We hope you will find useful information about our Eastern Iowa MINIs group here. Be sure to check out the Forums link above, which will redirect you to our MINI discussion forum on NAM and the many continuing threads of interest. We’d love to hear from you!
Thanks to everyone who signed up for the Swamp Fox Festival Parade in Marion, IA on September 6th!
This will be a “ROYAL” event as we will be escorting the recently crowned National American Miss - 2008 Miss Iowa Jr. Pre-Teen Queen, Nina Yu. She will be riding in Steve and Bobbi’s (MINI) Cabrio convertible.
Our theme will be “Tying the MINI’s together. A Mini Queen riding in a MINI”.
City of Marion, IA Festival Website
Click on *more…* below for the EIM MINI festival events schedule –
Only a few more days and the EIM group will be off for Madison. If you haven’t checked out the NAM thread please do.
In case you haven’t checked out the thread here are times for the drive:
The EIM group is driving to Madison Wisconsin at the end of this month to meet up with the Chicago MINI Motoring Group and MadCity MINIs group for a great event that’s sure to please the taste buds, and quench your thirst pallet thanks to a Sunday event planned by Dustin of the Chicago MINI motoring group!
We have all the info about the event posted on the North American Motoring forum so please stop on over there to find out all the details! The route has been tested and guarantees a fun time on the twisty turns of Wisconsin Highways.
Best of success to Randy Smalley and his RSR MINI Race Team in the remaining Grand-Am Koni Challenge Series races. Hope we get the chance to see them next year at the Iowa Speedway!
Grand-Am Road Racing — Koni Challenge Website
More cool pictures of the Randy Smalley RSR MINI Race Cars
–All RSR MINI race photos courtesy of Grand-Am Road Racing
Many thanks to 05MINI for hosting Eastern Iowa MINIs at the Holy Cross Parade, BBQ, and Street Dance on the 9th of August in Holy Cross, IA. Good BBQ, great music, the beautiful NE Iowa countryside, and fun MINI camaraderie!
** Image from the Holy Cross Parade are up online in the galleries!
Associated NAM thread: Holy Cross Parade, BBQ, and Street Dance
It was fun seeing everyone at the EIM Meet and S-cream, Part Deux! We had good food and ice cream (of course) and a nice drive around F.W. Kent Park — everyone fantasized on taking those twisties and hills in the park just a bit faster, but we were good citizens and showed great restraint. 
Lots of great MINI talk too. Thanks to all who came out!
Eastern Iowa MINIs made a great showing on June 28th at the 13th Annual Clarence Lincoln Highway Festival Car Cruise and Show!
A big thanks to everyone who was there in person and in spirit. Our collective representation of MINIs was clearly the class of the car show and made an impression on the local population that they will not soon forget. Some of the comments from the spectators during the cruise were priceless! It was great to see you all, and we’re really glad everyone had a fun time.
Hearty congratulations to Sagespot and Talus for the “Team MINI” fourth place finish in the Cornball Run!
Thanks to the Des Moines area MINI folks for the fun time motoring and eating in Coralville, Galena, and points in between!
Thanks to everyone who came out on Saturday, March 22 for the first MINI meet of the year!
