I headed to MINI Peabody at lunchtime to meet Jason, who drove down from Burlington VT today to have the John Cooper Works upgraded suspension installed on his MINI; after lunch at Legal Seafoods, we returned to the dealership to find that Derek (MetalMiniMayhem) had arrived – his current MINI is for sale, and he has an ’05 on order. Later still, Ivan arrived to collect his MINI which just had a clutch replacement …
MINIsOnTop – The Posse Video
At the Loon Mountain parking lot during MINIsOnTop, after most MINIs had left to drive the Kancamagus Highway a few stayed behind, and formed a “posse” around another left-behind MINI! For your viewing pleasure, I present a short movie of this entertainment:
MINIsOnTop Pictures
Eric Zwirnmann recently emailed me a HUGE panorama image of (almost) all the MINIs parked at the base of Mount Washington during the wet afternoon of MINIsOnTop 2005:

Click on the pic to get the full size image, which is over 18000 pixels long, and about 1.7MB! Dial-up users beware …
But it is a great picture, and clear enough to spot me standing in front of my MINI, and count a total of 182 MINIs – you can even read a couple of license plates!