Looks awesome! Love the wheels. Purple haze has me dazed. Way to keep on motoring.

Keep up the great work.

 

Wow it looks incredible! You and your son need to be extremely proud of your hard work! Good luck at the show and “Break an axle”!!!

 

Welcome to NAM. Beautiful color Mini.

 

Great news! We won 1st place in the Gen 1 category at the SoCal MINI Maniacs All MINI car show on Saturday. What a great way to round out the transformation of this car into what I think my dad would have been amazed by.

 

Congrats on a fine job! I am sure you dad would have!

 

Congratulations!

 

It seems after nearly 2.5 yrs since the OP @audihere's MINI car show award, he's been AWOL with no posts whatsoever since then. Perhaps sold since then (or worse) and moved on to new project(s). If not, perhaps reply with updates! With this topic apparently "dead", I'll post subsequent comments related to this on my own (sig) thread topic.

 

I still come around NAM to read threads. My Purple Haze MINI is now daily driven to high school by my son. We haven't done any more mods to it. Just keep fixing things that break. I did get another project though, a BMW clown shoe.

 

Hopefully he appreciates it a bit more seeing that he helped perform much of the work on it.

Love Purple Haze on the R53 - such a great color.

 

I meant to come back and comment after the OP responded. Nice that the R53 is still in the family and in the hands of his son. Hopefully, he's been able to avoid door dings in the HS parking lot! Quite the unique car which must make his peers envious. I agree on BEP/PH color, which wouldn't have been my selection sight unseen (as I believe the original owner of mine had not), however the hue as shown in audihere's pics and my own thread topic isn't at all "girly" as I might figure "purple" might be. Quite distinctive, unique and pretty rare now.

@audihere - BTW, I traded messages with "bj" of Clown Shoe Motorsports this August, which was quite interesting. Perhaps you have as well as an owner of one of those models now...

 

Really love my clown shoe. Such a unique car with fascinating development R&D story. I need to get a pic of it with my R53.

 

I know this is an old thread but still want to ask about the button decal. My key is also missing one and I couldn't find it on eBay or anywhere else... What term did you use to search for this sticker? Thanks!

Louis