MTTS 11 – bad weather and a near miss

Posted on by Ian C.

Todays drive was recommended to travel Ohio River Byway 52 – more interesting than the highway. But long and with few passing places, and little chance to see the river …


Unfortunately, the weather deteriorated as we approached Charleston, and suddenly a bad driver travelling with no lights and hassling us too closely, loses control and spirals towards Georges GP in front of me – thankfully he spotted her and braked, avoiding most of the impact, suffering just a split in the front bumper!
So everyone’s fine, but we were very glad to reach the hotel tonight!

MTTS 10 videos – Dragons and Brickyards

Posted on by Ian C.

Quicktime video pan of all the MINIs parked near the St Louis arch ready for an aerial photograph:

Quicktime video of the fire breathing dragon at Vandalia, IL (a town that invited MINI Takes The States to visit them!):

Quicktime video of MINIs on “the brickyard”, from George once again providing great video of GPMINIs back end! You’ll probably be surprised / disappointed how slow our parade lap was …

MTTS 10 – the other dragon and the brickyard

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That was a busy day today! Good one though! We started the day next to the St Louis arch, setting up nearly 150 MINIs for an aerial photo …


Since all the MINIs were together for the photo, they all headed out and drove towards Indianapolis together for a while, giving some great pictures …


Many MINIs stopped at Vandalia, IL (invited by the towns chamber of commerce) – for a photo op under “the dragon” (and discounted gas!)

Then the highlight of day day – Indianapolis Speedway with a chance to drive the track! Maybe for this reason, this was the best attended leg since we left Monterey …

When we completed the lap, MINIs were still entering – there was a lot of MINIs!

Here’s some other pictures from Indianapolis:

And finally to the hotel … dinner … shower … sorting & posting pics …