Come on out to a casual meet and greet and enjoy some tasty treats and an interesting new cafe

WRAPUP: Fun morning hang out with MINI Cooper friends new and old at Grind N Gears Cafe.

It was a great chance to visit and catch up with MINI Club members.. we had a few first timers and even a couple former MINI owners who stopped by to check out the action.

Huge thanks to Grind N Gears for hosting our meetup and providing rock-star parking for our club members!

Photos by: Steve |

Now that the MINIs to the Max exhibit is finished at the BMWCCA Museum they are auctioning off the banners on March 24th thru March 30th.

More information is here https://tudm.betterworld.org/auctions/MINIS-TO-THE-MAX-Banner-Auction

Everyone has some old MINI related stuff looking for a new home to make room for more MINI related stuff.

Come on out to a morning hangout with friends and a MINI related gift exchange.

Wrapup: A fun hangout time to visit and chat with club members at a really cool bookstore owned by club members Szymon and Mariam.
We had a MINI/Mini trivia contest and vote for your favorite MINI with prizes offered by Swallow Stories Bookshop, plus a fun White Elephant Gift exchange for some cool swag.

Huge thanks again to Szymon and Mariam, Francis, and additional swag donations from Northshore Sportscars, M7, and OutMotoring
https://bookshop.org/shop/Swallowstories

Photos by: Steve

Here is some info from Christine Chabot, the Director of Operations about exciting activities around the closing of the MINIs to the Max exhibit on Saturday, January 18, 2025 in Greer, South Carolina

WRAPUP:

Fantastic Fall weather and a big crowd came out for our end of season ride to Starved Rock. We had about 35 MINIs… a few first timers and lots of old friends. The weather held out for the drive, and the drizzle started after we got to the park. A fun time was had by all.

Thanks to Bill Jacobs MINI for hosting our starting location and providing some tasty road snacks and to Mark H. for doing the Rallista route mapping!

Photos by: Steve and Nicole |

Our annual end of season drive to Starved Rock will be on Saturday November 9th.
This event was renamed the Road Warrior Rock Run in 2016 to honor longtime club and board member Conrad Alexander.
see below for more details

WRAPUP:

Beautiful fall weather was made for driving.. We had about 8 MINIs head out for an afternoon drive on some fun roads ending at club member Benny’s garage to hang out and check out a bunch of very cool cars including and example of the MINI GP1, GP2 and GP3 to compare and contrast.

We had several first-timers out for this drive and half the cars were Gen1 MINIs, which hasn’t happened for a long time.

Thanks to Mark H. for the Rallista route planning and special thanks to Benny H. and family for providing pizza and soft drinks and hosting such a fun get-together!!

Photos by Steve and Bob K. |

Join us for an afternoon drive ending with a garage hangout to check out club member Benny’s collection of GP1, GP2 and GP3 MINIs plus a few other interesting cars.

Details below: