Today at MINI Peabody!

Posted on by Ian C.

I took a trip to MINI Peabody today to meet another MINI owner, Josh. The sun was shining and there was a BBQ (in recognition of Kevin, who has been there since opening, and is now marrying and moving to Florida – congratulations!) There were also MINI owners to meet, and so I took some pictures!
The Hyper Blue MINI I took pics of yesterday was being picked up today, by Chris and Darcy:

(more pics, taken by the owner, on this MINI2 thread)

There was also a Chili Red MINI with matching body color trim interior – it looked excellent!


Gary had a booklet about the “2005 MINI model update” which I was unable to acquire – but I did take pics:

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And Martin did give me a “MINI Convertible” brochure!

Blue light in the footwells

Posted on by Ian C.

I have been following this thread on MINI2 where someone bought blue “cold cathode” lights and replaced the MINIs footwell lighting – the lights are intended to light the inside of “show” PCs, and are bright and a nice color for an Indi Blue MINI.
I found some similar but larger lights at CompUSA (Mad Dog Techie Toyz MD-S-CLK-BU, CompUSA 306945), and decided to install them in GBMINI. Here is the result:

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“Ooooh” 😉
I found a connector at work that mated to the MINIs interior light wiring, and the rest was easy – just using lots of double sided tape to hold everything in place!