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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2021 19:42:23 GMT
We were hiring from Enterprise and regularly had a Hyundai i10 ... quite fun to drive.
Most years our car sits in the garage for 9 months so it's an extravagance really ... so if they're reliable and sturdy enough for a car hire company, we figured it would work for us ... so far so good.
Rog
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Post by Isambard Kingdom Brunel on Feb 9, 2021 19:57:26 GMT
We were hiring from Enterprise and regularly had a Hyundai i10 ... quite fun to drive. Most years our car sits in the garage for 9 months so it's an extravagance really ... so if they're reliable and sturdy enough for a car hire company, we figured it would work for us ... so far so good. Rog A great little car, had a few. In fact I have had Hyundai cars for the last 23 years, never been stranded, had next to no problems with any of them, never had a MOT fail. They have all been insurance wrecks bought for pennies, fixed up and run to death, minimal servicing. Much better than the Fords we used to have which rusted and fell apart in short order/
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Post by quaysider on Feb 9, 2021 20:05:27 GMT
It's odd but my plan had been just to hire cars during the season as and when I needed one. Easy enough here but for next winter in Stone, I did have half a mind to join "Drover" and have a longer term hire for a few months at a time.
THEN I thought about leasing the cheapest I could find (currently a New Corsa on a 3 year deal) and parking it up at my dads April through October.
My current thinking is just by a banger with a full test in Nov - flog it on in March and save a few quid... GONE are the days when I worry about keeping up with the Jones's.
AS for Mini Pickups - yeah they really are worth a lot of money now as so few survived... my dad's got 3 gazza but only 1 on the road... 2 are in various stages of rebuild. It keeps him busy when he's bored and lonely and as he pointed out, we can use one of them to pay for his funeral even pre-restoration. The one I insure is sitting outside rotting away as I type lol. I'll not do it again when the policy expires.
It's a bugger getting certain parts now - he struggled for so long trying to source a petrol tank, he made his own.
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Post by mouse on Feb 9, 2021 20:07:05 GMT
£30 for the year on Jane's Hyundai i10 (petrol 1275cc). Rog A cracking little car - mouse has been running one for nearly 11 years now, other than consumables its been bloody brilliant hasn’t it mouse 🍻👍 Indeed @gazza. Only three things wrong with it. No electric sunroof to put my extension ladders through for transport. It is not automatic and it is small! Thoroughly competent little thing though.
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Post by mouse on Feb 9, 2021 20:20:56 GMT
Definitely one for the garage yes! And I'm talking about 30 years ago when I first became aware of them . The vans were quite cool as well but the pickup is the best one. I bet a Metro Turbo would have been a good one to hide away as well. I got really into minis at one stage never had a roadworthy one but dreamed of a bored out 1380 with Spax shocks and even the possibility of fitting the unit from a Metro Turbo in a mini 1000. My car at the time was an incredibly cool Nova 1.3SR. I used to work for Turbo Technics more years ago than I care to remember. We never bothered with doing anything for the Metro as BL gearbox department had decreed a max input power of 90 bhp.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2021 20:27:41 GMT
I recall something about a 5 speed gearbox option as well. It was other people who were really into it I was more of an interested bystander. One of the lads at school was a heavy duty mini enthusiast with a lot of knowledge. He liked telling people about things to do with minis.
I got quite into it at one stage. This was all pre internet so nothing like as much general knowledge access as we get in this day and age.
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Post by phil70 on Feb 10, 2021 23:31:02 GMT
I liked the mini moke but only in the warmer months Phil
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Post by JohnV on Feb 11, 2021 20:19:31 GMT
I liked the mini moke but only in the warmer months Phil many moons ago remember watching the twin engined version at an autcross event ..... when they got it right, it was shit off a teflon shovel
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