Bonneville Mini Cooper - Jay Leno's Garage 

so glad someone noticed that. Loved it!

@@filterss Why are you glad someone notice ?

Jay showed a bit of respect and moved on.

Click bait to keep you hangin on in there…

Will you please open this Bonnet now please !

His passion shows

yea this will definitely be one of my many favorite episodes of JLG.

yes..really neat to see a guy so up to date on his cars..wow.

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props to jay - hit all the proper questions. Amazing . not sure why there would be a single down vote. currently 70

They were made up until 2000 in this shape, with a 1.3l fuel injection engine. You could import one, it's still called a 'classic' mini, without being a classic age wise.

The body didn't really change much from '59 to 2000. RHD, LHD, there was some engineering involved for that, but Canada has tons of LHD. I upgraded mine to a Metro 1.3 w/throttle body fuel injection and electronic ignition just to make life easier, plus a bonus of ~20 bhp. I got 50mpg until an oxy sensor wigged out, dropped me down to 42. Tip: They do NOT like full size Corbeau 5 point harness racing seats. 22 inch seat back means you can't recline if you've got the bolt-in rollcage installed.

You might wanna head over to our channel. We have a video of a Mini with a Honda Turbo Bike Engine. :-)

great memory to have

Holy jeez! Don't remind me. Or at least don't let my mum hear about that! I got her bog standard Mini 1000 airborne off a hump back bridge on several occasions when I was approximately 19. Hmm, yes, it was around 1972, and if I remember to tell her, she'll probably laugh her dear old grey head off!! :¬D

You can always tell when a Scotsman has lived in USA for a long time. They sound like Mr Ried.

Passion!

Probably likes the guy cause he Scottish. Leno's mum was Scottish and he is half Scot.

I grew up near Brainerd Int'l Raceway (BIR) in central Minnesota, 10 turn road race course with a mile long front straight used for drag racing. The classes that had Minis were hilarious, I swear the drivers never lifted or shifted the whole way around. They would get eaten alive down the straight and into flat-out turn 1, and then slowly reel the larger cars in on the twisties.

Chris James I had an austin healy sprite with a 1275 and could blow away my buddies 2002 and anothers 610 datsun. At the time I had a 750 k honda built to the hilt and if I didnt enjoy that bike so much id had put that engine in my sprite

I love the old Mini , teenagers are still using them as a racer car in Chile

Had the Austin seven model when minis ruled the 60s

@@billygraham3287 That was the eternal story with those little beauties. If you got into a long section of twisties, especially gravel, they'd eat you alive. Depending on the kind of timed section (this is rallying) you were on, they could disappear around a corner and just vanish into the woods and they'd be long gone just as you hit the time stop behind them, their distinctive exhaust notes just audible in the darkness at two in the morning. You could make out their gear changes two miles away. Beautiful. I didn't have a Mini so I run what I brung, a '67 350SS Camaro that was tweaked a little here and there ( modded 850 cfm four-barrel, aggressive distributor setting, no air filter and traction bars.) This was during many a mid-summer all-nighter in Eastern Ontario. I killed them on the straights...you know the rest. Although once I was able to catch a Mini on a long gravel straight into a left hander covered with marbles and we both got there at the same time, me on his bumper. All he could see was one headlight and wall-to-wall grille in his mirror. When we started the turn, he piled it on and so I did this once, and it worked. I shifted the car left and hooked the two left tires into the ditch and kept the rims of my wheels below road level and used controlled centrifugal force instead of road surface traction and passed him on the inside ...in the ditch...and I wasn't coasting. The Mini left side window was filled with saucer-sized eyeballs when the driver figured out that he was being passed by something that to him was an aircraft carrier that apparently didn't care about the laws of physics. In a sane world ( I have *never* claimed to be sane) I whould have just slid across the corner and carried us both into the trees at about 100 kph and he would have been the filling in the sandwich. He backed off quite smartly, conceding the curve. The curve straightened into a long straight county road so I just popper up and hammered it. He never did catch me. Doing over 100-120 mph or 200 kph down a straight gravel road in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night is just a fukn HOOT! This was about 2:30 in the morning. NB - These were on sections of road that had been shut down for the auto club, SCCA, by the Provincial Police from a certain time to a certain time just so we could go hooning around the countryside in all manner of specialized machines, trying not to get ourselves killed, kinda. Good times, good times. Nothing like performance car war stories.... Hope you liked it. This is not fiction, btw....

Mind your finger tips on that "hood"

Yeah keep watching buddy, I have been watching videos for the past two years just to help me get on with my project but she's still sitting where she's at lol

Love those Beemers ... 2002 especially ... classic cool.

SpyderRios Good Luck with your rebuild, love the 2002 perfect for urban use, imho, 4 on the floor, w weber downdraft

That was the colour I had, and with the white roof. Great mini ('67) until a drunk driver smashed into it just behind the driver's door post, destroying the back and spinning it horizontally. I actually got out without a scratch. Those were the days when you could do simple inexpensive mods like small steering wheels, wide wheels, extra instruments, racing seats and radios

Speaking of old guys that wont give up the need for speed try on You Tube JOHN RENWICK VINCENT EPIMETHEUS now that's a shed

You might wanna head over to our channel. We have a video of a Mini with a Honda Turbo Bike Engine. :-)

Yea this was the first time I have ever skipped forward one of Jays vids! The guy was talking and going on and on and on.....and it all started to sound like Charlie Browns school teacher!

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yes he's been inthe US for 40 years so some would have rubbed off

He's back on here again in 2019 with a restored Mini.

He is definitely Scottish!

In Australia, that was a common nickname for a Mini. A 'Brick"

If I recall correctly drag coeficiant of the mini was .50 much the same as a. ......brick.

Years ago I saw a mo-ped on a run there.

good luck finding one

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Vega-Expert there are loads of them left in England.

got 7 of them on my driveway, they are getting rarer though. prices are shooting up now too

donn GREG yes motor japan honda civic