SEE DOWN BELOW:
From: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net>
To: Doug Anderson <boogiewoogie12@hotmail.com>, <ARDUNDOUG@aol.com>,
<land-speed@autox.team.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001
My next door neighbor has a Morris Minor "woodie" he is saving for his
daughter's sixteenth birthday. You get some interesting things when you
have a body shop.
A friend here in Salt Lake bought a "new '63" Mini last fall ... complete
with air bags, fuel injection and 13" wheels and correct registration as a
'63 model. It has the correct plate on the frame but that's the only
original thing on the car. The actual VIN plate is on the frame too but
covered with several coats of paint. The car is fun to ride in, corners
like you remember them cornering and he drives it to and from his home in
Park City when the weather is good. He avoids large trucks, is careful to
let people know where he is in their rear view mirrors and generally has a
ball with the car. He bought it from an importer in the Petaluma/Santa
Rosa, CA area. They have a web site and for a while his green and cream car
was featured on the site. He also has a Range Rover and a Caterham 7 which
is reserved for special days on the canyon curves on I-80. The local St
Marks Cathedral (Episcopal) has an annual British Car Show and his unique
problem is finding a way to get all of his cars to the show. The new cars
are longer, wider and should ride better ... those Germans mess everything
up.
Wes
on 4/27/01 10:14 AM, Doug Anderson at boogiewoogie12@hotmail.com wrote:
> Say Doug, I too love those lil' mini's! I learned to drive a "4 speed
on
> the dash" in one wayyyyy way back in I guess 1960 0r so....
>
> I dearly would love to have one of my own.
>
> A couple years ago I watched one tear everyone up at the vintage teabag
> races at Lime Rock Conn. The guy kept tradin' the lead with a guy inna
> spiffy "race preped to the gills" porch roadster(mebbe was a 356?) until
he
> spun in "the esses" and onto the grass -he got back with the program, and
> after about 6 or 8 more laps had waded thru most of the field of about 30
> cars again to finish somewhere in the middle. You shoulda heard the
crowd
> groan when he spun..... and cheer with a standing ovation when the race
was
> over. The closest thing I've ever seen to David and Goliath. It really
was
> "a thing of beauty"
>
> There was another guy there with the dam fastest Morris Minor you ever
saw.
> This was a "full size" Minor -not a mini. This thing ran like stink as
> well. Both cars were British Racin' Green. Bob Swanson prolly know who
> those guys are as he's close to Lime Rock and goes alla time.... How
'bout
> "the rest of the story" there Bob ?
>
> Has anyone seen the "New" Mini thats coming out next year built under the
> auspices of BMW ? I saw it in Automobile magazine a month or so ago....
and
> it kinda made me start dreamin about one again. But a guy'd hafta drive
one
> to see if they were as much fun as the originals -which I seriously doubt
> 'cuz you know the Germans; they just gotta perfect everythin beyond all
> limits of sense. Thusly removin' all the fun and soul of the original
-not
> tomention those SU carbies huh boys ?
>
>
>
> Cheers, "Da Doug down south" -south NuYawk thet is :=0
WES; Tell us more about how to see this website, and how this car gets to
be regisered as a '63..... inquirin' minds need to know. Is this the new
mini that BMW is supposed to be coming out with in 2002? if so how did your
friend get his hands on one. clear this one up for me willya???
Our good friend John Linville's building a Morris woodie hot rod up there
in far off Northwoods, New Ham'sha. And in as much as he's getting a copy
of this post, let's see if he'll tell us more about it. Last I Heard he's
planning on putting a lil' aluminum Buick/Rover 315 innit -which ought to
make an animal with teeth out of a seemingly docile, unassuming casper
milquetoast kinda rig (sorry there Ardun Doug....but you you know it's not
exactly a James Bond kinda car he he he ) How 'bout it John,....willya tell
us more ?
Cheers, "Da Doug down south"
-south NuYawk thet is :=0ops!
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