The PITTSTOP MINI CLUB and MINI of Pittsburgh (MoP) would like to invite fellow MINI enthusiasts to our March event. I realize it is short notice but anyone who is interested is welcome to join the fun!

Event: A drive through some back roads of the North Hills with the destination being MoP to help celebrate their 1 Year Birthday Bash!
Date: Saturday, March 22nd.
Time: Assemble starting at 12:30 PM, leave around 1 PM
Start Point: Kings Restaurant parking lot at I-79 and Rt. 910 in Wexford.

This is a FREE event, and is open to both members and non-members! Families are welcome. MoP will provide complimentary food and beverages. We have arranged with MoP to have MINIs in the service bays and a technician (or two?) on hand to give you a mechanical perspective of a MINI. Anyone interested is welcome to attend an orientation and question/answer session. Both novices and "gear heads" should find this interesting and informative. Before and after that we can spend time mingling and starting to form new friendships.

Since MOTORING is key to the MINI experience, we thought we would all MOTOR to the dealership together. We will gather in the Kings Restaurant parking lot at I-79 and Rt. 910 in Wexford. (Northeast corner of the interchange).

Oh, if any of you don't get a chance to wash your baby before the drive, get there a few minutes early and there is a touchless car wash just up the hill from the Kings where we will meet. Just $5-$8 gets you a halfway decent wash and wax (if you spring for the $8) and you won't have to worry about being asked to take up the rear of the motorcade!

We expect to reach MoP around 2:30 PM. If you can't make the drive portion of the event (shame on you! ) we'll look forward to meeting up with you at MoP around then.

If you have any questions or comments, please contact me (John, VP) via email at jwelsh [at] zoominternet.net or MindTheGap (Steve, Pres) sgrieme@zoominternet.net.

Don't forget to wear your MINI gear! MOTOR ON!

P.S. Please RSVP and let us know how many people you will have along so we can give MoP an idea of how much food to order. MoP customers will probably also get a direct invitation from the dealership but please DO NOT RSVP to MoP even if their letter requests it: we will report our numbers to them since we don't want to duplicate replies. Thanks!

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Some additional reasons to attend:

Please remember to RSVP to Karen (Club Secretary) at kpiglet25@yahoo.com!

 

This is going to be a great event. John and I scoped out the drive route part of the event last Sunday and we had a blast! It was a bit tough to drive pretending we were leading a parade of MINIs in order to get a realistic idea of travel time next Saturday. I guess we were glad for that though, when at one point we topped a hill and came face to er... tail? with a horse drawn carriage! Obviously nobody told this couple that there aren't supposed to be any Amish in this part of PA! Heck, they weren't even dressed the part. At least they smiled and waived us around. They gave Molly (John's MINI) a big grin, although the horse seemed indifferent. Boy am I glad we didn't top that hill the way we usually have fun on that road! I can see the headlines now: "MINI Refitted with 1 horsepower motor!"

 

Rod Woodson- Oakland Raider, former Steeler, and MINI owner will be at the dealership in the afternoon to sign autographs.

Rod Woodson drives a Mini? That's too cool!

Tom/Still has a Woodson steeler jersey

 

Believe it or not, he owns the dealership.

He's a real class act. What a nice guy!

 

>>Believe it or not, he owns the dealership.
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>>He's a real class act. What a nice guy!


I guess the important question is his Mini "Yellow and Black" or "Silver and Black?"

 

I believe it was PS/PS. I'm not positive though.

 

I was tempted to get a "black and gold" mini... but in the end that was just way too much for daily driving. Maybe a black mini with a yellow roof would have been better. But the yellow is pretty close to Steeler gold.