He's a 2005 Mini Cooper in Purple Haze Metallic, with 26,500 miles on him.
The interior is Lapis and Gray Gravity leather with blue carpets and black mats and has a panorama sunroof.
We begin on my birthday, April 6th, with finally deciding to go car shopping. Not that we don't have any cars, but because the cars we do have are very, very tired and probably wouldn't make it very far out of town. Anyway, we girded our whatever's and headed out to do battle with any car salesmen we ran across.
It was just our luck we decided to check out a car we had seen online in our town before heading towards the bigger cities. We pulled in and headed towards the cars on the lot when Dave swooped upon us and took us under his wing. He soon ferreted out of us what we were kind of looking for, which was to see and sit in the Mini Cooper Convertible they had on the lot so we could judge if we really wanted to pursue that avenue of cars.
Dave excitedly informed us he had a "cherry of all cherries" on the lot that had just come out of detail and had been taken in on a trade a few days before. Out through the shop we went and to the back of the lot. Then we saw Coop. He was magnificent in all his purple glory, sparkling in the sunshine. He had me at Hello, but I was trying to stay cool and collected. Opening the drivers door I could not help but smile at the interior colors, blue and dark grey. What a wonderful combination!
So, we actually did go look at the other Mini on the lot and decided as we would be using the car we bought as an every day driver, that the visibility out the back factor in the convertible would be problematic to deal with every day. Besides, it wasn't purple.
Ok, so next came the test drive. We took separate test drives so we could compare notes after. I was first, and it was not long before I knew I could not go home without this car.
When thinking up a name for our new addition, I mentioned the name Coop and found out that Dave told DH, Steve, that I "drove it like I stole it". Since D.B. Cooper is so famous in this area, and after all, Coop is a Cooper, we had our name.
After paperwork was done, we took Coop out for a drive and really started feeling how much fun we were going to have on our coming adventures.
There ends my most awesome birthday ever!!
