First stage of my The Great Ice Cream Run trip – GPMINI heads south a week before me! I couldn’t take more time off work to drive GPMINI down to Florida, with TGICR and MINI United – so GPMINI gets to ride south in the HUGE trailer of friends who have a horse transportation business, Potomac Horse Carriers.
With clearance so low on the GP, the trailer was fully lowered on it’s air suspension – and the front end was raised on blocks … even so, there was only a hairs breadth of clearance (but that’s all we needed!)
All went well, and GPMINI finished safe and secure inside the trailer with the final touch, a “guard duck” (courtesy of Steve) …
GPMINI should arrive this weekend, to be cared for by a MINI owner near Orlando, till I fly down next Friday!
M&I / GBMINI 
I have talked to BALROG and he is going to give up his spot in the garage for our special guest. He is even willing to share some of his Autoglym products if GP needs to freshen up before TGICR
That’s very kind of him 🙂
It’s good to be Ian! =:¬)
That didn’t screw up your plastic jack points did it?
When me and my teammates used to load the Off Road Car it loaded easier but it always got loose, that is until we started blocking the frame and then tightening it down… off road cars always loose tire pressure.
Have fun my friend and don’t get a brain freeeeeze!
Why would it hurt the jack points?
On the GP, they’re “inside” the side skirts!
Wishing GP MINI a save ride down ‘south’. Ian, looking forward to seeing you in Savannah on the 9th.
I went over a high spot like that at my sisters house an it ripped the left had jake point off.
I keep forgetting to ask you – did the GP smell OK when it came out of the horse trailer? I mean this usually carries horses, right?
Joshua said it made their garage smell like horses, but by the time I got down, the smell was gone