Oh yes.  My one came with Dunlop radials. It shared daily driver duties with my Mk2 Spit but I would say much of rampant rubber loss was down to my hooligan behaviour.  At the time I worked at the ordnance factory a blanket site 20mph limit but with literally hundreds of acres of unused roads, tracks and woodland. Lunchtimes, and just getting from place to place usually involved detours to the quieter parts. That and the general nonsense round town. The fabulous thing about the Mini was that all this could be done at 20-30 mph. 

Oh joy. Not short of work there. Immediate and slightly longer term. I take it the cambelt change is a dismantle the front of the car and scaffold pole on the pulley bolt job? The rampant lacquer peel may have a bearing on perusal of replacements. Wummin tend to be less keen on the rat-rod look than blokes I fear. Trouble nowadays is the paucity of half decent options out there. Bon chance mate!

Yoda: If it hasn't been deleted check this out: https://www.triumphexp.com/forum/spitfire-and-gt6-forum.8/why-do-lower-control-arm-brackets-pivot.2107844.2159699/#msg-2159699 He is definitely a Puppet. Probably of one of the more well known regulars.    NOTE: This is a problem when sites grow too big. People get banned for something they've said so the sign up a puppet account to continue their activity. (Or the puppet is for fighting and "disposable" so they don't risk losing their original account.)

I've got a cottage in upstate NY, about 8 miles from Cooperstown.  Haven't been there in over a year. Afraid to try and cross the border. 

Watching right now. Ian Hislop with his reddish hair is constantly reminding me of Toby Jones. 

This thing is due an MoT. That means I have finally change the exhaust back box, and the back tyres. Plus anything else I find.  It’s also due cam belt, needs the passenger side door lock and I’m told that third gear is “acting up”.  Then there is the rampant lacquer peel over about 1/2 the drivers side…..  Interestingly it suddenly seems to be out of favour with SM who has suddenly started searching FB marketplace for Golf’s….. Not sure I want any more middle-aged VAG tat to care for though!

All those in favour of free speech might be interested in this: Private Eye | Page 94: On Thin ICE If you don't know of Private Eye, it's a satirical magazine, m'lud, that mainly excoriates UK politics, but this issue of its online page (94) is about the US's ICE. John

That's the "American Exceptionalism" rearing it's head. "We are the best at anything and everything". I'm not slamming Americans because most don't hold this attitude. It's home is far right conservatives. (MAGA) So, Imgur has taken the attitude YOU should conform to THEIR way of doing things.  You (UK) have set some unique consumer protection rules since Brexit. Sooner or later the EU will probably adopt them and then Imgur will lose a lot of users if they don't comply.  I can't get onto Imgur if Cyberghost is enabled no matter what country/server I select. Even Canadian servers are blocked.  Similar to what Amazon Prime, Netflix and other Streamers do to geoblock people from using their streaming from other countries.  FWIW, Canada set some rules to protect major news sources in Canada from plagiarism and not getting royalties. A Digital Services Tax. The EU applauded it.  Google and others, and social media sites, blocked all Canadian news content rather than comply. Trump threatened Trudeau over it so it's been sidelined for the moment.

At a loss to see how agent orange fits into that….

It was my daily driver for two years. At the time our emissions rules had no bans about removing stuff from the engine. Or changing up the monstrosity bumpers they put on them from 1973 on. (For us Minis disappeared at the end of the 1980 model year due to Leyland's financial problems.) I pulled the smog pump and ancillaries. Pulled the head and had .120 shaved off it to offset the dished pistons trying to get the UK compression ratio. It ended up higher and I had to burn premium fuel in it. (Shop checked the water jackets first to be sure they wouldn't go too thin.) Double valve springs to get rid of the float not much above 5000 rpm. Got a set of twin SU's and manifold for them A Leyland factory long centre tube header and a Peco exhaust system. No idea how much horsepower or torque it provided but it sure moved faster. Factory, top speed was around 80 MPH. After mods... the speedo only went to 80 IIRC. Based on the tach, I could get it somewhat over 100 MPH on a  long level stretch of highway. (~6000 RPM.) Inside.. was like being in the middle of the largest nest of angry hornets you can imagine.  Not sure what tires you had on yours but I wore out the original set of Dunlop bias ply tires in about 6-7 months as a daily (and only) vehicle. I put a set of Michelin XAS Asymetrical Radials on it. They still had most of their tread 18 months later when I sold it.