Awesome, MarcusCT!

 

Looking great MarcusCT!!

 

Ok MarcusCT, that has just sent me off to start stalking my dealer..........

 

Wow, I can't beleive that the wait is ALMOST over!! A few more days and the ship will be docking and our MINIs will be on trucks headed to us! YAY!!! I was thinking about how quickly that we got onto that ship, and I think that we really lucked out! I know that some people wait for a week or more to get onto a boat.

 

Don't worry everyone. Delivery will be here before you know it!

 

uh ... MINI dealer, I hope.

 

I picked it up in a rainstorm today. Took soome photos, but the quality's not so great cause it was...well...raining. At least I got to test out the car's capabilities on water-logged roads!

 

I saw that you had posted and I thought "oh man, he better have gotten his MINI today!" And you did! Love that color combo! I am a big fan of the silver roofs!!

 

Awesome, AMW! Awesome.

Oh, and in an entirely related note, I heard from my MA this morning that CL is due into PH on the 29th! There's an outside chance I could have my car by election day (06-June).

 

Yay and hooray! AMW has a MINI! Excellent colors and of course great wheel choice.

 

I was hemming and hawing about replacing the front grille with the chrome front grille and I'm so glad that I did now! But I had to put the front plates on, so kind of obscures the lower lip on the grille :( Oh well.

By the way, a little shot of the interior (with the space grey cloth seats)

 

Wow! That's great news, thanks for passing that along Doug!

 

AMW...............Glad to hear you got your MINI. You're right about the chrome grill, it looks nice. Tubwreck's right, you have great taste when it comes to choosing wheels. Glad everything worked out. Congratulations on finally getting your MINI home.

Ron

 

OMG! Look what I found!

In the timeless words of Papa Smurf, "Not much longer now."

 

Dude! thats CRAZY!!!!!! God, I hope my money is available in my bank account when he gets here....

Where exactly is Port Hueneme on that map?

 

Nevermind, I figured it out! Thank you Google Earth!! I think i even found the VDC, its one of 3 facilities on Arcturus Road. Wow, what the heck am I gonna do with my time after my car gets here?

Oh yeah, DRIVE IT! That and obsessively detail it.

 

And research mods and talk about driving it, think about accessories, wheels, etc, etc.

That's great, what's the link for that page?

 

http://aisfree.aislive.com/Influx.as...h%20West%20USA

 

The only thing that takes longer than your car getting here is waiting for the 1250 mile break-in period to be over so that you can wind your puppy past 4500 RPM. Let me tell you, 4500 comes pretty d**n quick in first, second, and third.

 

Time to change the lyrics!

My car's off the boat
My car's off the bo-o-o-oat
My car's off the bo-OAT
strumin' on the old banjo!



No, I don't know that for sure, but today's the day and I did pretty much stalk the CL last night to make sure it did go to PH. But, I'm not obsessing or anything.

Quiet crowd in here lately. Guess the east coasters are too busy motoring.

 

oh, I hope so!!!!!!!

 

Yes you're right about the Motoring. First order of businees with my new Mini is to get it broken in so I get on it and get past the SUVs, Civics, GTIs and other non-believers. I'm averaging about 100 miles a day on my break in quest. Currently the odometer is just over 600 miles. Must reach the 1200 mark so I can get on it.

Ron

 

I loaded the wife and child into my MINI and went up to NH for the weekend. In the interest of piling on some break-in miles. Tried to avoid long periods at constant speed, helped by heavy traffic, hills, and a very nice-shifting transmission.

My wife was amazed at how the car swallowed up the three of us (I'm 6'9" tall, she's 5'10", and my son, well he's only about 3 and a half feet tall) plus our clobber. I was amazed at how comfortable it was to drive, and how BIG it felt. I'd been driving my old 911 while waiting for my car, and after the 911, the MINI feels like a minivan.

I would also say that the wave is not dead. We were driving around the green in Hanover, NH (where Dartmouth college is) when I saw a twin of my car. When the driver saw me, he practically jumped out the window he was waving so hard.

All in all, a great little car that is so far exceeding my expectations!

 

Congrats on the car hitting land, SFODoug!!! That's pretty exciting. Yes, I've been taking the Mini all around town, but sadly have only put 152 miles on it over the long weekend as I stayed in Boston all weekend. But I have a trip to NYC this coming weekend and a trip to Vermont the weekend after that will hopefully put me up and over the break-in period miles.

 

Anybody confirm if our cars have been off-loaded at PH yet?