Front of Rear Wheel Drive?
Lynt
Andy Laurence
Every single standard Mini is FWD. A few people fit different
engines/transmissions to make them R/4WD, but that's another story....
Andy
Neil Brown
factory)
In article <DQ796.66049$xW4.5...@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
"Lynt" <ly...@breakbeat.com> wrote:
> 1967 Cooper S... ?
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Graham
> I've never heard of a rear wheel drive mini!?! (certainly not from the
> factory)
the final travellers in the UK, 1974 if you count the last of the CKD
vans assembled in NZ)
Lots of people seem to get Minis and Minors mixed up, probably in part
because early Morris Minis were called "Mini Minors".
Of course seen next to each other they are completely different cars.
Then there are the (FWD) Mini Sprites sold in the UK, capitalising on
the Sprite name which was used on A series powered (RWD) Austin Healey
Sprites from about 1959 onwards, later also called MG Midgets and
collectively known as "Spridgets".
Rocky Frisco
> Lots of people seem to get Minis and Minors mixed up, probably in part
> because early Morris Minis were called "Mini Minors".
>
> Of course seen next to each other they are completely different cars.
But both designed by Sir Alec.
-Rock http://www.rocky-frisco.com
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Rocky Frisco <ro...@rocky-frisco.com> wrote in message
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Rocky Frisco
>
> Mine new BMW mini will be four wheel drive! it vill be fast, big, cost lots
> ov Deuchmarks & vill come with a free pair of Jackboots!
>
> Himl......
And the exhaust manifold connects to the passenger compartment?
Sincerely sorry, but I simply couldn't help it. I'm twisted.
Chris Koppitz
Your anti-German sentiment is well known, and it's boring. Save us from
your witty anti-MINI (tm) drivel, and focus on what you know best, the
original Mini, and policing newsgroups.
Remember, "AmeriKKKa" also has a history of genocide.
- Chris
"Rocky Frisco" <ro...@rocky-frisco.com> wrote
Rocky Frisco
>
> Rocky,
>
> Your anti-German sentiment is well known, and it's boring. Save us from
> your witty anti-MINI (tm) drivel, and focus on what you know best, the
> original Mini, and policing newsgroups.
I assume you re-read this before you hit the "send" key, so I also assume
you were being purposely quite insulting. That's okay with me, but at least
make the rebuttal match something I actually said, not something you
imagined I might mean.
With all due respect for your opinion, your comment above is chock full of
scheiße, which is, by the way, not the German word for cheese.
I have *NO* anti-German sentiment, prejudice or bias, so how could it be
well-known? I have been careful from day one to make this clear. If you want
to make this sort of accusation, list your source of information. My own
ethnicity is way more German than any of the other nationalities in my
personal mix: "Lichtlider."
Hating bullies is not in any way synonymous with rancor toward the German
people, which would be really stupid and unproductive, especially in an
international forum. "Net-Nazis," Traffic Nazis" and even "Soup Nazis" are
terms used commonly in literature, conversation and TV comedies, and not
just in the States. None of these refers in any way to Germany or its
citizens.
I don't "know best" just Minis and "Policing newsgroups," Chris; I know one
big hell of a lot of history, psychology and philosophy, especially for an
American from Oklahoma, I know enough about music and piano-playing to have
performed in many great venues in the USA, Canada and Europe. I was a member
of the team that produced the metal-film resistors used in the first Mars
project and the team that produced the very first epitaxial transistors from
scratch in Canada. I was a damned good racing driver and I'm a good pilot. I
certainly don't expect you or anyone else to be greatly impressed by these
claims, although I can back them up easily, but I also don't particularly
enjoy being discounted nor patronized.
> Remember, "AmeriKKKa" also has a history of genocide.
Yes, I know that. This isn't, nor was it ever, a pissing contest between me
and the German people, nor America vs. Germany, so I fail to see why this
statement has any bearing whatsoever on anything I have said. I did not once
mention genocide, since it is not germane to the correspondence.
*Mankind* has a history of genocide, war, murder, rape, torture, persecution
and intimidation, along with kindness, generosity, self-sacrifice and
heroism; no nationality, ethnicity or philosophy has exclusive rights to any
of these attributes.