The mini cooper turns 50 years old

[Allegedman]

happy birthday mini (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1183674/A-big-Mini-day--thousands-road-Minis-50th-anniversary.html?ITO=1490)

THATS A LOT OF MINIS

[DreadZer0]

finally, a topic i can intelligently comment on!

Now, imagine a 440 in one of those smaller minis...

[Allegedman]

finally, a topic i can intelligently comment on!

Now, imagine a 440 in one of those smaller minis...

you would need to do some MAJOR SUSPENSION WORK before you would put one in otherwise the rear end would fall off.

[cargasm]

finally, a topic i can intelligently comment on!

Now, imagine a 440 in one of those smaller minis...

a 440 in a mini... where would u sit? there wouldnt be any room left! :fight:

[kevmeister]

I know a couple guys back home that shoehorned a 460 into a gremlin. putting a 440 into a mini would mean no driveshaft, just a coupler for the rear-end...

[Frank]

I know it's not a real Mini and not a big V8, but in 2002 Team Qvick built the Qvick Mini Cooper S3 with a 3.2L M3 engine and rwd. Of course that was a racing-car built using rules that allowed an engine from the same manufacturer who made the base-car, and the team had raced E36 M3's in the past.

My brother owned a 60s Mini, in the early 90s I think, and that was a weird car to drive, even though I was used to small cars. It was like the rear-wheels steered opposite, and the suspension was really tight, very little roll, but not uncomfortable. My brother had previously owned a less classic english car, a late-model export version Austin Allegro HL (in orange with a black roof and a 4-5ft CB radio-antenna on the roof). Trivia: In Denmark the Mini was sold as a Morris Mascot and to my knowledge Denmark might've been the only country where the model-name Mascot was used.

Frank