Central Oregon MINI Assocation

So if any of you subscribe to MC2, you must now be aware of MMMT, hosted by Redwood Empire Mini Enthusiasts. This is a 3 day International event to be staged on Treasure Island in the San Francisco Bay. This event should be one of the largest Mini-MINI events in the US in 2008, possibly eclipsing even MTTS in Los Angeles.We have participants registered from throughout United States, Canada, Great Britain, Italy, and Japan with interested possible participants from China, Australia, and New Zealand.

Early (discounted) event registration expires July 31. Registration goes up to $150.00 on August 1 (all other prices remain the same).

Even at $150.00, this is still a great deal compared to other regional and national events.

Please register now if you plan on participating. Shirts will be ordered on July 31 and there will not be many extras ordered.

There will be a lot of Mini-MINI clubs represented at MMMT on Treasure Island! Thanks to everyone that has signed up. You'll help make this a great success! Just so you know, registration has been extended to August 20th at the same $100 per car price. There will be no additional online registrations accepted after August 20, although day of event registration may be allowed if space permits.

I want everyone to know that club members will be able to park together throughout the weekend. We will assign locations for clubs represented with "at-large attendees mixed between the clubs. Clubs will also be able to set up club tent type booths and post banners to promote their clubs at no cost if they desire, if manned by paid registrants. Club booths will be able to be set up either in the parking lot or near the vendor's village on the grass depending on space restraints. We will determine that on Thursday when we are doing our final "set-up" touches.

I should have posted this sooner, but it doesn't look like anyone is going to attend from you neck of the wood anyway, too bad because about 40 are coming out of Oregon and Washington.... should be a pretty fun caravan down to SF...

Here is good news for those of you that have been dragging your feet!

Because of recent announcements from both Mini Mania and Moss Motors promoting the Magical Mystery Mini Tour, and extensions for the "final number of participants" given to us from our vendors; we have extended the cut-off date for registration of $100 per car until August 20th. Therefore you can continue registering using our dedicated web site until then.

After August 20th, advance registrations will no longer be accepted online but registration will be allowed at the door on the days of the event as space allows. The cost of "at the door" registration will be posted shortly. Only cash payments will be accepted on the day of the event.

Unfortunately the tee shirt order has to be placed today (August 1st) so there will be no more pre-ordering of the event tee shirts. I will have some additional tee shirts available on Treasure Island but they will be sold on a first come, first served basis. Supplies will intentionally be limited since I want them all sold before the event is over. The tee shirt option has been removed from the downloadable registration and PayPal forms.

I look forward to seeing you all having fun on this exciting weekend!

This will be my last post re: MMMT before the event. It does not look like there is any interest from COMA members...

We have at least 15 cars registered for MMMT coming out of Oregon (PDX, OMS, Emerald & Umpqua) and about half that many coming out of Washington (PSMINI).... You guys could have quite the caravan traveling south! If there is any interest, please get your registrations and payments in by August 31st (the registration deadline was extended).

Also, please bring your club banner and/or tent (if you have one). Feel free to bring your club swag and grill badges to sell to those that collect from other clubs...

The registration booth opens at noon on Friday and will be open all day Saturday and at least half the day on Sunday.

We will have plenty of quality door prizes at the Banquet Dinner and vendors may or may not have additional drawings at their booths. I believe there will be over $5000 worth of goods donated from registered vendors and companies sending goods that are unable to attend.

As of today, we are up to about $6500 worth of door prizes and vendor giveaways...

Wow what a weekend! What an event! Thank you to all that helped make this a huge success by attending and supporting the Northern California Mini-MINI Community .

With all the runs and off-site activities, there was no way to easily determine how successful this was until the cars starting filling up the parking lot for the banquet dinner Saturday night followed by the live concert by the Sun Kings.

We have an unofficial count of over 350 cars in the parking lot in the early evening, but the lot continued to fill after dark during the concert. There was no evening fog and just slight cool breeze making the San Francisco skyline a sparkling backdrop for the band.

Over $7000 worth of merchandise and services were awarded as door prizes during the banquet dinner, between sets at the concert, and on Sunday morning just before the Santa Cruz Mountains run. If you missed the Magical Mystery Mini Tour, you truly missed a one of a kind event!

To see the growing Photo Album, see http://www.redwoodempiremini.com/mbbs2/photos/photo-thumbnails.asp?albumid=239.