{"id":283491,"date":"2010-02-05T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/02\/05\/kansas-city-man-wins-trip-to-england-for-logging-most-topless-ho\/"},"modified":"2010-02-05T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T14:30:00","slug":"kansas-city-man-wins-trip-to-england-for-logging-most-topless-hours-in-a-mini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/283491","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City man wins trip to England for logging most topless hours in a Mini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/convertibles\/\" rel=\"tag\">Convertible<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/mini\/\" rel=\"tag\">Mini<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/uk\/\" rel=\"tag\">UK<\/a><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\"><small><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/gallery\/review-2009-mini-cooper-s-convertible\/#10\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"4\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/02\/minisvertreview008opt.jpg\"  alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/small><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\"><small>2009 Mini Cooper S Convertible (above), Openometer (inset) &#8211; Click above for high-res image gallery<\/small><\/span><\/div>\n<p>\nEver wonder what possible use the Openometer could have? The tiny dashboard gauge is found only in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/make\/mini\/\">Mini<\/a> convertible and tracks the number of hours a Mini motorist has been driving with the top down. Cute, sure, but hardly as useful as, say&#8230; a speedometer or fuel gauge. Well, David Loveall and over 400 other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/model\/cooper\">Mini Cooper Convertible<\/a> owners across America found the Openometer very useful as they participated in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theopenone.com\/home\">Open One Challenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/gallery\/review-2009-mini-cooper-s-convertible\/#48\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\"><small><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" align=\"right\" border=\"1\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/02\/mini-openometer.jpg\" \/><\/small><\/span><\/a>Kansas City&#8217;s Loveall logged some 555.55 hours of top-down driving in his Mini, after driving across the country and visiting every one of the 48 contiguous states in the union. He took some of America&#8217;s greatest back-roads, like Route 66 and US 50, avoiding the freeway at all costs and often camping roadside in a tent.<\/p>\n<p>For his dedication to the open-air cause, Loveall is being awarded with a free trip to England to visit the Mini factory in Oxford. That&#8217;s on top of the $1,000 in gift cards he got after finishing first in four out of five of the monthly contests and third in the fifth. Not too shabby, David. Follow the jump for the full press release, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theopenone.com\/home\">click here to visit the contest website<\/a> and check out our gallery of high-res images from our review of the Mini Cooper S Convertible &#8211; in Interchange Yellow just like Loveall&#8217;s &#8211; by clicking the thumbnails below.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"postgallery\">\n<p><strong>Gallery: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/review-2009-mini-cooper-s-convertible\/low\/\">Review: 2009 Mini Cooper S Convertible<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/review-2009-mini-cooper-s-convertible\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2009\/06\/minisvert_review006_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/review-2009-mini-cooper-s-convertible\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2009\/06\/minisvert_review007_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/review-2009-mini-cooper-s-convertible\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2009\/06\/minisvert_review000_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/review-2009-mini-cooper-s-convertible\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2009\/06\/minisvert_review001_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/review-2009-mini-cooper-s-convertible\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2009\/06\/minisvert_review002_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\n[Source: BMW]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/02\/05\/kansas-city-man-wins-trip-to-england-for-logging-most-topless-ho\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>Kansas City man wins trip to England for logging most topless hours in a Mini<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/02\/05\/kansas-city-man-wins-trip-to-england-for-logging-most-topless-ho\/\">Kansas City man wins trip to England for logging most topless hours in a Mini<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\">Autoblog<\/a> on Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:30:00 EST.  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