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Minis in the Park 2008

August 17, 2008 on 8:44 pm | In Classic Mini, Recent Posts |

Got up early and hit the road north to Santa Pod Raceway to attend the Minis in the Park event but not before Blue Bear tried to drive out with the the McLaren.  The road up to the raceway was quite scenic with lots of twists and turns and wish I had GP or Red with me.  Good thing I had ‘Lola’ with me else I might have had to stop and asked Seabiscuit for directions.

Once we arrived at Santa Pod we parked and started to check out all the Minis and MINIs that were already parked.

In attendance was the IMM key that is handed from sponsoring club to the next and where next years big Mini50 event will be held in the UK.  Mini Magazine had a nice setup of cars including this ERA Turbo

Lots of cool Mini’s and one of my favorites the Red Mini Seven

Several Mini 40’s and this most incredible white one, boy that would look good next to Blue and Red kind of complete the Italian Job theme.

Quite a few Cooper Sports were in attendance as well as lots of MINI’s.

Rather cool custom Mini

They came in all sizes..Clubman to pickup to stubby.

In the club area, various clubs setup their cars with various themes.

there were two pinks, a Cooper Sport 500 with a custom S style intake and the commando Mini.

spent a little time watching the drag races.  I was amazed to see some really modified classics running the 1/4 in low 10sec.  One GP took to the track but the one time I caught it he ran 14’s.

Was delighted to see several GP’s in attendance and GP56MCK has a nice display and couldn’t help but drool over his Recaro’s.

Lost Blue bear for a while and caught up with him hangin out by the White Mini 40 trophies and figure I’d stop by Silverstone on the way back for a lap.

Headed back and dropped off the Ford Focus.  Focus was not that bad.  The 1.6L has about the same specs a Cooper.  Focus fun factory was zero but economy level was a ten.  Averaged shy of 39mpg over 670 miles for the weekend.  Can’t complain about that when petrol is 1.15ltr or roughly $8.20 a gallon!

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