I think that happened to me once, when I had it, or maybe it was the crazy guys the delivered it to me from Jimfais?  They had drawn cocks and balls all over the thing, including the side windows during the delivery.

Billy/Backstay

Great to see you posting

E-mail me if you will Big AL

Jim, same thing happened to me, lost my pics on a dead hard drive. No cloud back then.  I looked around to see if I had any duplicates, no luck so far. I'll send anything I find.

DAEK was a sweet car, would have preferred to keep, but kids college bills needed clearing, sold for 23k, IIRC?   I reckon it would fetch 30+ now, based on just a few peeps at what people are asking or paying.  Great memories driving the Tail of the Dragon with Alex and Suzy, and Alex could not do the clutch right, kept grinding gears.  He took a great bunch of videos of that, but I don't tend to collect that stuff.

bill foster here, still alive and well. [email protected], or [email protected].

Despite what Bill Cox a well know liar says, I Never swept a warehouse for health insurance, but it's a fact that Bill Cox delivered pizzas for it.

I manage a 6,000 sq. ft. Tool Crib at the Machine Repair Dept. of a major mil-spec military contractor, and my health care is way better than Bill Cox was at Pizza Hut.....

Jim,  I remember your Vauxhall; what a rocket that was!!  Two mates drove it here from Mini-Sota, straight through in 2 and a half days. Sold it on to a guy worked for Microsoft, and he drove it all the way back to the left coast, with very little drama..

Bill Cox wishes his customers could have been so happy!

Anyone remember the famous "hairlip mini", famous Bill Cox promo resto?  

when my old computer fried a few years ago i lost all my old pictures.     i was talking to a friend of mines son about the car,   do you have any pictures you could send me?     i think my email is in my profile, thanks, jim

ok. called the black seal today.. in essex ct.. and asked for Bill Foster..  the girl at the bar said it was in over the weekend.. but only comes in about ONCE a month now.. later bc

mini mover.. btw. it it was the www.blackseal.net   I was bit off the name.. you should just call and ask for PH foster..  later bc

mini mover.. I will try to call the black swan pub tomorrow and see if anyone has SEEN bill foster.. I think last time we saw or heard from him was at MME in tenn.. when had that high $$ DAEK mini for sale.. later bc

I remember that old 200 year pub in Essex CT, What a great spot, so much history in there

When l was in Essex on one occasion, he took me over to Kathleen Hepburns' home which he had listed for $3million, right on the water, I think l saw Spencer Tracey's ghost running around

Another trip to Essex delivering 2 minis to Bill and l dropped my tranny in my Dodge Ram, no problem, left it a Suzuki dealer, new crate tranny, came back in a week, paid $3800. and picked it up-(no profit on that trip)

Of course l also dropped a tranny in my previous Dodge Ram in western Minnesota 2 years ago, sold the truck beside the road, hitch hiked up to Winnipeg Manitoba, bought a new Dodge Ram, Hemi 5.7 and carried on to Calgary to complete my trip

Tell me again why l keep buying Dodge products

Big AL

minimover.. think bill foster drank at the black swan in essex, ct.. I remember he was big time working as crew an sailboats.. I knew he had fell out the WHITE ivory tower.. when he took at job sweeping out a warehouse in west essex..so he could have health insurance   when he sold or lost the real estate business in 2008.. He reall gave me $hit for years of working at pizza hut at night to have  health insurance..  amazing  how far he FELL.. later bc

I think he was really getting into boat racing at the time he exited the Mini community, from what my feeble memory recalls.

He had a beautifull place on The Connecticut river just above where it flowed into L I Sound

He used to Crew on a fifty footer the Black something?

Big AL

I seem to remember Bill Foster really got into boats? (I think he already was into them, but even more so after de-emphasizing cars?) Not sure if I remember that right, but that's what comes to mind.

Didn't he take a regular job with benefits somewhere after the real estate bubble burst.

I also have been trying to find out the whereabouts of Bill Foster formerly of Essex CT

Bill was a great guy who always prided himself with having a nice mini in his possession

Big AL

Yep, and I still have it (though it's been sitting a while. I bent the hood after forgetting to buckle the straps down and I haven't gotten around to repairing it yet.)

jim.. what ever happen to bill foster.. backstay?// later bc ps. finally got my MGF up and running..

are you the one who bought the blue wagon with the vaux v6 that i built from bill foster?