MINIs on the Mack 08/03

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WRAPUP: What a fabulous event!!  MINI of Grand Rapids was a great host, and Chicago area people filled close to half the 30+ cars that convoyed out to St. Ignace.  Friday night was fun to just hang out and watch MINIs cruising the area in all directions.  Early Saturday, we gathered in a field and took off for a 15 mile drive thru some scenic back roads culminating with a drive over the Mackinac bridge.  A party was held afterwards with plenty of time to check out hundreds of cool MINIs.  We were a little short of the world record, but with 846 1/2 cars (the half was a trailer) it was the largest single gathering of MINIs in North America.    We did get a record of the most cars playing a song on car horns, and the prize for the best dressed MINI was won by CMMC member Sean!!

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UPDATE 07/15/2013: A small group will be departing from MINI of Grand Rapids on Friday at 1pm.  Must be there by 12:30 (remember they are a time zone ahead of Chicago).  you MUST RSVP by adding a comment to this post so we can have the correct count for plans.

 

UPDATE 06/21/2013

Registration is now open!!  visit http://www.minionthemack.com/ for details

We are starting to get a bit more  information from MINIUSA about this World Record attempt.

Also check out details from the previous post for a CMMC block of hotel rooms at a discount price

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Superdawg June 15th

 

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WRAPUP: Close to 50 MINIs attended this spectacular event!!  The predicted rainy weather held off for the whole evening.  We took a winding neighborhood drive along some twisty roads, and looped a couple area cul-de-sacs..  We filled up the back area at Superdawg for a fun hang out, listening to DJ tunes by Source 1 DJ Services .  Huge thanks to Superdawg for hosting our club, and Arnie and Lena for the planning/coordination work!!

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Video by Arnie and Lena

 

MINIs will be back at Superdawg on a prime time Saturday night!!  This year we will meet up beforehand for a fun little neighborhod drive so we can all arrive en-mass.

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MINIs in Mackinac 8/3 save the date

MINI of Grand Rapids is putting together an event to attempt to break the Guinness Book World Record for the Largest Parade of MINIs

UPDATED INFORMATION 06/08/2013:  Additinal timing and registration details from MotoringAlliance website.  Details also copied below

UPDATE: 05/24/2013  The time for the Bridge crossing/record attempt is set at 10:30 am on Saturday August 3rd.  Still looking into logistics of getting up there in time.

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Coding event June 2nd

 

WRAPUP: We had almost 20 MINIs show up on a cold drizzly day.. Ram enabled many options.. several people came back for additional choices after seeing how cool they looked and worked on other cars.  A BBQ lunch followed, and a fun time was had by all.  Huge thanks to Ram from http://www.bmwminicoding.com/ for driving out from Madison and working all day setting options, and to Paul for organizing this event and doing all the cooking!!

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