A new game... Post pics from your cel phone V.1.0

[MiniDave]

Ha!   4.gif ;D

[Tim]

I once sold two mini's to a guy in Ohio who was  going to put them on the rail like that.  This could be one of them.

[MiniGene]

From somewhere in Southwest Asia:



A bit closer:




Here's a reserved parking spot for me and my team:



I'm going to give Civil Engineering the benefit of the doubt and assume that they farm the sign making out to a contractor....probably a local.

[BruceK]

Stopped for some gas on the way to a very early Cars & Coffee this past Saturday morning.   Got to get there plenty early (like 6:15am) to get in, and this time of it year is still quite dark at that time of the morning.   It was also pretty cold (for Texas) with a temperature around 40 degrees. 

(I'm beginning to think that meaning of "C&C" has changed - seems like now it means Camaros and Challengers, with all of them being nearly brand new and just as boring as looking over the rows of inventory at a local Chevy or Chrysler dealer.  It's disappointing.)

A couple of local classic Mini owners joined me there.  One of them, G8kornholio, recently signed up on this site and I'm sure will uncloak soon.  That's his maroon Mk. I from Australia.  The blue Mini belongs to another guy who I have also invited to join us here.

[MiniDave]

You should try to get them to join us on our upcoming Texas trip!

Great to see Emma with her eyes open!   ;D

Our local C&C is infested with late model Mustangs, but we still get a decent turnout of other stuff, I think the next one is this Saturday, if so I'll get a few pics to share.

[BruceK]

You should try to get them to join us on our upcoming Texas trip!

I have mentioned it to them. 

Great to see Emma with her eyes open!   ;D

Actually, she's still sleepy in the photo - that's just the in-the-headlight parking lights on there.  She looks much more awake when I fire up the halogens.

Our local C&C is infested with late model Mustangs, but we still get a decent turnout of other stuff, I think the next one is this Saturday, if so I'll get a few pics to share.

The high point at our C&C was the sudden appearance of a Toyota 2000GT.   Crowds, tired of looking at dozens of crappy late model Mustangs, gathered around the rare car.  Oooohs and Ahhhhhs followed.

[MiniDave]

As they should!  A 2000GT on the street is a rare sight indeed! I've never seen a red one before, only white.....

[gasmini]

That's his maroon Mk. I from Australia. 

The maroon one looks like the one that my friend from Wichita Kansas sold last year.

[MiniDave]

Our C&C starts at a much more reasonable 8 am, with free coffee and donuts!  ;D

[BruceK]

Our C&C starts at a much more reasonable 8 am, with free coffee and donuts!  ;D

That sounds wonderful.   Great starting time and freebies too!  (our C&C is a charity event - no charge to show your car, but they do sell coffee/hot chocolate as a donation for charities)

The problem here appears to be the large population of the DFW metropolitan area (about 7 million people) combined with a lot of limited size of about 500(?) cars (the BMW dealer kindly moves all their inventory to open up space for C&C) -- too many cars.   The lot was filling up quickly so people started showing up earlier and earlier to ensure they got a space.  Finally, the BMW dealer decided not to open the gates until 6:30am to try to stop that race to earlier times each month.  But.... that means long lines of cars start forming on the street at each entrance to the dealer at least an hour before that at 5:30am.  Crazy.

As I mentioned above, the thing that is ruining our C&C is the mass appearance of the straight-out-the-dealer-door late model cars - Mustangs, Vettes, Challengers, Camaros, etc.     

IMO the gatekeepers need to figure out a way to stop that.  Perhaps imposing a rule that nothing newer than 15 years old can be shown unless it is a limited production supercar?

[MiniDave]

Same problem they started having at the California C&C, so much so that coupled with the show-offs doing burnouts out of the lot they finally killed it.

Too bad too, in it's original iteration it was a fantastic show.....a chance to see cars you may never see otherwise, and even hear them run and see them drive in or away.

Ours is threatening to go this way, like I said it's fairly infested with newer Mustangs now, and the Camaro and Dodge Challenger crews can't be far behind.

The other thing I do like about our show besides the free donuts and coffee is that it's about 3 miles from my house!   ;D

Like Yogi said, nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded!

[MiniDave]

Things you see out in the country......

[BruceK]

I spotted this Pininfarina badge the other day.   But it wasn't affixed to a Ferrari.   Anyone want to take a wild guess as to what it was on?

[MPlayle]

They have done body styling for several other car makers.  Alpha Romeo and Fiat come to mind right off.

[BruceK]

They have done body styling for several other car makers.  Alpha Romeo and Fiat come to mind right off.

Yes.   But apparently they have ventured to design non-automotive things too. 

I spotted this Pininfarina labled Coke machine at my company's cafeteria. 

The Ferrari of soft drink dispensing?    Ironic, it is painted gray --  since both Coke machines and Ferraris are traditionally "rosso corsa". 

[Jims5543]

Bruce  - That reminds me of Porsche design.. well almost everything. I see the Porsche name on a lot of stuff it seems.



Mike and I took our CCW class last night for the second time in 7 years. LOL, never bother after the first time now I feel it is prudent to have the ability to carry especially in cities. Moving on....

First thing they had you do after signing in was go into the indoor range and snap off 2 shots with an instructor.

Mike, this older Spanish lady and I were sent in together.

Mike and I let the lady go first, it was her first time shooting so the instructor spent a lot of time coaching her,  she took her 2 shots one was way off center the other one pretty close to the bulls eye. I gave her a thumbs up when she was done. She did a good job.

Mike went and because he is used to handling his 38 special wrist breaker he pushed down on both his shots.

Then I went, I surprised myself. Almost hit the bulls eye both shots and both shots were almost on top of one another.

They give you your target to keep after you shoot. I folded mine up and walked out, the Spanish lady was feeling cocky and asked Mike how he did, Mike showed her then she asked me I said I did good but did not unfold my target. She then taunts me with her husband and friends looking on an laughing,"Oh, you embarrassed?"... I hand her my target and watch her face. Not so funny anymore.  LOL!! She should not have pushed it.

[Jims5543]

Saw this on the side of a truck the other day, actually laughed out loud at it.



I am updating a Hotel Survey from 2006, so much has changed I have spent a lot of time there. They have a Tiki Bar Place that looks like a cool place to hang out and grab some beers. It is on my to do list.

[Jims5543]

The high point at our C&C was the sudden appearance of a Toyota 2000GT.   Crowds, tired of looking at dozens of crappy late model Mustangs, gathered around the rare car.  Oooohs and Ahhhhhs followed.

There was one for sale at Mecum in January, I could not walk around it and stare at it enough, this is what I have on photobucket, I think I took about 10 pics of it.  How did Toyota go from that to a Camry?

[BruceK]

Wonder if that is the same one I saw at C&C a couple of weeks ago?    There can't be that many red 2000GTs out there.  In fact, I'd never seen one until a couple of weeks ago

Edit. Nope, different car.  Unless somebody did a quick RHD to LHD conversion earlier this month! 

[BruceK]

'bout says it all.

[94touring]

Dropped the 13b in my FD today.

[MiniDave]

I'll bet you're excited to get it fired up - how long before it's on the road again?

[94touring]

If everything goes well this week.  Unfortunately I have an ac line that cracked due to excessive rubbing against another line. Researching how to recharge r12.  Not really wanting to convert the system to 134.

[gr8kornholio]

That's his maroon Mk. I from Australia. 

The maroon one looks like the one that my friend from Wichita Kansas sold last year.

Yes, that is his car.  Bought it back in August.  Been having a blast in it.

[gr8kornholio]

Another beauty from the last Plano C&C.