29 Aug
2011
29 Aug
'11
10:26 a.m.
On Wednesday 13 July 2011 02:30:06 pm Tony Duell wrote:
Ah no, that;s the 'new' Mini. And if you think that's areal mini, you
probably also think the the HP Officecalcs are real HP calculators....
The real mini, which first appeared in 1959 IIRC, is a somewhat smaller
car.
I remember my first encounter with one of those, teeny little wheels on a teeny little
car. The best part was that the guy who owned it, who'd brought it over then, was
about 6 foot 5...
He had to unfold himself getting out of that car. :-)
--
Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
[Note the non-UK people here, a Mini is a model
of small-ish car, but
still much larger than the boot (trunk) of any normal car]
And one of the more fun cars I've driven in my life. Wish these cars
were cheap enough in Brazil so I could afford one.
(here, the mini is sold by BMW and is a very high price car. There are