John John ! Fibreglass mini !!!

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Topaz
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#81 Post by Topaz »

What a fascinating set of cars -

Nissan Micra / Jaguar Mk2
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MITSUOKA-VIEW ... mobiles_UK

Suzuki / VW
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SUZUKI-EVERY- ... mobiles_UK

and I really don't know what to say about the MITSUOKA !!
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MITSUOKA-LE-S ... mobiles_UK
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#82 Post by JPB »

TerryG wrote:It should be easy to squeeze it in to the minhatsu and have all the advantages and some extra headroom too!
get your cheque book out, you know you want to.
That extra height undoubtedly has its advantages but these days, it's extra width that I could probably use in a mini! :oops: :cry:


Mitsuoka eh? What are we supposed to do with the people who came up with those er, "interesting" takes on classic shapes? I favour whipping them on their bare arses with rolled up 1960s editions of Motorsport. :evil:
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#83 Post by TerryG »

Kinky!
Understeer: when you hit the wall with the front of the car.
Oversteer: when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
Horsepower: how fast you hit the wall.
Torque: how far you take the wall with you.
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#84 Post by Topaz »

JPB wrote: I favour whipping them on their bare arses with rolled up 1960s editions of Motorsport. :evil:
I must avoid reading your posts at work whilst drinking tea at my desktop PC - just had to mop the keyboard and clean the screen - the rest of the staff thought I was having a seizure :o

Glad you liked my choice of vehicle . . . . . . . :lol:

Mike


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#85 Post by Mitsuru »

I have to agree with Terry on this with the specifics of magazine and smacking it does sound like
somebody has a fetish 8-) So do we get you whips chains and chattels for your Christmas present?

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#86 Post by JPB »

Hmm..

Fetish: ˈfɛtɪʃ/ Noun: an inanimate object worshipped for its supposed magical powers or because it is considered to be inhabited by a spirit.

Sounds more like an Austin A35 than anything more "niche" so, if you want to buy me one of those for the Christmas, go right ahead. Spruce Green please, original 950 preferred! Actually, why wait? Can I have one a week on Sunday please? That's a much more relevant celebration than the birth of some deluded if somewhat persuasive hippy, no matter how nice a geezer old JHC actually was. :)
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#87 Post by Grumpy Northener »

Here you go John - the answer to your plastic mini fetish - with the added bonus that the rear pickup body is big enough to carry both your wallet and the weekly shopping :D

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C563609
1937 Jowett 8 - Project - in less pieces than the Jupiter
1943 Jowett Stationary Engine
1952 Jowett Jupiter - In lots of peices http://Jowett.org/
1952 Jowett Javelin - Largely original
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#88 Post by TerryG »

John, I just found a snap from outside your house
John.jpg
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Plastic fantastic! ;)

shamelessly pinched from facebook
Understeer: when you hit the wall with the front of the car.
Oversteer: when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
Horsepower: how fast you hit the wall.
Torque: how far you take the wall with you.
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#89 Post by JPB »

:shock: I want that house, but only if the contents of the yard and all of that Walls Ice Cream are included. :drool:

Chris, that mini-based pickup is cute - though why does it have a dead axle on trap springs when it was made by Indespension :lol: - but in no way could that bed carry my average week's messages. I get a regular delivery from good old Associated Dairies and this is the vehicle they use:

Image

OK, so a lot of that is taken up by Lego, ink cartridges and motoring publications but my food and beer fit in there somewhere.
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#90 Post by SirTainleyBarking »

TerryG wrote:John, I just found a snap from outside your house
John.jpg
Plastic fantastic! ;)

shamelessly pinched from facebook
More plastic than Ann Summers
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