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From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 18:23:16 +0100
Sorry, Andrew, I missed this when it was posted.

I wasn't referring to a racing or rally car.  I meant the crappy little road 
cars that we, who couldn't afford the Coopers, drove.  It was nippy, fun on 
country roads and worth having as a form of transport.

But it was small, noisy, rusted easily and would come off very badly in a 
collision with anything else on the road.  The subframe system probably had its 
merits, but was an unreliable way of mounting the bits of a car.  My Moggy Thou 
shooting-brake was far more useful and just as fast (on the straight), 
notwithstanding the rust trails down its front wings.

On the other hand, if everyone now drove a Mini from those days, we might have 
fewer accidents because more people would feel their proximity with the road 
and the prospect of serious damage to their health  -- and drive with more care.

Chris

Andrew wrote
> 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.


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