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Old Dec 15th, 2002, 06:25 AM
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MCS so HOT it starts bush fire!

Well not quite, but it we did have a rather close encounter with one of the recent Sydney bushfires. Thankfully, no paint bubbled and this one was under control fairly quickly.
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Old Dec 15th, 2002, 06:26 AM
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Old Dec 15th, 2002, 06:27 AM
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Old Dec 15th, 2002, 06:28 AM
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Old Dec 15th, 2002, 07:01 AM
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Whoa!

Great photos Spazz... Dangerous times round these parts

Go fireys!

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Old Dec 15th, 2002, 08:24 AM
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Maybe you could put that in for the mini adventures bit on the mini.co.uk site?

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Spazz, is that a dead body or two in the back seat? !

MINI: The car of choice for the Aussie Mafia.

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MINI: The car of choice for the Aussie Mafia.

ROFL!

Cool pics too!
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Old Dec 15th, 2002, 09:35 AM
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Fantastic pictures spazz

I’ve edited the title slightly...I hope you don’t mind.
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Wow, quite an adventure!

Just think - if you'd gone for the red/white paint job, all you'd need is a blue light to become part of the local fire brigade!


You should definately post your story to the MiniAdventure page!

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Old Dec 15th, 2002, 01:08 PM
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Fantastic pictures spazz

I’ve edited the title slightly...I hope you don’t mind.

No worries, it was late when I posted, and my somewhat lacking creative brain had already decided it was bed time!

Definate improvement!
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Great photos! That would have been pretty scary.
Did you happen to look at the temperature reading when you were driving through? It would be interesting to see how hot it was outside.
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hot pics....
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Old Dec 15th, 2002, 11:39 PM
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Didnt even think of checking the temp, was too busy trying to get as many pics as possible. It was very very hot though. The radiant heat was a real worry, I stopped just down the road to see if the paint and plastic was okay.

Im glad we took a different route home a week or so later, there were some massive bushfires in the same area, made the one in the pics look like a baby.

And X2Board, my (god)father was very impressed with the new Mafia mobile. Plenty of room in the back for business purposes!
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