Our February Meet-n-Eat will be back in the Quad Cities area on Saturday, February 18th. EIM enthusiasts extraordinaire Denny and Sandy B. have graciously offered to host us in their home in Davenport. Plan on arriving at their residence sometime between 10:30 am – 11:00 am. The neighbor’s driveway immediately to the east is open [...]
It was fantastic seeing the blue skies and the amazing turnout at the Eastern Iowa MINIs January Meet-n-Eat on Saturday at The Wig and Pen Pub in Iowa City. Congratulations to all of the winners of the MINI Cooper Color Bingo Game (especially to Rebecca D. for the blackout grand prize, and to Gary S. [...]
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Our traditional first-of-the-year Meet-n-Eat will be held at the Wig and Pen Pub on the Coralville Strip in Iowa City on Saturday, January 28th. We’ll congregate between 10:30 – 10:45 am at the restaurant (in the larger parking lot to the west of the building) with lunch planned for 11:00 am. Looking forward to kicking [...]
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Our final event for the 2011 season is the EIM Meet-n-Eat at the Country Junction in Dyersville on Saturday, November 19th. Plan on arriving around 11:15 am in the parking lot. Lunch will be at 11:30 am. We’ll have our own banquet room and will be ordering off of the regular menu; separate checks with [...]
—————— Congratulations to EIM’s very own Steve S. for winning the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) Great River Region (GRR) 2011 Soloist of the Year competition in his 2009 MINI Cooper S. Point totals for the year and for each of the contributing events can be viewed here: http://www.sccagrr.com/results/2011/season/grr2011pax_yep.html Chalk up another dominating MINI [...]
Seems like just yesterday when the first sprinkling of local MINI Cooper enthusiasts assembled to enjoy each other’s company and the fall colors — yet here we are in the ninth year of this event! It’s the 9th Annual MINICooperIowa Fall Tour which will be conducted on Saturday, October 29th. Organized this year by our [...]
Several of our EIM enthusiasts will participate in this year’s MINIs in the Ozarks (MITO) 2011. This regional event takes place in the beautiful Ozark Mountains in and around Eureka Springs, AR from 20-23 October. The national MINI magazine MC2 is one of the MITO 2011 principal sponsors. The fall colors in the Ozarks should [...]
We were blessed with a beautiful autumn day for our motoring adventure to the Gays Mills Apple Festival in Gays Mills, Wisconsin this past Saturday, September 24th. There is nothing much finer than wonderfully twisty country roads tailor made for a MINI surrounded by majestic bluffs blossoming with a vivid mix of early season color. [...]
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