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Winter air out, summer air in.

 

Something... [emoji12]

 

Washed Babs clubster & took it for a nice little Easter drive. Beautiful day & no traffic to be had.

 

I'm not so sure. To me it's not that chrome makes a car look cheap. Race cars don't have chrome(unless it's a classic). My 68'c10 had lots O chrome and I kept it polished. My 80' Z28 had no chrome at all, chrome would have ruined that car. It's not that I don't like chrome, I just don't like chrome on my MINI. Now on the plasti-dip thing, If it's done in several light coats it turns out good. As good as just buying the glossy black trim pieces? No. On my car I think the black trim looks better than if I had left it chrome mainly since it came with black stripes on the hood. If it was a justa with no stripes i'd of left it alone. But it's and S and has the jcw aero kit with the black stripes and window tint so there was already a silver and black theme so I went with it. Hey I kept the rims silver, dammit :beer
But I hear ya brother.

 

Did the same thing.... Was down at the shop yesterday blowing out all the winter cobwebs.... Man I gotta clean the insides of my MINI.... All my running around with the windows down, I could grow some tomatoes back there... :cryin:

Gave a small assist to a fellow MINIAC that wanted to shed a couple of his old Texan attributes in place of a couple of his new Buckeye attributes....

T'was a glorious sunny day to be out and about in the MINI...

 

New plates?...on your neighbors Gnat? Pictures or it didn't happen!

 

Yeah.... I know... I thought I was hallucinating...

I thought that Texan would be forever generating local parking tickets as a temporary visitor to the area...

The local constable shouldn't have too hard a time finding him though... He gotz the same digits....

 

Drove to phoenix from fort collins, via aspen , moab and four corner monument..reached late,couldnt enter four corner monument..planning it while returning to columbus

 

Went shopping and found the latest HotWheels mini. Of course I bought it.

 

That sounds like a great trip. I've along through there a couple of times, unfortunately not driving anything fun. Looking forward to the pics.

 

Four corners monument, the place where i couldn't reach on time

 

Somewhere I have a pic of me standing in all 4 states from 28 years ago.

It was the first time I was out west. Until you've driven out there you just don't realize how big this country is.

 

Somewhere I have a 1989 picture of my new bride and me standing at Haight-Ashbury in Buena Vista Park and I was in a state of mind.... We eloped....:wink:

 

Ordered some suspension bits today. Got tired of waiting for Swift to come out with springs, so I went with NM springs, rear sway bar, and end links. Waiting for Helix to do a fitting to find out if their adjustable control arms will fit. I hope to get everything sorted out before MOTD.

 

Unboxed the DDMWorks intake today, stuff for the brake bleeder came in too. Weekend going to be busy. Also bought a proper Mini rear brake caliper retraction tool. How many special Mini only tools do you own? I'm up to three now.

 

Got some bad news from my MINI shop.........Koni yellows are broke. Apparently my 1 yr old Koni's have decided that the spring perch is not req'd to be secured to the damper.
Time to see how well Koni's customer service is.
:sad:

 

Removed the stock intake silencer on my Justa. I need to make a new bracket as this one is ugly. It definitely added a nice growl through the RPM range.

 

We forgot to get pics of your wheels today so you can get them sold and out of my garage!

 

Well crap...

 

Went to see Ernie at Peak Euro Sports! Short shifter, anti sway bar and a sprint booster! Woo hoo!!!