MINI Vacation in Vegas: Photos!

Cuca Mar 29th, 2006 Link

Wonderful pics! Is there any way I can get them for my desktop wallpapers? Thanks! ;)

José Garcia

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Ginger Mar 29th, 2006 Link

Really nice pictures – when was this?

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Fishbulb Mar 29th, 2006 Link

wow – those are great! wallpapers would be killer!

Also, how many MINIs for that event?

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ANTSMINI Mar 29th, 2006 Link

Man, I shoulda moved to the West Coast..

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Vanwall Mar 29th, 2006 Link

I think many of those are from 2005. ?

          BCNU,
        Rob in Dago

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Bob Mar 29th, 2006 Link

Since I bought my Mini, several other people have commented that I bought a “chick car” (most of them drive muscle cars). I don’t agree with them and I love my Cooper.

But given that you just posted all these photo’s of this awesome Mini event I have to ask the question to those who were in attendance.

Did you notice that an overwhelming number of the Mini owners were women?

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blalor Mar 29th, 2006 Link

I would be surprised if that’s the case… I’d love to meet some more MINI-driving women (preferably the single kind), I think men make up the majority of the enthusiast community. If the MotD ‘06 Frappr map is any indication (and people properly indicated their gender) most of the participants are men.

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Bad Burro Mar 29th, 2006 Link

It looks like a great time with all those other MINI owners.

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CooprSS Mar 29th, 2006 Link

Those photos from Lexster are mis-labled. They are from AMVIV 3 2006.

Bill

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LTZMTOR Mar 29th, 2006 Link

Well I thought that the Cooper in training was pretty well done.

Most I know are owned by men but who cares.

The pics by Juan, as usual, are great.

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Vanwall Mar 29th, 2006 Link

If you go to the actual Flickr AMVIV Group website, the photos are labeled, sometimes even correctly. ;-)

http://www.flickr.com/groups/amviv/pool

  BCNU,
Rob in Dago

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JD Mar 29th, 2006 Link

Driving a MINI usually means it always stands out in a parking garage. That must have been a pain with all of them parked up top like that.

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Smoke07 Mar 29th, 2006 Link

awsome pictures. I had a great time there getting to know other Mini Owners. The Strip Run was Awsome. I heard from someone they counted 200 cars were on the strip.

Happy happy

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Zeke Mar 29th, 2006 Link

Great pics, sounded fun. And wow, that flickr feature is great. Flickr is a great site, GJ whoring it gabe. =]

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Josh Wardell Mar 30th, 2006 Link

Does anyone have an estimate of total number of MINIs attending the event?

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Vanwall Mar 30th, 2006 Link

Josh -

By my count, it was at least a whole bunch, with an outside estimate of a helluva lot, but I don’t know the official registered count; that’s something Sin City prolly knows, and will be posted somewhere soon, I hope. I gave up counting after 250, ’cause I couldn’t be everywhere at once, and I heard upwards of 350-400.

           BCNU,
         Rob in Dago

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Vanwall Mar 30th, 2006 Link

Josh -

By my count, it was at least a whole bunch, with an outside estimate of a helluva lot, but I don’t know the official registered count; that’s something Sin City prolly knows, and will be posted somewhere soon, I hope. I gave up counting after 250, ’cause I couldn’t be everywhere at once, and I heard upwards of 350-400.

           BCNU,
         Rob in Dago

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am0eba Mar 30th, 2006 Link

Just posted a big slideshow of AMVIV3 pics Judy made: http://twistedmotoring.org/MyStuff/AMVIV3/AMVIV3.html

Dave

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Chainsaw Flowerchild Mar 30th, 2006 Link

Mostly Guys were driving the MINIs. I’d say about 300 cars were there. And yes, the Strip was the high-light event. Someone blocked off the strip so all 200 of us could get out and then people were stopping and pointing from the sidewalk the whole way down

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Lexster05 Mar 30th, 2006 Link

Thanks Dave for clueing me in. Your pics are awesome!

AMVIV III was so much fun. I am still recovering from the lack of sleep. It was great hanging out with other MINI enthusiasts and admiring their MINIs. We’ll definitely be back for next year’s AMVIV IV. I’ll have my camera at the ready.

For those who attended, please take a look a look at the “AMVIV III Tagged” gallery to see if we “tagged” your MINI. We would love to hear back from those we managed to “tag”.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lexster05/sets/72057594091679690/

Motor on!

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J/C Mar 31st, 2006 Link

Robert, thanks for the props.

Yeah, AMVIV was great! While I didn’t shoot thousands of pics, I did manage to snap off a few. They’re in RAW format however so it takes me a while to process them. Plus, I don’t post every single photograph because it only gets repetitive.

If anyone is interested in wallpaper from any of my images, leave me a comment on the flickr pic.

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