The biggest impact my MINI has had in the first 100,000 miles is the giant number of people that I have met because of it. The MINI community is amazing!
Having said that, most of these pictures will probably not have many people in them. :
: I guess that will be the goal for the next 100,000 miles - more pictures of the people.
My first mini2 post - posted on the day after my 30th birthday:
http://www.mini2.com/forum/delivery-...tml#post162946
I picked up my Cooper on October 12, 2002. Here's the first picture I took of it:
Only a few weeks later, it was already time to try to find snow tires for it, which was a little tough as there weren't that many MINIs around back then. After a few missteps, I was successful:
November 16, 2002 I went on my first MINI run... it's chronicled by Ian (GBMINI) here:
http://www.gbmini.net/mtblog/archive...ander_mi.shtml
On the drive home fromt that, I got my first "winter" driving experience in the MINI, and I discovered just how useless the stock windshield wipers are in a freezing rain storm:
A few days later, November 18, 2002, my MINI got its first blanket of snow:
To begin 2003, it got a snowboard carrier for the roof rack:
Mid April, 2003 was the first time I did a real "detailing" of a car:
Early May, 2003 my Cooper went on its first boat ride:
There was also a preview of The Italian Job, and the first picture of my Velvet Red with another Velvet Red:
Again Ian comes to the rescue with the documentation of the event:
http://www.gbmini.net/mtblog/archive...an_job_1.shtml
I started the mods with a Whalen shift knob and getting my iPod connected to the factory stereo, with some electronics help from Gavin (GadgetGav) as this was before the official aux input was available:
Only obsessive MINI owners document the first scratch on their car (May 12, 2003):
On June 3, 2003 I ran my Cooper into a moose:
So I was without my MINI for the first MINIs on Top in June 2003, but the loaner VW Beetle from the body shop made the trip:
July 1, 2003 I got my Cooper back from the bodyshop (with damaged wheels that also eventually got replaced).
Early August 2003 saw some more audio equipment installed in my car:
