Hello to my fellow Low and Light followers. Let me start at the beginning, when i was 16 i was helping a friend of mine do a tear down of his 67' Pontiac Firebird ( at this time i had no car but was thrilled to be invovled in a rebuild). One late night a buddy of my friend showed up to lend a hand, his ride was a 75' AUSTIN MINI 1000, i thought it was very cool, we did a beer run and i was hooked, i mean this little light car when't around corners like i had never done before, and we where still only doing 50mph, he just never really used the brakes.
Well that started my love afair with the REAL MINI, when't through 4 of them as my $ got better and could move onto better and better MINI'S, joined a club (this is pre internet), met guy's with similar interests etc.....
Finally got fed up of always having to attend to the rust problems ( i live in Canada) and bit the bullet and bought a Mini that had never seen winter/salt or for that matter very much rain.
I could go on for a while about the "GREEN MONSTER" but this not the forum for that, let's just say 125hp of old 8 valve, silly cam, LSD diff, NO RUBBER on the susp. leads to the an "LIVELY" ride........It was fun but you could not live with it.
During this time i started to get into/look at other small British cars ie: MG Miget, bugeye sprite, open top and all.
Then in July i drove to Ohio for a Mini meet ( an a 11hr drive in a Mini) met some guy's from S. Carolina who were in the bizzynes of importing cars from England to the USA (grey market) along with two mini's thay had a Caterham 7, took a test drive and the mini was forgotten(this is '84 before these little gems were offered to us on the other side of the pond.
From then to now i have grown up, sold the "GREEN MONSTER" ( to a guy who bought his mini based on seeing mine years ago, he now owns the only two mini's where i live).
I am a aircraft structures AME (i fix the cigar tube from falling apart) I work with alluminum everyday, and have learned it's goods points and it's BAD points (you would be amazed at the amount of CRACKED attatchment points on EVERY plane in flight today). The Alli in a plane get's the sh*t kicked out of it daily at 30,000 ft your 7 does not
Can't make 7-7-7 sure hope the guy's that go will post pics and vids (passing the bikes)
:cheers: