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and stopped at the main gates to explain my predicament to
the night watchmen who were highly amused but un-relenting.

The bad weather began almost as I left Aylesbury, thunder
clouds rolled in as black as black could be. The lightning began,
followed by the thunder and torrential rain.
It was the rain that stopped me. Continuous heavy
downpours that drummed on the road and even louder on the
roof of the pick-up truck.
As the rain fell so hard the roads quickly became flooded
and then the dips in the road became deep lakes and the truck
stopped at every one.
One of the main design faults of the Mk1 mini, car, truck,
van or what have you was that the distributor that sends the
spark to each spark plug in turn was positioned on the front
face of the engine just under the bonnet catch and immediately
behind the smart designed serrated grill in the front of the
vehicle.

MK1 MINI DESIGN
To help those of you not frightfully interested in car design
I do need to explain a little of why this revolutionary new mini
car design was so different. Most cars up to 1959 had their
engines mounted front to back and drove the back wheels.

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