MOT 2007 Donation Thread

[MINILuego]

If you have read about the huge success of last year's event you know that we have quite the hill to climb at this year's event. Here is a call to all to help soliciate donations for MOT 2007!!

If you are interested in helping to coordinate donations from your "neck of the woods" and/or would like to help in the presentation and coordination of the donations at the actual event please email me at:

donations@MINIsOnTop.com

Of course if you are a vendor or just a MINIac and would like to donate something or some service to the event please email me at the address listed above.

Let's make this the best year yet for our chosen charity. Let's have even more fun doing it and always remember - Let's Motor!

List of Donations

MINIUSA - Our friends at MINIUSA have committed to donate various items for raffle, and as we witnessed last year, we won't be disappointed by what they send us! Thanks Gerry!

Herb Chambers MINI of Boston Donation of a 2 year lease - See here!

Turner Motorsport has kindly donated some pretty cool driving shoes ,Piloti Prototipo PR16-6 driving shoes in size 9.5. They can be exchanged free of charge for any size Piloti driving shoe of the same or lesser value if they don't fit and a set of 4 seasonal tire totes.

Tonymini has donated a blue 4 point "Corbeau" Racing harness.

m2smith (Michael Smith) - Michael is a pilot and can fly someone and a friend(s) (total passenger weight under 360 lbs) on a jaunt around New England departing from Worcester Regional Airport. Possible destinations - Jaffrey NH with a short walk to Kimball's for ice cream and then a circle around Mt Monadnock or maybe Turner's Falls for hotdogs and an ariel photo of home. Or just explore the world of general aviation and get a complete introduction to becoming a pilot. I will cover flight time of one hour and lunch at a mutually agreeable date and time.

Robyn aka The Bag Lady - An embroidered polo shirt, embroidered with your MINI, the winner will get a gift certificate and they can then contact me to finalize their shirt color and car details. Details and pictures of the shirt can be found here

Bavarian Autosport - 2 $50 Gift Certificates. You can see the store

Becca Wathen Dunn - (2) Handwoven rayon chenille scarves, one in yellow/black and the other in black with colored hues, made on Becca Wathen-Dunn’s trusty 35 year old loom. Each end has “MINI” in woven letters.

OutMotoring.com - T-Shirts, Hats and “The Arc Armrest” for ‘05-’06 MINI’s and ‘07 Convertible as seen here

Bentley Publishers - MINI Cooper/Cooper S Service Manual up to 2006 as seen here

Towne MINI - Buffalo, NY - A bunch of MINI stuff and some “surprises”

AesthetiCreations - 2 $50 gift certs to be used here

MiniDoMore.com - To promote our new product line, the TachOn, we will be donating a TachOn Kit with a Pro Clip Ipod Nano holder along with a NEW 2GB Ipod Nano.

We will also be donating a Mini Cooper Receiver Hitch kit (Receiver
Hitch, Tow Wiring Harness, and Drawbar Kit) together with a Black Powder
Coated Miniature Trailer complete with Aluminum Tread Plate decking. You can read the MotoringFile review here.

Oxford Motorsports - Three family memberships to the Mount Washington Observatory valued at $70.00 each.

TwistyBitz - A very fun MINI Clock as seen here. Thank you Robert!

MC2 Magazine - 4 “Charter Member” t-shirts, two gift certificates for free one-year subscriptions, and one XL light blue rain jacket with the MC2 logo on the breast.

Be sure to check the MINI's on Top site as well!

Woohoo!!!

And thanks Jock to checking with your new "company"! Good luck!

[GBMINI]

Thanks for starting the thread Mike! Let's hope we can find lots of sponsors again this year

[MINILuego]

Attached is a flyer that we have come up with to send to folks that you think might be interested in making a donation to MOT 2007. Thank you all for your efforts in this regard.
Mike

[holdenontoit]

Mike, I have submitted a formal request for a donation from the company I work for. Last year the former owners donated $250 , I guess now we'll see what kind of company the new owners are...................( I'm not going to put their name down as I recently found out that they use some kind of generic web search which automatically notifies them every time the company name appears anywhere on the internet)

[MINILuego]

Turner Motorsport has kindly donated some pretty cool driving shoes and a set of 4 seasonal tire totes.

Tonymini has donated a blue 4 point "Corbeau" Racing harness.

m2smith (Michael Smith) - Michael is a pilot and can fly someone and a friend(s) (total passenger weight under 360 lbs) on a jaunt around New England departing from Worcester Regional Airport. Possible destinations - Jaffrey NH with a short walk to Kimball's for ice cream and then a circle around Mt Monadnock or maybe Turner's Falls for hotdogs and an ariel photo of home. Or just explore the world of general aviation and get a complete introduction to becoming a pilot. I will cover flight time of one hour and lunch at a mutually agreeable date and time.

Be sure to check the MINI's on Top as well!

Woohoo!!!

And thanks Jock to checking with your new "company"! Good luck!

[m2smith]

And Let's not forget Herb Chambers MINI of Boston has stepped up for the third year in a row with a two year lease on a 2007 MINI Cooper in MOT's color scheme - Yellow/Black - for a raffle with 100% of the proceeds to benefit this year's charity - Rosie's Place.
Go Herb!
Check out the details:
MINIsOnTop » Blog Archive » Wonderful Herb Chambers MINI of Boston
BTW- A big shout out to those who included a seperate donation to Rosie's Place with their MOT registration - Proves that those who drive the smallest cars have the biggest heart

[scho06]

Just purchased a raffle ticket. I need to get my wife a MINI so she'll stop driving mine (ours)

[MINILuego]

Go ahead and click on the links, you know you want to!!

[Cape Cod MINI]

Mike,
Keep up the good work I've done this before and know it's not easy. Just remember it's OK to prostitute your dignity when digging for donations. It works!
Did you try any of the Driving Schools/HPDE's yet?
-Steve

[MINILuego]

Codfather-
We are working on the driving schools, I appreciate the suggestion! And of course we will be "working" hard to get those donations in!

[MINILuego]

New Donations Added!

[m2smith]

MINI of Peabody has stepped up for Rosie's Place with a raffle of trip to see the birthplace of our favorite car. The winner gets round trip airfare for two from Boston to London, three nights in a London hotel with tickets to a West End show. If that's not enough the encore is a limo ride to Oxford for your tour of the MINI factory!
Thanks to Paul Taylor and the crew of MINI of Peabody for this great prize
Tickets will be the same as the generous Herb Chambers MINI of Boston 2 year lease - $25 each with a limit of 250. Chances are great for both so buy 'em up and support Rosie's Place and tell your friends too because thse two raffles are not limited to just those attending MOT (though it will be more fun for me to watch your reaction under the tent when I call your name!)

[rfinprc]

That is so cool. Thanks to Paul and the rest of the MoP crowd for a very creative prize.

So let's see, if you win both, could you go to Oxford and see the HC Prize being built?

[hwy61]

Nice prize MOP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[GBMINI]

Quote: Originally Posted by rfinprc (original)

So let's see, if you win both, could you go to Oxford and see the HC Prize being built?

No ... the HC MINI Cooper raffle prize is not only already built, it's also already in stock at HC MINI of Boston!

But maybe you could go to Oxford and see my next MINI being built instead - of course, I'd have to order one first, but if it helps sell more raffle tickets ...