GP1415 One Year Anniversary
December 30, 2007 on 7:59 pm | In Recent Posts |Yesterday marked a year that we visited Habberstad MINI with GP0154 and GP1717 to get state inspections and a new JCW Steering wheel for GP0154 and while the girls were getting serviced we went into the showroom and what to our pleasant surprise did we see greeting us but GP1415 with a bow on her looking oh so pretty.
It was fate and the perfect xmas gift to myself as she was delivered to Habberstad the day before after being transferred in from a several car swap with Princeton MINI. The showroom was closed so we waited an hour for the sales folks to arrive, closed the deal and arranged for her to be flat bedded to the house the following day during a rather unseasonably warm day.
GP1415 was transported on flatbed from the dealership into my garage preserving her original 15.6 miles but on the way home the flatbed stopped for a quick drink.
GP0154 and GP1717 waited anxiously in the driveway for the arrival of their new sister and then their were three.
and a little while later Ian and GP0203 arrived and there were four!
In the last year unlike her sisters who have been covered events GP1415 has spent her time with her paws up on tire cradles and living in her Carcoon coming out on a couple of occasions when all the stars aligned. A year later she still smells like a brand new year.. oh yeah she still is.
Ian, you’d be happy to know that I finally painted that one wall but a few days later the rest of the downstairs was completely gutted hopefully by the end of January it will be livable again.
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Whew! For a minute I thought you had bought another one. Happy Anniversary!
When I had my sign company, here in Pasadena, the gentleman who trained me & Kittie knew Burton Burton, this is going somewhere, the original owner of Casablanca Fans. One year for our company party Burton let use his Malibu home for that. It is an amazing place but the garage was my favorite part. It was a 2 story affair and housed “one” of his car collections, premo VWs, not those things of today. Inside the garage was a Car-elevator. He could raise and lower his vehicles to the 2nd floor. The inside of the garage was made to look like an old style gas station. His neighbor was Charlie Bronson. Both of them are gone now.
I think the house is for sale, maybe that’s the house you need. It has a Polo field, tennis court, movie theater, wine cellar with dinning area, a human elevator, an amazing kitchen and last but not least, a recreated Angel’s Flight (http://tinyurl.com/37te8h) incline train that went from the lower polo field to the upper tennis court. I think the house was 50,000 sqft and the garage the size of my home at 2200 sqft. One “deal killer”, no ocean view but it’s about 3 blocks from PCH.
Seems the fit would be perfect for you and your car collections and you’d love the weather here, maybe not the traffic, smog, fires, floods, crime, immigrants, transplanted NY style attitude, high taxes… but look at the bright side you’d probably have a star as a neighbor and plenty of protected garage space and lots of room to expand that collection. Plus SCMM has 500 members so you would be the KING-O-MINI/Minis here.
No more salted roads, nasty blizzards, and MOM & POP would love the climate. Another good thing, I could revisit the home I haven’t seen since 1986.
LOL, RB,
Comment by MeanMrMstrd — January 8, 2008 #
very tempting. though all I need is the garage/warehouse. I can live quite happily on a cot next to the girls.
Comment by jcwgp — January 8, 2008 #
I think it was on the market at the time of Burtons death at $25,000,00.
Comment by MeanMrMstrd — January 8, 2008 #
That was a good visit
Comment by Ian C. — January 10, 2008 #
Yup! 2 years later we were out of business. Sadly.
Comment by MeanMrMstrd — January 13, 2008 #