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Old 01-18-2014, 10:14 AM
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new R53 in 2003, still got it 11 years later
120,000 miles in, and still motoring! I still love my MCS. Best daily driver I've ever had.
 
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Congrats and welcome to NAM!
 
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Sweet! Glad that someone loves their car enough to keep it and drive it! No garage queen your car!

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2005 JCW (9 years old) 54000 miles and still strong. Also have a 65 Austin cooper s with a 1275 race engine in it. Street legal in MT.
 
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Welcome, sorry but I gotta say this, to good to be true (not really, I just wanna meet them haha)

Pics or didn't happened XD

I too have a 72 Austin mini and a 06 JCW XD although the Austin doesn't have a race engine, it's still stock
 
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I have (2) 2002 R53's - one bought new in June 2002 has 177k. The other one was bought used in 2008 and it now has 132k - that one is highly modified and ran 144.1 MPH in 2010 at Bonneville.
 
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I bought my '04 S in '05. Now has 95k (my DD is a company truck) Love the "04! Have done track days and trips. We tow our '75 Clubman Estate with my wife's '08 Clubman S (127K). Also have a Moke replica. Each MINI/Mini is great for different reasons, but I love driving the R53 the most.
 
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120,000 miles in, and still motoring! I still love my MCS. Best daily driver I've ever had.


 
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120,000 miles in, and still motoring! I still love my MCS. Best daily driver I've ever had.
Artoo just passed 140,000. Brings a smile to my face twice a day. To and from work. Wouldn’t trade it for anything.

///Me
 
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Artoo just passed 140,000. Brings a smile to my face twice a day. To and from work. Wouldn’t trade it for anything.

///Me

After following closely the timing chain threads and all the others of the same sort, it is great to see a thread like this!
 
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Welcome to NAM and congrats on the MINI milestone. Happy motoring and please don't forget the MINI wave. Someone already said this but here it goes…

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Pics of my MINI attached!
 
Attached Thumbnails new R53 in 2003, still got it 11 years later-mini111.jpg   new R53 in 2003, still got it 11 years later-mini12.jpg  
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Your MINI looks fantastic!
 
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Re-posted it a little bigger for you. Looks very clean for 120,000 miles. Nice to see you still have it from 2003.

 
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Very cool!
 
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Thanks guys!!! After 11 years, I still look out the window at it and smile.
 
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