What did you do with your MINI today?

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  1. 00Mini

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    As one door closes another opens ….. now you can get that first generation JCW / GP you’ve always wanted. :D:D
     
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    you never know....
     
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    But for now no new cars on the horizon. My wife still has her Mini. I have a few more things to do to the 380SL then I need to sale it, the plan from the beginning. The problem is I really like the car. Then there is the lotus. I have a few small parts left to get, then I can finish the final tweaks on the tune. I need to finish it before spring.
    With any luck it will be done and I can meet my son at the Dragon. Maybe around the time of MOTD.

    Long term I think it would be fun to get an R53 put a TVS SC in it and an ECU masters ECU. they have one for the R53. But to do that I need to get rid of a SL.
     
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    I have a few more things to do to the 380SL then I need to sale it.

    What year is the SL? We use to have an 84 380.(wife's car as usual)
     
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    It's an 85. white with blue interior. the soft top is blue also. the top has a couple holes from being folded too long. They are nice cars. I would love to keep it. I wish the roof was not so heavy, makes it a pain to get off.

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    All very nice rides but the MINI modify bug can lay dormant for only so long before the urge just becomes to powerful to resist. :cool::D
     
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    At the time we owned it I worked for an MB dealer so it was in really good shape. I had a hoist in the roof of the garage so the roof was easy to take off. Ours was beer bottle brown with tan interior.
     
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    We are getting some unseasonably warm weather for February so I checked all the fluids to make sure that I’ll be good to go.
     
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    Warm in Chicagoland also.. so today was a wash the salt off the MINI day, plus a motorcycle ride, and a drive in my Sunbeam Alpine and a drive in a friend's Triumph Herald (car).
    Now I am ready for a nap before the big Lincoln's Birthday party this evening..

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    Nice here today also. (68)
     
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    I’m washing cars exteriors and cleaning interiors tomorrow.
     
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    Installed a new expansion tank cap and had a great drive to and from retiree breakfast.
     
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    Thinking ahead to spring..
    New tires for my "summer" wheels installed today.
    I managed to get 4 wheels and tires plus 4 more tires to fit in my MINI.
    Still at least another month till I can get them on the car.. maybe longer

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    You da man !!
     
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    Thinking of getting some new tires. The ones I have are not that old (maybe 2000k on them) but I want a little more grip. I'll put them on the other set of rims and put the new ones on the dynamic pro rims ( Pilot Sport Cup2 225x45x17) that should work.
     
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    Dam now I started something. I been surfing the internet on tires. What a mistake. Now I am looking at Nitto NT01,KumhoECSTA V730, TOYO Proxes R888R. That's what I get.
     
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    You sound like me when I shop for tires.
     
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    Life was so simple back in the dark ages when there was no internet and as I just went through the tire search hell a month ago when buying for my wife’s Traverse so I can feel your angst. I wish I could offer some first hand info on your choices but I can’t as the best performance tires I have are the Firestone Firehawk Indy 500 which were on the GP when I bought it.
     

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