I wanted to introduce myself,
My name is Ben Pettis, I have worked as a MINI Sales manager
in the past (2004)and was to person responsible for starting the MINI meet and greet monthly at Tate BMW. I am a huge MINI fanatic and I have started a new shop in Annapolis. We are a proud sponsor of North American Motoring!
We have two Factory trained MINI technicians, Samson and Harry who is a Master tech. Our MINI techs have most likely worked on your car before.We are ready to do everything from routine maintainence (our shop rate is $20 less per hour than the local dealer) to pulleys and coil over suspensions. We do not have dealer restrictions and can do all sorts of performance work!

We are WS Motorcars and those familiar with Annapolis will know our location as the old Land Rover Jaguar building and later the temporary Mercedes building.
We sell european cars as well, we currently have a 1960 mini in our showroom
that has undergone a $20,000 restoration, feel free to stop by!
Thanks,
Ben

WS Motorcars
207 Chinquapin Round Road
Annapolis, Maryland 21401
phone: 410.626.1500

 

YYAAAAAAYYYYY! I live just up the road, in Severna Park...I'll be by to check you guys out for sure.

 

I plan on opening my doors to the clubs with tech inspections, a large conference room for meetings, car shows whatever the club needs!
We are happy to help the club!
When you have your car serviced you meet the person working on your car which gives this a personal touch, our techs will know exactly what you want done to your car!

 

Ben, thanks for the intro and welcome. Sounds good. Talk to me or MiniNurse about future events

 

That's awesome, a shop that's only an hour away!!!!!!!!! Not 3 or 4 hours! I will definitely stop by there and check you guys out!

 

That is good news.

 

Very cool! And not too far away from us. I will have to stop by, just to see the classic!

 

I'm sure Ben will have some nifty events for DCMM very soon. :-)
Ben are you going to Dragoon?

 

I sent him a message about some future events there. I have a feeling we can get some people over there to see the shop.

 

LOL...Brian and I and possibly Paul were hoping to stop by on Sat. Brian's coming up to help paul put on my new Hella fogs. I just sent Ben a PM...hopefully he'll respond tomorrow.

 

We could make it a pirate run if we can find a pie/flat white shop in Annapolis. :-)

 

congrats. first order of business, lets get you a proper logo!

 

alas, no pie/flat white shop here that I know of.

 

Katie, when are you doing the install? I may come by and see the install and check out Ben's place with you all.

 

I am going to be at her place at 11 am. I think we are going to go up there shortly after I get there and before we install the Hella lights. So we will be doing the install in the afternoon until whenever we get done. Hopefully it won't take too long to do it. You guys should come up and check out the shop with us. And if anyone else is interested in meeting us up there, I can find out an approximate time we will be there and let you all know.

 

Thanks to all for the warm welcome!
No I will not be able to go to the dragon this year!
Starting a new business takes 9 days a week
Once again I am happy to open my doors to the club,
You can use my store as a starting point for drive, pulley day etc..

I can hopefully be found at Summit Point on a regular basis.
I am an instructor for the BSR FATT program and love going to the track.

If anyone wants to go up to Summit Point I am also running a track day for Boys and Girls clubs on WED april 25th we still have some spots available.
Check on www.colonialchallengecup.com for details!

 

Everyone.... would we be able to swing by here on this months MBTB run, or make it a start point or something? I haven't looked at the map yet or anything, just wanted to throw that idea out there

 

I visited WS MotorCars this morning and met Sam, Harry, Ben and..... They were great! The facility is huge with at least 6 bays as well as a generous showroom. Toys around the shop and showroom included a 1960 Mini, a Morgan 8, a Lotus, a Mercedes, a questionable dune buggy ( at least thats what they called the pile of parts.) The shop has a large fenced in lot behind it.
Sam very nicely checked my brakes for me and successfully convinced me I need to get my hearing checked (this over fifty stuff sucks).
I was impressed and look forward to taking some work over to them in the future!

Best of luck with the new business!!


btw- Harry's MCSCa shifts so much better than mine... I need to get that dealt with!

 

You guys open on Saturdays?

 

Hmmm.... going to be around the morning of April 22nd?


-Paul!

 

We are open on Saturdays 10-5
the service shop is not open on Sat but our techs like to hang around on their day off occasionally but feel free to check it out.
I can operate the lift if you want to check something out in the air!
Come by and check out the toys in the shop!

 

sent ya a PM. Come by any time...

 

I am in contact with Ben about an open house of sorts, so we may be able to see them soon!

 

We don't have much scheduled in April - I'd suggest after the Tate Breakfast we file over to Ben's and have a session at his new shop.

 

2 runs and a breakfast...thats not much