ALLGBMINI

Although GBMINI stayed home in America, I recently had the chance to visit the John Cooper Works in south east England. There were a lot of MINIs and Minis there, in various states of upgrade:

Talking to Mike Cooper and other people working there was very interesting – as was seeing MINIs in various states of disassembly as they are upgraded. The successful John Cooper Challenge, which gives people the chance to race & compete at a sensible cost in upgrade MINI Coopers, will this year include 200hp upgraded MINI Cooper S vehicles which should make the racing even more entertaining – shame we won’t see it covered in USA!

Blink and another of my favourite web sites gets a name change! Bridger.us/mini has changed to motoringfile.com which does not, yet, work for me but if it works for Gabe then fine! A little sad that Gabe cannot risk a web site with “mini” in the title; once again thanks to BMW Lawyers.
Personally I always loved the suspected connection to “Mr Bridger” who was in ultimate control of the original Italian Job movie:

Gabe has made sure to carry the style and (of course) the content over to the new motoringfile site – all I have to do is update my link(s) and keep reading his site!

After posting about my auto-up windows circuit back in January, I have had nearly 30 people contact me interested in putting the same feature into their MINI.

As well as the facility to “auto-close” either (or both) windows, I have designed a version that can power an owners garage door opener so that they can integrate it into their car (using an extended activation of the door unlock switch).
I have also been requested to develop a “track mode DSC” version which has the ability to automatically disable DSC every time the car is started – this feature can be easily turned on/off by the owner.

I am now ordering parts to build about 30 circuits which I hope to make & supply next month – then GBMINI will not be quite as unique as it is now 😉