Sorry, Andrew, I missed this when it was posted.
I wasn't referring to a racing or rally car. I meant the crappy little road
cars that we, who couldn't afford the Coopers, drove. It was nippy, fun on
country roads and worth having as a form of transport.
But it was small, noisy, rusted easily and would come off very badly in a
collision with anything else on the road. The subframe system probably had its
merits, but was an unreliable way of mounting the bits of a car. My Moggy Thou
shooting-brake was far more useful and just as fast (on the straight),
notwithstanding the rust trails down its front wings.
On the other hand, if everyone now drove a Mini from those days, we might have
fewer accidents because more people would feel their proximity with the road
and the prospect of serious damage to their health -- and drive with more care.
Chris
Andrew wrote
> Slow?! I've driven a race mini with a crossflow head on a 1375 Cooper
> engine and twin Weber 45DCOE carbs. That thing went like an angry
> razorback, spat fuel up the windscreen on the overrun and was more fun at
> speed that anything. Anything at all. Even ordinary I had minis could be
> tweaked to go rather quickly. I haven't had anything since that I've loved
> as much.
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