Oh yes H that one is etched on my memory too I was with three mates, we had not long left school and driving my brand new Mini Cooper S which father had 80% financed. Suffice to say it wasn't brand new when we got home

Funny you should say that H, coz I had my very first glimpse of it when I was 13 touring France with my sister, and she was in her Mini Cooper too, and I think I went round there sitting in the passenger dwell! Lol!

Ah yes, those 'original' Mini Coopers, they really were the 'bees knees' in them days eh

Thanks for all the replies! Am feeling a little more confident now, nice to know others have done it and survived!
Ooh thanks for that, I will give you a PM! Just wondering where abouts in Czechland () you are? I'd be heading to the Dobre region (if it is a region! ).