A mini 1000 HL in Russet (turd) brown, which I bought from my father.
Wrote it off within a year by losing control racing friends around a car park. Hit a large dirt median in the middle of the car-park, flew about 10ft
and came down heavily on one side, bending the toe-board, and breaking a sub-frame mount.
A friend helped me fix it over a weekend. Front sub-frame and engine came out and we set about the toe-board with a sledge hammer
. We got it all back together, with a few bolts spare. How does that happen
Anyway that's how I go into doing stuff on cars. That and the fact that you never seem to have any money when you are student!