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Boo · Sep 12th, 2002, 04:21 PM

thanks EITel..

Spazz · Sep 12th, 2002, 08:26 PM

Going to be great see you there Boo!

eltel · Sep 13th, 2002, 05:54 AM

Right, this ain't easy, but let's give it a shot.

I chose somewhere pretty central to all parties especially those coming from Geelong and Healesville. I chose the time so that it doesn't cut into everybody's day yet gives us time to intoduce ourselves and still have a drive around some good Melbourne roads.

Venue : Studley Park Boathouse, meet in the carpark, get some coffee and sit under a rotunda or tree. The Boathouse has a cafe which should be open still at that time. It's going to be 25 but a little windy, though this is very sheltered in a gorge down by the Yarra river. Very pretty spot. And it's just off the Boulevard which is a road specifically designed for the Cooper 'S'. Fun drive in and out.

The Boathouse is Melways map 2D, ref F8, best to get onto the road leading to it by heading East along Johnston St away from Collingwood and Abbotsford. Watch for the sign to the Studley Park Boathouse and the narrow and sharp turnoff as you head up the hill towards Kew. Follow the signs for about 300m and you'll get to it in a minute or two.

Time : 3pm till 4pm. If you're running late, don't worry, we'll hang around till 4pm then head off for a drive say down St Kilda Rd to St Kilda, along Beaconsfield Rd then into the city. Or a slow convoy along trendy Chapel St. We'll discuss this over a coffee.

Starters : Spazz, WAY (got his car back today), Boo (in a rented Cooper down from Sydney), Nick_K, Coops41, CoopeR (Geelong crew), and MINICS (from Healesville with wife and kids) and my wife Rhonda and me. Feel free to bring partners, friends. No pressure either way.

Still waiting on disdis, freek and Gripper to advise if they're coming. If I've left anyone out for god's sake let me know.

So it's going to happen and I hope that you are all part of it. If you can't make it there will be others. I know that it will be great to put names and faces to handles and to get some great photos (camera, please Spazz) of a collection of these fabulous machines. Bring along tyre pressures too.

Regards, see you there. Post if you're coming please.

ElTel (Tez)

Spazz · Sep 13th, 2002, 07:11 AM

Sounds great! Im really looking forward to meeting everyone.

And Ill try not to forget the camera!

Catch you all then!!

eltel · Sep 13th, 2002, 07:36 AM

Well, just heard from Gripper (part of Geelong crew) and he's coming.

Unfortunately for him, his MCS is due in November sometime. Still, he wants to meet us and that's great.

Regards, ElTel

eltel · Sep 13th, 2002, 07:37 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Spazz
Sounds great! Im really looking forward to meeting everyone.

And Ill try not to forget the camera!

Catch you all then!!

Thanks Spazz for volunteering to bring your super camera.

Will be a great day.

Regards, ElTel

Nick_K · Sep 13th, 2002, 07:04 PM

I'll be there, looking forward to catching up with everyone.

eltel · Sep 13th, 2002, 07:28 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Nick_K
I'll be there, looking forward to catching up with everyone.

Fantastic. Thanks for letting us know Nick.

Regards, ElTel

coops41 · Sep 14th, 2002, 02:26 AM

MELB MEETING

WILL DEFINATELY BE THERE PROBABLY STAGG AS WIFES GOT PLANS,LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING EVERYONE& THE STARS OF THE SHOW.

SEE YA THEN

CoopeR · Sep 14th, 2002, 03:37 AM

Well I just picked up the car today and cant wait for the run tomorrow. I will meet you all there !

Here is a fresh pic of my new baby

swamos · Sep 14th, 2002, 04:24 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by CoopeR
Here is a fresh pic of my new baby

Looks a million bucks. I'll be very envious of you guys tomorrow.

eltel · Sep 14th, 2002, 04:29 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by coops41
MELB MEETING

WILL DEFINATELY BE THERE PROBABLY STAGG AS WIFES GOT PLANS,LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING EVERYONE& THE STARS OF THE SHOW.

SEE YA THEN

That's great news, coops41. Thanks for responding.

Regards, ElTel

eltel · Sep 14th, 2002, 04:44 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by CoopeR
Well I just picked up the car today and cant wait for the run tomorrow. I will meet you all there !

Here is a fresh pic of my new baby

CoopeR, that's one nice looking car, but then any MINI is good looking, and I'm looking forward to seeing a whole flock of great looking MINIs tomorrow.

Thanks for getting back to us. Lots of friendly faces to get to know tomorrow.

Regards, ElTel

eltel · Sep 14th, 2002, 04:52 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by swamos

Looks a million bucks. I'll be very envious of you guys tomorrow.

Steve, you're more than welcome to come along. Better get started now though.

I hope that we can post some photos early in the week, Spazz has a great camera and a good eye for a great shot, so we hope to all be internationally famous.

Regards, ElTel

rich · Sep 14th, 2002, 09:43 AM

Love that red MCS... Awesome

swamos · Sep 14th, 2002, 05:27 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by eltel

Steve, you're more than welcome to come along. Better get started now though.

I hope that we can post some photos early in the week, Spazz has a great camera and a good eye for a great shot, so we hope to all be internationally famous.

Regards, ElTel

Unfortunately, I don't think I can make it to this one. Maybe the next???

Anyway, the forecast looks good...

http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?IDV10450.txt

Could be a bit blowy but ....

http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDV60034.shtml

The cams look promising but...

http://melbourne.citysearch.com.au/feature/26/

If anyone think's I'm building this too much, tell someone who cares

Anyway, you should all be out washing your baby's

eltel · Sep 15th, 2002, 05:53 AM

Well, we met today.

First to turn up was Nick_K (Nick), then me (Tez and wife Rhonda), then coops41 (Scott), then Boo (Andrew and partner Melody, down from Sydney), followed by MINICS (Andy and wife Vanessa and two boys), then Cooper (Matt and friend Jamie, up from Geelong), and last but not least Spazz (Az).

WAY sent his apologies, and I'm not sure what happened to Gripper (hope everything is ok).

We met at the Studley Park Boathouse, and being a sunny warm day (although very windy) the car park was chokkas. Nevertheless, we all managed to get parking spots eventually. After inspecting each others machines, we sat down and chatted for a good hour, moved the cars for a photo shoot, then some of us went home and a few drove into Lygon St and got some nice stares and jaw drops.

Thanks to all who attended, and sorry to those who missed out, I'm sure that we will all soon be going on a longer drive.

Most of us took some photos, so stand by for some snaps to be posted before too long.

WE had Nick's (Nick_K) DS/W MCS, Scott's (coops41) EB/W MCS with beaut bonnet stripes, Matt's (CoopeR) CR/W MCS, Az's (Spazz) EB/W MCS, Tez's (ElTel) LY/W MCS, and Andrew (Boo) had a rented CR/B MC (CVT). Andy and Vanessa's (MINICS) are expecting their Black/White MCS in November).

There were many people passing who were truly stunned and extemely delighted by seeing this assembled bevy of beauty. A collection like this is very rare and was a major surprise to the other vistors to the park.

It was all over too quickly and I'm looking forward very much to our next turnout.

Thanks to all, ElTel

Boo · Sep 15th, 2002, 08:27 AM

Well, back in Sydney....
Was awesome to see all the cars lined up in the car park.. can't wait to get mine in October so i can be part of the MCS bunch...
Thanks ElTel for get me the info and organising the get together, Melody and I had a great afternoon. Was excellent to see the reception of the people walking past seeing all the great colours and style of the Minis...twas a real buzzz.
Look forward to seeing the photos when they are posted. Will add ours when we get them developed...
Once again Melody and I want to extend our thanks to all the Melbourne crew

Boo

disdis · Sep 15th, 2002, 12:14 PM

well well well.... u guys are probably wondering where the hell i had been...

mmm... so close yet so far away....

firstly, i didnt even know there's a meeting today, and certainly didnt know where it is held... (hvnt been on the net for long time)

Anyway, me, my gf and another couple just finished yum cha in Doncaster and didnt know where to go. So we decided to drive down to the Boathouse to hv a coffee and guess what!?? i saw one of the best collection of cars in the carpark... what a coincidence!

well, i should hv introduced my self to u guys (i saw Spazz- the funky haired guy with white tee?) but i was a bit shy....

anyway, if u see the green bmw coupe with yellow interior- that's mine! and yeah, i was the little asian dude staring at the red MCS when u guys were crowded around it (the red does look a treat- but too much like a cooper)....

i was surprised at the general age of MCS owners. (sorry, dont mean to be rude...) but i (22 y.o.) is certainly the youngest one out there today. i felt like i wasn't fitting in if i just went up to introduce myself....

after checking out all the MCS whilst u guys were having coffee (dont worry, i didnt touch any cars!), i finally concluded that my choice of DS/W was correct. and the 17" alloys is a must!

my delivery is postponed till jan 03, and will definitely join u guys nxt time. i'll bring along sushi or something...

CoopeR · Sep 15th, 2002, 02:20 PM

Well a fun time was had by all... I know there will be better photo's of us all but here is one of the lot of us.

disdis you should have said hello to us all. That was my red cooper s that you were looking at ... and just quietly I am 24 so there is not much age between us both !

I have to say it was a pleasure to meet all of you and I look forward to doing it again. Thanks Eltel for organizing the event it was great to chat to other people who share the same passion I do with the car. A special thanks goes to Andrew (boo) and Melody for joining the Victorian gathering by renting the QLD plated MINI.

I look forward to catching up with you all for the next chapter, and hopefully there will be a couple more cars to join the convoy !

I have now got 400km/s on the car I will post a report very soon.

Sep 12th, 2002, 04:21 PM	#21
Boo Sponsor and Widget Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Nth Beaches, Sydney Local Time: 08:25 AM Posts: 1,752 Offline	thanks EITel.. The original SWORKS

Sep 13th, 2002, 05:54 AM	#23 (permalink)
eltel MINIstry of Fun Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Eastern Suburbs, Mel Local Time: 08:25 AM Posts: 1,593 Offline	Venue, time and other details Right, this ain't easy, but let's give it a shot. I chose somewhere pretty central to all parties especially those coming from Geelong and Healesville. I chose the time so that it doesn't cut into everybody's day yet gives us time to intoduce ourselves and still have a drive around some good Melbourne roads. Venue : Studley Park Boathouse, meet in the carpark, get some coffee and sit under a rotunda or tree. The Boathouse has a cafe which should be open still at that time. It's going to be 25 but a little windy, though this is very sheltered in a gorge down by the Yarra river. Very pretty spot. And it's just off the Boulevard which is a road specifically designed for the Cooper 'S'. Fun drive in and out. The Boathouse is Melways map 2D, ref F8, best to get onto the road leading to it by heading East along Johnston St away from Collingwood and Abbotsford. Watch for the sign to the Studley Park Boathouse and the narrow and sharp turnoff as you head up the hill towards Kew. Follow the signs for about 300m and you'll get to it in a minute or two. Time : 3pm till 4pm. If you're running late, don't worry, we'll hang around till 4pm then head off for a drive say down St Kilda Rd to St Kilda, along Beaconsfield Rd then into the city. Or a slow convoy along trendy Chapel St. We'll discuss this over a coffee. Starters : Spazz, WAY (got his car back today), Boo (in a rented Cooper down from Sydney), Nick_K, Coops41, CoopeR (Geelong crew), and MINICS (from Healesville with wife and kids) and my wife Rhonda and me. Feel free to bring partners, friends. No pressure either way. Still waiting on disdis, freek and Gripper to advise if they're coming. If I've left anyone out for god's sake let me know. So it's going to happen and I hope that you are all part of it. If you can't make it there will be others. I know that it will be great to put names and faces to handles and to get some great photos (camera, please Spazz) of a collection of these fabulous machines. Bring along tyre pressures too. Regards, see you there. Post if you're coming please. ElTel (Tez)

Sep 13th, 2002, 07:04 PM	#27 (permalink)
Nick_K MINI2 Newbie Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Melbourne Local Time: 08:25 AM Posts: 14 Offline	Melb Meet I'll be there, looking forward to catching up with everyone.

Sep 13th, 2002, 07:28 PM	#28 (permalink)
eltel MINIstry of Fun Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Eastern Suburbs, Mel Local Time: 08:25 AM Posts: 1,593 Offline	Re: Melb Meet Quote: Originally posted by Nick_K I'll be there, looking forward to catching up with everyone. Fantastic. Thanks for letting us know Nick. Regards, ElTel

Sep 14th, 2002, 03:37 AM	#30 (permalink)
CoopeR MINI2 Regular Join Date: May 2002 Location: Geelong Local Time: 09:25 AM Posts: 191 Offline	Well I just picked up the car today and cant wait for the run tomorrow. I will meet you all there ! Here is a fresh pic of my new baby Attached Thumbnails We have a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, its dark and we're wearing sun glasses. Hit it!

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Sep 12th, 2002, 08:26 PM	#22 (permalink)
Spazz MINI2 Regular Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Melbourne Local Time: 09:25 AM Posts: 169 Offline	Going to be great see you there Boo!

Sep 13th, 2002, 07:11 AM	#24 (permalink)
Spazz MINI2 Regular Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Melbourne Local Time: 09:25 AM Posts: 169 Offline	Sounds great! Im really looking forward to meeting everyone. And Ill try not to forget the camera! Catch you all then!!

Sep 13th, 2002, 07:36 AM	#25 (permalink)
eltel MINIstry of Fun Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Eastern Suburbs, Mel Local Time: 08:25 AM Posts: 1,593 Offline	Well, just heard from Gripper (part of Geelong crew) and he's coming. Unfortunately for him, his MCS is due in November sometime. Still, he wants to meet us and that's great. Regards, ElTel

Sep 13th, 2002, 07:37 AM	#26 (permalink)
eltel MINIstry of Fun Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Eastern Suburbs, Mel Local Time: 08:25 AM Posts: 1,593 Offline	Quote: Originally posted by Spazz Sounds great! Im really looking forward to meeting everyone. And Ill try not to forget the camera! Catch you all then!! Thanks Spazz for volunteering to bring your super camera. Will be a great day. Regards, ElTel

Sep 14th, 2002, 02:26 AM	#29 (permalink)
coops41 MINI2 Regular Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: melbourne Local Time: 08:25 AM Posts: 115 Offline	MELB MEETING WILL DEFINATELY BE THERE PROBABLY STAGG AS WIFES GOT PLANS,LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING EVERYONE& THE STARS OF THE SHOW. SEE YA THEN

Sep 14th, 2002, 04:24 AM	#31 (permalink)
swamos MINI Traitor Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Brisbane, Australia Local Time: 08:25 AM Posts: 5,542 Offline	Quote: Originally posted by CoopeR Here is a fresh pic of my new baby Looks a million bucks. I'll be very envious of you guys tomorrow. Clubman less....

Sep 14th, 2002, 04:29 AM	#32 (permalink)
eltel MINIstry of Fun Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Eastern Suburbs, Mel Local Time: 08:25 AM Posts: 1,593 Offline	Quote: Originally posted by coops41 MELB MEETING WILL DEFINATELY BE THERE PROBABLY STAGG AS WIFES GOT PLANS,LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING EVERYONE& THE STARS OF THE SHOW. SEE YA THEN That's great news, coops41. Thanks for responding. Regards, ElTel

Sep 14th, 2002, 04:44 AM	#33 (permalink)
eltel MINIstry of Fun Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Eastern Suburbs, Mel Local Time: 08:25 AM Posts: 1,593 Offline	Quote: Originally posted by CoopeR Well I just picked up the car today and cant wait for the run tomorrow. I will meet you all there ! Here is a fresh pic of my new baby CoopeR, that's one nice looking car, but then any MINI is good looking, and I'm looking forward to seeing a whole flock of great looking MINIs tomorrow. Thanks for getting back to us. Lots of friendly faces to get to know tomorrow. Regards, ElTel

Sep 14th, 2002, 04:52 AM	#34 (permalink)
eltel MINIstry of Fun Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Eastern Suburbs, Mel Local Time: 08:25 AM Posts: 1,593 Offline	Quote: Originally posted by swamos Looks a million bucks. I'll be very envious of you guys tomorrow. Steve, you're more than welcome to come along. Better get started now though. I hope that we can post some photos early in the week, Spazz has a great camera and a good eye for a great shot, so we hope to all be internationally famous. Regards, ElTel

Sep 14th, 2002, 09:43 AM	#35 (permalink)
rich MINI2 Master Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Sydney, Australia Local Time: 08:25 AM Posts: 1,586 Offline	Love that red MCS... Awesome Cooper S, Jet Black w/ white roof, silver 16" X-Lite wheels, DSC, MFSW, dark tinted windows ...It's here & I love it!

Sep 14th, 2002, 05:27 PM	#36 (permalink)
swamos MINI Traitor Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Brisbane, Australia Local Time: 08:25 AM Posts: 5,542 Offline	Quote: Originally posted by eltel Steve, you're more than welcome to come along. Better get started now though. I hope that we can post some photos early in the week, Spazz has a great camera and a good eye for a great shot, so we hope to all be internationally famous. Regards, ElTel Unfortunately, I don't think I can make it to this one. Maybe the next??? Anyway, the forecast looks good... http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?IDV10450.txt Could be a bit blowy but .... http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDV60034.shtml The cams look promising but... http://melbourne.citysearch.com.au/feature/26/ If anyone think's I'm building this too much, tell someone who cares Anyway, you should all be out washing your baby's Clubman less....

Sep 15th, 2002, 05:53 AM	#37 (permalink)
eltel MINIstry of Fun Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Eastern Suburbs, Mel Local Time: 08:25 AM Posts: 1,593 Offline	Today's Meeting Well, we met today. First to turn up was Nick_K (Nick), then me (Tez and wife Rhonda), then coops41 (Scott), then Boo (Andrew and partner Melody, down from Sydney), followed by MINICS (Andy and wife Vanessa and two boys), then Cooper (Matt and friend Jamie, up from Geelong), and last but not least Spazz (Az). WAY sent his apologies, and I'm not sure what happened to Gripper (hope everything is ok). We met at the Studley Park Boathouse, and being a sunny warm day (although very windy) the car park was chokkas. Nevertheless, we all managed to get parking spots eventually. After inspecting each others machines, we sat down and chatted for a good hour, moved the cars for a photo shoot, then some of us went home and a few drove into Lygon St and got some nice stares and jaw drops. Thanks to all who attended, and sorry to those who missed out, I'm sure that we will all soon be going on a longer drive. Most of us took some photos, so stand by for some snaps to be posted before too long. WE had Nick's (Nick_K) DS/W MCS, Scott's (coops41) EB/W MCS with beaut bonnet stripes, Matt's (CoopeR) CR/W MCS, Az's (Spazz) EB/W MCS, Tez's (ElTel) LY/W MCS, and Andrew (Boo) had a rented CR/B MC (CVT). Andy and Vanessa's (MINICS) are expecting their Black/White MCS in November). There were many people passing who were truly stunned and extemely delighted by seeing this assembled bevy of beauty. A collection like this is very rare and was a major surprise to the other vistors to the park. It was all over too quickly and I'm looking forward very much to our next turnout. Thanks to all, ElTel Last edited by eltel : Sep 15th, 2002 at 02:36 PM.

Sep 15th, 2002, 08:27 AM	#38 (permalink)
Boo Sponsor and Widget Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Nth Beaches, Sydney Local Time: 08:25 AM Posts: 1,752 Offline	Well, back in Sydney.... Was awesome to see all the cars lined up in the car park.. can't wait to get mine in October so i can be part of the MCS bunch... Thanks ElTel for get me the info and organising the get together, Melody and I had a great afternoon. Was excellent to see the reception of the people walking past seeing all the great colours and style of the Minis...twas a real buzzz. Look forward to seeing the photos when they are posted. Will add ours when we get them developed... Once again Melody and I want to extend our thanks to all the Melbourne crew Boo The original SWORKS

Sep 15th, 2002, 12:14 PM	#39 (permalink)
disdis MINI2 Regular Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Melbourne Local Time: 08:25 AM Posts: 298 Offline	well well well.... u guys are probably wondering where the hell i had been... mmm... so close yet so far away.... firstly, i didnt even know there's a meeting today, and certainly didnt know where it is held... (hvnt been on the net for long time) Anyway, me, my gf and another couple just finished yum cha in Doncaster and didnt know where to go. So we decided to drive down to the Boathouse to hv a coffee and guess what!?? i saw one of the best collection of cars in the carpark... what a coincidence! well, i should hv introduced my self to u guys (i saw Spazz- the funky haired guy with white tee?) but i was a bit shy.... anyway, if u see the green bmw coupe with yellow interior- that's mine! and yeah, i was the little asian dude staring at the red MCS when u guys were crowded around it (the red does look a treat- but too much like a cooper).... i was surprised at the general age of MCS owners. (sorry, dont mean to be rude...) but i (22 y.o.) is certainly the youngest one out there today. i felt like i wasn't fitting in if i just went up to introduce myself.... after checking out all the MCS whilst u guys were having coffee (dont worry, i didnt touch any cars!), i finally concluded that my choice of DS/W was correct. and the 17" alloys is a must! my delivery is postponed till jan 03, and will definitely join u guys nxt time. i'll bring along sushi or something...

Sep 15th, 2002, 02:20 PM	#40 (permalink)
CoopeR MINI2 Regular Join Date: May 2002 Location: Geelong Local Time: 09:25 AM Posts: 191 Offline	Well a fun time was had by all... I know there will be better photo's of us all but here is one of the lot of us. disdis you should have said hello to us all. That was my red cooper s that you were looking at ... and just quietly I am 24 so there is not much age between us both ! I have to say it was a pleasure to meet all of you and I look forward to doing it again. Thanks Eltel for organizing the event it was great to chat to other people who share the same passion I do with the car. A special thanks goes to Andrew (boo) and Melody for joining the Victorian gathering by renting the QLD plated MINI. I look forward to catching up with you all for the next chapter, and hopefully there will be a couple more cars to join the convoy ! I have now got 400km/s on the car I will post a report very soon. Attached Thumbnails We have a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, its dark and we're wearing sun glasses. Hit it! Last edited by CoopeR : Sep 15th, 2002 at 02:38 PM.

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