MINIsOnTop 2006 sponsors

Posted on by Ian C.

MINIsOnTop, June 17 this year, once again is hoping for donations from MINI dealerships, aftermarket MINI companies, etc – our chosen charity is Make-A-Wish.

Last years MINIsOnTop sponsors included Herb Chambers MINI who donated a two year lease of a MINI Cooper, Cambridge Soundworks (a gift certificate to every participant), Out Motoring (an armrest), and many other excellent donations. We also had personal donations including a radar detector from MINI2 member LordWinslow (who also, back in 2002, proposed the original MINIsOnTop concept!)

The MINIsOnTop is created by many volunteers – for MOT2006 Mike & Ariane are coordinating donations & sponsors; see this MINI2 thread for more information.

Already we have some donations:

Pete (NHREF on MINI2), working to start up his own MINI aftermarket company Oxford Motorsports, has donated a couple of Mount Washington Observatory memberships; the observatory themselves have donated a nice fleece vest.

Miniature Trailers have donated a package of MINI trailer hitch, wiring harness, draw bar kit and color-matched trailer.

Another Pete, BWROOFCHEX on MINI2 has donated a pulley install at his automotive shop in Worcester.

Becca (Bonnie Blue on MINI2) has donated a handmade scarf with “MINI” embroidered at each end – I look forward to seeing this!

We should get many more donations in the months ahead – sponsors, get in contact and advertise your products to the MINIsOnTop attendees!

Last year MINIsOnTop raised over $5400 – can we do even better this year?

Dug out – twice

Posted on by Ian C.

Yesterday afternoon Margaret & I spent about half an hour digging out – clearing the paths, removing all the snow from between the cars, and shovelling out all the “plow truck spillover” that blocked & filled the street in front of our driveway.
This morning, I had to do it all over again! Continuing wind yesterday filled in the paths and cars, and more truck plowing re-buried our driveway. Oh well, at least I didn’t run around with a snow blower waking the neighbours at 5:30am, like one of my neighbours did 😦

Anyway, GBMINI got out and made it to work with minimal issues this morning. Quite a lot of DSC flashing on my street, but the highways were perfectly clear – and we are trying out a new design of MINI fuel cap:

Minolta DSC
Minolta DSC

Overall, our snow impact yesterday was minimal (unlike some parts of the East Coast) – hope no-one else suffered too much …