I was rolling to Columbia, MO on Saturday for a wedding, and a lady in a Pepper White with Pennsylvania plates passed me by with a nice wave.

 

I always wave, Tim Even when I drove my Just-a-Cooper Cabrio How do you think I snatched Mark

 

I just gave/got my first wave (that I know of) today! I think it's cool when that happens. My husband has a Corvette and they do the same thing to each other.

Sorry if anyone thinks I ignored them. Absolutely, not the case! Just in my own little world half the time.

But hey, don't let that stop you. Honk all you want and wave like a fool! I'll notice...eventually.

 

Trust me, it had nothing to do with the Cabrio
Mark

 

just seeing your response Lois (not sure why I didn't get the notify, oh well )

Girl, you are one in a million

 

One of my other heaps is a '73 VW Thing in bright yellow. Not many of us on the road, so we definitely wave, honk, etc. The few, the proud, the other air-cooled VWs do, too.

 

I passed a red MINI with someone possibly doing a test drive and they waved back to me as we went through the intersection.

 

Hi, I'm shiny new and all; got my MC June 3 and I live over here on the wrong side of the river in Belleville.

I see a couple MINI's all the time. One is a pepper white MCS with rally lights and black bonnet stripes and lives in the courthouse garage. A darker MINI is sometimes in the same garage but I don't know if it is black or BRG. Another one I see often is a red convertible with black bonnet stripes that lives on East Washington just east and across from the Historical Society. I never see people in them to wave to though. Saw a black with white roof turn off of Eastbound Frank Scott onto 159 North and then into some apartments, but never got close enough to wave.

I did get to wave at one MINI on West Main near a Shell station yesterday and the driver waived back. I probably didn't give much of a wave, but I was up-shifting with one hand and steering with the other.

I've also seen a silver MINI of some type around town, but usually from a distance.

Dan

 

Law Dan,

Make sure you come to the next social hour or the rallye at the end of August and you'll be able to wave at a slew o' MINI's

Would love to see your brand new ride.

Tim

 

I was hoping to come to the social hour; don't know anything about the Rally in August. I was sad I missed the Berryman Rally; my parents retired down to Berryman. I had planned to make the last club meeting, but it apparently got canceled.

Dan

 

I see a few Minis everyday on 270 but nobody waves... I'm the hyper blue one in the fast lane...

 

I saw two MINIs parked at UMSL last night. One was red with black bonnet stripes. The other was a Mk II PW/B MC with lounge leather seats.

 

I wave at all of the New MINI's i see. Sometimes I get a wave back but most of the time I get a confused look that sometimes turns to a smile when they realize im driving a classic mini (panel van)
LOL. Guess I just assumed that ALL MINI drivers Know what a classic looks like.
Bright orange van with black roof and black wheels.
I drive it as much as possible. All over STL.

 

It's a neat ride!

(Note all the suspicious characters in the background.)

 

I have seen you a few times near 270 and Tesson Ferry, I waved.

 

Sometimes I see a C-Lop drive past my hose in Festus

 

really? where at?

 

West Main, but the MINI hides in the garage so you might not spot it.

 

Yep, that would be me. My kids' mother lives over by the highschool

 

If you see a dark silver with black roof and black wheels in the driveway swing in and say hi.

 

I am jealous that is the color combo I wanted...

 

I was out motoring about 3/4 of the way to Arkansas yesterday and on the trip back saw a Velvet Red (I think thats the color) with a checkerboard pattern on the sun roof. This was on 185 south of Hwy 100.

I was in a similar colored just a Cooper with white roof and bonnet stripes (loaner until mines fixed)

 

I thought for a second it might have been our '03 Velvet Red, but ours has the VRed roof. Mama took a galpal and 2 of our boys to Branson on Sunday. She told me this morning that the Minis are few-and-far-between down there :-D

 

Yeah, the velvet red was the first one I saw that day over the course of a couple hundred miles

 

Here is a Mini sighting story for ya!

While working, I was parked along a stretch of Lindbergh Blvd. Suddenly from the southbound lanes I notice the roof lights of a patrol car coming my way, following a nice (Brand New) 09 Mini S (Black/Red). The Mini pulled into the very parking lot that I was parked in, followed by the patrol car.

I got out when the other officer did, and approached the driver's side. (The officer knew that I owned a Mini S)

The officer advised the driver that he stopped her for doing 59 mph in a 40 mph zone. It turns out that this driver just traded her 03 Mini for the 09 Mini S and just got on it to feel the difference in performance.

The officer differed to me because he knew I was into the car (and because I greatly out ranked him), so the only thing I asked, "Are you a member of the St. Louis Mini Cooper Club?"

"No," was her reply. "Are you anti-social?" "Oh no, I just don't know what they do!"

Well, long story short, I may have recruited a new member. Here name is Sara, and she has a friend that has a mini as well.............so maybe there will be two members!

Oh, and to answer your outstanding question. She did not get a ticket.