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All I've got so far for pics is a crappy cell phone pic. I'll try and get one this weekend that is a decent quality.

 

As I was sitting here, reading the warm welcoming responses, I realized.....I lied. :biggrin5:

Actually, I guess technically, I own (or at least pay for) two Mini's.

Long story short, my youngest needed a new car after a police officer T-boned her car on a country road last year around late spring time. I got the call in the middle of the work day out here (on the left coast), and about had a heart attack thinking that she might have been seriously hurt.

November rolls around, and Christmas was around the corner, and my ex (my daughter's mother), knowing my wife and I had discussed getting her a car for high school graduation (before she went off to college), asked if we were in a position to help get her a replacement used car. So....I called the nearest Mini dealer in the area (thinking "Hey, these cars would be great for a college aged girl! Cheap on gas, and pretty reliable."), and sight unseen arranged the purchase of a brand new R56 MC. Spice orange, with a black top (they don't make a lime green one, which is what my daughter always talked about). She didn't have a clue until Christmas morning, and a children's Mini Cooper was wrapped as her present...with a real set of keys in it. :lol: (Ex-wife's idea)

I didn't see the car until this past summer when she graduated, and the wife and I flew out in Florida for her ceremony. When I saw her drive up to the hotel (very proudly, I might add) in that little Mini I remember thinking, "You know, that is a slick little car!".

Now honestly, we had already test drove a Coupe (one weekend, when I was pondering a Mini for my daughter's graduation present), but it was more of lark doing it. After seeing my daughter's Mini, I couldn't get the thought of the little turd out of my head.:biggrin5:

At any rate, that's how I ended up with a Coupe...because I couldn't stand the thought of my daughter having all the fun! :cornut:

 

Better pictures as requested...





Fun times...