Mini Owners of America San Francisco rides on the Niles Canyon Heritage Railway, then drives over from Sunol to Niles for lunch. A short little video with some of the history and highlights of the day. More info at miniology.com for Mini stuff or http://ncry.org for the train. Enjoy!
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The Sierra Point Marina will be the new location for the 2008 British Car Meet (formerly held in Palo Alto, CA), returning this September 6th and 7th. Here’s details:
New Location … New Location … New Location …
THE BRITISH CAR MEET * 2008
Sierra Point Marina * Brisbane, CA
Saturday & Sunday * September 6th & 7th
Join us for one of the most historic British automotive events in California at our new dockside venue at the Sierra Point Marina. Over 400 quirky, classic, and thoroughly lovable British cars are once again expected to grace the lawn and adjacent parking area in Brisbane,California. This is essentially the old Palo Alto meet in its new location. We are also expecting another great display of automotive oddities provided by the Arcane Auto Society. Spectators attend and park for free.
Phillipine Model, Photojournalist, and Miniologist “b3b0t” (aka Marvie C.) spent a few days recently at the 2008 Trans Sport Show, notably one of the longest running auto events in the country, which took place April 16 to 20 at the Megatrade Hall (SM Megamall).
Timog Auto Gallery (aka TAG) was there showing off their custom MINI Cooper S along with their usual gathering of supercars and classic customs, and so we asked her to take a few pics for our readers to enjoy..
You can see more of Marvie’s photos on her flickr page (thanks for sharing!)
Although there were cars of all sorts at the show, from classic American muscle to top-dollar euro marques, everyone was just crazy about the MINI, it really took over the show. Classic Minis are very popular as well, in fact rumor has it there are more in Asia than back in old Blighty!
Minis love a good audience, so if you’ve spotted a cool Mini somewhere and have posted pics or videos online somewhere, please let us know and we’ll include it in future posts like this one!
The latest installment of the Miniology Events Podcast is now available.
For your listening pleasure, join Rob and Norm for a look back on AMVIV, plus a run down of upcoming events in the Mini community.
Of course, you can always subscribe on iTunes for automatic delivery.
The latest installment of the Miniology Events Podcast (this is an audio presentation) is now available at:
Note that you can subscribe to the podcast from here as well!
If you are inclined to take part in Mini Takes The States: The Sequel, registration is now open at:
As you know, this time it’s not going to be a cross-country roadtrip, just a few select weekend events, ticketed at $20 per person at each location (or more in person), and some sort of coverage by our friends at White Roof Radio. Miniology has offered to cover this with MINIUSA as well, still waiting to hear back about media access for the event.
Theoretically, one could make a road trip out of it, making use of the Miniology/MC2 Magazine events calendar to coordinate their journey across the states.
You would start out in Miami, June 13-15th, go up to Boston, June 20-22nd, take a break somewhere between then make your way toe the event in Chicago July 25-27th, high-tail it to Los Angeles for the August 1-3rd event, hang out for a month or so and meander up to San Francisco for the big Magical Mystery Mini Tour (MMMT) September 5th-7th.. though it isn’t an official part of Mini Takes The States, there’s already over 500 people confirmed going so you don’t want to miss that!
We’ll keep you up to date on both events.. er.. all 5 of em.
keep sending those AMVIV photos in, we’ll tally the winners as soon as all categories are filled! (what? what photo contest? what you talking about?) for those who didn’t get a historical “StarLord Mini Podcast” card, check StarLord’s website starlord.net. You can post photos online or send them to us directly. Good luck!
Califzeph wraps up his coverage of A Mini Vacation In Vegas (aka AMVIV) with another short little 5 minute bit of video, produced and edited live atop the Palace Station hotel in Las Vegas. See ya’all next year, and we’ll be covering the MMMT in San Francisco this September, so stay tuned to Miniology.com for that! Some footage from Fremont Street and slideshow recap of the past week.
Song credit: Leaving Las Vegas by Sheryl Crow
