Where are the Houston MINI owners?!
 

Ever since I bought my MINI I honestly haven't seen many around the Woodlands or other surrounding areas. Is there anyone out there still?

I'm in the sort of Montrose area
 

And there are many Minis here.

It is sad we don't have more owners on NAM. I keep seeing this one Midnight Black 09 JCW in the Woodlands and it drives me nuts since she is my age (21) and would be lovely to meet her :) :grin:

I just picked up a 2006 Chili Red S and have an '09 that I use as a customer loaner. Going to clean up the '06 and perform some interior, exterior and performance mods and use it for advertising!!

Love my Minis!!!!!

Andrew

Pictures!!! Glad to see more H-town MINI owners


http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b3...s/IMG_1577.jpg

I'll get a few full pics up today. In the meantime, here are a few pics of the work I'm doing cleaning up the paint...
Hatch before:
http://i1225.photobucket.com/albums/...tail/mini8.jpg
After:
http://i1225.photobucket.com/albums/...tail/mini3.jpg
Before:
http://i1225.photobucket.com/albums/...tail/mini7.jpg
After:
http://i1225.photobucket.com/albums/...tail/mini2.jpg
Some random afters:
http://i1225.photobucket.com/albums/...tail/mini1.jpg
http://i1225.photobucket.com/albums/...tail/mini5.jpg
Here's a 50/50 to show the actual before and after comparison:
http://i1225.photobucket.com/albums/...tail/mini6.jpg
This car is all red. I plan to paint the roof black, apply some matte black accents and a black set of 18" wheels. Power plant will get a smaller supercharger pulley, cold air intake and exhaust. Some carbon bits and wrap on the interior then a few advertising bits properly placed on the exterior.
Here is a pic of the customer loaner!!
http://i1225.photobucket.com/albums/...IMG_7535-1.jpg

Will take a few pics of the whole car later today. This car is all red. I plan to paint the roof black, add a few matte black and carbon its, 18" black wheels, etc. For performance, I want to install a smaller supercharger pulley, cold air intake and exhaust. Interior will get a few carbon bits as well.

Here are a few of what I have done so far cleaning up the paint:

Few before and afters of the hatch!!
Before:
http://i1225.photobucket.com/albums/...tail/mini7.jpg
After:
http://i1225.photobucket.com/albums/...tail/mini2.jpg
Before:
http://i1225.photobucket.com/albums/...tail/mini8.jpg
After:
http://i1225.photobucket.com/albums/...tail/mini3.jpg
50/50 showing a good before/after comparison:
http://i1225.photobucket.com/albums/...tail/mini6.jpg
Random Afters:
http://i1225.photobucket.com/albums/...tail/mini1.jpg
http://i1225.photobucket.com/albums/...tail/mini5.jpg
Customer loaner:
http://i1225.photobucket.com/albums/...IMG_7535-1.jpg

Little more progress on the paint
A Pillar before:
http://i1225.photobucket.com/albums/...ail/Mini11.jpg
After polish:
http://i1225.photobucket.com/albums/...ail/Mini10.jpg
Another 50/50 shot
http://i1225.photobucket.com/albums/...tail/mini9.jpg

Fixed. There are a few of the work so far!!

Use it how? For a little while, I saw a car driving around here with a Google Maps ad car wrap. I'd love to do that, but can't figure out how. I think it would look great on my Mini and would be a great eyecatching advertisement. And I could use the money.

I know there are websites where you can sign up and hope some ad people contact you, but there are more people signed up than they can ever use. And they ask how many miles you drive implying they want people who drive a lot of miles. I live in the inner city. I don't drive far, but I drive in a densely populated area.

Advertising for my biz!!

Just bought an '03 JCW MCS (Dark Gray) with 21K
 

Have had the car for week now and it's awesome.

My girlfriend has an '06 MCS with 49K (chili red with white roof), the inspiration for me buying my car.

We would like to meet other mini owners sometime.

Does anyone know if they have NAM stickers that just say "N.A.M"? I would love to see other Minis in my area that get on this site.

I grew up in laporte, now i live in seabrook, and drive in to UH once a week.

the mini population has exploded, in the clear lake seabrook area in the last year. I used to see maybe 1-2 minis a week, now i see about ten or more minis everyday.

Friendswood/Clear Lake checking in!

I keep seeing more and more MINIs here in the Woodlands area. I really wish I could still organize more people together for a meet and greet. I had someone in a silver vert on Six Pines the other day wave at me in my PW JCW R56

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b3...s/IMG_1936.jpg

New face on the MINI :D
Wave or flash your fogs if you see me =P

HMMS has a meeting up near the woodlands this Sunday at Sitar Cuisine of India. Meeting starts at 10:30am.

How was the meetup?

I couldn't make it, that's over an hour drive for me. Houston is too big. :sad:

Meet was good, had plenty of people there, and good food as well.

i have an 07 silver MCS...I stay around the Pearland area and i have to say I'm always seeing mini's here and there. I'll be going out to next months Planet Zero meet, if anyone goes and you see a cooper with a LMAO(mini logo)VTEC euro plate stop and say hi :)

I live in the humble area... I just joined this forum in hopes to connect with other mini drivers in Houston.

Man I would've been down for the sitar meet, but didn't see this until now. Keep me posted if anything else comes up soon. I'm always down for a woodlands meet if I'm free.

I'm down for a meet tonight. Anyone up for one in the woodlands?

pM for cell

I might be down to do a meet near somewhere where i can get coffee tonight, if we can get some people interested. Running on low sleep right now, hehe.

Keep me posted. Pmd you my cell.

-Chris

I live in houston, and have a mini project car, but have no meets to go to. I will be willing to travel.

http://houstonavi.com/wp-content/upl...Iphone-240.jpg

I live in Clear Lake. With the number of MINI's i see, I'd expect more to be on here :/

I'm in Friendswood. Hope to be picking up my R56 in 2 weeks...:)

Very nice. I had contemplated getting a brand new MCS but, no matter how hard i tried, I couldn't justify spending that much money on a FWD DD. :no:

Hello everyone, rookie owner of a '13 MCS. Still in a state of buyer's remorse :)

Hello all. New owner here from The Woodlands. I bought a Countryman earlier in the year which I have been enjoying but I added a '13 JCW to the garage when the dealership made an offer to could not refuse. I hope to see everyone at the at the next club meeting.
Don
13 JCW
12 Countryman
04 Discovery
71 MGB
69 MGB

yes I do have a british car addiction. =-)

Let's have a mini houston meet soon!!! Who's in?!

Hello there Htown Mini,

Forgive me if this has been addressed before, but I couldn't see anywhere....what product did you use, and how is it holding up with that gorgeous lustre it now has?

Thanks,

Mike

Hello there, I could be in depending on my schedule at the time...along with my list of honeydews....I just moved to Montgomery and see quite a few Minis driving along 1488, usually opposite direction to me. I don't get many reciprocal waves though...I suppose it's the 120mph closure rate means you have to have a pretty keen eye and good reflexes to unlock the death grip from the steering wheel and get that flipping of the hand (as opposed to the bird)....

I'm from the Conroe area but I think woodlands is the best place to have a meet maybe market street area : )

Hey guys, I'm a new Mini Cooper S owner got a 2002 r53 low miles in extremely poor condition. Taking my time to build her up. Really excited about this project and to meet the mini Houstonians! Hope to see more activity in these forums,

Don

Nice mini!
 

Welcome! Not many people post up on these forums anymore. HMMS (Houston Mini Motoring Society) is really active on Facebook. HMMS Check them out! :thumbsup:

I realize these posts looked very far apart, I really wanted to see where the Houston mini owners posted so I tried multiple places. Thx for the Facebook link I already joined up. I guess fb is my next stop!

Yeah not a problem! My names Aaron Plata I post every now and then on the fb page

Hey guys,

I am new to the MINI experience and eager to meet other owners to go drive with. I have a 2012 Clubman S in Midnight Black. I live in Katy so if you see some fool driving a black Clubman waving frantically to say hi, that's me.