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Old Sep 15, 2003 | 08:52 PM
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The Wolfe Island Canada MINI Meet was a weekend full of amazing photo ops.

The most incredible pictures are of our 50 MINIs monopolizing the Wolfe Islander car ferry prior to the start of our MOTOR The Island Tour.

The Southern Ontario MINI Club brought great participation to the event. And they've started a MINI Meet Gallery on the Club site.

Just vist The Club's site, click on "Gallery" on the left and choose "MINI Meet".

You will not believe these pictures. The Greatest MINI Event Of The Year produced the Greatest MINI pics!


 
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Old Sep 15, 2003 | 10:11 PM
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Good pics, thanks for sharing. Just how did that Escort get in there???
 
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Old Sep 16, 2003 | 01:08 AM
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NICE!! But why is there a Dodge Straus ( I think ) stuck in the middle? hahah Get rid of him.
 
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Old Sep 16, 2003 | 01:12 AM
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It's always impressive to see so many MINIs jammed into a small area like a ferry. I wonder what the ferry people think of that. It's like an army or motorcycle gang. Maybe we should all get a MINI club jacket. Yup- time to start coming up with some designs.

Thanks for the pictures- makes us want to come join you. It's inspirational.
 
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Old Sep 16, 2003 | 02:03 AM
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WOW

C'ya
 
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Old Sep 16, 2003 | 03:11 AM
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Way cool!!!!!!!!!!!
That's what I like to see.
 
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Old Sep 16, 2003 | 04:12 AM
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Wish I could have made that one but just a tad out of the way for me..
 
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Old Sep 16, 2003 | 04:16 AM
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Loved the photosof the minis on the ferry...it looked to me like a candy store window! So great! Makes me wish my MCS were home....still a month to wait!
Thanks for sharing!
 
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Old Sep 16, 2003 | 05:25 AM
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The ferry deck hands loved the MINIs. They took pictures, helped get the Neons off the boat(!) and had a great fun attitude with us. They gave a number of our participants their addresses so we could send them pictures.

They even called ahead to friends and family to come down to the dock to see what was coming off the boat. We had quite the greeting!

Here's a direct link to the photos.
 
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Old Sep 16, 2003 | 05:37 AM
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>>helped get the Neons off the boat(!) >>
Very cool pics!!
 
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Old Sep 16, 2003 | 05:39 AM
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I wonder if the driver of the station wagon in the middle of the gaggle of MINIs is nervous... This is a great picture.


 
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Old Sep 16, 2003 | 06:23 AM
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Reminds me of the old Sesame Street bit:

"One of these things is not like the others. . . "
 
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Old Sep 16, 2003 | 07:32 AM
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Great pictures - what a sight on that Ferry!!
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Old Sep 16, 2003 | 07:37 AM
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Great pics!! Those other drivers musta been wondering what on earth was going on.
 
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Old Sep 16, 2003 | 08:03 AM
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Talk about British Invasion...

Great pics!
 
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Old Sep 16, 2003 | 09:12 AM
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Maximum Cool. That looked like a great weekend. I wish I was with you then!

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Old Sep 16, 2003 | 09:36 AM
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>>I wonder if the driver of the station wagon in the middle of the gaggle of MINIs is nervous... This is a great picture.
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All those Mini's and no Indi Blue?
 
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Old Sep 16, 2003 | 09:44 AM
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Isn't that IB lower right hand corner north of the Union Jack top?
 
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Old Sep 16, 2003 | 09:49 AM
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how many kars does that ferry normally fit?

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Old Sep 16, 2003 | 11:26 AM
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The Wolfe Islander ferry holds 55 "normal" cars. We had 50 MINIs and about half a dozen "civilians".

A few cars were jockeyed on the dock to keep our pack together. We were in the boat lineup at 12.15 pm for the 2 o'clock boat. It irked a few local Island residents who were trying to get home.

Oh well. The boat is part of the provincial hiway system. If you're on, you're on!

They'll know to pay attention to our event posters next year!
 
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Old Sep 16, 2003 | 11:36 AM
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We didn't have 50 cars, but back in July the DC Metro group took White's Ferry across the Potomac from VA to MD for a picnic:

More pictures can be seen here.
 
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Old Sep 16, 2003 | 12:26 PM
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Do you think it was traumatic for the MINIs to be back on a boat? They may have thought they were being shipped back to Merry Old England!
 
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Old Sep 16, 2003 | 01:43 PM
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Hey thanks for the great pics. Being around that many MINI's had to be fun. I sure would have liked to have been there.
 
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Old Sep 16, 2003 | 01:49 PM
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OMG!!! It's a Mini-gasm! Awesome, i'm so jealous we don't have something like that here in west coast FL.
 
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Old Sep 16, 2003 | 01:52 PM
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Wow, EB/EB, never seen that before? Looks awesome!

>>I wonder if the driver of the station wagon in the middle of the gaggle of MINIs is nervous... This is a great picture.
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