Very sad weekend :'(
Discussion
She's gone...
It's seems stupid how you (or maybe it's just me
) get so attached to things, but now I'm about to leave home I have to say goodbye forever to Freddie.
She has been very ill for a long time now, and looking into the those big baby eyes just brings back too many memories, most good, a few bad, so maybe it's best our ways part here...
Bye bye.
(this isn't actually her, but very very similar)
Mouse
...I know it probably sounds pathetic, but this really is a sad day.
It's seems stupid how you (or maybe it's just me
) get so attached to things, but now I'm about to leave home I have to say goodbye forever to Freddie. She has been very ill for a long time now, and looking into the those big baby eyes just brings back too many memories, most good, a few bad, so maybe it's best our ways part here...
Bye bye. (this isn't actually her, but very very similar)
Mouse
...I know it probably sounds pathetic, but this really is a sad day.
I'm dismantling her, which in a way is better, as I have plans for some of the bits, and alot worse I have to live with the carcass for a while.
I keep finding all sort of things, like old sketch maps of journeys made years ago with people I haven't seen in a long time, and tapes I thought I'd lost forever.
It's actually quite upsetting.
As far as the car's concerned, it might sound stupid, but it's alot easier now I've taken out her headlights and grill so she can't look back at me any more.
Nurse?!
I keep finding all sort of things, like old sketch maps of journeys made years ago with people I haven't seen in a long time, and tapes I thought I'd lost forever.
It's actually quite upsetting.
As far as the car's concerned, it might sound stupid, but it's alot easier now I've taken out her headlights and grill so she can't look back at me any more.
Nurse?!
Had to do the same with a my old Mini, I did so many shows with it and had loads of fun, I was filmed driving down Madeira drive at London to Brighton which was then used on The best of British Mini video, to see it robbed of all its nice parts sitting there with no wheels and full of junk was quite sad 
Hey, Mouse, I don't know whether you realise it, but the car you have is one of the few Minis eligible for International Historic Motorsport. The rules state that only cars manufactured before 1/1/66 are eligible for Internationals and before 1/1/68 for UK historics.
Watever you do don't get rid of the log book (V5) and basic car. If it's an 'S' logbook and basic car it's worth in excess of £1000, whilst a 998 Cooper logbook (V5) is worth up to £700.
Let me know if you want to get rid of the car as one complete vehicle.
You can email me if you wish.
Watever you do don't get rid of the log book (V5) and basic car. If it's an 'S' logbook and basic car it's worth in excess of £1000, whilst a 998 Cooper logbook (V5) is worth up to £700.
Let me know if you want to get rid of the car as one complete vehicle.
You can email me if you wish.
Can remember you lifting up the bonnet and letting me have a look inside. 
I cut up my Innocenti Cooper 1300 with an angle grinder in 1990 and took her to the tip in the back of a Ford Fester.
The only thing that remains is the steering wheel, that has been fitted to all Leyland cars that I've since owned.
It last saw use on an Airportable Land Rover, but is currently retired.
How the hell I can get sentimental about a steering wheel I'll never know, but I would hate to lose it.
Pat.
The only thing that remains is the steering wheel, that has been fitted to all Leyland cars that I've since owned.
It last saw use on an Airportable Land Rover, but is currently retired.
How the hell I can get sentimental about a steering wheel I'll never know, but I would hate to lose it.
Pat.
Cooperman said:
Hey, Mouse, I don't know whether you realise it, but the car you have is one of the few Minis eligible for International Historic Motorsport. The rules state that only cars manufactured before 1/1/66 are eligible for Internationals and before 1/1/68 for UK historics.
Alas, my car is the one in picture, or I would have realised this, but she is not.
She was a basic 998cc of '82 vintage. I just don't have any pic's of her on the web at the mo'.
I spent another unhappy few hours working on her today, and digging deeper, the ingress of tin worm is phenominal!
I reckon once I've taken off the useful subframes and any other salable goodies, I'll be able to sweep what's left up and scoop it into a wheel barrow.
Poor baby.
I should never have let her get like that, but when that cancer sets into a Mini, there's fcek all you can do to stop it.
I jacked her up to undo the rear-front s'frame bolts and the whole thing twisted and the door dropped off.
Absolutely terminal.
know the feeling...
back in 1991 I cut up my 1275GT (my first car) - again due to the dreaded tin worm.
bought a deseamed mk1 shell to reshell the running gear into, which I've never since finished doing, and the worrying thing is that I'm still wondering whether I could've fixed the body on the 1275......
back in 1991 I cut up my 1275GT (my first car) - again due to the dreaded tin worm.
bought a deseamed mk1 shell to reshell the running gear into, which I've never since finished doing, and the worrying thing is that I'm still wondering whether I could've fixed the body on the 1275......
Gassing Station | Classic Minis | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff