[sbisson]

Reminds me of my first car, a Mini Clubman estate with the fake woody panels on the side. The only thing you needed to know was that it had been re-engined with a hill-climb tuned Cooper S engine. Great on an island with a 40mph speed limit and too many rich folk with Ferraris and the like, as it could out accelerate them anywhere on the island. Sure it wouldn't go faster than 50, but that was fine as it got to that speed almost instantaneously.

[cameronh90]

> island with a 40mph speed limit

Does it begin with J and end with Y? (I'm a London-based bean!)

[kingcharles]

Yowch. I thought that limit was only for the other Channel Islands. At least in say, the Isle of Man, you can get it nicely into triple digits on a regular basis.

[kQq9oHeAz6wLLS]

My friend in high school had a Mercury Capri like that. Dad was a drag racer, so that thing could beat anything up to 75mph. Then it'd rattle itself to bits.

Left my MGB in the dust, of course