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1. [Nobbc] More than you want to know about Minis (score: 1): Author: "G. Mugele" <mewgull@sonic.net>; Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:03:25 -0800; Ahem... well Greg, you have the virtue of youth; you're not old enough to really have this down. However, it was not as straightforward as all that. BMC built the Austin Seven and Morris Mini-Minor a; /html/nobbc/2011-01/msg00302.html (11,084 bytes)
2. Re: [Nobbc] More than you want to know about Minis (score: 1): Author: "Clif & Deborah Williamson" <hawkview@sonic.net>; Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:08:22 -0800; Thanks Gerry. But what I get from this is that the BMW Mini is not British at all. Except for a few part here and there and a similar exterior design, it is pretty much "GERMAN". I think almost all m; /html/nobbc/2011-01/msg00305.html (13,257 bytes)
3. Re: [Nobbc] More than you want to know about Minis (score: 1): Author: "Peter Ziedrich" <zied@redwoodempiremini.com>; Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:27:26 -0800; Here is one the best short histories of Minis online at: http://www.outmotoring.com/pages.php?pageid=7 (Out Motoring) MINIs unlike Minis have only been assembled in England at the same Rover plant th; /html/nobbc/2011-01/msg00306.html (13,119 bytes)
4. Re: [Nobbc] More than you want to know about Minis (score: 1): Author: Greg Tatarian <gtwincams@gmail.com>; Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:32:53 -0800; Hi Gerry, Well, that was a fun and informative lecture, but I think you may have prepared using the syllabus for the wrong course. ;-) . I intentionally minimized the history of classic Minis, since; /html/nobbc/2011-01/msg00307.html (10,752 bytes)
5. Re: [Nobbc] More than you want to know about Minis (score: 1): Author: Greg Tatarian <gtwincams@gmail.com>; Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:39:08 -0800; Hey, not so fast there on the trigger, Clif. ;-) Before you lump us MINI owners in with the BMW or Porsche clubs, here's what I just posted to Gerry: Minis are assembled at Plant Oxford <http://en.wi; /html/nobbc/2011-01/msg00308.html (11,750 bytes)
6. Re: [Nobbc] More than you want to know about Minis (score: 1): Author: "Peter Ziedrich" <zied@redwoodempiremini.com>; Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:43:45 -0800; Where this logic might be sound, then I guess new Jaguars and Land Rovers aren't British but Indian, and new Bentley Continentals are German (owned by BMW and looks like BMWs), and Aston Martins are; /html/nobbc/2011-01/msg00309.html (14,877 bytes)
7. Re: [Nobbc] More than you want to know about Minis (score: 1): Author: "Mike Gianandrea" <mvg1@att.net>; Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:30:14 -0800; Well let me chime in here, I do not clearly recall how it came to be, but BMW purchased the assets of BMC some years ago, and produced the MINI, so the MINI is a british car manufactured by BMW in th; /html/nobbc/2011-01/msg00311.html (16,942 bytes)
8. Re: [Nobbc] More than you want to know about Minis (score: 1): Author: "Clif & Deborah Williamson" <hawkview@sonic.net>; Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:45:12 -0800; I don't think it matters where the car is produced. More who owns it and who designed it, i.e. the owner (BMW). Like I said, VW's produced in Mexico are not Mexican. Let's look at the Caterhams produ; /html/nobbc/2011-01/msg00312.html (14,736 bytes)
9. Re: [Nobbc] More than you want to know about Minis (score: 1): Author: "Clif & Deborah Williamson" <hawkview@sonic.net>; Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:49:28 -0800; You couldn't have said it better. Perhaps it would be best to say, that if a car has British roots, it is British. I have a bit of a problem with that, but I can't think of a better way to deal with; /html/nobbc/2011-01/msg00313.html (17,495 bytes)
10. Re: [Nobbc] More than you want to know about Minis (score: 1): Author: "Peter Ziedrich" <zied@redwoodempiremini.com>; Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:51:53 -0800; UBSCC deals with it in a very simple manner at the Woodland Car Show (which I attend yearly)... if you think it's British they will go along with it. At their shows you will see German Cars (MINIs, B; /html/nobbc/2011-01/msg00317.html (19,191 bytes)
11. Re: [Nobbc] More than you want to know about Minis (score: 1): Author: Greg Tatarian <gtwincams@gmail.com>; Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:01:40 -0800; Well, except that Super 7 is a Caterham factory-authorized manufacturer, and Caterham is a UK company, so if a Mexican VW isn't Mexican, why is a Super 7 from Canada a Canadian car? Original Minis we; /html/nobbc/2011-01/msg00318.html (11,944 bytes)
12. Re: [Nobbc] More than you want to know about Minis (score: 1): Author: "Clif & Deborah Williamson" <hawkview@sonic.net>; Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:29:17 -0800; Works for me. I will have to come up with a category for non British, British cars. Any ideas. Sounds like a fun event. Where is it? Clif 74 JH UBSCC deals with it in a very simple manner at the Wood; /html/nobbc/2011-01/msg00319.html (20,169 bytes)
13. Re: [Nobbc] More than you want to know about Minis (score: 1): Author: "Clif & Deborah Williamson" <hawkview@sonic.net>; Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:39:35 -0800; Interesting. Like I said, if it has British blood, it's British. But BP gas, and oil does not make a British car, OK? Clif --Original Message-- From: Greg Tatarian Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 3:01; /html/nobbc/2011-01/msg00320.html (12,628 bytes)
14. Re: [Nobbc] More than you want to know about Minis (score: 1): Author: Mitch Utsey <mitch.utsey@gmail.com>; Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:43:57 -0800; Bond would say, "Excellent! Now it won't overheat going over the mountains, nor misfire when I drive through a puddle, but I can STILL get the girl". -Mitch __________________________________________; /html/nobbc/2011-01/msg00321.html (9,786 bytes)
15. Re: [Nobbc] More than you want to know about Minis (score: 1): Author: Liam O'Flaherty <liamof@earthlink.net>; Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:00:52 -0800; British cars. Any ideas. Sounds like a fun event. Where is it? At by Nash Austria. better by Buick Except are outdone twisting where. in became were SUV on incredibly http://autox.team.net/mailman/op; /html/nobbc/2011-01/msg00322.html (22,848 bytes)
16. Re: [Nobbc] More than you want to know about Minis (score: 1): Author: "Clif & Deborah Williamson" <hawkview@sonic.net>; Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:27:54 -0800; Then my VW would be in! British cars. Any ideas. Sounds like a fun event. Where is it? At by Nash Austria. better by Buick Except are outdone twisting where. in became were SUV on incredibly http://a; /html/nobbc/2011-01/msg00324.html (23,657 bytes)
17. Re: [Nobbc] More than you want to know about Minis (score: 1): Author: "Peter Ziedrich" <zied@redwoodempiremini.com>; Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:44:54 -0800; and cars you have to spend 2-4+ hours prepping for a monthly 2 hour C.M. is back in Santa Rosa with his blue '65 Australian Mini.... Peter British cars. Any ideas. Sounds like a fun event. Where is i; /html/nobbc/2011-01/msg00325.html (23,930 bytes)
18. Re: [Nobbc] More than you want to know about Minis (score: 1): Author: Ron Engelhardt <nobbc@sonic.net>; Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:54:13 -0800; That would be Craig Murphy and he is back in Santa Rosa. By an odd coincidence he delisted himself from this list today and I've emailed him to find out what's up. I think family pressures keep him f; /html/nobbc/2011-01/msg00326.html (9,206 bytes)
19. Re: [Nobbc] More than you want to know about Minis (score: 1): Author: Mark Darley <markdarley@mac.com>; Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:25:30 -0800; I agree, but I think it is the number of places that the oil comes from that really qualifies it. (No doubt about mine.) Mark Mark Darley markdarley@mac.com 415 381 5452 ____________________________; /html/nobbc/2011-01/msg00329.html (25,199 bytes)
20. Re: [Nobbc] More than you want to know about Minis (score: 1): Author: Ron Engelhardt <nobbc@sonic.net>; Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:46:10 -0800; Update: Craig's car is in pieces as he works on it and hopes to have it together for a ride later in the year. He delisted due to the recent volume of mail pouring out of this list. (Heh, here's one; /html/nobbc/2011-01/msg00331.html (9,874 bytes)

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