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Mini Mania Open House and Lawn Party
by Jerry (Siddhartha) Bradbury
What can transform a peaceful sylvan lawn in Gold Country into a carnival overnight? The annual Mini Mania Open House and Lawn Party of course! Those who were there got to see first hand all the eye candy, but for those who were not, the Mini's ranged from an electric Moke to a VTEC powered Classic, to Randy Steven's tricked out CVT to Robert Holt’s Purple Haze convertible to three full on Mini race cars: my sprint car, Jacques Andres' enduro car and Eric and Colin Herricks's rally car, and many in between.
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Race Report -USTCC

Infineon Raceway, April 11, 2008.
by Jerry (Siddhartha) Bradbury
My Mini has a new setup for this race. Speed parts from my sponsor Mini Mania have been added by my sponsor Bay Bridge Motors and USTCC sponsor Nitto has provided four brand new NT 01 tires. This will be my first official race with the US Touring Car Championship and I look forward to hitting the grid with more horsepower and quicker lap times.
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MINI Clubman Review

Published: 21st April 2008
The new MINI was launched in 2001, to much acclaim. Although bigger than the original Mini, what it lacked in rear legroom, it made up for in unusual styling and a vast array of personalisation elements, much loved by a local estate agent.

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Ethics and trading part's. What would you do?
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Ethics and trading part's. What would you do?

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May-04-2008 04:16PM Club Man   838077
May-04-2008 04:04PM roofman   838073
May-04-2008 03:52PM 661100   838069
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Club Man
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Posted: May-04-2008 04:16PM Reply

A lesson to others. Get certification of the condition of such a crank beforehand, the crank owner should be responsible to prove the condition. Especially one who was as picky on your exchanged items. I found such people normally don't reciprocate, btw. So be cautious with this type.

But you should also have had it checked immediately by your own shop to make sure given the value. Trust, but verify.

Make it idiot proof, and someone will make a better idiot....

 

roofman
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Posted: May-04-2008 04:04PM Reply

1. Out the jerk so nobody else gets screwed by the seller.

2. You did the right thing replacing the crank.

3. When that much time goes by I think it's your problem although, it might seem harsh to say. I have owned numerous Triumph's over the years and there are both good and unscrupulous sellers of used parts. One individual named "Garth" from the East Coast was particulaly bad and lots of people have been ripped off.  Let the Mini community know whom he is. Sometimes you have to take your lumps, but paybacks can be usefull also. It's a bummer you got ripped, but your intergity is intact, and is worth far more than a few bucks. In the long run that is what is most important.

661100
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Posted: May-04-2008 03:52PM Reply
Hello Guy's Just sitting here wondering what i should do next about a situation.... so here it is, please bear with me i can't type. An offer came to me for a std/std cooper S crank it had been magnafluxed and was ok. we worked out a deal for five 4.5 cooper S wheels and tires. Make of tires were not specified After i sent the five wheels one was bent so Marcel sent another wheel to him the bent rim was not returned. all original five looked fine by eye. 0032's were specified by him but i did not find this out until i went to pay for them I was irked because i was not thinking that top of the line tires were in the deal but sent the money anyways for four tires. he was not happy with this and insisted the deal was for five tires. I paid for a fifth tire. Later he upgraded again to 0048's but the difference was paid by him. Anyway several months went by and Bobb was going by the area and i arranged for him to pick up the crank. The crank looked good except it had a strange black coating and the mains needed to be ground. threaded plugs had been screwed into the rod journals where the brass plugs once were, but other wise it was as he said with a tag from a machine shop saying "magnafluxed OK" I stored it in my semi warm basement here in Seattle on a piece of foam with several other cranks. A year goes by and i trade it for some other parts to a friend that i deal with often. He was going to use it in his 66 S restoration. He starts his restoration last month and the engine builder Bobb starts by having all of the parts crack tested... Yep you guessed it.... Big deep crack across #4 rod journal. I contact the seller and he say's quote" It had been two year's and he could not verify that it was even the same crank . He can do nothing" . So that's where it stands today,yes it was a year and a half (not two) ago when the original deal was made. but it seems to me some effort should be made to get this right. So if you made it this far the big question here is "What would you do?" Aaron. By the way i am sending Bobb another S crank to replace the cracked one. seemed the right thing to do.

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