Two MINIs at PG Trionic!

Posted on by Ian C.

My colleagues wife, Marie Catherine, came over and sat in GBMINI#3 on Tuesday, to try out the seating – she liked it and said she was interested in test driving a convertible, so I spoke with MINI Peabody and set up a test drive for her & Christian on Tuesday evening.
Yesterday morning, she was sold on the MINI and needed one now! Luckily, MINI Peabody had a (very) few stock convertibles and so this morning she owns one – how about that, 24 hours from test drive to ownership …

Minolta DSC
Minolta DSC

Marie Catherine has a powerful Infiniti for “quick drive” days, so was happy to choose a MINI Cooper for her “cruising convertible”; of course being a MINI the car looks great in Pure Silver, with the premium package, CVT transmission, and little else.

650 & counting!

Posted on by Ian C.

Auto-up-windows MINI circuits, that is … Sales since new year have been slower – perhaps due to the price increase, perhaps due to most interested MINI owners now having bought a circuit – but I am still getting close to the end of the batch I ordered back in December.
So it is time to order yet another batch – but this time I will using a different contract manufacturer (Primus Technologies – we have been using them in my “real job” since 1995!); CMS simply got too expensive.

When I first developed the circuit, I wrote “I have had nearly 30 people contact me …“; I never anticipated much more than that, for my “little hobby gadget circuit”!

The power of “MINI word-of-mouth”:

First Sale March 6, 2004
100 sold May 14, 2004
150 sold June 16, 2004
200 sold June 29, 2004
250 sold July 26, 2004
300 sold September 9, 2004
350 sold September 20, 2004
400 sold October 25, 2004
450 sold November 11, 2004
500 sold November 29, 2004
550 sold January 5, 2005
600 sold February 22, 2005
650 sold April 20, 2005