Re: SER1 Must be my lucky week!

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Hi Paul,

I've got a '58 Berkeley B65 (328cc) roadster and a '58 Standard 10 (948cc) 
saloon in pieces that I'll probably never get back together -- spares are 
a bother for both here in the colonies :-)

George E Sollish	Chief Engineer		Auto Gear Equipment
 			Project Manager		The Payne Lake Project

On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Paul Edmunds wrote:

> Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 09:39:23 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Paul Edmunds <ado15mini@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
> Reply-To: series1@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
> To: series1@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
> Subject: Re: SER1 Must be my lucky week!
> 
> Hi everybody, I also am restoring a Mini a 1961 countryman direct import 
> to the USA San Francisco it has never been out of the area! It got me 
> wondering what else people on this list are rebuilding or hobbies 
> even.......................Paul.................

> 57 109 Ser 1
> 61 Mini
> 73 MGB GT
> 89 Spitfire
> 94 Discovery
>
>
> Matt Draysey <matt.draysey@xxxxxx.xx.xx> wrote:
> There is a lot of difference between MkI and MkIIs! Too much to go
> through on here!
>
> I'll take it as it comes!
>
> Im am 6'2" and I fit just lovely, I used to have a Lotus 7 and you
> should have seem me getting in and out of that when I had the roof on!
> : )
>
>
> On 13 Apr 2005, at 16:59, Diana Alan wrote:
>
>> Matt
>>
>> It'll be an Aussie Cooper S, what's the difference between Mk I and Mk
>> II?  I remember something like 1275cc but I thought the earlier ones
>> were better?
>>
>> Do you want it Par Avon or Surface?  I don't know if it will get into
>> my annual limit of Qantas airfreight.
>>
>> When I was a kid the NSW Police Highway Patrol drove Mini Cooper S's -
>> I remember this big burly coppa wearing navy blue riding jodhpurs,
>> black leather riding boots and black leather peaked cap getting out of
>> a one when he was booking my older brother for something or other.
>> You wouldn't have thought he would fit in such a little car.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Diana
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Matt Draysey
>> To: series1@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
>> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 1:34 AM
>> Subject: Re: SER1 Must be my lucky week!
>>
>> Hi Diana
>>
>> If it is a MkII Cooper S I'll have it! Put it in the post to would you!
>>
>> No my wife is an accountant! She is too squeamish to be a nurse!
>>
>>
>> On 13 Apr 2005, at 15:48, Diana Alan wrote:
>>
>>
>> Matt
>>
>> My house mate has a mini but he hasn't touched it in over a year - do
>> you want it?  It's preventing me bringing up one of my 80" from the
>> farm.
>>
>> I don't know your wife - is she a nurse?  Maybe I know someone who
>> knows her - almost half my department are Pommy ex-pats.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Diana
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Matt Draysey
>> To: series1@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
>> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 12:23 AM
>> Subject: Re: SER1 Must be my lucky week!
>>
>> Nice one! : )
>>
>> I do have a 1968 MkII Mini Cooper S that I am in the process of
>> restoring so once I have done that , another S1 will probably turn up!
>> But don't tell the wife!
>>
>> Cheers
>> Matt
>>
>>
>

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