The group hotel packages for the Magical Mystery Mini Tour in San Francisco will expire tomorrow July 5th. If you plan to come and have not yet made reservations you should do so NOW.

Please see the thread on REME MegaBBS (at redwoodempiremini.com) or visit magicalmysteryminitour.com for details and links.

Also if you have not yet registered for the Magical Mystery Mini Tour you should do that now as well. We are ordering the Swag, dinners, & programs and want to be sure we don’t come up short.

Hello All,

Just thought it might be time again for some updates on the Magical Mystery Mini Tour.

We have added a private tour & tasting at the Mario Andretti Winery in Napa on Saturday, September 6, 2008 at 2PM. This will be after our Golden Gate Bridge, Marin Headlands, and Mt. Tam morning run. We will set up a registration form for those who wish to visit the Andretti Winery. They can accommodate a group up to 40, so therefore if we have more than 40 we will arrange another visit for Sunday afternoon. We will be setting up a registration sheet on the MMMT website. We will also be adding a visit to the Gloria Ferrer Winery in Sonoma.

The San Francisco Giants have arranged for a group package to see the Giants vs. Pirates at AT&T Park. AT&T Park is rated as one of the finest professional sports venues in the country. You will need to contact Matt Allen of the SF Giants group sales to register and make payment directly to them.

We have a lot more in store. If you are planning on staying at a hotel in the San Francisco area, please make your reservations soon. We do have two MMMT hotel packages and they expire on July 5, 2008.

If you have not sent in your formal registration with payment, you are NOT registered. Once you have registered you will get confirmation. So please make sure to do this. You can fill out the attached form and mail it with your check or go to the MMMT website and fill out your registration online. Payment can be made via check or PayPal.

Visit www.magicalmysteryminitour.com for further details or email me at norm@redwoodempiremini.com

Looking forward to seeing you in September.

Cheers,
Magical Mystery Mini Tour.

Attachments:

Registration Form:
http://miniology.com/MMMT_Registration.pdf

Giants game sign-up:
http://miniology.com/MMMT_SF_Giants.pdf

Andretti Winery Tour info:
http://miniology.com/Andretti1.pdf

As Mini of Mountain View isn’t taking appointments currently, this leaves a lot of people clamoring for other places to get service done on their cars. We were happy to learn that Jennifer Timmermann has relocated to this little shop in Santa Clara that does work on MINIs (both late and early models), called Santa Clara Auto Tech, or SCAT for short how funny is that?

Unless you’ve been living under a rock the past few years, South Bay MINI owners know the name Jennifer Timmermann.

Miniologist and mechanic, she has always been awesome every time I’ve taken my MINI into her former digs at Alison BMW (aka MINI of Mountain View) Everyone I’ve spoken to agrees she knows what she’s doing, takes the time to go over tech specs with people, and exudes the friendly, fun attitude the MINI community is known for.

S.C.A.T. is open Monday through Saturday, their number is 408-296-2166. They are located at 1481 Main Street, off El Camino Real between Monroe and Lafayette. From either SF or SJ, take 101 and exit De la Cruz toward Santa Clara. This turns into Lewis, then right onto Main Street — easy peasy! It’s a rather nondescript white building with red lettering.

They have gotten some good parts contacts set up, as well as the owner there is also the mechanic - so they are very thorough! And best of all we have Jennifer’s familiar face and experience to assure us the job will be done right.

Jennifer says please feel free to call if you need any help with anything, and tell them Miniology sent you!

From Jerry “Smokey The Hippie” Del Castello:

Well here I am again, your roving reporter on Haight St. Something keeps drawing me back. While I was walking around my old stomping grounds looking for a few Pubs to visit for MMMT, I stumbled upon a cool costume store. It is called Costumes on Haight…..wow what a catchy name….Anyhow, they have some pretty farout stuff to wear…I think I saw some of my old clothes hanging up for rent or sale. Man, I wished I had kept that old stuff…..Dang, who knew…Anyroad, check it out if you are in town…….Later…..

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Oh, did I say that out loud?

[BMW press announcement]

Munich/Vienna.

Videos whirred and cameras clicked on Saturday, 17 May, when Joseph Corre drove the Life Ball MINI 2008 over the red carpet outside Vienna’s City Hall in front of 40,000 spectators. Escorted by four models in “British policemen’s uniforms”, and with Sophie Ellis Bextor in the passenger seat, the arrival of the Life Ball MINI 2008 marked the start of the fantastic opening show.

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This summer MINI UK will open the doors to a brand new model at MINIVERSITY, the Oxford-based car manufacturer’s home at the 2008 British International Motor Show.

Between 22 July and 03 August, the UK media and British public will have the opportunity to view first hand some of the smartest things to come out of Oxford in recent years. MINI owners will have access to ‘The Union’, an area to meet others in the MINI community, while future customers can take a walk through the ‘Faculty of Engineering’ and discover the millions of ways to personalise a new MINI. The stand will also incorporate a Quadrangle-style area on which the entire MINI range will be displayed. Read the rest of this entry »

Yep, MOASF HFM again this year, back on the green green grass of CSU East Bay. See ya there 9am-2pm! Check the forums at www.moasf.com or www.redwoodempiremini.com or the official site http://haywardfieldmeet.com for info, Be There!

The car show and swap meet is open to all british cars, smart cars, or any pre-1980 euro/japanese marques. (sorry, no American muscle cars, there’s plenty of other shows for that!) registration $20 before or $30 at the door, spectators are FREE! Weee!

Ah the continuing saga of our classic Mini, Henley (so named because I thought it was Henley Blue, but actually, it’s Clipper Blue!) … where was I … ah yes, last time we left off with the smokey engine giving up it’s last coughs of oil — well we’re happy to report it’s back on the roads again! Read the rest of this entry »

Yay, he’s back!

John Koo returns from earthquake-ridden China to fabricate more of his absolutely awesome classic Mini parts (as sold by MiniMania, Seven Enterprises, Heritage Garage, others). For us local club members, this is often an opportune time where he will work on a few of our restorations with us, fix stuff, tune them up, whatever he may have time for. Read the rest of this entry »