Lately I’ve been a horrible blogger, not just here but on all my sites.  A few month ago our LostCoffee project went live and it’s been balls to the walls since then.  I wanted to take a quick moment and post up about a few updates I did to the car. Since I’ve posted last [...]

AMVIV8 – The Ocho It’s that time of year again. In a few short weeks the Mini community will be gathering for the infamous AMVIV event in Las Vegas.  Last year was the first opportunity I had to attend, and I can’t see ever missing it.  I leave Tuesday the 17th and return to the [...]

So you’re in Germany.  Motoring all day can be tiring.  Just outside Stuttgart Germany is a magnificent place to lay your weary head.  It’s called the V8 Hotel. Our standard rooms are Characterized by the clear line of “Bauhaus” architecture in the old airport building. The larger rooms in the “old shipyard” are devoted to various [...]

This poor fella has a BMW Z4, a busted iPad, and an upset wife. “So I buy my wife a new iPad, and she’s REALLY digging it. It goes everywhere with her so she can read, take notes, show pics, etc etc etc. We end up going out in the Z4 running errands. I’m about [...]

You know you’re a Mini owner if…you use your kid’s bathroom to wash floormats in the Winter time

Stuffing ourselves has become a tradition…and so should be the Post Turkey Day Run with Mini5280. Today Jacob, my oldest son, and I had the pleasure of running through Denver today with about 10-12 other Minis.  We started out at the old Detailer’s Paradise location on South Broadway.  The group started by working our way [...]

Last week I picked up some new primed mirror caps from the dealer.  Today I painted them and waited for them to dry.  The anticipation was killing me.  I mean I’ve been talking about getting rid of the chrome caps for months. Flat Blacking these was my goal.  Pulled out some rattle can, satin flat [...]