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valvashon
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Posted: April/08/11 at 6:22pm |
Elliott and I were down at Westwood Village picking up dinner this evening and spotted a Red Bull MINI in the parking lot. It was backing out so we waited and allowed it to back out, and got a wave from the driver after we waved first! Hard to tell if it was a professional, because I'm in a marked vehicle wave or an enthusiastic MINI wave, but we got one.
Went home and looked these things up again (I'm fascinated by them) and found this: Click around on their site- they have lots of pictures of them finished and some of them in the fabrication stage. They basically disassemble the whole rear end after they cut the roof off. Sure wish we could get one to visit the XXX car show in Issaquah. I've tried contacting them for this but the contact information through the Red Bull site is kind of sketchy. Bruce & Elliott ALSO: There's one for sale on Craigslist in Buffalo: I just can't help myself: Guess that's why they don't show up at our car show. Most of us are or are practically parents of college students, not actual college students. From reading the job description, that's their target market. No visible staples, people! Edited by valvashon - April/08/11 at 6:49pm |
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...Now mom may drive to the grocery store, But that's not what this car is really for...
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shasti212
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How cool!!!
I saw a good few of these before getting my MINI, but haven't seen any since
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MiniCrazy09
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Cool! A Red Bull MINI was at NW MINI on Tuesday...I had Bert in for service and saw it parked out front :) |
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They had a Red Bull MINI come to a MINI track day at Portland last year. We all got free Red Bull.
All the red bull MINIs I've seen have been justacoopers. I wonder if they are automatics also. Nothing wrong with either of those of course.
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valvashon
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"They" should send one to the XXX Show in Issaquah. But then maybe those of you at the track day worked up a thirst and needed a Red Bull more than show participants would.
I think the company that does this made one "S", maybe as a prototype but the rest have been justacoopers with automatics as far as I have been able to tell. Justas are cheaper, of course, and they choose automatics because their target employee to drive these things around are college age women. I did see a picture of one that seemed to have boot hinges from a convertible, but I'm not sure how they could do this to a convertible as part of the roof they need is missing. I noticed that they seem to spring for aftermarket wheels on all of these. I wonder what they do with the piles of wheels, back windows, wipers, third brake lights... Elliott wants one of these for his first car. Or the Red Bull sidecar motorcycle. Bruce |
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...Now mom may drive to the grocery store, But that's not what this car is really for...
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There are two at NW MINI now for service parked out back. Interesting to look at up close. I did not realize it till now, but the are Coopers (non-S).
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