Hello all, recently picked up 2006 GP #419, which I've known for a while through the prior owners, friends of mine. All stock except for a carbon JCW shift **** and I've only put about 20 miles on the car in the past couple weeks. Great driver-level car with 67k miles and a recent major service in March '20.

A bit about me: live in the south Bay Area, California in a town called Los Gatos, worked for BaT for years and did a few thousand auctions for them, currently work as the Director of Auctions at Cars & Bids...huge car nut to say the least.

My other fun car is a mildly modified low-mile 2001 Miata with some fun Flyin' Miata/Racing Beat goodies, and the daily is a 2019 Mazda CX-5 GT AWD.

Anyway, I've driven quite a few Minis (used to be the GM of a dealership back in the day, sold a couple near-new GP1s myself) and look forward to learning more about them as an owner. If there's any local people/gatherings I should know about please let me know. Take care!

 

Congrats on the GP they are the best of the R53. I love mine and have many GP customers that we have modded them out.

 

Thanks, will check out your site!

 

great to have a local GP1, as i have a GP2 and local to you as in Foster City, work in San Carlos and Palo Alto. if you have facebook you can join NORCALmini and Minis and coffee silicon valley. Minis and coffee will have a drive this sunday. meeting 8:00am at starbucks stanford shopping center , depart 8:30 and do a run up page mill, hwy 35, hwy 92.

 

Hey thanks for the info, much appreciated! Will check the FB group now.