Thursday, June 12, 2008

MINI Takes the States 2008 Visits Savannah

MINI Takes The States commences this weekend in Miami and then heads off to Boston for the next leg on June 20-22. En-route, they will be passing through Savannah on Monday June 16th and spending a few hours here between their overnight stops in St. Augustine, FL and Charleston, SC. We will be gathering all the MINIS heading north in the Savannah Visitors Center parking lot at 310 Martin Luther King Bvd. We anticipate their arrival to be approximately 1 - 1:30pm on Monday 16th. and we would love to show them as much Savannah hospitality as is possible. They are scheduled to arrive in Charleston for an event that evening at Patriot’s Point Park in Mt. Pleasant, SC hosted by MINI of Charleston who will be providing a BBQ dinner. If you would like to attend that event please RSVP here.

Traveling with the entourage will be "The Flying Finn"Rauno Aaltonen, winner of the European Rally Championship and Gallaher 500 in a MINI Cooper S. His other merits include winning the RAC Rally in 1965, the Monte Carlo Rally in 1967 and the Southern Cross Rally in 1977. Aaltonen finished second on six occasions in the Safari Rally, which is considered one of the most difficult courses in rally racing.