minis rare??
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i was speaking to the fellow who runs my local mini breakers today and he rekons in an other 18mths or so we may have a bit of a shortage of minis for spares.
he rekons the yanks are exporting them in container loads every week and they cant get enough of them.
and if you add the numbers of minis that are destroyed and broke up in the uk as well, numbers must be dropping even more.

just a thought

no longer a series, but still 1.3 turbo.

I've noticed rapidly dwindling numbers of Minis appearing in my local scrappy over the last few years. There used to always be a couple in, now it's rare there's any. Time to start stockpiling bits me thinks !!

Phil.

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ive noticed a lack of metros too in the scrapyards lately

however this does mean that we will all look super rich with our modified very r@re classics

my local breakers say they just don't get minis any more as they go to 'mini specialist' breakers!!

stockpile now!

the situation can only get worse

the parts will indeed get rarer

i have noticed this also over the last few years
especially metros

Nothing like instigating a bit of panic buying. I suspect that bits are getting rare as people are already stockpiling

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I've got a huge stockpile but when you try and get rid of bits no-1 wants them!

I end up binning no end of stuff.

I just want enough for my car and then a couple of spares.

i think the main things to start collecting are good 1275 blocks and heads, maybe gearbox cases aswell. seeing as pretty much everything else can be bought new anyway.

I've been 'stockpiling' for a good few years every 1275 I come across - dead or alive!

ive got an engine out of my 1991 cooper in the garage, is it actually going to be worth something one day then? i think my dads been stockpiling for about ten years well either that or he just doesnt want to throw anything away

Not so much worth anything, but useful to have "in stock" for your own use if you plan to mess with minis for a while........

ive seen alot more on the road in swindon recently.............agreed, there like unicorn shit in scrapyards though

Don't let Alex hear about this stockpiling malarky, he doesn't need any excuses to hoard up the shed etc.

HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!

Certainly been a drop in the number of minis at my local scrappers yards, and on the road too.

-MINI CLUBMAN 1380 TURBO-

uh oh! nicky's starting to sound like a female

Well, we're in the process of buying a house, it's lovely and out of our budget so I'm not scrimping and saving for it to be Alex's little parts warehouse!
We are getting a garage though!
A tidy one though Mr B!

time for another whip around?

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