Due to a sudden decision to head down to Florida for the (long) weekend, I missed the MINI of Peabody Clubman launch.
But Josh Wardell did attend and, as a special favour for me, posted his pictures last night 🙂
To see many more pictures, visit Josh’s weblog and/or his photo Gallery
Thanks, Josh 🙂
Just heard that Mark Ferguson has sold NorthAmericanMotoring, similar to Paul Mullett selling MINI2 last year!
Hopefully, it won’t make any difference to the active MINI community on NAM … there was an amazing amount of discussion just recently on MINI2, following some sort of vendor posting rule changes which caused famous MikeyTheMINI / NewMINIstuff to consider leaving MINI2, but happily and impressively, the “voice of the community” resulted in policy changes that allowed Mikey to stay.
The problem with selling the MINI community forums seems to be that the new owners are not “rabid / fanatic” MINI owners, and don’t understand how things have worked on the forum prior to the sale; then they might make some changes, which – rather like the R56 changes to our favourite MINI – are seen in a negative way by many in the community.
The solution for MINI2 seems to have been to allow the moderators to call the shots – since generally they have been around for as long as the forum, and have a better understanding of how things work well.
Let’s hope that a similar “hands off” approach is used for NAM …
EDIT: Found this thread on NAM with details from Mark about the sale.
Many months from now, the weather will be warm and more than 200 MINIs will ascend Mount Washington as part of the sixth annual MINIsOnTop event (this year, June 28th). But right now, the weather “on top” is rather colder and windier!
The Mount Washington Observatory has a number of webcams which right now are showing beautiful clear sky views – I captured these views, from the observatory deck, and looking north to the Presidential Range:
M&I / GBMINI 