So enough of the excuses and the bad news. On the plus side, I still have my Mini and my passion for it has never diminished. Additionally, anyone that may have seen my garage knows that the Mini was a tight squeeze. But that garage is no more and I now have a much larger space that has the room to start working on the Mini again.
So, "what's the plan?" I hear you asking. Well I've always wanted to modernize my Mini. Ever since I read this article in Car and Driver when I was younger, I had a hankering to Honda swap a Mini. So much like Moog, I will be dropping a VTEC power plant into my Mini. But unlike the MCM crew, I won't be going B16, I'm going 2 letters later in the alphabet: D16.
I've been saving up and now it's time to go shopping. I'll be documenting everything as parts arrive and as I inveitably make mistakes. I still have young children and a full time job so I have no idea how much progress I'll be making, but I'll be doing my best to document it.
Oh, and what about my magazine archive? I've been maintaining my subscriptions and will be working to start adding magazines again.