Chicagoland MINI spottings!
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From: Chicago.. yes, Chicago
Don't know if this counts...
Spotted:
Spotted:
- the courtesy car from Patrick MINI - CB/B MCC on Golf Rd near 294 around 9am. You were either waving to me.. or yelling at the knucklehead in front of you
Originally Posted by MiniMac2005
Don't know if this counts...
Spotted:
Spotted:
- the courtesy car from Patrick MINI - CB/B MCC on Golf Rd near 294 around 9am. You were either waving to me.. or yelling at the knucklehead in front of you
Not only does it count but reinforces why I only drive down that way in the middle of the night or when nessacary.:impatient
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From: Chicago.. yes, Chicago
Originally Posted by motor on
Not only does it count but reinforces why I only drive down that way in the middle of the night or when nessacary.:impatient 
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We did once we got around that moat that's being dug around the city. I don't think there's one highway around Chicago that isn't under construction.
Steve
I don't think there's one highway around Chicago that isn't under construction.Steve
Originally Posted by MiniMac2005
Very cool 
Thanks for sharing 
Hope you had a good trip home
Thanks for sharing Hope you had a good trip home
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From: Chicago.. yes, Chicago
Originally Posted by SRTech
We did once we got around that moat that's being dug around the city. I don't think there's one highway around Chicago that isn't under construction.
Steve
I don't think there's one highway around Chicago that isn't under construction.Steve
Over/Under/Around... When we went home after MTTS-Indy, we got stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic at 10pm 
it added an extra hour to the ride home. And we didn't even go through downtown!!! Hope you got to see some of the sights while passing through CHGO!!!Francis (MiniMac2005)
Originally Posted by MiniMac2005
No kidding Over/Under/Around... When we went home after MTTS-Indy, we got stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic at 10pm it added an extra hour to the ride home. And we didn't even go through downtown!!! Hope you got to see some of the sights while passing through CHGO!!!
Francis (MiniMac2005)
Over/Under/Around... When we went home after MTTS-Indy, we got stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic at 10pm it added an extra hour to the ride home. And we didn't even go through downtown!!! Hope you got to see some of the sights while passing through CHGO!!!Francis (MiniMac2005)
After I went through the troll booth I lost sight of you.
Coordinator :: Chicago MINI Motoring Club
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From: Skokie, IL
No kidding Over/Under/Around... When we went home after MTTS-Indy, we got stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic at 10pm it added an extra hour to the ride home. And we didn't even go through downtown!!! Hope you got to see some of the sights while passing through CHGO!!!
Over/Under/Around... When we went home after MTTS-Indy, we got stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic at 10pm it added an extra hour to the ride home. And we didn't even go through downtown!!! Hope you got to see some of the sights while passing through CHGO!!!
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2006 Blue MCS with white roof and white bonets. Gas Station on the corner of County route 6 and Cassopolis in Elkhart today. Stopped and spoke with her about her car. Was bought from D&R. She wants to do a MINICCI/ D&R Drive some time. She said that she would like to start a local club or a South Bend area chapter of MINICCI.
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From: Oak Park, IL
Got two today!
#1
A 2005/2006 MCS PS/PS with Indiana tags Westbound on I-94 around 115th street. I believe its Mini Motoring ID was 2com12, but was hard to read because of the lighting conditions. We exchanged waves and slogged side by side through traffic until she headed South on I-57.
#2
A B/W MC headed Southbound on Ridgeland in Oak Park as I was pulling up in front of my house. Exchanged waves.
#1
A 2005/2006 MCS PS/PS with Indiana tags Westbound on I-94 around 115th street. I believe its Mini Motoring ID was 2com12, but was hard to read because of the lighting conditions. We exchanged waves and slogged side by side through traffic until she headed South on I-57.
#2
A B/W MC headed Southbound on Ridgeland in Oak Park as I was pulling up in front of my house. Exchanged waves.
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#2 was most likely me. I travel Ridgeland quite a bit. Cheers...See you around....BTW have you noticed that many of the OP Minis are not aware of the Mini wave?
Originally Posted by pdflint
Got two today!
#1
A 2005/2006 MCS PS/PS with Indiana tags Westbound on I-94 around 115th street. I believe its Mini Motoring ID was 2com12, but was hard to read because of the lighting conditions. We exchanged waves and slogged side by side through traffic until she headed South on I-57.
#2
A B/W MC headed Southbound on Ridgeland in Oak Park as I was pulling up in front of my house. Exchanged waves.
#1
A 2005/2006 MCS PS/PS with Indiana tags Westbound on I-94 around 115th street. I believe its Mini Motoring ID was 2com12, but was hard to read because of the lighting conditions. We exchanged waves and slogged side by side through traffic until she headed South on I-57.
#2
A B/W MC headed Southbound on Ridgeland in Oak Park as I was pulling up in front of my house. Exchanged waves.
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From: Oak Park, IL
Originally Posted by HB/W MCS
#2 was most likely me. I travel Ridgeland quite a bit. Cheers...See you around....BTW have you noticed that many of the OP Minis are not aware of the Mini wave?
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Reading this thread has convinced me that my permanent departure from Chicago back in '87 was an IQ enhancing life decision. I think the traffic up there has everyone's brain in a state of suspended reality, or more specifically has lead to a permanent lack of imagination wherein watching for other Mini Coopers becomes the only quality of life measurment for most of Chicago's denizens. Must be from breathing all the exhaust fumes while sitting on the Eisenhower watching the gas guage needle slowly descending towards E all the while knowing that no matter how many horse power under the hood, a Chicago cop on a live horse could beat you in the quarter mile.
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Hey, the day I was there a Chicago cop could have beat us in the quarter mile on a tricycle.
Steve
Steve
Originally Posted by princeofwaldo
Reading this thread has convinced me that my permanent departure from Chicago back in '87 was an IQ enhancing life decision. I think the traffic up there has everyone's brain in a state of suspended reality, or more specifically has lead to a permanent lack of imagination wherein watching for other Mini Coopers becomes the only quality of life measurment for most of Chicago's denizens. Must be from breathing all the exhaust fumes while sitting on the Eisenhower watching the gas guage needle slowly descending towards E all the while knowing that no matter how many horse power under the hood, a Chicago cop on a live horse could beat you in the quarter mile.
Last edited by SRTech; Sep 14, 2006 at 09:27 PM.
Originally Posted by princeofwaldo
Reading this thread has convinced me that my permanent departure from Chicago back in '87 was an IQ enhancing life decision. I think the traffic up there has everyone's brain in a state of suspended reality, or more specifically has lead to a permanent lack of imagination wherein watching for other Mini Coopers becomes the only quality of life measurment for most of Chicago's denizens. Must be from breathing all the exhaust fumes while sitting on the Eisenhower watching the gas guage needle slowly descending towards E all the while knowing that no matter how many horse power under the hood, a Chicago cop on a live horse could beat you in the quarter mile.
Originally Posted by paulr
It's more of a game. Congrats on your new 06 MC.
Originally Posted by motor on
This is very true, and I generally work my shecdule to stay off peak, it has worked wonders for years now, at least traffic here is semi-predictable unlike FL where I only had warning of the NASCAR race was in town so the advice was simply don't drive.