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Topic: What made you buy a Mini????  (Read 2400 times)

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« on: April 17, 2007, 06:21:28PM »
lets hear your story, or reason for buying a Mini. please tell about your shopping experience and what it felt like when you first saw and drove YOUR Mini.
 Thank You! Shift gears! Let's MOTOR!
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« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2007, 06:30:42PM »
I fell in LOVE with them I fist time I saw them on the road. She was on the MY list of cars to get.  My first was an 02 mc I bought it Thur autotrader. I sent in the deposit thru the mail, pick her up at morristown mini. Had her for about 7 months, tradered her in for my wife's 05 MINI MCS.
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« Reply #2 on: April 17, 2007, 06:39:07PM »
i was shopping for a new car  PC Typing i was looking at the new Honda civic Si No no... , the Mazda rx8 Very confused, and the Mini Woopy dance. I know thats a weird mix but thats how it starts. so i went to a Honda dealer Honda city and no one wanted to help me  Bang Head! so i looked at the Si on the show room floor walked up to the desk asked for the sales manager. when he came over I took the 2 envelopes containing 12k each and told him he just lost an easy sale Pimping Out! LOL ROTF. next i went to country Mazda in huntington to look at the RX8 but as i pulled into the parking lot i saw a used 03 MCS Wave Hi! Whooopeee! so i asked about it.the car had been traded in a few hours prior and they didn't know how much to sell it for. i offered them cash and got a great deal Google Eyes. I'm very glad that that Honda dealer sucked and i found my baby.
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« Reply #3 on: April 17, 2007, 06:43:23PM »
I saw her having all the fun in her 05 mcs, so I bought my own 03 mcs. I had him for less then a year, I felt like he was with the dealer more then me. We all know what happend next.......
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« Reply #4 on: April 17, 2007, 06:48:26PM »
Quote from: mini_z on April 17, 2007, 06:43:23PM
I saw her having all the fun in her 05 mcs, so I bought my own 03 mcs. I had him for less then a year, I felt like he was with the dealer more then me. We all know what happend next.......
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ LOL ROTF
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« Reply #5 on: April 17, 2007, 06:50:11PM »
You are fast,  u just won a free upgrade from the pepper white's
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« Reply #6 on: April 17, 2007, 06:51:26PM »
 Woopy dance
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« Reply #7 on: April 17, 2007, 06:58:34PM »
Quote from: mini_z on April 17, 2007, 06:50:11PM
You are fast,  u just won a free upgrade from the pepper white's
hey only we can give our labor away   I'm furious!
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« Reply #8 on: April 17, 2007, 06:59:02PM »
my first mini
 Look I'm driving
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« Reply #9 on: April 17, 2007, 07:04:25PM »
Quote from: czmini on April 17, 2007, 06:59:02PM
my first mini
 Look I'm driving
No wonder you are so good at the track, u practise allot.
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« Reply #10 on: April 17, 2007, 07:13:48PM »
Quote from: czmini on April 17, 2007, 06:59:02PM
my first mini
 Look I'm driving
LOL ROTF
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« Reply #11 on: April 17, 2007, 07:26:50PM »
i wanted something light that handled well and was quick
and i liked the styling
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« Reply #12 on: April 17, 2007, 07:30:41PM »
I was shopping for Mini's before I could drive (classic Minis). I liked Minis  before the new one was even a concept, to go waaaay back for ya. I like small, simple cars, and the Mini seemed like something I would never own because I was hit with negative feedback from everyone. I was told theres no way you can get parts for them, or get them registered/imported bla bla bla. I did the research on where to get parts, and actually used my knowledge of the Mini on two research papers for high school. My 73 Mini was my second car which I bought for an awesome deal on ebay, in October of 05. As soon as it was on the road I was up to no good tearing apart the neighborhood and waking the dead with my straightpipe, when a sewer cap gracefully removed the muffler from the car. I had to change a distributor and a front wheel bearing in the process. I then thought "wow imagine if I could ever buy the new MINI". April 06, I did just that and got one used after hustling and selling my first and third cars at a profit. I took the classic off the road to rebuild it because I had some rust issues and originally bought it as a project car anyway. Since getting the 03 S a year ago, I looked into trading it in for a GP when those came out, and thought "hell I can never pull that one off". After searching for an Mc-40, which was the new MINI I originally wanted, I sold my 03S.  Let's MOTOR! motorings in thy blood.
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« Reply #13 on: April 17, 2007, 08:49:58PM »
Quote from: nypepper on April 17, 2007, 06:58:34PM
hey only we can give our labor away   I'm furious!

YES.... WHAT HE SAID
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« Reply #14 on: April 18, 2007, 01:05:10AM »
My dad used to bring me to car showrooms & car shows.  My favorite was Raymond Foreign Cars in BayShore.  Mostly BMC/British Leyland products.  I remember seeing a Mini there, had to be '66 or so.  When I heard BMW were thinking of selling the new MINI here I was over the moon.  When Hassel opened, I stopped down on a Sunday (when they were closed)...there were half a dozen other gear heads ogling over the few Coopers parked outside (the S wasn't out yet).  A few months later I had my CR/W Cooper!  Just wish dad was there to see her.
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