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Spotted a red mini this morning going to the office, 67 reg...nice one, we flashed at each other


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Just back from holidays in Canada, spotted two minis on my travels one was coming against me on other side of freeway.It was a nice orange one was to slow to get photo. Other one was parked outside a house stopped and took two photos of it,looking closely at photo it looks like car is right hand drive.

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Spotted a red Mini 88 RN going through Leitrim Village yesterday.
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Spotted Paul Gleenons dads van in the September edition of the Irish Vintage Scene.Also spotted Maxis clubman in the pictures from Mosney.
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Spotted a Cooper out the window in work the other day

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Billy wrote:
I was doing a wedding today in Ballyclough, North Cork today and walking up the main street I spotted a very shabby late-70s brown Mini at the side of a house. Rang the doorbell but was told it wasn't for sale. Then when I was in the pub having a coffee I got chatting to someone there who told me he had 2 Minis and we then went back to his place to see his red/white 82 1-litre. There's plenty of Minis out there, you just need to ask around.

Enquired about that brown one years ago. A Chinese woman who was living there wouldn't sell it to me as she said that she didnt want to upset the Feng Shui of the house, no joke.
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i was driving through borrisokane today and spotted this red mini parked outside a petrol station
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The two T handles and the MB split rims would suggest that that is a racey little thing. 8)
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and the roll cage.

Jason, the Chinese woman is still hanging on to that Mini.

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seen a lovely yellow clubman estate on carrick-on shannon by-pass this evening cruising in the direction of dublin
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Just back from a quick meeting in Dublin. Spotted a Cork reg Blue Mini with Silver stripes and big silver Mini logo w=ontghe back screen (St. John'd Rd). In Tara street a Metalic Orange '94 and a Red Cooper in Francis Street. Nice trip to brighten a dull day.To top it all spotted a red with white roof coming off teh Newcastle road at the SPA hotel on the way home.
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A funny thing happened to me on the way to work this morning. I was stopped at a set of lights on the inside of a jeep turning right. The driver motioned me to wind down my window. "What type of car is that" shw enquired. "A Mini", I replied.
"Oh an old Mini, its lovely" she said and turned right. She looked about 24 yrs old, so has it gotten to the stage that the youth of today only recognise the Bini as the Mini ?
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Hmmm......a 24 year old guy would recognize it though :wink: A lot of girls in college with me admire my car but when I walk past them I hear the conversations ..... :roll:

Girl1: What is it ?

Girl2: I think its a Fiat !

Girl3: Awwwww.....its sooooo cute. :lol:
And I said, Officer, I didn't want to be drunk in public...I wanna be drunk in the bar. Now last time I checked it was still legal to be drunk in the bar. They threw me into public...arrest them!

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Begod Goose,

It sounds like you've got yourself a babe-magnet there.

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[quote="BlackSe7en"]Just back from a quick meeting in Dublin. Spotted a Cork reg Blue Mini with Silver stripes and big silver Mini logo w=ontghe back screen (St. John'd Rd). In Tara street a Metalic Orange '94 and a Red Cooper in Francis Street. Nice trip to brighten a dull day.To top it all spotted a red with white roof coming off teh Newcastle road at the SPA hotel on the way home.[/quote]

Did the metallic orange Mini have a set of black 4 spoke revolutions? If so it's the same one I see around Dun Laoghaire fairly often
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Billy wrote:Begod Goose,

It sounds like you've got yourself a babe-magnet there.

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Yeah Billy,
They really love the car......pity the squishy organic bit behind the wheel lets it down so often though :lol:
And I said, Officer, I didn't want to be drunk in public...I wanna be drunk in the bar. Now last time I checked it was still legal to be drunk in the bar. They threw me into public...arrest them!

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This afternoon in Dun Laoghaire, a grey mini with black roof, ZD reg, it looked familiar, I think it used to belong to one of the South East Mini Club guys
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It used to belong to Arron Burcheal from the South East Club and he sold it to a guy called Colm from out that side of Dublin.Last time I saw it was on MTM 06 which really wasn,t an MTM as it had neither a Mizen or Malin in the route so maybe it should have been called NMTM(Not Mizen to Malin)or CACK which is what it was. :D.It,s a MKIII and it was so noisy that he was wearing ear defenders for the whole trip.Lovely looking car.I tried to get some pictures from MR but I can,t find them.
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outside carrick on shannon this evening a black 93 WH with white roof scorching his way to sligo
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saw no minis in 2 weeks in america. loads of MINI's mostly "S" convertibles, and quite a few clubmans. LOADS of mouth watering other cars though.
spotted this bad boy chevrolet nova (early 70'S) on rooftop parking in LA.. special to me as its the car my dad's m8 had one and i really wanted one.
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There are 3 minis on brookwood ave, a nice black 30, and the other two are hidden, one is a red cooper with no gille behind a wheelie bin!!

the other is under a cover, i think its yellow from what little paintwork i can see.

Id get pics but, maybe a bit odd me standing in sombodys garden with a camera :twisted: :roll: :oops:
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seen two minis in carrick on shannon today first a BRG white roof and sportspack arches on english plates looked nice and second a lovely red one with white roof tomini's mini one of the shannonside crew
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The black mini 30 in Brookwood is mine! The red one is my neighbour's -- he's going to do it up.

Hope mini thieves don't descend on the road now that they know we're here!
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Helen wrote:The black mini 30 in Brookwood is mine! The red one is my neighbour's -- he's going to do it up.

Hope mini thieves don't descend on the road now that they know we're here!

Its a very clean car! Is it a original irish car?

The thieves would need a trailer for the other two by the look of it :cry:

the yellow one has a huge hole in the sill :(
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Haven't seen the yellow one -- I must have a look for it next time I'm walking up and down the road.
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