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Best wishes for your brother's speedy recovery Dave.

 

Of course, you could just present him with a bubble wrap suit!:devil:

 

Drove to the grocery & escaped the parking lot unscathed.

 

Leopard and purple piping around the edges and sunroof... We know how Dave really rolls!

 

Those purple dingle balls go perfect with that shiny red paint.

 

...and put the R53 into winter storage today

 

No way....

 

Did the pre-flight checklist on my MINI in anticipation of a day of driving great SE Ohio roads tomorrow. Hope I remember to adjust my braking points, last time out I was driving a 996 with hugely more bigger & more better brakes.

 

Were the chrome ones outta stock??? :ihih:

 

Got the brand new winters on today.

 

Put on the winter boots. Hey, it was -2c here last night.

Now I'm all ready for this:




....and it will probably warm up and stay warm for the rest of the winter now.

BTW....anybody here planning on going to AMVIV next year? I received an email today.

 

Under-achiever. What's with that heinous silver ring in the steering wheel!?

 

Had to take a slight detour to some twisty's on the way to the guy with the computer...

 

Stopped by a certain somebody's place to drop off tires for a friend, and in his typical generosity....... he pressure washed a single section, of one of my wheels for me...



:mad2::mad5::mad2::mad5::incazzato::incazzato:

 

Sounds like a .0 thing...

 

Ordered some Christmas themed GoBadges to add to my ever-expanding dorky collection!

 

10 years and I still have the original paint.

Don't get me wrong it is very thin in a few areas because the dealership where I got it polished it with 1000 grit sandpaper and 70's gritty cutting compound on a wool pad but I have cleaned those areas the best I can get them.

Funny story about picking up my MINI. We almost had the deal done and the GM / Used car guy asked if my trade-in (2003 Dark Metallic Blue Nissan Maxima) was ever hit or repainted I said "No, I know how to keep a car polished and clean and have a garage why?" He said because the paint looks better then the new cars on our showroom floor.

The GM and the Sales guy and I walked around to check out my MINI and I saw the kid trying to polish my MINI and I told him to stop and just wash it by hand because he had no idea what you are doing. The sales guy said why he is very good. I said ok then you let him continue I will not buy the car and will leave now.

Take a look at my car, the one I am trading in and look at what he is doing to that car. :incazzato::eek6::frown2:

They told him to stop and just hand washed the car and bring it around front. :lol:

FYI ~ My Maxima never went on the used car lot it went to the GM's wife.

 

Today, I drove the Porker to work... Clean! Now its covered in dust again.

I did however come home to find a check in the mail from the dealer... Not the typical couple bucks they always seem to send after they pay off your trade in (That $9.00 came last week) this one is for $350.00! Wahoo! Who couldnt use that?

 

Short drive today...Car runs great, feels good and all that. It farking hurts to drive though!

I for one am not going to recommend the broken rib method of keeping miles low on your MINI.