July 18, 2006
Too hot to work

Since it’s too hot to work outside today - “heat index” of 105 degrees F with ridiculous humidity - I’m inside printing more badges and catching up with orders. So here’s a long overdue post of what’s been going on.

June 10-11 I traveled to St Louis to get some track time in at Gateway Int’l Speedway.

We leave one month from yesterday to travel to Monterey, CA to pick up our new JCW GP and begin the trek home on the first five legs of MINI Takes the States. Luckily I’ve been so busy that my anticipation level has remained in check. It’s starting to get close enough for me to start getting a little crazy. All our hotel reservations are made for our trip including a night in a suite at the Venetian in Vegas - and no I won’t be valet parking the MINI.

During the week of August 18-26 you can follow my travels over at Motoringfile and at whiteroofradio.com. I hope to have the first US review of the JCW GP anywhere. I’ll also have audio and video clips from the adventures so stay tuned for that.

Lastly, I’ll leave you with some recent MINI work I’ve completed. I am up to 285 MINIs completed for your scorecards at home.

Enjoy.

Carbon fiber bonnet stripes. I’m not sure what I think of these yet…

New bonnet configuration with vinyl covered scoop included. Not an easy task.

New boot stripe configuration on the same car.

“42” Checkerboard stripe by customer request.

Matching boot, although offset to opposite side - similar to the “37” design from a few months back.

Posted by todd at July 18, 2006 12:57 PM | Trackback
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I like the 42 ;)

Jealous of the Venetian - with Margaret not coming, I stuck with the “headquarters hotel” at each MTTS stop … first Vegas trip where I won’t stay in the Bellagio for at least one night!

Posted by: Ian C. on July 18, 2006 02:36 PM

Heat index of 105???

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!!!

Right now it’s 108 but with the wind chill here it only feels like 107. grin

Posted by: Kangamini on July 18, 2006 02:53 PM

108? Wish it were that cool here. A pleasant 115 last weekend though I think once it gets above 110 it doesn’t matter “how it feels” :)

I like that boot stripe on HEFFS MINI.

Posted by: Paul on July 18, 2006 04:12 PM

Oh, Todd is still alive! :P

Nice work.

I received my 93 GrilleBadge and decal today! Thank you. Stuck the decal on my PowerBook - will send photos.

Posted by: Timmee on July 19, 2006 05:15 AM

Nice stuff, Todd! I like the cf stripes, I think. Would like to see them in person.

Posted by: peter on July 19, 2006 02:09 PM

I like the CF stripes, but I think they’d probably look tacky in person. Real CF has a depth to the pattern which I doubt could be properly replicated when printed on vinyl. Real CF stripes? Now there’s an idea!

Posted by: blalor on July 21, 2006 05:39 AM

I like those rounded stripes on that first Chili Red. I’ve never seen boot stripes like that. Not sure how complementing they are to the checkered roof.

Posted by: J/C on July 25, 2006 12:00 PM
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