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Old Dec 10, 2007 | 06:45 AM
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Originally Posted by carjoy
I FINALLY got my British-style license plate installed on CARJOY this afternoon. I'm heading out to take pictures if the rain has stopped.
I really like the little symbol on your rear-view mirror...it's quite unique!
 
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Old Dec 10, 2007 | 06:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Skuzzy
Once NFR becomes readily available I will shoot the entire bonnet.
Are you talking readily available to the public or do body shops have a hard time getting the paint also? If the dealer keeps hemming and hawing over my chrome gas cap I'm getting tempted to just buy the part from them and take it to my body shop here in town to paint it and install.

On another note... The Freedom set sail yesterday so Rosey is on her way across the pond finally!

Does anyone know.. If I'm buying my car from the dealer in Charleston and the car is shipped to Charleston, will it go the VDC in Greenville and then back to Charleston? Seems kinda counter productive to me.
 
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Old Dec 10, 2007 | 07:34 AM
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Hehe, let not the beaucracy be stifled!

I am talking about availablilty of the paint itself. I want to use polyurethane and it has not been released yet.
 
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Old Dec 10, 2007 | 07:38 AM
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Originally Posted by dennisd63
I really like the little symbol on your rear-view mirror...it's quite unique!
Actually, it is a clingy thingy that is on the inside of the windshield. It is the logo for our Mini Club. On the back window is our chapter logo (Desert Rat Pack) and then everyone is also given a "Actual Size" clingy thingy. Its easy to spot a Mini that is part of the club and one that isn't! We have business cards that we use to tag Minis we see that aren't part of the club yet. That is how I found out about them. I got "tagged" just before Labor Day!
 
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Old Dec 10, 2007 | 09:18 AM
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I don't think i'm going to name my MINI. But if i were forced to do it, I would be compelled to name it Christine, based on the way it behaved when I first got it. Kind of went psycho on me. All is well as of now.
 
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Old Dec 10, 2007 | 09:20 AM
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Originally Posted by terrytrucker
I don't think i'm going to name my MINI. But if i were forced to do it, I would be compelled to name it Christine, based on the way it behaved when I first got it. Kind of went psycho on me. All is well as of now.
 
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Old Dec 10, 2007 | 10:03 AM
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They all have thier own personality. The only consistency is the emblem on the bonnet.
 
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Old Dec 10, 2007 | 10:04 AM
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Right!
 
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Old Dec 10, 2007 | 10:17 AM
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Speaking of emblem on the bonnet? How goes that CNC Mill Project Skuzz?
 
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Old Dec 10, 2007 | 10:18 AM
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Originally Posted by terrytrucker
I don't think i'm going to name my MINI. But if i were forced to do it, I would be compelled to name it Christine, based on the way it behaved when I first got it. Kind of went psycho on me. All is well as of now.
I think you should call it Yellow! (for no name!) hahahaha
 
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Old Dec 10, 2007 | 11:40 AM
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Originally Posted by dennisd63
Speaking of emblem on the bonnet? How goes that CNC Mill Project Skuzz?
Well, the mill ate a servo motor, and I replaced it. I have a project in front of ours, but we are next on the list.
 
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Old Dec 10, 2007 | 11:58 AM
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I tread lightly with my car. I'm too afraid of upsetting it with silly names. I don't want it to unleash it's fury on me again.
 
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Old Dec 10, 2007 | 12:07 PM
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Originally Posted by terrytrucker
I tread lightly with my car. I'm too afraid of upsetting it with silly names. I don't want it to unleash it's fury on me again.
I hope you tuck it in nice and warm every night!
 
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Old Dec 10, 2007 | 12:33 PM
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You have no idea...
 
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Old Dec 10, 2007 | 12:42 PM
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The only thing CARJOY gets is covered parking. Poor thing. But I figure they can't miss what they never knew!
 
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Old Dec 10, 2007 | 01:12 PM
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Romi is treated like a Queen for the most part. The Wife unit states she wishe she got treated to well. But everytime I approach her with the orbital buffer she runs. Go figure. No pleasing em, I tell ya whut.
 
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Old Dec 10, 2007 | 01:19 PM
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Ack! You guys are having too much fun! Catching up on the thread takes me a whole 5 mins now! I am a lazy soul....

I think the feller who claimed to have ordered a solid NFR was probably gokartride messin' with us!!!
 
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Old Dec 10, 2007 | 01:20 PM
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Originally Posted by rooandren
I think the feller who claimed to have ordered a solid NFR was probably gokartride messin' with us!!!
Don't tell me we are being invaded by those OB types. Do you have to protect the borders like they do in the 10K Mansion? I hear it is really unruly over there!
 
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Old Dec 10, 2007 | 02:05 PM
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I tried to peek in the windows of the 10K mansion and the dang dogs nearly took a hunk of lovin right outta me tushy!

I know the lint traps we put out are doing thier jobs, but I am not sure if they will stop a driven OB peep. Hmmm,...might need the cyclo-plasmic-particle-collider to seal the rift they might be leaking through.
 

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Old Dec 10, 2007 | 02:13 PM
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Interlopers!

Paranoia much?

If I didn't spend so much time running away from those men in the white jackets with them butterfly nets, I wouldn't be this way!
 
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Old Dec 10, 2007 | 02:21 PM
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Jut because you are paranoid does not mean they are not out to get you!

As for me,..well,...I got Taco breath and inside-out manties to protect me!
 
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Old Dec 10, 2007 | 04:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Skuzzy
I know the lint traps we put out are doing thier jobs, but I am not sure if they will stop a driven OB peep. Hmmm,...might need the cyclo-plasmic-particle-collider to seal the rift they might be leaking through.
We just need to douse unwelcome OBs with NFR paint. That'll scare them! Threaten them with a REAL color and they will run for the hills!
 
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Old Dec 10, 2007 | 07:13 PM
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I like the way this woman thinks.
 
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Old Dec 11, 2007 | 06:52 AM
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Do you think we should paint her heart NFR? Or maybe it was just created that way....

Nature vs. Nurture? Any comments?
 
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Old Dec 11, 2007 | 06:57 AM
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Originally Posted by dennisd63
Do you think we should paint her heart NFR? Or maybe it was just created that way....

Nature vs. Nurture? Any comments?
I feel I should be the first to comment. I mean, after all......

I think I was created with a NFR heart. Sure I denied it at first. I admit I owned an 03 IB w/ W. But I never felt quite right. Sure I loved my IB. She was my first and will always have a special place in my heart. But then I saw that little NFR paint sample... I knew right then what I've really always known deep down.... I was living a lie.....
 
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