For the upper grill yes I basically cut the entire honeycomb out. Was a lot easier than I thought and well worth it IMHO

 

I spent most of the day Saturday doing my Joey mod, and Sunday painting my trim pieces body color match. Here it is! Let the blackout process begin!

 

that is teh secks

 

Updated my gallery the other day. A few from there.

This one is in Pacific Grove.



Big Sur Coastline


And the Bixby bridge.

 

Man, that is so sweet. And what an incredible place to live.

 

I was in that area last year and kept thinking how much more fun the road would be in a MINI. Congrats.

 

How did you get the clear coat to be such a factory match? This is spray can right, or professionally done?

 

Nice. I'll have to keep an eye out for you. It is a bit of a surprise to see familiar places in photos on NAM.

 

I ordered the Chili Red spray paint from Minspeed, and I used 3 coats of Krylon clear. The paint job turned out rather nice actually, the only down side being that it has not fully cured yet, it's kind of a slow process for spray paint to fully harden. Although it's not really a problem unless I get nailed by a rock.

 

^Keep your fingers crossed, since u just said it it may just happen, knock on wood

 

There are quite a few nice roads out here. I always keep an eye out for other Minis. So far I think I've only spotted Robin's Mini once but I could have been mistaken. There are about 20 in this area. Roughly half I'd say are for commuting.

 

great looking cars trying to decide on what color wheels to go pw with black top

 

I'm kinda in the same boat (I have a PW/B roof on order)... I'm pretty much dead set on 16" Rota Slipstreams in either black (for the stealthy look) or Sports Bronze.

 

Yeah I used krylon clear for mine as well, but it did not come out anywhere near as smooth as urs did

Its ok tho I kinda like the way mine has some texture...almost matches the arches but my taillight rings are smooth like yours is, but boot handle and headligh rings are texture...funny I wanted to test it on the tailights first...it seems i always do it best on the first try haha

 

German beauty !?

 

 

 

Baraka, that mini looks really awesome, i really like the wheels.

 

^Im so diggin that

 

awesome pics, nice rims... they look good on a mini.

 

I found the gallery and uploaded the images there, so here are my fotos again, this time not only as attachment, but as real instantly visible images:

 

That second photo says it all about track days. Under my helmet, I smile like that when I track my Ducati. Just one big grinnin' fool

 

I got him a bath, I been looking for an industrial looking place to take a few shots, I like this one.



What==- daya think?

 

looks sweet!

are your fogs on with the headlights off, or is that pshopped or something?

 

wow i so need a real camera and the patience for a good location