Driving 2 years tommorow!

[benczuk]

What a cheery response!

Entire windscreen surround has been strengthened (along with a lot of other bits)

[OdinEidolon]

It'll be 3 years for me next month! Happily out of the idiotic rules we have here in Ita: someone who has had the license for less than 3 years pays double the points for infractions and isn't allowed to to do some things such as >60mph on the motorway (the limit is 80 for "normal" people)

[Welly]

I'd love to see the V5 document for that, under the section "colour"........

[highlander]

What a cheery response!

Entire windscreen surround has been strengthened (along with a lot of other bits)

Glad to hear it - I'm all for modding cars in awesome ways (like turning a car into a convertible, for example) but I shudder to think about what might happen if it's not done properly.

Besides, the colour scheme is cheery enough to make up for my doom-and-gloom nature

I've never been much of a fan of the Mini (new or old) but I know I'm in the minority on that front, there's still millions of the little buggers (and newer not-so-little buggers - BMW Mini Countryman, I'm looking at you here) out there. Yours is pretty much unique I think.

[Welly]

Yeah what is it with the new Countryman? it's big by big car standards let alone a 'Mini' they're huuuuuuge

[benczuk]

I'd love to see the V5 document for that, under the section "colour"........

The DVLA insisted on inspecting it when i submitted the change form for colour red green blue and yellow. Probably expected a cut and shut. New v5 says "multi colour" bit of a let down

[Welly]

New v5 says "multi colour"

Well it's correct, I'll give them that

[trem1]

Like Steve i'm up to nearly 30 years Most of them as a van-driver. have to have a think about what cars ive had..memories not the same as it was

[sirwiggum]

Nice car benczuk!

Always been a fan of the original Mini!

Rover made a few official cabrios, seem to be safe enough.

It reminds me of the Polo Harlequin. Someone up the estate used to have one. I often wondered what they would put in the car advert:

Make: VW
Model: Polo
Colour: Red, Green, Yellow, Blue...

Though knowing gumtree it would be

FOLKSWAGON POOL HARLEYQUINN (NOT BORA, A3, IMPREZZA) RED, GREN, YELLO, BLU (NOT PURPLE, ORANGE, BLACK, WHITE)

http://petrolblog.com/2010/05/07/yester ... harlequin/

[highlander]

It reminds me of the Polo Harlequin

http://petrolblog.com/2010/05/07/yester ... harlequin/

Hell's bells! I saw one of those (from a distance) in Warsaw when I was there last year, and I genuinely thought it was a car that someone had gone and replaced the door, wing, and bonnet with ones from a scrappy

[benczuk]

The Polo is actually the inspiration behind the colour scheme

After we had put work into the first round of repairs after it sat in a garage for years and it was to be my first car I couldn't decide on a colour to respay it.

Multi colour solved the problem! Though it has more thought in it than the polo which was apparently made by taking cars to bits and putting any old panel on the bare shell. I spent hours on a computer "painting" the panels to work out the best colour scheme then choosing the paints from swatch cards.

My sister got a pink mini covered in dinner plate size daisy decals for her first car. The two together were quite a sight

[sirwiggum]

I remember I used to have a driving game called Nascar Racing by Papyrus.

This had a paint shop tool that you could paint your own car.

I remember taking my inspiration from the old multicolour Benneton F1 car