This past weekend ended the 2012 running of the Barrett Jackson auto auction in Scottsdale, Arizona. This isn’t like the one in Vegas or Orange County, California taking only 2 days with only a handfull of cars. This is the mother of all automobile auctions, running for an entire 7 day week. Imagine your county …
Category Archives: My MINI
What Was Old, Can Be New
What you are seeing above is a comparison of headlights. The shot on the top is pre-polish. The shot below is post. As you can see in the top shot, my headlights were looking a little worse for wear. And they worked about as good as they looked. So, a little splurge today. Twice actually. …
Live from SEMA
Oh boy. Those crazy gear heads will do just about anything for attention at SEMA. Case in point, this specimen sent in by Fireball Tim. Have to wonder about handling with that much weight over the front wheels. No need to wonder about straight line acceleration if I had to guess.
Bushings and Mounts
Big day for Roxy today. Let’s start with this. I tried to catch it at 254,000 on the dot, but I was moving. Safety first! This happened almost immediately after I picked her up from a visit to Jerry over at Eurotechs. Today he replaced the passenger-side axle and motor mounts. I say mounts because …
More repairs this week
It may seem like it’s been pretty quiet around here, but that is far from the truth. Last weekend, as you already know, we celebrated the 6th year & 400th episode of The World Famous White Roof Radio!. Before that I got the chance to spend an entire day in the MotoringFile Countryman. You can …