November and British Car Day

First off, a BIG congratulations to Stephanie and Matt on their wins at British Car Day in Charleston last weekend! They represented Coastal MINIs in fine style. We're proud of you guys! :D For pictures of the event, visit Stephanie's blog, All Things MINI.

This coming Sunday, the 4th, will be our Monthly Motoring Sunday. We will be celebrating our anniversary by heading down to Jekyll Island. We'll gather at our usual time and place, and we'll plan on leaving Savannah before 11. I think we'll have some members meeting us on Jekyll, and we hope to see some of our friends from Florida there too. We'll grab a bite for lunch once we get there, and motor around the island. With the change in the weather, it should make for a nice trip. Those of us with supercharged MINIs, remember our cars love this cold air! Plus it makes for a good excuse to go motoring. We hope to see you there!

October!

Hello!
At last, mother nature cooperated, and Coastal MINIs had a nice meet up on the 5th. We hung out at Starbucks for a bit. It was almost the usual crew with Murray, Stephanie and myself (we missed you Matt), along with our two new friends Brian with his British Racing Green Cooper S, and Amanda with her '07 Pepper White and Black Cooper. Someone brought along with them the latest issue of MC2 magazine. There is an article about the Great Ice Cream Run close to the back, with pictures from the Savannah portion. We're famous! Check it out (I know Books A Million carries it). October is a busy month for everyone, so we ended up not going to Tybee as planned. It turns out Larry and Martha from last month tried to meet us there, and we didn't show! Oops! HUGE apologies to Larry and Martha!!! We will stick to the plan next time, we promise. To prevent further accidents like this, if you would like to meet up with us later in the day, let us know with an email or a comment here, so that we don't change plans at the last minute and leave someone stranded! :)

Speaking of plans...
It almost passed us by unnoticed but Coastal Minis has been meeting as a group for a YEAR!!! It's our anniversary!!!! Well October was technically, but we're going to celebrate in November. On our very first outing, we headed down to the Mini church (the smallest church in America). Let's go that way again next month, and then head further south to Jekyll Island to visit our friends in Florida. We'll meet at the usual time and place, and plan on leaving around 10:30. If anyone has suggestions for lunch places on Jekyll, feel free to let us know. We've met the first Sunday of every month for a year, and it keeps getting better. We'd love to see you come motor with us!

Also, as a reminder British Car Day in Charleston is coming up on the 27th. Plus, there is an autocross going on this Sunday the 21st on Roebling Road! If you've never autocrossed your MINI, it's really fun! More info here.

Happy motoring!