I had a 998 deluxe sedan & an 1100 panel van over the years... I loved
them & I still think back on them with the affection that those things
deserved. Unfortunately I doubt I'd fit in one these days.
The sedan was big enough for two rather cuddly people to enjoy going
parking if we threw the seats forward, and on summer nights we'd go to
the drive-in, take the front seats out & sit in the open air with an
esky full of beer. The panel van was big enough to take two 4x12
cabinets, a 100W Laney Klipp head, 2 guitars & us if I loaded it
carefully...
...And, at 610kg I had no problems bump-starting it solo if I ran the
battery down with the radio. :)
davidt
On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 08:33:15PM +1000, Andrew Fildes wrote:
> Are you mad sir? A wheel at each corner; front wheel drive understeer so that
> it tightened around corners if you'd overdone it; comfy enough with four
> ample people in it; fluid suspension; a very satisfying farty noise; easy to
> work on when you knew how; bloody brilliant.
> Slow?! I've driven a race mini with a crossflow head on a 1375 Cooper engine
> and twin Weber 45DCOE carbs. That thing went like an angry razorback, spat
> fuel up the windscreen on the overrun and was more fun at speed that
> anything. Anything at all. Even ordinary I had minis could be tweaked to go
> rather quickly. I haven't had anything since that I've loved as much.
> A bloody sight more fun that those aerial Volkswagens you roger around in
> these days.
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> On 04/06/2011, at 4:06 PM, Chris Barker wrote:
>
> > I don't think that I could drive a classic Mini with any equanimity. It
> > was slow, small, noisy, uncomfortable, slow, small . . .
> >
> > The new ones are really good, but still small . . .
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