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.
With the new Motoryby pilot program, we now have a Chicago area billboard that will display custom messages when you drive by with your RFID tag.
Lets see your custom billboards:
Send a link to your photo to steve (at) chicagominiclub (dot) com, and I will add it here
MINIs on the Dragon (MOTD) is a huge gathering at Deals Gap in North Carolina.
Over 500 MINIs (800 registrants) and some of the twistiest roads anywhere are great attractions for a road trip on May 3rd to May 6th.
There will be a number of Chicago area people in attendence..
Who’s going, when are you leaving, where are you staying?
Here is your chance to post up and hook up!!
Video by Gabe part1 | part 2 | part 3 | full drive | Night Run
Video by Taylor
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 |