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Post by mustard »

[quote="daniel garry"]ended up drivin behind a mini sidewalk(95 WW 2810-ish) from navan to kells yesteray, then drove by a BRG mini wit a white roof!![/quote]

a women driving???
if its the one im thinking of she kives in kells just out the ardee road, i think. seen it parked outside a house out there many a time...


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t'was a woman, very tidy car aswell, think i seen the car at aldi in kells de other week too
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Seen this outside Rodney Evans on the way up to BERT's the other day,


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And on the way out to the N11 from Shankill church,

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daniel garry wrote:ended up drivin behind a mini sidewalk(95 WW 2810-ish) from navan to kells yesteray, then drove by a BRG mini wit a white roof!!
That was me!! :D
The green mini was Philip Moynagh, and I also seen an 88 black mini when I was in Navan. I never meet many mini's so this was a good day for me.
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the 88 mini was a guy on here- neasha- i had just sold him a pair of bullet mirrors! very nice car, would i have passed you 1 sunday evenin bout a month ago near finea??
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daniel garry wrote:the 88 mini was a guy on here- neasha- i had just sold him a pair of bullet mirrors! very nice car, would i have passed you 1 sunday evenin bout a month ago near finea??

Its possible Im on that road a bit, but I cant say for sure it was me.. Sorry
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u ever up in cavan, seen a similar looking car up around the nursing home bout 6 months ago??
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Is it the nursing home at Esker?
I was doing driving lessons around March, could that be around the right time?
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yep, bored shitless in college so spent most of the class lookin out the window at it!! never seen who was drivin it then tho, pass the test then?
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Yeah. First time too, Im still shocked.
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nice little english coop on the quays this morning...

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This live by the canal and has gone from being the most scruffy car I seen to a nice clean one although it lost its Cooper coachlines in the process
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Seen that one in the body shop a few weeks ago!
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Every time I drive to Dubland I always see that Mini along the canal and say I'l get a picture on the way home but I always forget :roll:

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drove by a brown 1 just the sligo side of carrick-on-shannon at bout half 10 sunday evenin?????
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I drive past the green mini twice a day. Always wondered if anyone on here owned it.
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niallm wrote:Image
This live by the canal and has gone from being the most scruffy car I seen to a nice clean one although it lost its Cooper coachlines in the process
thats the one just across the road from the schoolhouse hotel isnt it??

used to walk passed it everyday!




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I saw a 91 green Cooper in Delgane today about 12.45 and a red WW reg Mini in Donnybrook about 4pm too.
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Saw a very shiny Mr Bean coloured Mini on 10" minilites in a little car park off Newtown Park Avenue in Blackrock this afternoon
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i was walking up king street this morning heading into bolton street and i seen and a red mini with no hubcap on the front wheel turning onto parnell street,and then 2 mins later i seen another red mini with two white bonnet stripes parked up.myself and one of the lads managed to get a few imoc cards on that one!
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kerryminigringo wrote:Spotted a 00MH reg sportspack at the Xerox junction in Dundalk this evening,buzzing along to make it through the lights before they changed.
That was prob me! although not a sportspack. Just red normal arches
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Jason79 wrote:i was walking up king street this morning heading into bolton street and i seen and a red mini with no hubcap on the front wheel turning onto parnell street,and then 2 mins later i seen another red mini with two white bonnet stripes parked up.myself and one of the lads managed to get a few imoc cards on that one!

The Cooper would have been my one :)

The card was much appreciated :)
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seen a yellow clubman estate on 10 or 12"wellers, headin out the stroketown road out of longford today about lunchtime... she was on old irish plates...
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That's Marie Stewarts Mini, it's usually her son thats driving it.

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Saw a 94 D red/wine mini on the M50 earlier. Was between tallaght and firhouse heading southbound. 35 year edition on the back
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