Last year for MINIsOnTop 2008, New Country MINI “invented” a new fun activity for MINI owners – Sundae On Friday. Ice cream and toppings were served, and everyone enjoyed 🙂
This year, New Country MINI will once again join us, and deliver delicious Ice cream during Sundae On Friday, 2009 edition 🙂
Also on Friday evening during MINIsOnTop, our excellent Trivia contest created by Libby & Bill – so come for Ice cream, and stay for the challenge!
It’s been a long time since I visited MINI of Peabody – busy work, no MINI issues, no mods … but today Jason was down from Northern Vermont to have a new throttle body installed in his R56 S, so I headed over to say “hi” – and so too did Ivan, and Gavin! After chatting a while, we headed over to H.M.S. Motorsport where Jason discovered he likely needs new racing harnesses for the upcoming season, and also purchased a neat miniature widescreen video camera for recording his auto-x days (I want one too!)
Then back to the dealership, where we were joined by Brian & Sarah, after which we all headed down, round, up, round and down again to get to Chilis (just a few yards north of the dealership, but a long way round on a divided highway!)
Great food, and great company 🙂
Working at CMEC in Selma, CA this week, but hampered by the not-yet-ready-and-working condition of one of the machines I need to work on … so having noticed in a discussion on NAM that there is a MINI shop nearby in Fresno, I called them and spoke to co-owner Steve – he said I’d be welcome, and said they had “one and a half MINIs” in the shop …
When I got there, I discovered what “half a MINI” looks like – a local MINI owner had suffered a tree-related accident, leading to some serious damage; the car is written off and it looks like the driver could not have survived (the driver footwell is down to about 6″ width), and yet thankfully both driver and passenger are OK, with the driver back in another MINI now 🙂
M&I / GBMINI 