UPDATE 05/29/2007
This years July 4th Parade will be held in Downtown Skokie. Time and location information will be updated shortly.
Last year, a number of us hooked up with the Milwaukee MINIs and participated in a July 4th Parade. This year, the Wisconsin area parade organizers have imposed a limit on the number of cars each group can have, that is much to low for the normal MINI turnouts of our clubs.
EVENT FOLLOW UP!
Hello Gang, Today started very early for a few members that met today in Gurnee. We had 8 MINI’s to start and picked up one more along the way to the MILE.
Here are Dustins pictures
The cool part is you can print them at YOUR LOCAL Walgreens.
We drove to Milwaukee to meet another 24 MINI’s to drive in together. I think we had the single highest number of cars of any one group, with Vettes a close 2nd. Doing laps was fun, and Cliff made it really fun! While the laps were fun, the team running the Mile event at the MILE really needs some help. This was one of the most disorganized events I have ever been too. Unless there are major changes in how they run the event my 1st will be my last.
Photos by Caren
WRAPUP: A cold day brought out a half dozen CMMC members.
The three morning runs were in the dry, and the three afternoon runs were in the damp. A fun time was had by all!!
Huge thanks to the Windy City Miata Club for sharing this event with us
Photos by Mark |
Video by Rob#1 | Rob#2 | Rob#3 |
RESULTS:
Number Class Driver Car Time
441 V Jim 02 MINI S 00:54.705
530 U Marco 04 MINI S 00:55.804
250 V Dustin 05 MINI 00:57.139
49 U Jaclyn 05 Elise 00:57.262
285 V Vanko 06 MINI S 00:59.776
476 V Alfredo 06 MINI S 01:00.353
292 V Cliff 05 MINI S 01:01.833
210 V Mark 05 MINI S 01:05.042
Full results are posted here
WRAPUP:
About 20 MINIs showed up for a relaxed drive around some fun twisty roads. One road closure forced a bit of backtracking and wrong turn-taking. The museum was huge, with lots of really neat cars and antiques to check out.
Photos by Francis |
Now that the weather is getting warmer and sunnier it is time to think about Motoring!!
Plans are still in the works for our April drive, but we are looking at the afternoon of Saturday April 14th..
Dustin will be leading a drive up to the Milwaukee Mile on Sunday May 6th. Starting location and time will be posted later.
We are working on a special Autocross event for Sunday May 20th. Details will be announced very soon!!
WRAPUP: After an early morning meetup with about 40 cars, we took off in groups of six to head out on some northerly fun roads. There were a couple of icy suprises along the way to get our heart rates up, but it was mostly a casual ride.
We took over the parking lot at the Jelly Belly factory, and were joined by an additional 20 cars from the Milwaukee club. After a factory tour, some hanging out and a group photo, we headed out on the second leg of the trip. A twisty low speed drive along the lakeshore allowed us to take in the sights and show off to the local residents.
We had a lunch in downtown Kenosha, with raffles prizes from Knauz MINI and Mike & Linda from Fabric Fusion (in Brown Deer Wi).
Overall a great drive, great weather, and great MINI friends. A perfect way to start off the driving season!! Huge thanks to Dustin for all the planning and organizing.
If anyone has links to event photos, send the link to me and I will add them here.
Photos by: Francis | Mark | Anthony | Dan | Cecilia part1 part2 part3 |
Video by: Jenny and Jarrod
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