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MINIs Making-A-Wish

Posted on December 4, 2004February 17, 2017 by Ian C.

Back from a long weekend in Rhode Island, including meeting 35 other MINIs for MINIs-Making-A-Wish (a repeat of this event held last year).
On a cool Saturday morning, we drove to the southern end of Rhode Island and met up with everyone at Steve Scales home. There was coffee, a raffle for the unique Whalen shift knob (congratulations Jeff, thanks Gavin for the pic), Santa hats and meet & greet with other MINI owners.

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An excellent drive had been planned, taking us all through various back roads of Rhode Island, including a stop at “Rhode Islands largest body of fresh water” – in a couple of places we had police to assist with crossing traffic, and we even had an escort up 15 miles of Route 95!

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After a stop at Krispy Kreme (very long lines for the bathroom!), where the toy collection launch occurred a month ago, we finally arrived at the Make-A-Wish headquarters and delivered 1400 toys! Steve also presented $2500 raised by the Whalen raffle and by other activities including the sale of “wishes” organized by his daughter Jessica – very impressive!

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The last picture is a group pic taken by Gavin – thanks!

We finished the day with a late lunch and lots more chats – hello Steve (*2), Max, John, Gene, Diane, Jared, Rich, Gavin, and everyone else.

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Steve (PinCity) posted a final summary of the event here: 1,409 Toys, $2,501.10 Donations, Fun with you guys…… priceless!

Many Famous MINIs (again)

Posted on December 3, 2004February 10, 2017 by Ian C.

A few weeks ago MINI Peabody told me about the new MINI Motoring Accessories 2005 You-ification Workbook, featuring pictures of many MINIs on its inside front & back covers, with the MINIs names on the outside front & back covers (see here for the original entry).
Recently, this same Workbook has been featured on TD60295 and MotoringFile. With the renewed interest generated, I decided to type a list of all the MINI names!

Front cover:
Shockley, Preshrunk, Mega Car, Mojo, Beyond, Fast MINI, Ringo, Bahn Scot, MINIMorse
Max, Fast Bandit, Winnie, Charlie, Dot, Rolls Tiger, Beryl, Blutsche, Madeleine
Pepita, Red Devil, Pepper Grinder, MINI D, MINI E, Griffen, Lil’Squirt, A.I., Red
Dormaus, Scooper, Marvin, Oreo, Miokin, Sparky, Spike, Tuxedo, Alice
Bung, Dory
Sugar, Beamster
Gidget, GBMINI
Miles, Hep
Rofous, Green Machine, Sweet Pea, Bumble Pea, Stitch, Wee Beastie, Rally Racer, Go Fast, Smokey
Alexia, Audrey, No Name, Pixel, Chacha, Priscilla, West Coaster, Scarlet, Puck
(because of the front page logo & title, not all MINIs on the inside front cover are named outside)

Back Cover:
Mtl, Mango MINI, Kermit, Opus, Zip
Solid Gold, Gus, Chili, Carmen, Bessie
Vegas Dan, Mr. Bean, Millie, Belvedere, The MINI
Speedster, Blake, Sparky, Alice Cooper, Clive
Alice, Pip, Oz, Sir Bill, Gabe
MINI Miller, Maggie, Molly, Silver Rocket, Mila
Higby, Little Guy, Buzz, MINI Wee, Stereo
Max, Gary, Stella, Go-Bot, Dudley
Just A. Car, Katherine, Jezebel, John E. Smoke, Harrison
Roxanne, Elliot, MINIfir, Eggie, Coopa

Jerry Flint “Supersize Me”

Posted on December 2, 2004February 12, 2017 by Ian C.

Catching up on magazines, I read this article in Octobers Ward’s Autoworld:

… I love BMW’s Mini, which is 143 ins. (363 cm) long, but I think the VW New Beetle at 161 ins. (408 cm) is as small as I want to get on I-75 … who buys tiny cars? … they are a second or third or fourth vehicle for rich folks who want to look green when the Lambo is getting serviced … I’d love to see millions of minis running around, saving fuel and two to a parking meter. But this is a big country with big houses, big hamburgers and big cars …
Obviously, I don’t agree and I guess most people viewing GBMINI don’t agree either 😉