Many thanks to Dave Newman – he writes:
We met at the Memphis stop of MTTS and we were just ahead of you in Clarksville when we stopped at a parts store to pick up some bulbs for Joel Sandler’s foglights. I snapped this pic of what appears to be your GP. I can’t make out the plate for sure, but it looks like yours. Enjoy!
I absolutely LOVE this picture … And it is GPMINI – you can see the Westin Las Vegas duck that George “borrowed” and gave to me 🙂
In case you don’t know, I do still sell the original MINI circuit (auto-up windows, track mode DSC, garage opener control from MINI toggle switches) … I’m still missing two states (West Virginia & Montana) – if you live there and want to buy a circuit, get in contact!
(see here for how the map is created – although two years later, Google Maps is the way to do this stuff!)
For number fanatics like me, here is a chart of the average number of days to ship 50 MINI circuits (since I started keeping track!):
You can see the average time dropping prior to September 2005, with a frantic burst then, when I had planned not to sell the circuit any more – but OutMotoring cancelling their plans left me selling once more, but as can be seen at a much slower rate now – presumably due to the competition … I’d be fascinated to see similar data from them, but I don’t think it exists (or at least, it’s not made public).
Near the British Invasion field in Stowe, VT is Smugglers Notch; a twisty road winds up into hills and gets very narrow through some huge boulders … back in 2002 I drove there in my first MINI and took a picture of the car in front of a rock which made it look like a toy!
Finally this year I remembered to repeat the picture, this time with GPMINI:
Here’s the original picture I took, back in 2002:
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Unfortunately on my way home from British Invasion, I had an encounter with another rock, not so big but big enough to do this to the windshield:
M&I / GBMINI 