Archive for the ‘mini cooper’ Category

Mini Badge Collecting update

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

The monthly magazine for Mini's North American Motoring (NAM) Alliance in their latest issue has a nice article on Mini magnetic badge collecting.  Page 21 features the hood of my Mini Cooper with most of my badge collection across the hood, along with my custom order of American Flag badges. In ...

A Flurry of Flags

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

CooperFlags.com has a great deal on 18 badges at $6.44 each including shipping. They have better deals if you order more badges, ideal for large club orders. My design finally came in and can be seen below. If you're a Mini owner and want to trade a ...

Happy 4th of July!

Friday, July 4th, 2008



Getting in Touch with your Tunes

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

It was almost two years to the day that I purchased my 4GB iPod Nano and just a couple of days after post this. At the time it seemed like a lot of space, but I really filled it up pretty quickly. Apple advertises 1000 songs on ...

2008 New York International Auto Show

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

We spent Saturday at the 2008 New York International Auto Show from the time the doors opened on the show until about 8pm when we were really tired from all the walking. There were a lot of great cars, both production and concept. Of course, we stopped off ...

Mini Polls

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

At this page you will find a list of polls that were posted to northamericanmotoring.com and nemini.org: http://www.shokk.com/blog/mini-polls/ Have at it!

Mini Rearended =(

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Sad Face... Update 2008-Feb-05: Got the mini back. Very disappointed that the Geico adjuster never wrote down that I had rear-fog lights, so they were not fixed. They had written down "rear reflectors" even though I had pointed them out as such while he was writing things. Luckily ...

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

This Christmas was filled with all sorts of delights. From good times with family and friends to new XBox 360s, bikes, TVs and laptops. After dealing with the agonizingly inconsistent behavior of our Sony KP-51HW40 for over a year, we finally decided to replace it with a Samsung ...

Mini Cooper Grille Badges

Sunday, November 11th, 2007

After a bad experience with a Mini Accessories vendor, I decided to make my own grille badges. My first attempt can be seen here. I used a Stapes Item# 386943 magnetic inkjet sheet and am spraying clear enamel on top. I'll be cutting out these guys and displaying pictures ...

Motortober High Point-Mahway 2007

Sunday, October 28th, 2007

We attended the Motorober Rally event today starting at High Point State Park in the extreme northwest corner of New Jersey, just south of Port Jervis, NY. The goal was to break the record of 273 cars of the same type in a single moving convoy, in our case ...