Showing posts with label #MINIMonday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #MINIMonday. Show all posts

Saturday, 30 March 2013

And we're off. The 2013 car show season is underway

Finally, it's here! The first two meetings of 2013 have been completed.

Last weekend was Mini Day at Brooklands Museum. This is usually one of the top attended events at Brooklands Museum, and this year, it was going to be a struggle against the elements for event. Wintery showers, a bitingly cold wind, not a lot of shelter, unless you ventured across to Mercedes Benz World or hid in the Bus Museum.

I woke up at silly o'clock on Sunday morning, about 2:30am, and went off to find a drink, before going back to bed, I decided to have a quick peak out of the window....

To be confronted with....




One of my lovely neighbours had decided to park his van into my car. Nice! Impressed, I was not! A note left under the windscreen, I grabbed my keys, and off I went to the workshop to check out the damage.


It doesn't look a lot, but he has managed to scuff the bumper, and left a large mark. A replacement bumper is required then.

At least I got the car clean for Mini Day!! It was a fairly good turn out of Minis and MINIs at the museum despite the cold weather. The day was spent venturing out into the cold with my camera, take a few pictures then dive back into the car and warm up. Coming up to 2pm, that was it, everything was frozen, my hands, face, feet and camera!




Another Mini Day completed at Brooklands Museum. It was fun, albeit chilly fun. It was good to meet up with the Surrey new MINI club again and also make our club stand one of the largest at this years event. Lets hope next years event is warmer and we get even more cars on the club stand!!

Monday, 28 January 2013

Roll on show season!!

The new look, 2013 Dinky has now been completed. Well, albeit apart from a wash!

It's taken a few months of planning, a bit of faffing around on eBay and a few MINI websites; Sign My Ride,  My Beautiful MINI, and thanks to Dan @ surreyminigraphics.co.uk for fitting the roof decal today (after a slight delay due to the snow last week!).

January has been filled with tinkering. New parts fitted for 2013;

Genuine MINI black spot lights
R112 16 inch alloys
SMR cleaning instructions decal
Genuine MINI spot light covers (R56 ones!!).
New radiator hoses (not a mod, just a requirement!!).
Union Jack interior door pulls and glove box button cover
Union Jack sunroof decal
DM centre wheel caps
Matt black mirror caps (they suit the car better than the UJ ones!)

And that's it!

The first big show we are attending this year is the Mini Day @ Brooklands Museum on Sunday 24th March. At least it's a nice local meet to me!






Now the car is finished for this year, I think it's time to start playing the resurrection of the Monster!!