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draytontez
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 8:01 pm    Post subject: famous or interesting mini owners Reply with quote
does anyone know of any famous or interesting mini owners?
i dont mean mr bean or charlie croker in the italion job !
members of the beatles owned them and comedian spike milligan owned a number of minis ! Rolling Eyes
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buzzy bee
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 10:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hi

Ringo star?

And I would say I am interesting, maybe not famous! Very Happy Laughing

Cheers

Dave
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Scotty
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 7:35 am    Post subject: Re: famous or interesting mini owners Reply with quote
draytontez wrote:
does anyone know of any famous or interesting mini owners?


I've owned 7 of them, am I interesting enough? Wink

I think Ringo's was a hatchback conversion, ahead of its time when you think about it.

Twiggy springs to mind in an Union Jack painted one, but it might have been a advertising campaign - its a looong time ago!
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buzzy bee
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 9:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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I wonder what the mini would have been like if it had developed over time into a hatchback, if it would actually look like Ringo's or would the shape have completeley changed? But would it then be a mini, or something else! Right my philosophy is now over for tonight anyway!

Cheers

Dave
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draytontez
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 10:46 pm    Post subject: famous Reply with quote
members of the band ocean colour scene turned up to a paul weller gig in three classic mini coopers !
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draytontez
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 10:50 pm    Post subject: interesting or famous Reply with quote
i would say most mini owners are interesting not just famous people.
all owners have a story to tell!!!!!!!!
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 10:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
buzzy - wasnt the MiniMetro effectively a (major) update of the Mini concept? ok it looked different, but underneath it had a lot of Mini design cues and parts!

shame it wasn't very well put together Confused

Rick
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buzzy bee
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 10:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hi

Yeah very true, I know which I would buy, so maybe moving forwards in design isn't allways a good idea. You don't see bareley any early mini metros now do you?

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Dave
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 10:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
yup miniMetros are fairly scarce now, can't say I'm too upset. Mum had a stage 2 MG-engined Metro years back, went quite well but still felt like you were driving a skip.

Rick
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draytontez
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 8:15 pm    Post subject: metrofan Reply with quote
ha metros are nt so bad if you get a good one theres still a few about !

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fredbear
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 8:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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I swapped my yellow mini for a mini metro !! Was a good car, then unfortunately changed it for a mestro Crying or Very sad (bit of a walrus!!)

I’m sure Twiggy owned a mini, not sure what model though, there must be a picture of it out there somewhere! I found a good site that’s got lots of pictures of minis featured in films and tv shows - not so much famous owners but famous minis.

http://www.imcdb.org/vehicles.php?make=&model=Mini

Didn’t realise they’d featured in so many. There was even one in Phil Mitchell’s ‘Arches’ the other night in Eastenders Cool

Kay
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buzzy bee
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I think you should get a mini, I will find you a yellow one!
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 11:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
sounds like someone needs a Mini pickup Wink

R
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