As much fun as it is to drive, sometimes you just need to get out of the car.

 

Haven't been here for a few weeks. What fabulous shots!!!

 

Playing around near Truckee with a new to me plastic fantastic on a 400D

 

just thought id share a couple of pix

 

A few recent shots of mine:

a local Mini who just put his new wheels on (17" Corvette "anniversary" wheels)
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Smaashley, still in "winter mode"
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My Mini with my Tarmacs just re-installed for the spring/summer. It'll be getting some love very soon and the wheels will be getting a new color as well, can't wait.
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and last but not least, Zoey in her Mini starting her young
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Sorry if the images don't load properly, there's an issue with the NAM site preventing them from displaying and I was hoping they would have fixed it by now, in the mean time you can click the links and view them on my Flickr, sorry for the inconvenience but hopefully they get the issue resolved soon since it works properly on every other forum I'm on

 

Wow............

 

My interior and co-pilot.

 

A couple of photos from a clubMINI trip on the weekend. (Yes, it's fall here in Australia.)

 

took a few picks while i was out with my schools club tonight

 

Great shots xstartxtodayx! I was looking at your website, how do you do the car photo's in motion? Do you have some sort of jig that you attach to the car?

 

xstart - nice shots! Those are some loooooooooooooow rides.

From yesterday...

 

Thanks! they're done with a rig which consists of 3 pieces of 5' aluminum tubing that screws together, that gets held on to the car with 2 high power suction cups made for this sort of thing, then the camera gets hung from the end of the rig with another specialty part. The shot is deceiving, most times the car isn't even on (to avoid vibrations), we'll just roll the car a few feet (a slight hill always helps) and keep the shutter open for anywhere from 1.5-3 seconds, that gives the illusion of speed. After that it's time to pull your hair out cloning the rig out in photoshop all well worth it though


oooh looks like a pre MTTP cruise to Montauk btw, I've seen a couple other modified Mini's in the Riverhead/North Fork area lately. By the aquarium I saw a grey R53 that was a bit low on what almost looked like polished CCW's, then yesterday morning I saw a very low R53 in Aquebogue on black wheels, don't remember the color though since it was a last second spot.

And since this is the Mini Photography thread here's a couple more pics...

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Nice pic Walter... Coke and Pepsi... Spring on LI.

And hey don't cha know, I muss says thems be some mite-tee fine lookin black dressed fenders on that there MINI of y'alls...
What product are you using?

(And good luck with MTTP... I'll keep my fingers crossed for blue skies, warm spring weather, and happy motoring...)

 

This one's not mine; it's a loaner that my dealer gave me while getting my new one ready for delivery. Kinda surprised (in a good way) to get a stick shift car as a loaner - and I like the Cooper Coupe.

 

Yeah, I've seen a couple, too. The grey R53 that I saw was lowered, black wheels and black A panels. Got a solid thumbs up and a horn from him. Then I saw a DS R56 with what looked like multi-colored powder wheels. Almost like a tie die look - most unique wheels I've ever seen and kinda cool to look at. Haven't seen either car since...

BTW - have you done your wheels in red yet? Thought I saw you in W'hampton.

Thanks, Pete. That shot was just meant to be since I didn't notice the Coke and Pepsi machines until the cars were already parked. BTW, I do prefer Coke over Pepsi.

You don't miss anything - I didn't really have to use product on the wheel arches since I wash the car every week, but I did apply some Mothers Back to Black last week. I want them to be as black as possible (and maybe slightly glossy) since they'll match up better with the satin paint that was applied to the side skirts. Body shop should have done them in flat...

 

yes the wheels and mirrors are now both matte red I'm in Westhampton on Sat. mornings for gymnastics with my daughter.

 

You don't miss anything - I didn't really have to use product on the wheel arches since I wash the car every week, but I did apply some Mothers Back to Black last week. I want them to be as black as possible (and maybe slightly glossy) since they'll match up better with the satin paint that was applied to the side skirts. Body shop should have done them in flat...
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Ah, Mother's BTB, I'll try it. I haven't been super happy with B-WOW so far.
Thanks.

 

Snapped a pic this evening after trying to get some shots of my kids in the backyard, the light was just too good to pass up.

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Sitting pretty on her new NM Springs

 

 

Beautiful MINI and great photography!

 

a few from a recent bbq/show.... going to try to post these from my zenfolio page since this site doesn't allow Flickr embedding anymore

 

a quickie w/my Galaxy S4.. my coupe s, bonnie.. looking all old..

 

a couple from this weekend's cruise to Montauk Point

 

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