August 24, 2003:

AnnJones vinyl Union Jack roof decal

Look at the picture I found on the web today (from this post on Roadfly by AnnJones:

Who is AnnJones? Apparently a friend of “Trippy” (Alan Kilian, who is keen on MINI spreadsheets, and robots apparently)! Is this MINI roof painted, or just a great decal? Was it inspired by mine? Answers to these and other questions may never be known …
UPDATE:
Ann Jones was kind enough to contact me. Her car is called “Madeline”. She says “the union Jack is vinyl…. done by a sign shop. total cost for it was $200″ which is a great price for how good it looks. Maybe it won’t last as long as my painted roof, but at that price you could have it redone 7 times!
You can find this picture on the MCOL web site, along with a few others preceding it.
Thanks, Ann.