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Poll: Cool Wall - Mini Cooper 1960\\\\\\\'s (was ended 0000-00-00 00:00:00)

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Cool Wall - Mini Cooper - 1960's 12 years 1 month ago #41504

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The star of the original Italian Job, the 1960's Mini Cooper - Which Mini and film do you reckon were the best - the ones from the 20th or the 21st Century?





Sorry I digress, the question here is the Mini pictured above - Cool?


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Re: Cool Wall - Mini Cooper - 1960's 12 years 1 month ago #41506

I prefer the older mini and the original Italian job movie too. Although, I'd rather have a newer mini, given the choice of owning either one. It's safer. :)

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Re: Cool Wall - Mini Cooper - 1960's 12 years 1 month ago #41507

I owned one back in the 60s, they were and remain a cool car. Mine was Surf Blue with a contrasting white roof, de bumpered with wider wheels and a straight through Peco exhaust. I'm still here and have not really grown up but sad to say 326CCE has not. survived.
Here is is in 1967 busy being cool in the background.
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Re: Cool Wall - Mini Cooper - 1960's 12 years 1 month ago #41516

The original is definitely a cool car - the new one is the bastardisation of a great British icon and is totally uncool.

Leigh's remark about safety got me thinking - although not mutually exclusive the real, or perceived, 'lack' of safety can enhance a car's coolness IMHO - some people are under the impression that our cars are not safe because they have a soft top when the fact is the low centre of gravity makes it pretty hard to turn one over and fitting structural roll hoops means your as safe in a roll as a lot of 'tin can' saloon cars.

That got me to thinking about whether the Reliant Robin is cool, which got me on to 3 wheels so I'm going to put up some 3 wheel cool candidates candidates ;)
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Re: Cool Wall - Mini Cooper - 1960's 12 years 1 month ago #41556

Well Reliants are amusing. There is one old boy here who has owned one forever and buzzes around the village in it amongst the 4x4s and diesel Beemers. His breed, now sadly endangered, were known as "Arnolds" by the 750 MC who were grateful recipients of thier Ausrin 7 based engines when the little 3 wheelers shopping days were over.

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Re: Cool Wall - Mini Cooper - 1960's 12 years 1 month ago #41588

the original mini... coolest car on the planet.... fact :woohoo: :woohoo:

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Re: Cool Wall - Mini Cooper - 1960's 12 years 1 month ago #41606

Well Reliants are amusing. There is one old boy here who has owned one forever and buzzes around the village in it amongst the 4x4s and diesel Beemers. His breed, now sadly endangered, were known as "Arnolds" by the 750 MC who were grateful recipients of thier Ausrin 7 based engines when the little 3 wheelers shopping days were over.


Same here, used to be a common site but very rare now to see a 3 wheeler, also remember when these were on the go


Sorry, getting off topic, original mini is cool, loved mine I had many years ago
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Re: Cool Wall - Mini Cooper - 1960's 12 years 1 month ago #41614

cool as a cucumber :broon:
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Re: Cool Wall - Mini Cooper - 1960's 12 years 2 weeks ago #43200

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OK just so you can now compare here is the old mini next to my F



the 1st generation BMW Mini


and the behemoth that is the new Mini countryman :sick:


No doubt which is the coolest in my mind
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Re: Cool Wall - Mini Cooper - 1960's 12 years 2 weeks ago #43207

One of the fellows at work has a 1993 Japanese market Mini. It has A/C and an automatic gearbox.
You can barely fit a sheet of paper into the engine compartment.
That said, it's still a neat little car. :broon:

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I was in Paris recently and there seamed to be as many old Minis as there were new Minis. I saw dozens of them and they looked very stylish.
I only saw one F, which was in British Racing Green, and it was in a pretty sorry state, bearing the scars of years of Parisian parking skills.

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