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Hi all. Yes we can do another xmas bash night this year, and i'm positive Zed and Taffy will join us. it just needs someone to choose a date and time that will suit all  . If you can make a new topic for the 2021 xmas bash Billy, then visitors and members will be aware of our plans to host another Xmas bash.

Hi Rob/ all - Just wondering if we'll be doing another Christmas event this year? I'll be free over the whole Christmas period up until the New year so if we are doing it again, I'm free to be part of it

When I say turn back the clock 40 years, I meant when I was in my mid to late 20's and could afford to insure certain cars like the 5 Morris/Austin cooper S cars i owned. My x wife's father owned a breakers yard long before i married her, and he was always trying to palm me off with Jags and Daimler Darts that always needed major work doing to them.  The only car I had from him was a classic Wood & Pickett convertable 1275cc Mini cooper S with a rotten rear subframe and worn out engine. I had the engine bored out to 1473cc and the crank reground, then new oversize pistons and a 775 race cam fitted.  I replaced the rear subframe then exchanged the car a few weeks later for a Black MK2 Lotus Cortina  .   However I found the Cortina very arse happy in the wet, so I sold it and bort another Cooper S.  I also owned a Red Rover 3.5 V8S P6 car and a Yellow Jaguar 5.3 litre coupe but found both of those really thirsty on fuel, especially when i could fill up a cooper S with twin petrol tanks for £9 in those days  .

Nowadays the majority of people look for economy and cheap insurance when buying any car, and i'm no exception now that i've just turned 69. I currently own a fully loaded Fiat Panda Eleganza which does me perfectly  .

           

haha, think we all wish that Rob, although not 40 years for me as im only 40 next march ( but a good 26 would do me fine )

I've never been a fan for minis if honest, only because im too much of a big guy to drive 1 of them - my very first car i drove though was a sweaty metty ( Austin Metro ) at 15 years old, god that brings back memories, i used to buy and sell cars in my younger days mainly for salvage and breaking!

i always kick myself now as i once picked up a 1962 vauxhall viva and also had a MG roadster, i could of had a beetle camper van for peanuts aswell but i left it thinking it was too far gone. god if i only knew then what i know now haha, i suppose that's life though !

i love stuff like the mark 1 cortinas, escorts, golfs, that sort of era. they dont make them like they used too that's for sure