http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4697669.stm
[inconsolable sobbing]
You poor, poor thing!
Take a spin in my Mini, 'twill cheer ya up!
Wasn’t she one of the “Top 100 Greatest Americans”?
I guess “was” was right. She’ll be back Weeks, don’t know when, don’t know how…
Also happy that she didn’t choose Canada!
MarkB
Weekenders, I know we don’t always see eye-to-eye, but I have to say that I feel your pain and share your grief. She was truly a seminal force in American musi . . er . . entertainment.
But cheer up, little buckeroo. We can always look forward to the Spice Girls reunion tour.
We should’ve seen this coming. There was something… I can’t quite place it… about her speech pattern in the mid 1980’s…
I’m sure I read about 25 years ago that minis weren’t allowed in the US because they were several inches too short (shut up, dear, SHUT UP!)…
Steve
…Or was it Hillman Imps…
Steve
They’re legal now baby! I think it’s a state-to-state thing, but most states allow you to import them and drive them as daily drivers.
The old ones are much nicer than those squat, ugly new BMW-Mini hybrids. For your second car you should get a Morris Minor. Now there was a car…
Steve
If I understand it correctly, the mini cars were the very first hybrids. When you are going uphill, you ready need to start the engine. However, when the road is fairly level, the pedals seem to work quite nicely. Right?
A soon as I’m done fiddlin’ around with this one (and as soon as my daughter gets out o’ the child-seat), my wife wants either a Mini Traveller woodie or a Morris Minor.
Either way, I’m going to ‘v-tech’ her’s so it’s a bit more reliable. MiniMainia.com sells oodles and oodles of parts for both. Thats where I got my parts for my '64.
I agree with ya there, the new ones aren’t nearly as classy! There’s more room in the classic Mini too! CHeck out my interior pictures on the “beating the gas pinch” thread.
http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php?t=30705
You callous bastards. Weekenders is sitting there in the corner sobbing uncontrollably in an advanced stage of madonna withdrawal, and you guys are prattling on about cars.
Talk about your male insensitivity.
But that’s how guys cheer each other up: talk about cars or sports. Sheesh. :roll:
No, that’s what we tell our wives and girlfriends we’re talking about. What we’re really talking about is how big those . . . . oh-oh . . . . wife alert . . .
Hey, guys. How about that 1960 Dodge Phoenix. It had some big ones. Fins, I mean.
There’s something I like about madonna’s music. Her wheels too. You know her dad was an auto engineer.
Madonna added that she and Ritchie fell in love with their 1,000-acre estate, Ashcombe, on the Wiltshire/Dorset border.
She said she wears sensible shoes around the estate, goes hunting and fishing, rides horses and looks after her flock of chickens.
Just like regular Brits!!! Fell in love with a 1000 acre estate? You don’t say…
Someone should let her know that saying things like “cheeky” and “lad” don’t make you a Brit.
…AND she swore on stage at Live 8 with a pronounced American accent. 
The cheeky bugger!
Steve
Man, I didn’t think anybody except the Royals had a piece of land that big there. Its been carved up for quite a few centuries…
This one’s rather darling.
Cheers,
Aaron