvement.
When i first saw the Mini, you knew instantly that it would sell and the team at Canley had surely come up with a winner.

There are those in high places who should be ashamed at the events since the Mini was conceived.

Longbridge was special place to me, difficult to explain why. Maybe it's the history and Stanley Edge had his first job there!!

You bring back memories. 'Q' gate was where i used to drive in with the roundhouse on the left.
I got around the factory on a bicycle.
Gulp. Another member of the failed FL2 clutch/DMF club, twice.

Pegleg wrote:

Tigger wrote:

The thing that killed it for us in the end was simply the lack of space; neither my wife, or my daughter, wanted to sit in the back anymore

So why did you part with the car?

Looks a lovely example. Bet you had no problem selling.

Great question!

Would you believe that I advertised it on all of the specialist website and not a single enquiry I had a trade in organised and felt sure I'd sell it before the deadline. In the end, it went as a trade in

The dealer was due to sell it in the trade and had purchased it from me unseen. When they saw it, they simply left it at the front of the forecourt, put a "for sale" sticker on it and within two days it had gone. They didn't even have to service it, let alone clean it

I came across it about 6 months later and spoke to the new owner. It hadn't been looked after and she had no idea what she had; as far as she was concerned it was just a "Blue MINI"

Executive Valeter wrote:

Tigger wrote:

Pegleg wrote:

Very nice. Dunno how you could have parted with such a beaut

Thanks. If you think it was sad having to part with it from that photo, check out what it looked like underneath, even after I'd done 47,000 miles in it:

Click image to enlarge

The thing that killed it for us in the end was simply the lack of space; neither my wife, or my daughter, wanted to sit in the back anymore

Now that is nice & what a credit to you in that condition! As stated what a same you sold it!

Thanks a lot Always good to get a compliment from a professional! If I'd been able to keep one car and mothball it, it would have been that one!

PS: Kept the plate though (I live just outside Liskeard, in Cornwall)

Just thought I would throw my daughters 'Cooper S' in She lives back in Cornwall and 'shows' the car at different venues.





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Interesting....

If you don't mind me asking, what vintage is Dougal, it seems to be a bit of a mix.

Sorry it took me a bit to reply but as I don't know I gave her a bell and asked her
This is not for the 'purists' amongst you

Apparently it's a mixture of all that she likes:
A MK3 1987 with a 1966 MK1 look
Seats from 2000 circa model
No external door hinges and it has wind up windows

And it looks really good for it Thanks for taking the trouble to find out

Tigger wrote:

PS: Kept the plate though (I live just outside Liskeard, in Cornwall)

Pegleg wrote:

Tigger wrote:

PS: Kept the plate though (I live just outside Liskeard, in Cornwall)

Tigger,
My family originate from Golant.
I spent many happy hours there.
Now sadly millionaires row!

I know Golant very well. When Kathy and I got married, we did it for a very tight budget and held the wedding reception at the Youth Hostel at Golant They'd never done a reception before and we all sat down to Youth Hostel food! It was a huge success

I stayed there for the night before the wedding and walked down to the pub right at the very bottom of the hill overlooking the railway and the estuary.

My Unlce owns the farm next to the hostel!!

The pub, the 'Fishermans Arms'. As you look towards the railway there is a house surrounded on three side by water at full tide. My Auntie once lived there.
I used row there on regatta day.
And my old proper original Mini got very wet as the tide came in.
I still go there every year although i don't know a soul there anymore. Another member of the failed FL2 clutch/DMF club, twice.

My first experience of the Fisherman's Arms was when I went there one night in the spring of 1985. I was staying with a friend at the YHA (lived in Hertfordshire at the time) and we went down to the pub with some Australians that we'd met there. As far as I remember, the Conservative Club was shut and they were meeting at the pub instead and I think I wound up speaking to the MP for a while...

I spent the whole evening referring to Fowey as "Fow - E" and no one corrected me!

Emmit  Another member of the failed FL2 clutch/DMF club, twice.

Yep!