Hairlip Mini on Mini Mania classifieds

[MPlayle]

Anyone here remember the original "Hairlip Mini" fiasco on Mini Mania?

There is a "Hairlip" Mini just showed up in the classifieds over there with a rather high price.

http://www.minimania.com/cars4Sale/13618/1989_Austin_Mini_Sedan

:-[

[94touring]

Lol I remember.  This car looks pretty nice.  Makes you wonder what they were thinking.

[John Gervais]

Oh yeah, the good o'l days...  There were some real battles going on.

Sure does make one wonder, though, as to why not just do the job right...   :-[

[MiniDave]

That's a really nice looking car - I don't know if it's $22K good looking, but it's nice. The hood is weird tho, why wouldn't they just cut off the lip and do it right?

[94touring]

Yeah the price tag is outrageous for a 998.  Those lips are just spot welded on. 

[MiniDave]

I see some guy in Tulsa has a car for sale on MiniMania too - paint it any color you want!    4.gif 

[94touring]

Yeah and it needs to go!  I'm not needing any more minis for myself!

[Jims5543]

That's a really nice looking car - I don't know if it's $22K good looking, but it's nice. The hood is weird tho, why wouldn't they just cut off the lip and do it right?

Thats a lot of scratch, the Porsche I am looking at is much less than that costs.  What is the hairlip reference about, is it the leading edge of the hood? It does look amiss.

[94touring]

Yeah it's got mk1 trim but then they tossed on a mk3 bonnet chrome piece that doesn't match up.