See this weblog entry for details of the check presentation to The Make-A-Wish foundation of Massachusetts

Raffle prize donations:

• MINI of Peabody: a complete John Cooper Works upgrade, including installation, for any manual transmission MINI Cooper S!
• Herb Chambers MINI of Boston: a 2-year lease of a 2006 Solar Red MINI Cooper (24 month, 10,000 miles/year lease, does not include insurance, tax, title, or license fees. Winner must execute and terminate the lease at the Herb Chambers MINI of Boston location)!

Other Business Donations:

• MINI USA: a huge collection of stuff including a MINI convertible pedal car, 2 MINI explorer kits, a travel set (weekend bag and large trolley bag), mens & womens watches, bulldog & cuckoo clock
• Aesthetic Creations: 4 x $50 gift certificate
• H-Sport: gift certificate for an H-Sport sway bar set (customer may choose sport or href="http://www.h-sport.com/cgi-bin/EDCstore.pl?user_action=detail&catalogno=22810">competition set)
• Towne MINI: a huge collection of stuff including a MINI convertible pedal car(!), a sport watch, his&hers clothing, etc
• Whalen Shift Machine: a custom gear shift knob
• Sublime Restorations: certificates for autobahnd and bodywork; also custom painting/assembly of “Pinkie”
• Cambridge Soundworks: a CD 740 radio / CD player
• Craven Speed: 2% over-drive crank pulley/ 5% alternator pulley set, hat, shirt and two custom commemorative MINIsOnTop antennas
• Concord Motorsport: a DINAN strut tower brace
• Bavarian Motorsport: 2 x $50 gift certificates
• OutMotoring: a package including shirts, MINI storage and window decals
• SSG Precision Optronics: $250 cash donation
• Prestige MINI: $1000 gift certificate
• GBMINI circuits: 3 x “auto-up & track mode DSC” circuits
• North American Motoring: 12 x NAM calendars
• The National Motorists Association: 30 x travel coffee mugs
• Also from The National Motorists Association: 3 copies of the book American Autobahn by Mark Rask
• Bentley Publishers: a MINI Cooper service manual
• Webb Motor Sports: a 15% pulley and recently introduced high density induction box (both for the MINI Cooper S)
• Ocean State MINI club: Two Haunted MINIs 2006 packages (see 2005 here)
• Also from Ocean State MINI club: a “special edition” MOT Tshirt and window sticker
• Miniature Trailers: a fabulous package of MINI trailer hitch, wiring harness, draw bar kit and color-matched trailer
• Oxford Motorsports: a couple of Mount Washington Observatory memberships
• Mount Washington Observatory: a nice fleece vest

Personal Donations

• John, Gayle and TiNY (Dracmanf on MINI2): A 70″ x 70″ hand-made patchwork quilt (pictures here)
• Derek (MetalMiniMayhem on MINI2) & Chip (CHS4 on MINI2): Two pen/ink drawings (you can see some of Dereks work here)
• Michael, Ariana & Anyah Pilat from SooperCoopers.com: A Die Cast Mini Cooper 1:32 Infa-Red RC Car & Watch
• Pete (BWROOFCHEX on MINI2: a pulley install at his automotive shop in Worcester
• Becca (Bonnie Blue on MINI2: a handmade “MINI” themed scarf

Please contact Mike & Ariane should you also wish to join our sponsors. Each donation is most appreciated.

Please note that eligibility for door prizes is open without any further obligation to all MOT attendees (you just have to register and attend!).

Raffle tickets for the raffle prizes are available to all – but see restrictions applicable to each prize

Check the MINI2 thread for lots of “winding down” discussions, and check out all these picture links:

• Flickr “pool” of MINIsOnTop pics
• Flickr pics from Snek / Ivan
• Flickr pics from PaulR / Paul
• Flickr pics from Inzeos / Leif
• Flickr pics from BenzAMG / Ben
• Flickr pics from MGB Boy / Ricardo
• Flickr pics from MiniJon5 / Jon
• .mac gallery pics from M2Smith / Michael
• weblog entry from JWardell / Josh including write-up, tow and link to pictures
• weblog entry from GBMINI / Ian including write-up and link to pictures
• smugmug pics from NoNo / Annette
• .mac gallery pics from Uptick / Peter
• smugmug pics from CHS4 / Chip
• imagestation pics from Jesters Mom / Angela
• pics from MisterMINI / Keith
• pics from CZmini / Roman
• pics from EJsMINI / Elains
• pics from Bob
• pics from Aqualung / Chris
• pics from Bonnie Blue / Becca on OSMC gallery
• MINI2 post from Oldpaint / Robert of MINI “headlights to the sky”
• MINI2 post from Scott4399 / Scott of 4 pics including a great shot looking back while climbing the auto-road
• MINI2 post from snid / Jason of Bert & Mart
• MINI2 post from snek / Ivan of himself riding the convertible pedal car down the auto road!
• MINI2 post from M2Smith / Michael of Shannon winning the Herb Chambers MINI lease
• MINI2 post from MINItron / Scott linking to four videos of the ride up the auto road (also, a link to pictures
• M of 4 pics including “the cod” wearing “bling”
• M of 4 pics including the OSMC flag
• The New Hampshire proclamation declaring June 17, 2006 MINI Cooper Day

MINIsOnTop 2006 – June 16 & 17, 2006

In a repeat of previous years, events will be centered around the Town & Country Inn in Gorham NH, the Loon Mountain parking lot, and the Mount Washington Auto Road.

Check out the many sponsors of MOT2006, helping us to raise money for The Make-A-Wish foundation of Massachusetts; many thanks to all our sponsors!

Join the lively MINI2 discussion thread to learn about supporting events (such as Yankee Candle) or
just chat with other MOTers.