The Driver’s Edge is having a High Performance Driving Event at Motor Sports Ranch – Houston .  MSR-Houston is located just off Highway 288, just south of Pearland just north of Angleton — August 14th and 15th.

What is a HPDE you ask?  A HPDE is an opportunity to push your MINI to the max!  It is a chance to safely learn new driving skills.   Certified driving instructors will spend two days with you teaching high performance driving on the track and in the class room.

This is not racing; passing is permitted only if the car in front gives permission, an instructor will be in your car at all times.  It’s exciting, fun, thrilling but most of all you will go home a better safer driver!

Let’s create a HMMS crew and go have fun and learn to be better drivers.  The cost is $295 for most drivers.  The event is already 67% full so register now!  I went to the Driver’s Edge Event recently at Harris Hill – San Marcos and cannot wait to do it again.  Questions just post and ask or email Rick Schwalenberg of the Drivers Edge.

Come join your fellow MINIacs for brunch/lunch at The Black Labrador Pub! We’ll have a nice meeting room all to ourselves!

Saturday, July 10th
10:30 am til noonish
The Black Labrador Pub
4100 Montrose
713-529-1199

There is a free parking garage behind (west) of the building complex. Let’s all park on the top floor.

Jeff (aka Scooper)

HMMS VeeP

Ready to help your British car celebrate the new Colony?  This year, the annual 4th of July Parade will be celebrated on the…3rd!  Doug and Iris Beatty have sort of adopted this Bellaire event, and afterwards will host a good ol’ fashioned picnic lunch at their nearby home.   More details:

This year’s theme is “You’re a Grand Ole Flag!”.

The parade will start in the parking lot at the corner of Mapleridge and Bellaire Boulevard. Parade participants will need to line up at the Bellaire Triangle Shopping Center between 8:30 am and 9:30 am. You can decorate your MINI in the parking lot as we wait for the parade to start. We will be given a sequence number for our position in the parade, so just look for CHIQUI and line up with her. We will have access to a restroom at Iris’ music studio Beatty Music Works before the parade begins.

The parade will begin at 9:30 am. Parade participants will exit the Bellaire Triangle Shopping Center onto Bellaire Boulevard heading east and then turn right on South Rice Avenue. The parade will pass Bellaire City Hall and Town Square and turn right onto Jessamine. The parade route ends as you pass the Little League Baseball field, and is approximately half a mile in length – bring enough hard candy to distribute (throw) to the parade watchers. Also be thinking of a unique way to decorate your MINI with “grand ole flags!

After the parade we invite you to our home which is about a half a mile from the parade route (see address below). We will have a lunch of hot dogs, chips, corn, kid lemonade and adult lemonade, plus watermelon and maybe even some apple pie as well. If you are coming to lunch, please indicate in a reply to this thread how many are coming in your MINI. If you want to bring something for the lunch, include in your response what you’re bringing.

Hope to see you for the celebration!

Iris and Doug
5220 Braeburn Drive
(713) 665-6652

The HMMS officers cordially invite you to attend the club’s annual business meeting at the Black Labrador (Pub), 4100 Montrose Blvd, on Wednesday evening, May 12^th, beginning at 7:00 PM. Come join us for food and drink, and a lively discussion on how to improve the club for the next year!

Houston MINI Motoring Society
May 1st, 2010 at 10:30 am
Brazos Bend State Park

Following a rendezvous in the parking lot at Kroger’s, 4825 Sweetwater Blvd, in Sugar Land, Club Members in six MINIs motored to Brazos Bend State Park to join up with a seventh for a picnic lunch followed by our May monthly meeting. As for the delightful lunch, what happened in the park stays in the park, but here are the monthly meeting minutes, which can be reported:

Club Stuff

Call to Order and Club Stuff

There were no new Members or guests present for President Deb (daffodildeb) to welcome. (There were some observant crows who, like most of us, were fascinated watching Juha erect his new mini shelter!)

Treasurer Juha (sikamini) reported on the Club’s finances, with current checking account balance of $944.71.

Deb and Juha mentioned membership cards, spotter cards, stickers, polo shirt orders and deliveries, and club hats. Juha made a note that new Member Karen has not yet received her mailed membership card, and Deb noted that Karen also is entitled to her complementary hat. 

Juha noted there are three polo shirts that were ordered but have not been picked up and reminded Members that if these have not been claimed after being available for pickup for two months, they may be purchased by anyone interested. Contact Juha for colors and sizes available if interested.

Show and Tell, Troubleshooting

Deb mentioned that her loose nut (actually Zippeee’s) turned out to be something else in one of the sun roof tracks and has been removed. Bob (RJSMini) reported on Crickette’s recent steering difficulties and new steering pump installed by Gas Head Motorworks (and newly installed U Kentucky license plate frames: Go Wildcats!) Continue reading →