October 6th Gathering
 

If everything goes smoothly, and Charlie willing, I will have a BRG-painted dash to install soon.
When I was emailing with Charlie about my installing it I asked if he would be interested in eating free pizza and hanging out for moral support, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized that it would be great to have any MINI-ers who were interested over.

I'll provide pizza, and entertainment in the form of dash removal, as well as assorted MINI and Mini videos, books, mags, etc... as well as a place to hang out and not irritate other people with nothing but Mini talk.

I live in White Bear Lake, a pleasant jaunt from anywhere, and would only need fair warning on how many people might or might not show up.

October 6th after say 6:00pm til whenever.

Let me know by PM or here or passenger pigeon.

4 people so far. I think that means were still on for Green Mill. :grin:

I posted this in the Colors thread, but it should rightly go in here. I just picked these up on the way home from work. Tomorrow the Alta pulley gets installed, and then Wednesday this dash goes in, hopefully without incident. :eek2: :wink:

Very cool! Was it tough to match the paint color or is that from the dealer/factory. I'd love to indulge in the pizza with you, but I'll be finalizing the scavenger hunt for this weekend.

Are you doing the pulley yourself? 15% or 19%?? Any other mods you have? Maybe you can give test rides after the pulley is in!! :grin:

Puck:

Where in WBL are you? My wife is from Vadnais Heights (though we live in Trempealeau, WI now). We're up in the Cities every few weekends visiting. We'd love to meet up with some other MINI owners.

-Dave & Stacy

Had it done at Collision Center, where Motorwerks has their stuff painted, so dealer BRG.

If you find you can swing by for a bit feel free. Zak is going to be there with his Machine :grin:

15% pulley. Orr Autosport is doing it as I type. Test rides will certainly be available. I wish that I had a chance to try one out, but I'd heard enough positive reviews I figured it was worth doing. :wink:


Oh, and Dave & Stacy, I live just northwest of downtown WBL by Bald Eagle Lake.

Cool! We'll have to keep an eye on this forum for happenings on weekends we are up in your area.

If anyone has an interest in rallying (Stage Rally or TSD), let us know. We can get you information on local (and not so local) events. There is a HUGE rally crowd in the Twin Cities.

-Dave & Stacy

Yep my MACHINE will be there as always, btw do you know of any place where I can wash the Mini? It's really dirty, especially brake dust from my latest autocross and some overspray ever since I moved here. If so that would be great, hmmm....maybe I should add my last wax before the winter comes.

Sorry, didn't realize it was bold and caps :o

I'm a bad person and use our local touchless wash at Freedom after spraying the wheels with Meguiars wheel cleaner. Usually works ok for me, but I'm no perfectionist when it comes to that stuff.

In your driveway or street!!

Unfortunately I'm similar to Puck. I usually take the MINI to a touchless wash or do it myself. Mostly the touchless.

Front wheels? Mine are black and the rears white. 2 years old, over 58k miles and still having a blast driving! :grin:

Ummm....perhaps you forget I live in a Dorm at Augsburg College right now? I wish I had an apartment or a house that I was renting with a few friends. But nope.

Even better - Neighborhood BIKINI MINI wash! he he..

hehe, I wish, although I would like to see some of the girls here in a bikini do a car wash.. NOT ON MY CAR! well tell ya what, I'm the only person who washes my car, no one else. You may add advice but thats about it. Besides my younger brother, whom I hire for the dirty work I.E. the wheels. and the engine bay...hmmmmmmmmmm................

Ok, So who's all going? HURRY UP AND POST YOUR RESPONSE PLEASE!!

Me! Me! I'll be there! :grin:

Hey do you know who's all going to be there?

i'll be there but where is this green mill? is it by/in a hotel of 694?

You got the wrong topic Stellardude, You have to get to White Bear Lake for this..
Green Mills is for a Dinner thingy..

Unfortunately I can't make it. All though, maybe we could work White Bear Lake into the scavenger hunt!

Green Mill sounds better than sketti.... mmmm

Good luck tonight guys. should be fun!

BTW - nice new pic puck!

Oct 6th Dash Install
 

MIKE / I SHOULD BE AT YOUR HOUSE AROUND 7:30 TONIGHT OR EARLIER
I GET OFF AT 600PM SEE YA READ YOUR TREAD ON THE PULLEY SOUNDS SWEET :razz:

Actually, yeah, that's the one. I was planning on waiting to see how many people were going to be there and then sending someone off to pick it up. Unless of course people preferred Dominos... :grin: I figured there would probably be at least one person who felt like taking at least on of the MINI's out for a spin :grin: :grin: :grin:

I wouldn't mind going out to get the pizza, Just give me some directions, heck someone may be able to ride along in the MACHINE if they felt so, I have room for 3 other people, but preferrably one. I could do some roller coaster rides! Oh...hmmm maybe you should pay me for a roller coaster ride incase I get a ticket.

Excellent! See, just have a little faith and good things will happen :D

I'm home BTW and eating some chips to sustain me until pizza time. :)

Marvelous. Half a dozen MINI's in my driveway. :grin:

Here's what I have to show for the evening (best shot I could get at night in the garage):

Silly me! I just reread the whole thread and I think the Greenmill you visited is RIGHT by my work. Is it nestled in with a Country Inn, next to a Sinclair station and across the street from a car dealership? I work in the building behind Greenmill. Funny!