>>Kim,
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>>Craig was at the office last night at 9:45PM, printing the final directions!! Talk about last minute!
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>>Scott


:Try til midnight! Our copy machine was having issues with the paper.... :Back from the papers here at 7:15 and I am ready!!! The sleepy-kittens song really helped. The one talking about booze looks just like my Maggie and I have big fat Ezzy benind me snoring now. Ok who is hiding the Jolt and the Vivarin? I have friends with HOGS so you had better hand it over!! See everyone in a bit and MOTOR SAFELY!


ME

 

Please bring your JRT. Maxwell will have one of his own kind to play with. He was a year old on Friday. Everyone tell him Happy Birthday! :smile: :smile:
Fred

 

Since I wasn't able to hang around for the entire event, I wanted to say it was great to meet some of you today. I would have liked to stay and talk MINI longer but duty calls. I must be honest, I found myself a little ansy to go faster at certain times when the going was slow. I prefer more spirited driving. To hell with the speed laws!! Nonetheless, it was a good time. Here are some of my pics:









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Ken

 

how did that saturn get in that pic

 

Hello everyone, I just got home. I had so much fun today. To think that this started because I told Scott that I wanted to go for a ride in Bucks County. He said that we should try and get a few other MINIs to join us. HA!! Look how this spiralled out of control into something this big.

At our largest, we had 64 (i think) cars in total. 58 MINIs, 3 Minis, and 3 other cars.

That Saturn in the pic is the Deli sandwich car. David, your car was done up right. It was wonderful to have you with us, especially when you were so unsure about coming without a MINI. Didn't you and Isaac have a good time? THANKS to Scott, Craig, and Jack
You guys rock!! I never could have done this alone. Mwwaaaahhh

Who's got more pictures?

 

>>how did that saturn get in that pic

What a great day. Thanks from the driver of "that Saturn." Isaac and I just rolled safely into Harrisburg.

We enjoyed the caravan to Yardley, finally matching faces to names and cars, and most of all, being welcomed even though we are "waiting for September."

My Saturn is downstairs panting in the garage. It will be some time before it recovers!

Great work, Craig, Kim, Scott, Jack, and Otto's.

 

Thanks to Kim, Craig, Jack and Scott for a great drive. The roads were great and Cheryl and the kids had a good time. We are looking forward to the next one.

 

A message from Isaac:

"Thank you for everything. I had a great time. I liked all of the MINIs. I'm glad I was there. Thank you for the poster of the Italian Job. I will put it up in my room. I hope I can go again next time with my Mom and my brother Jonah in a MINI."

 

>>My Saturn is downstairs panting in the garage. It will be some time before it recovers!
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Poor Saturn. Just to think that most of the MINIs barely broke a sweat going up those hills

David, you're gonna LOVE this car.

 

kim, thank you and everyone reponsable for putting together a really nice day

 

Thanks go out to everyone there. Maxwell, Shari and I had a great time and met a lot of great people. Again, Thanks Kim, Scott, Craig and Otto's MINI.

PS we put the Bulldog in the office next to the MINI stuff.

Fred

 

Hey Gang,

Boatloads (MINI loads?) of thanks to everyone who helped put this event together. This was Jennifer and my first rally and boy howdy was it a doozy! :smile:

Once again, thanks to everyone who came, saw, and motored!

Alan

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ASobkowiak

 

It was hard to choose a MINI mascot, all of them were good looking pups. Maxwell won because he was just so friendly.

 

Really nice day today...thanks to all who set it up. Should have some pics up tomorrow AM...

 

It appears y'all had a GREAT time! Awesome pics, great stories, I just wish I could have been a part of it. Next time!

I'll be checking here repeatedly to see more stories and pictures.

It makes me smile seeing everyone gathering, enjoying the company of new and old friends, fantastic scenery, and some good driving. The MINIs are like a catalyst for friendships whether somebody owns one, wants one, or is just a spectator.

Cheers, and MOTOR ON!

Phil

 

Good Evening (or Morning) Everyone!!!

Well, it's amazing what a little idea amongst new friends can turn into!!!

When this started, it was just a casual idea by HARMINI. Then, Craig jumped right in, and the next thing we knew, we were coordinating what became (to us, at least) a monumental undertaking!!

This was the first MINI Rally I believe we had ever organized (although Craig's an old hat with the Z3 club!). The teamwork was phenomenal, sometimes we would even anticipate what the others were going to ask!

Then, to arrive this morning, and see all your lovely Minis, Coopers, Cooper S's, Cooper Works, Saturns, GTIs, Corvettes, Focus SVTs (did I miss anything, what was that truck???), well, I was duly impressed.

Then, to have everyone so enjoy the roads in our fair county of Bucks, and to see the stares (and a few foul words from those caught behind our onslaught) from the passers-by made the day well worthwhile. So did the roads of course!!

Your compliments to Kim, Craig, Jack and I are so kind, but this was truly a wonderful experience on my part. As my first foray into the "World of MINI", you embraced me, and made me feel welcome into the MINI family.

To our friends at Otto's MINI, what can I say?? You outdid yourselves!!! Now, to make sure that Joe and Jerry get to do these again, I want EVERYONE to send an email to the GM of Otto's MINI (find the name on their website) and say how thankful you all were that they sponsored the Rally!! They need their Management's support to keep doing these in the future! Let them know you are going to tell all your friends to buy their future MINIs from Otto's!!!

Now, I met so many people, I couldn't possibly remember all of your names. I just hope that we see many of you at many more Rallies!! Remember, the Downtown Philadelphia Photo Safari is next Sunday (shameless plug)!!!

To our long distance drivers (from CT, NY, NJ, PA, DE and MD), I'm glad everyone has made it home safe and sound, and thanks for taking the long drives (and flights, to the guy from Portland, OR) to attend our little soiree!

I have posted several of my better shots on the web. Please take a look here:

http://members16.clubphoto.com/scott...r-16eb-1.phtml

If you can't get in to see them, go to http://www.clubphoto.com, then input my email address (laughscott@aol.com).

I still haven't figured out how to get images downloaded into the threads!!!

For those of you who were unable to stay for dinner, I'm recommending (thanks to Julie's (CooperSQT) suggestion) that we will be posting the names of the award winners on this thread shortly!!! Just need to cross-check the numbers with the registration forms!

And, to our esteemed Judges that had the audacity to call me the Cutest Juvenile Enthusiast, well, shucks!!! My Bulldog is already prominently displayed!! You are crazy, and too kind!

So, that's it from Chestnut Hill, PA. Looking forward to seeing more PICs very soon!!!

Thanks again for making this a memorable experience!

Scott

 

Just wanted to say what everyone else has said.... Great Rally, it was nice meeting all of the enthusiastic MINI & Mini drivers (and future MINI drivers)!!

And, of course a special thanks for Kim, Craig, Scott, and the Otto's guys for a job well done!

Rhapsody (in blue) is up to 450 Miles now (she had 8 miles on at 3pm yesterday when we drove out of MINI of Towson)!!! Only 750 miles until break-in is complete!!!!

Looking forward to the 2nd annual event (hint, hint)

Good night all !!

 

I'll post a few of them for you Scott:











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Thanks to all the organizers, sponsors and attendees. It was a lot of fun and I hope to see you again. It took a while but we finally have some real MINI action in the Philly region! :smile:

 

^^^^ Acetonic, the winner of the MINI with the highest mileage award. 29K, right?

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Okay people, here's some more photos!

160 of 'em!

I have way too many to post here, so go to Shutterfly through this link:

http://www.shutterfly.com/osi.jsp?i=...21b32530ce8441


You should not need to register.

In the meantime I'll be trying to figure out how to post thumbnails and how to place photos in my signature!

Alan

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ASobkowiak

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Veni, Vidi, MINI

I came, I saw, I motored.

 

Hey ASobkowiak...thanks for uploading the pics...using one of my IB/W for my sig!

 

>>Hey ASobkowiak...thanks for uploading the pics...using one of my IB/W for my sig!

You are our official MINI meet photographer from now on. WOW!!! Those are some fantastic pictures. Watching the slideshow was like re-living the whole day. Thank you so much for getting each of our cars as we entered Union Square. I bet Dan won't be the only one using those photos in signatures

 

What a great day! Thank you Kim, Scott, Craig and Jack for putting this together. You did an incredible job! Thanks to Gerry and John at Otto's for all the "goodies".

I enjoyed meeting so many more MINI enthusiasts.

Thanks Ken, Scott and Alan for posting some great photos!

 

<blushes> :smile:

I can't take all the credit: my sweetie took all the really nice ones!

Well, I plan to come for next Saturday's Philly tour of Fairmont Park, so perhaps I'll see some of you all there as well!

A.