In here folks :)

Lots of pictures for me to see please :(. I've really missed out

I made it to the show OK :D

Tranman, Soggy, DK, Duncan, myself and others all hanging about in the MINI Owner's Lounge, where they have lad on leather sofas, jelly babies, goody bags, free drinks, and a good view of Russ Swift and team burning rubber.

Pictures and vids to follow...

(Are we geeky for all having digi-cams, cam-phones and walkie-talkies?)

I made it to the show OK :D

Tranman, Soggy, DK, Duncan, myself and others all hanging about in the MINI Owner's Lounge, where they have lad on leather sofas, jelly babies, goody bags, free drinks, and a good view of Russ Swift and team burning rubber.

Pictures and vids to follow...

(Are we geeky for all having digi-cams, cam-phones and walkie-talkies?)

Not for those reasons but only geekmeisters double post :D

I made it to the show OK :D

Tranman, Soggy, DK, Duncan, myself and others all hanging about in the MINI Owner's Lounge, where they have lad on leather sofas, jelly babies, goody bags, free drinks, and a good view of Russ Swift and team burning rubber.

Pictures and vids to follow...

(Are we geeky for all having digi-cams, cam-phones and walkie-talkies?)

Not for those reasons but only geekmeisters double post :D

To be truly geeky you should have posted from the show!

Your phone is GPRS enabled is it not?

:cool: :D

Show me the piccies of minis!

S:yeblack:

Okay. I know you'll like this..

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Great meet and show. :D

Well done organisers and well done the the NEC for the free parking right next to the entrance!! :D

Managed to meet the South West contingent on the way to the rendezvous (I was lurking on a motorway bridge on the M5 ;) )

A few pics:

1. The car park meet at Hams Hall.
2. The mayhem of trying to get about 150 MINI's out of one car park at the same time!! :eek:
3. The MINI park at the NEC.
4. Another shot of the MINI park.
5. MINI owners lounge where you could watch the MINI show. Also had a free owners "goody bag". :D

A couple of dodgy pics of the MINI show. ;)

I've got more pics, but thought I'd share that one first, none of the show because.. well, I knew I'd fail to capture the MINIs!

:)

Nice to catch up and say hello to those I did, everything seemed to go well, I hope the cars involved in the "Lorry Incident" were all OK?

It was some sight to see nearly 160 minis all in convoy,
Once again a big thanks to Hat, Mad Brummie and everyone else who helped to make everything run so smooth!

would that be the waitrose lorry if so - what were you all doing trying to take on a lorry and a yellow mini diesel, drivrn by a suicidal lancashire bloke screaming at his yorkshire girlfriend - not the car to follw people :)

well guys my feet are dropping off

what a day - good people good weather and v.good cars - fabulous!

Bought myself a Sony Sub and Amp which was a bargain - fab day

from left to right

me, Veron781, and Rich_IX
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Random shot
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Great to see so many minis all in one place, anyone that didnt make it you really missed out. The quality of my pictures are not all that great but here we go...

1st 5 all at Hams Hall...

Cheers, Tom.

here are my other 5, 2 at Hams Hall the other 3 are MINI2 with Russ Swift...

Heres the some of the pics I took:

Theres the convoy about half way to the BMW plant and me trying bloody hard to keep up ;)

When we arrived at the BMW Plant...

A few more....
The crazyness when trying to move 130+ minis at once :D

Scooby, Victorias and my mini still surprisingly clean from the back :)

Well I think I was the only convoy member not in a MINI.... who spotted the Red Merc SL trying desparately to keep up?? (MINI Cooper Cabrio arrives in 25 days!!!!!)

I've got some good pics of the convoy, and some great pics from the show including Black Eyed Purple pics and Hyper Blue that came out really well!!

I have no idea how to put them on here, so have uploaded them onto my MSN group!

http://groups.msn.com/miniconvertible/motorshow2004incconvoy.msnw

Many thanks to the organisers, both regional and national, and thanks to everyone for letting me tag along!!

Cheers, Jon

P.S. If anyone with computer internetty know-how wants to put the pictures I took on here, you are more than welcome!!

We had my brother in law in his Clio too.

;)

LOL, we were wondering who was in the Clio. Thought it might be someone who works for BMW and got stuck in the mess of trying to get out. Now I don't feel so bad for him!

This was my first convoy - and I thought it was excellent! Thanks everyone!

Heres a few pics of what i captured during the day!

Thanx for a great convoy guys!!!

A big thanks to Hat, Mad Brummie and everyone else who helped to make todays run so successful. It was a great sight to see nearly 160 mini2's all in convoy,and the waitrose lorry.



Have pics to post, once I find out how to post them so they enlarge. :confused:


Regards

Well I'm going to have to disagree with all this motorshow was great feeling. I thought
it disappointing with the Carrera GT the only non-MINI highlight. Well done to Ford
though, I couldn't help smiling at the way the kids were excited by Thunderbirds.
There was three outstanding aspects of the day
1) Russ Swift and co, they are amazing and you need the smell of tyres to complete
the experience. 2) The Hams Hall meet, so many MINIs and MINI people all together.
3) Seeing the new MINI's and colours in the flesh and the MOO lounge/goodies/etc
A big thanks to all the organisers as the convoy driving and Hams Hall meet made the
day special when the show itself didn't. That includes our very own minisoopercooper
for organising the yokels, townies and Welsh in convoy. I'd like to finish with a question.
Did any MINI peps dress in pink and get their photo taken in a pink car :eek: ? Be brave,
own up.

I don't like motorshows anyway really, but the great stuff was all our MINI goings on! :)

A big thanks to the thief who decided to steal one of the valve caps off my brand new 04 MCS (less than 3 weeks old). Last event I'm attending if things get nicked. :mad:

Cheers

PS It didn't fall off cos they left they finger prints in the brake dust.

Well think I've got the photo thing sorted.

Here is first Attempt at posting them :)

1) Meeting point at Corley Services

2) Hams Car Park ( mini2 car park)

3) Convoy out of Hams

4) Hams Hall Lake to the roundabout


More to follow

We had a brilliant day. The convoy was the highlight of the day for me and looking forward to the next one already :D Will upload pics taken at Hams hall later. A big thanks to the organisers - Top job! :cool: