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Re: Was That You....

Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 10:55 am
by Minidave
I've "surprised" a number of supposedly faster cars over the years in my JCW, mostly at Heartland Park tho.

There was this one Mustang tho, we'd been hitting a series of stop lights and each time he'd nail it hard and I just cruised, ignoring him. He just had this attitude tho, thought his tin pony was all that and a bag of chips or sumthin.........finally I took the bait......I beat him so bad he just shut it down after about 5 secs.......I think I pulled 3 lengths when I hit 2nd gear........that was all I needed, point made! :D

When he caught up to me at the next light, all that attitude was somehow ..............gone. He was very subdued as he left the next light :wink: .......

Re: Was That You....

Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 11:36 am
by anima
Hey Dave, is your clubman a JCW?

Jeff

Re: Was That You....

Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 2:27 pm
by Minidave
Hey Jeff, long time no hear..........

No, my '03 MCS is a JCW.......which I'm driving today. 8) :D

I tend to be a little more relaxed in my driving style in the Clubby, although I have had it to Heartland Park twice already where it aquitted itself pretty well! :wink:

Re: Was That You....

Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 8:30 pm
by anima
How fast have you taken it to?

Re: Was That You....

Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 8:47 pm
by Minidave
I hit 110 by the end of the front straight............ :D

115 in the JCW on a previous day, when it was cool out and there was a pretty good tail wind.

Re: Was That You....

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 10:15 am
by speed_racer
LiLReD1 wrote:Anyone from KU?
Yep. And amazingly enough there are two electric blue MINIs in Lawrence now. Mine, EB/W with white wheels, and another EB/W with silver wheels. As minidave can attest, it's a rare color so to have two of us in Lawrence is pretty cool. :D

Re: Was That You....

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 10:42 am
by Hagar46
Minidave wrote:I hit 110 by the end of the front straight............ :D

115 in the JCW on a previous day, when it was cool out and there was a pretty good tail wind.
Fastest for me in Just-a-Cooper was 95! :D

Re: Was That You....

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 10:57 am
by Minidave
And that's moving right along, no longer than that straight is! Image

Re: Was That You....

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 11:04 am
by anima
I hit 105 on my clubman S before I realized it once on an on-ramp.

jeff

Re: Was That You....

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 1:31 pm
by Minidave
speed_racer wrote:
LiLReD1 wrote:Anyone from KU?
Yep. And amazingly enough there are two electric blue MINIs in Lawrence now. Mine, EB/W with white wheels, and another EB/W with silver wheels. As minidave can attest, it's a rare color so to have two of us in Lawrence is pretty cool. :D
There's also a new EB in my 'hood, EB/EB with black arches......

Re: Was That You....

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 4:57 pm
by LiLReD1
Do I venture and say any in Ft. Riley/Manhattan/Junction City area? I've seen a handful on base. I actually saw a classic MINI today, and I was made fun of in how surprised I was to see one, lol.

Re: Was That You....

Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 7:07 am
by Hagar46
I'll be driving by Fort Riley twice today on my way to Salina and back!

Re: Was That You....

Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 10:01 pm
by ksminiman
spotted a lot of minis! I saw 2 gray 02-06 S on 95th and quivera sunday evening about 7pm ish. one was gray/blk the other gray/wht.

Re: Was That You....

Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 9:48 pm
by ragtopday Johnna
I saw this Classic last Wednesday in Westport, then again over the weekend in a driveway on Roe. Beautiful car, sliding windows, no wipers, Bauhaus plate. 8)

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Re: Was That You....

Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 10:51 am
by Minidave
I saw this one too.......... :D

Re: Was That You....

Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 1:51 pm
by Counterfit_Mini
OOoooo that's a truck. Is that Don's v-tech?

Re: Was That You....

Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 7:04 pm
by Minidave
Yeah, we were up at Lake Perry, just enjoying a warm sunny Sunday and puttin some miles on the cars. I used to live right where that green space is we were parked in front of - that was when I was service manager at the Marina and to my surprise many of the boats I saw parked there that day are the same ones I used to work on back then - 40 years ago!

Re: Was That You....

Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 12:24 pm
by cdecker78
Seen this Mighty Motorer on I-70 EB yesterday heading from Topeka. Taken with my camera on my Blackberry while driving my work van.
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Re: Was That You....

Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 4:51 pm
by Counterfit_Mini
Holy Shit!! They should enter the NAM picture contest for this month. :lol:

Re: Was That You....

Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 9:43 pm
by ddmini
That looks like our MINI did after going through a snowstorm in Denver a couple of years ago.

Re: Was That You....

Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 1:01 pm
by ksminiman
looks like the factory mud guards didnt help much :shock:

Re: Was That You....

Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 3:19 pm
by LiLReD1
I love the illusion your camera portrays of the awkward looking wheels, lol.

So who had the lowered R56 with all the JCW goodies and carbon fiber all over it at the Barnes & Noble from Independance Center, next to AMC.. I think it was Sat morning?? Looked very good!

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Re: Was That You....

Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 12:06 am
by ksminiman
I think i spied minidave on 69 south at about 330pm thursday just south of louisburg. I wasnt paying attention so sorry I didnt really wave :(

Re: Was That You....

Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 8:46 pm
by dimini
I think the #65 classic mini showed up at Baron's MINI 50 party that most folks missed due to the Royals game night w/hagar. I also saw the #65 classic on the Plaza and at a residence in Roeland Park just off Roe near Johnson Drive. I've also seen a red classic with checkered top twice this month in Brookside/Plaza area. Anyone familiar with it?

Re: Was That You....

Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 8:49 pm
by dimini
Oh... I forgot to mention that my classic hit about 110mph on the main straight before shutting it down for turn one at HPT. Anything above 80mph feels insane in that cracker box.