Comments on: Ideas for this Summer's Chicago Area Drives

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 17 Jun 2003 05:58:39 +0000

If you're up for a ride north to Madison, it would be great to see a bunch of MINIs strut their stuff at Matt Jacob's Auto-Bration on June 28. See http://revorg.org/autobration.html for details.

By: Steve Dybedock

Steve Dybedock — Sat, 14 Jun 2003 05:45:20 +0000

Ellen, I think meeting at Dreyer and Reinbold is a good place to start. See you then!

By: Ellen

Ellen — Fri, 13 Jun 2003 15:20:14 +0000

I've got a pass to drive IMS on Sunday. We're meeting at the MINI dealership @ 10 am and driving to the Speedway together from there. I'll be in Indy the night before. Email me if you want more info. See you there …

By: Steve Dybedock

Steve Dybedock — Fri, 13 Jun 2003 05:38:55 +0000

This Sunday is the track tour at the IMS. Anyone interested in meeting ahead of time?

By: Gabe

Gabe — Thu, 05 Jun 2003 06:38:48 +0000

I've heard there will be another Indy MINI drive in July. As far as IMS goes you can drive the track on the 15th if you've purchased 4 tickets to the F1 race.

Shortly there will be an announcement made about a Chicago drive in July as well. Stay tuned!

By: Maxwell Heathcott

Maxwell Heathcott — Thu, 05 Jun 2003 06:24:40 +0000

I've never been to the Kettles, but I hear it's nice. I'm still fairly new to the Chicago area, so I don't know where some appropriately twisty roads are. I would definitely be interested in a nice day drive, and perhaps the Milwaukee baseball game in September.

Any more word on Minis at Indy?

By: Steve Rosenblum

Steve Rosenblum — Mon, 02 Jun 2003 18:05:16 +0000

I think a fall drive through the Kettle Moraine area in Wisconsin would be prety neat.. Don't know if there are food places for larger groups though.

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 31 May 2003 05:06:28 +0000

How about an autox event with one of the local clubs like WAI http://waiautox.org/ TSSCC http://www.tsscc.org/ or one of the local SCCA regional events out of Milwaukee at Miller Park?

By: Gabe

Gabe — Fri, 30 May 2003 22:31:09 +0000

I'd like to. I need to get in touch with the other MINI owners attending. I know of one other person from Chicago going down as well.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 30 May 2003 22:28:04 +0000

Gabe, Are you meeting up with any other Mini owners? I attended the tour last year. Watching the Ferrari's go around in a group was impressive. Imagine a bunch of Mini's!

By: Jim - LTL M CPE

Jim - LTL M CPE — Fri, 30 May 2003 06:51:20 +0000

The IMS "open house" is actual for USGP ticket holders, rather than Indy 500 customers. You get one pass if you have 4 or more USGP tickets. I am a ticket holder and have a pass to the June 15 event if someone needs it. I will be at Gingerman that weekend and unable to attend. Just let me know if someone would like the pass.

Jim

By: Gabe

Gabe — Fri, 30 May 2003 05:25:23 +0000

I'm going :)

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 30 May 2003 00:56:57 +0000

Is anyone doing the track tour at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sunday, June 15th? It's a track tour for those who've had tickets to the 500. If anyone is going or knows of a Mini Club that's going to be there, let me know. I'd like to meet up with other Minis:-)

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 28 Apr 2003 07:30:10 +0000

A fine driving experience would be a weekend drive to Door County. I was there last fall and a Porsche 356 club was up there from Chicago. The roads and towns are perfect for the Cooper. I wish Vermont & Quebec were closer to Chicago. I love driving the B roads of northern Vermont and The Eastern Townships in Quebec. North Hatley QC is a world class resort town with very few/no loud New Yorkers, Woops…Sorry New York :) Fine B&Bs and plenty of fine French food and roads with charm of New England 50 years ago. The natives are also very proud of keeping the Anglophone thing alive in a mainly Francophone Quebec. A very interesting mix of cultures!!! Sorry for the long post but……..I always look forward to my summer holiday!!!

By: Kim

Kim — Tue, 22 Apr 2003 15:19:37 +0000

For a Weekender trip what do people think of visiting the Wolershiem Winery up in Wisconsin? It's between Baraboo and Wisconsin Dells. This way everyone can stay at the cheapo hotels and cruise up and around the Dells plus we all get to participate in a great wine tasting. We're new to this site but there seems to be some great suggestions. We just purchased and received our new MINI S and it's so much fun! Can't beleive we were actually thinking of getting a Jetta! Yikes!!

By: drew

drew — Wed, 02 Apr 2003 03:19:05 +0000

OK, I lied. To my knowledge, there is no Washington Insider and President Bush hasn't made a run to the store in a few years. Hope you all had a fun April Fool's Day. :)

By: drew

drew — Tue, 01 Apr 2003 07:05:44 +0000

A little off subject, but here's an interesting tidbit...An article in today's Washington Insider reports that President George W. Bush recently acquired a MINI Cooper S that he uses when he's in Kennebunkport, ME. It said that the car was purchased in Texas and driven to Maine by a "family member" (it wasn't specific). When asked about it, President Bush said that he bought it just to make runs to the store when he's at the family vacation home, but he's already put on a couple of thousand miles motoring around the Kennebunks. The article said it is blue, so I'm assuming Indi but could be Electric. Maybe we can get him to motor out to Chicago for one of our drives. :)

By: Deborah

Deborah — Fri, 28 Mar 2003 22:42:59 +0000

There is a drive-in left in McHenry. It's about 55 miles NW of the city… but only about 15 minutes from me. Dinner and cruise ending up at a drive-in playing the new Italian Job would be superb!

By: Gabe

Gabe — Fri, 28 Mar 2003 07:30:57 +0000

I'll actually be out of town during the 4th of July but don't let that stop any plans!

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 28 Mar 2003 01:27:49 +0000

Skokie is having a 4th of July parade (I am sure other towns are also…) How about a MINI parade