Own Up, Who Had A Mini Metro?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-54423328
Never had one myself, I owned an original Mini though.

[Vagus]

My first car was an original mini, paid £100 for it and sold it three years later for £110.

[ummmm]

I did, sort of. My dad bought it so I could ferry him around. He only used it once a week though to do his shopping.

My dad was a big man. One time I picked him and my uncle up from the pub and my dad couldn't get out of the back. It was really funny.

[Canary42]

My second car was an original Mini. I too sold it for more than I paid for it.

[aelmpvw]

//my dad couldn't get out of the back//
nor can i after eight pints

[Apc2604]

Guilty. The gear box fell through the floor whilst I was changing gear!

[Apc2604]

I wish I had kept my original mini, and my original Standard 10 !

[ummmm]

Something like that, ael. His beer belly didn't help either.

[gulliver1]

Anyone remember how much they paid for a brand new mini ,in those days .

[aelmpvw]

^ don't know but i bought a decent second hand one in 1968 for 180 quid

[ToraToraTora]

originally they were £595, I think. Anyway I have never bought a new anything car wise.

[ParsleyDumpling]

My first husband owned one, it was applejack green, I can even remember the reg. JCT 829W. He traded it in for a Fiat Panda 45S!!!

[ChillDoubt]

I learned to drive in one while stationed in Chichester(often using Tangmere for initial lessons), after which the instructor would decide we’d drive to Southampton for the day for a bit of a ‘jolly’.

Oh the halcyon days......

[gulliver1]

Cost of a Brand new mini less than a weeks wage for some these days.

[retrocop]

MIL drove her daughters metro after SIL died. It didn't appear to have many problems but she didn't drive long journeys. They were a damn site more reliable than the Austin Allegro (Aggro)

[dannyk13]

Parsley, he could have got a fdair old price foir that number plate.
JCT motors was a local garage owned by J C Tordoff.

[barry1010]

Only for those earning over £800k a year, gulliver!

[Apc2604]

I bought mine secondhand in 1971. I doubt I paid much for it. I wouldn't have had the funds.

[Apc2604]

Retro, I also please guilty to owning an Allegro - it was a dirty orange colour!

[ParsleyDumpling]

dannyk, my current husband deals in number plates. I am currently waiting for a plate with a consecutive run of numbers followed by the initials of a former chancellor, to by transferred onto my Mini :-)

[gulliver1]

Barry 12.00, my post @ 11.46 reads ... "for some"... ......