In Honolulu.

Date: May 25th
Place: Kapiolani Park
Time: 9:00 am - 3:00pm

Calling all British car owners! The gathering of the faithful is set for May
25th. This is the 16th year of the All British Car Day and all British cars
are welcome. This is not a judged concourse, but rather a show and shine.
We¹ve had cars show up on the back of tow-trucks! So wash and wax your
British car and meet us at the lot adjacent to the Waikiki Shell¹s mauka
parking lot, across from the zoo. This is the same location as in the past.
Look for our banner.

Start time is 9am and finishing up at 3:00pm with a trophy ceremony and door prizes provided by Jaguar Hawaii, JN Automotive Group, and Mini of Hawaii.

Cars will be able to come and go all day, so if you have to leave early or
arrive late that¹s okay. We would like to get as many cars as possible to
meet at Ala Moana Center, upstairs by Neiman Marcus, at 8:30am sharp to
stage for a parade through Waikiki on the way to the park. If you can make
it for the Waikiki run please contact Steve Kushner at 681-3861 or email him
at Spitfire79@hawaii.rr.com.

Mini of Hawaii will be bringing out their grill and will be doing
hamburgers. For more information contact Brett Pruitt at: 551-1929. It
should be a day of fun for the whole family.

PS: A small donation of $5 per car is requested to help defray costs,
spectators are free!

 

You going to be in town for this minihune? I'll probably swing by and check it out since I've never had a chance before.

 

Sure, May 25. I may stay for the morning. I've done it twice before. Some really nice British classic cars each year. We were looking for a bunch of MINIs old and new. Also a barbeque, always a treat.

 

Sounds good. So who's signed-up to show as of today?

 

I'll be there. Perhaps Mac. Latka most likely.

Hopefully there are alot of people who haven't responded but will show.

 

Latka's been busy, hopefully he will bring his classic mini.

Maybe remind him it's next weekend.

I should be there for at least half day and the barbeque.

Check out the older MGs and some Lotus, Cobra, Sunbeam, Jaguar, Triumph, RR, etc.

 

Question from the mainland...so how goes the "how can MINI be a British car if it's made by BMW?" question going for you all. I would suspect the whole thing in regards to MINI has pretty well established itself by now. We have a similar show tomorrow...just curious how you are experiencing this.

 

The British Car club here in Honolulu is fairly small (50) and wants more participation. The MINI is an attention getting and modern car, they invited us in the early years from 2003 to come on by to stir up interest. Many members are quite senior in age.

The older Austin minis are classics and certainly qualify as a British car so it seemed a newly built MINI2 from Oxford would be appropriate.

We have been warmly received and have participated every year since.

MINIs are built by MINI which is owned by BMW. BMWs are not invited.

Usually the biggest groups will be MG (many model years), Triumph, and MINI.

 

I sent an email to Steve Kushner that I'll be there. An event announcement is going out today to the HMMC members. Hopefully that will increase the numbers a little.

 

i may come by early...+ bar-b-q...

 

Anyone up for meeting at Ala Moana at 830am to drive over in the group?

Or could meet us at the Park by 9am.

kbseto and feedback,

Good to hear you'll try to be there, should be good to see the classic cars that show up.

Don't forget to clean your wheels.

 

it may be a gray area but it IS built in the correct area. the BCC likes having us there.
It is possible to be there all day and not have one person make a snide BMW remark.

 

The car is built in England... by subjects of the British Empire..... its a British car.


I'll be at Ala Moana..... and I'd bet that on Saturday alot of cars will be getting washed!

btw- I got a gallon of Hydro if anyone (local, in Hawaii, on Oahu) wants some....

 

Well if it's raining then sure- wash-em.
I already washed and waxed mine but I still have one more week to get it dirty again.

I'm interested in the Hydro. How do we divide it up? Can we get some containers and a funnel. Would you split it and I can pay you? I know walmart has various cheap containers. Let me know.

 

I'll be bring a 1972 Land Rover Lightweight. Ex-Royal Army Radio vehicle. The radios are no longer installed.

http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/...1&uid=10249131

Stacy

 

Nice! Can't wait to see it.

 

Land Rover Ex-Royal Army???!!!!????

Will you have on Army fatigues and sport a machine gun?


Land Rover with TOW launcher.

 

No fatigues or machine guns! I'm more of a Land Rover fan than a militant.
That TOW launcher looks like it doubles as a tennis ball launcher.

Will there be a lot of classic Mini's there? When I lived in Sicily I tried to get one but a good one was hard to find. The Fiat 500 were a lot more popular.

Stacy

 

The event is this sunday.

Hope it doesn't rain all day.

Anyone else interested?

 

Is it rain or shine?

I'll definitely be there in the AM as a spectator (I'll be walking over from the zoo area - family is going to zoo I think).