Where’s Mini? A reader sends this photo of the burned rubber sticking to the stucco wall of design and furniture store Internum at 3303 Kirby Dr., where the 350-lb. promotional fiberglass shell of a Mini Cooper had been not-quite-parallel parked since December. And parked illegally — at first, anyway, garnering a red tag on December 27 from city inspectors to go with that red holiday garland wrapped around the Upper Kirby street lamps.
- Houston Issues Ticket To A Car Parked On A Wall [Jalopnik]
- Previously on Swamplot: Mini Cooper Parked on Kirby Store Wall Now Permitted, The Mini Cooper Parked on Kirby That’s Getting All the Attention,Parked High on the Wall of Kirby Building, Mini Cooper Still Gets Ticket
Photos: Lisa Garvin (Mini); Creative Accidents (wall)
My guess is that while you can get a permit from the City to put a Mini Cooper on the side of your store, the folks at Mini Cooper do not have a similar procedure to use their intellectual property to promote your store.
Actually, oldschool, a friend of mine is a salesman at the Houston Mini dealership, and they worked with Internum on that installation. Wonder why it’s gone? Hope it didn’t fall off. :{
It drove away.
@Roadchick: dealerships are just franchisees of the manufacturer. Of course, I am still just guessing, except I am certain that a dealership would not have the authority to grant a business the use of Mini Cooper’s intellectual property.