Originally Posted by inkspot1967

Where and when is the dragon?

Originally Posted by Albiecrazy

Yesterday: motored back from VA. Giggles - even if there would have been time to swing over to you, the DC traffic just destroyed us.

Once we hit NJ we could finally fly. Picture this: traffic moving along at 75 but the occasional yahoo doing 65 in the left lane fowling things up. A yellow convertible Camaro is having the same problem I am with yahoos. Then a black GT Mustang. Then a white WRX w/black wheels - great looking car. We've all had enough so it's any lane you can get. We were all feeling it and for about 15 miles it was all out and all smiles!!! The best thing was that it wasn't a pi$$ing contest and none of us were cutting people off or doing anything overly stupid. Even better was that my little straight Cooper MORE than held his own. Not one of those other cars left feeling the MINI crashed a party he wasn't invited to. Even my +1 was impressed and also surprised at the fun level going on with the four of us.

Having shared this motoring adventure, please motor with care peeps. Had any one of those three other cars decided to have fun at another motorist's expense I would have bailed.

Originally Posted by drsimmons

Megan as well. Ordered them from Way and he was out so Megan Racing drop shipped them to me. Of course, no numbers id'ing them on the box and when I had it in the shop for the other stuff my mechanic realized they were for an R53. Way called me and apologizied and said they should have some in by Tuesday and Megan is going to overnight them to my mechanic. Great service from Way, and Megan actually. He took care of everything. Not his fault.

Originally Posted by xstartxtodayx

Those look great my friend is on his 4th or 5th set of CCW's now he has an issue with not having a gf/wife, rent/mortgage, or anything else to spend his money on so he spends crazy amounts on his cars (which he now has 2 cars, 1 mkV GTI and a new mk6 Jetta wagon, both bagged and both on CCW's, the Jetta just got finished with the air install with hardlines by swoops and frame notching, the whole 9 yards). Anyways, I was wondering how come yours has 8 hols and not just 4 for the bolts? I'm really liking the red on your car (so glad you didn't do black ), I'd say drop the front a bit and you're golden... the fitment looks awesome

Originally Posted by DVUS CPRS

I'm not a fan of red/ black combos, but dude, your car looks sick with those rims!! Nice choice!

Originally Posted by bmwr606

!) i took delivery of my 2012 countryman
2) i giggled like a 2yo driving off the dealer lot
3) i successfully programmed 2 radio staion presets in the radio
(wdrv hd1 & wdrv hd2)
4) pushed every button / flipped every switch on the various panels

scott

Originally Posted by bmwr606

GigglesMcMini

names are earned....it usually takes a while

my 1974 BMW R60/6 is named Slash....took almost a year
my 1987 BMW K75s is named Kato...took over a year

(i still own both of them)

i had a 1983 BMW R80RT, never named and traded it for the K75s after 3 years
it was a nice motorcycle, but not a keeper

bonus points if you know who Kato is!

it is raining today, supposed to be sunny tomorrow so phots then

hopefully a name will present itself soon cause so far I LOVE THIS CAR!!!!!!!

scott

Originally Posted by Nick5811

Since cooperflags never shipped my roof decal I have like $350 to spend on other mods! I've spent the last two days trying to figure it out. So far I've been thinking carbon fiber parts, vinyl-fiber parts, bonnet stripes, a-panel graphics, painting or vinyl-wrapping the roof black, and other stuff, but I can't decide.

I've been trying to find all the pictures I can of dark silver minis with different stripe options (viper, single, oem). I can't decide black, cf, or maybe lime green to match my yet to be painted calipers and ebc pads...too many options.

I ordered some of that di-noc vinyl so I can try my hand at wrapping and get a feel for the look before I blow hundreds of dollars on cf parts.

Suggestions how to spend the cash on my mini? Here is a recent pic so you can see what I'm working with.

The scoop, mirrors and part of the grille are plastidipped black, and I'm gonna redo them and finish blacking out the grille this week if the weather cooperates.

Originally Posted by Yoda Mini

blacked out my gas cap. Also did the wheels but it got dark before I could get a good pick. And started on the grill but will have to finish it later.

Originally Posted by xstartxtodayx

I did my gas cap yesterday too I was going to do my grill surround, scuttles, and gas cap but I didn't have time to remove the bumper to get the surround off so I decided to just do the scuttles and caps. I couldn't get the scuttles off (think I started bending the tabs that hold them on there since they're both now loose) so I decided to just do the gas cap. I tipped the cap over not once but twice while painting it (had it balanced on a can) and each time had to peel off all of the plasti-dip and start over (thank god that stuff comes off so easily), the third time was a charm and it now looks great. I now wish I took the time to take the bumper off since I probably set a new record for amount of time to paint a gas cap

Originally Posted by Sanderskog

Sorry about the crappy picture, it was pissing rain and as you can see I was getting ready for a local community April Fools Day Parade which I do each year with the club for my daughter's birthday (that's me hunched over the front end trying to apply the tongue which is always a hit with the kids).