Thread: Mini Clubman

In Real Life the ones I have seen look like a Herse.....................
Perhaps they would carry 6' of Timber

Looking at them as my Daughter would like a "Normal" BMW Mini

get st###ed thats not a bl###y mini. These are concraptions built by BMW or some other flea brained dip stick. There were days when a mini was a REAL Morris/ Austin Mini

I kinda like the wagon.... looks less poofy than the convertible, there is no way for a man to drive the convertible mini and not look gay

I always thought that the BWM Mini was a very good interpretation of what the Issigonis Mini would be in the modern day.

This wine club thing I think is a pretty useful interpretation introducing a new idea that wasn't there before

Studley

Originally Posted by Studley 2436

I always thought that the BWM Mini was a very good interpretation of what the Issigonis Mini would be in the modern day.

nah to many toy for him, he was a minimalist, wouldn't have gone for all the electronic gadgets. He even fought against window winders in the original mini as they weighed too much, could you imagine his reaction to electric windows

yeh but the market for that sort of thing wants electric windows. I mean look at the new Beetle which has missed everything that the original was good at kept something like the old shape and made an absolute dud!

How dumb was it to make a beetle shape with a front engine?

The old Mini would not get past modern laws not enough crash protection and it's aerodynamics wouldn't fly in the modern market either. I think the Spirit has been preserved fairly well the new one is a quickish fun car. Something like the original we won't see again imagine 850cc and it is a real hot rod! What's more you could get a family in it! Remarkable! BUT families are driving landcruisers these days times have changed a lot. I wonder if a stripped BMW mini would be fun, chuck the carpet sound deadening pull the window up with a leather strap strip the seats back to a fiberglass shell with a bugger all cover. I wonder how fast that would go?

Studley

Originally Posted by Tonto

get st###ed thats not a bl###y mini. These are concraptions built by BMW or some other flea brained dip stick. There were days when a mini was a REAL Morris/ Austin Mini

How right you are! us mini folk call them BINI's ive got 3 "real" minis and i love them.... and they can make a bit of power too a 1.2L putting out 100kw hehehe makes for some fun!

Originally Posted by Tonto

get st###ed thats not a bl###y mini. These are concraptions built by BMW or some other flea brained dip stick. There were days when a mini was a REAL Morris/ Austin Mini

And you could easily spot em parked next to puddle after the fan sucked water in and spat it on the dizzy

no way man, we made a connection to the present day quiet a few years baack.... we now roll with nissan pulsar electronic dizzy's no more stopping at the puddles for us!

remember the days of english electrics when we used to get the vaseline out and plaster it all over everything to stop the water getting in?

Studley

My God!......that's why i got married

Originally Posted by Building a dash

no way man, we made a connection to the present day quiet a few years baack.... we now roll with nissan pulsar electronic dizzy's no more stopping at the puddles for us!

Another clunker rescued by nipponese car makers....

Originally Posted by Building a dash

no way man, we made a connection to the present day quiet a few years baack.... we now roll with nissan pulsar electronic dizzy's no more stopping at the puddles for us!

G'day. Will the nip dizzy also fit the Morris Minor 850 motor?

I have one i'm working on..

We used to put a rubber glove on the mini dizzy to keep the water out. Our biggest hassle was the starter. If it stopped in one spot, we had to put a spanner on it and give it a nudge.

The seatposts rusted through the floor. Suspension consisted of a rubber block.

Memorable car.