When: Sunday, April 29, 2007, 10:00 AM Where: Marcellus County Park Platt Road Marcellus , NY 13108
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Shed your snow tires and embrace Spring with a MINI Rally in the Syracuse Area!
We'll start off at Marcellus County Parkwhere we'll "oohh" and "ahhh" at each other's MINIs for a bit. Then we'll head out for our Rally. We will be Motoring around the curvy scenic roads around Syracuse (I'll post roads later). Not a race, but just a chance to enjoy the coming of spring and meet the few Motorers in and around Syracuse. At the end of our rally we'll end up at Dinosaurs BBQ where who ever wants lunch can join in (everyone covers for themselves).
Start Location: Marcellus County Park, Marcellus NY Finish Location: Dinosaur BBQ, Syracuse NY
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Venno
DS w/DS '06MCS-17%/Alta CAI/Detroit Bypass Valve/Alta Air Diverter/Schroth Rcng Hrnss/CF Uber Scoop/Alta 19mm Sway Bar/Irlnd Cmbr Plt/Team Dynamics ProRace 1 17" Anthracite Rims with Jerzee Plts and a Gray-Scale Czech roof flag
I'm not sure how many to expect, but judging from the response that I've gotten so far I'm expecting at least 15-20 MINIs.
For directions, type "Marcellus County Park, NY" into http://maps.google.com or follow these directions:
From the NYS Thruway go on 690 East (twd Syracuse) Take 695 to Route 5w toward Auburn Merge onto Route 5 W toward Auburn Take the Newport Rd. Exit, Make a left onto Newport Rd. Turn Right onto W. Genesee St. Shortly after that turn you'll need to make a left onto Elm st (Rt 174 S) (its a fork in the road, but heads up...its easy to miss..if you do miss you'll end up on 5 East, take the Newport exit and try again) -on 174S, Enjoy the curvy roads) Take 174 until you get to East Main st. (Traffic light) Make a right onto East Main St. Make a Quick Left onto South St Make a left onto Platt Rd. Enter Marcellus County Park Parking lot Have fun
I'll give directions for the Rally at the Park, It'll be apx 2 hours up and down hills and curves around Otisco Lake...I tried the roads out and they are A LOT OF FUN. If you have any questions, send me a message
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Venno
DS w/DS '06MCS-17%/Alta CAI/Detroit Bypass Valve/Alta Air Diverter/Schroth Rcng Hrnss/CF Uber Scoop/Alta 19mm Sway Bar/Irlnd Cmbr Plt/Team Dynamics ProRace 1 17" Anthracite Rims with Jerzee Plts and a Gray-Scale Czech roof flag
I've got the date in the book... maybe those who are in the Rochester area can plan to meet and drive down together.... COPI are you still in Canandaigua?
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Actually we're in Farmington, just off the Thruway. We can work out a mini-caravan as the date approaches for those coming from west of Syracuse via the Thruway!
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love to do this with you folks but yellowmini has organized a watkins glen run . is there some way to tie the two together? I just love going to the track .oh well , Plus every wednesday 5pm-till9pm the logcabin in marion ny has car night with music and bar-b-que. this thing is huge and would it just be awesome if a bunch of minis decended opon them. Well that is my thought for the day. Happy motoring.
I will be passing by Rochester If you would like to meet for the trip just let me know what time and were.I see Copi is also on the way to Marcellus maybe he would like to join us for the trip.Geo GO SABRES
I was thinking that those who are coming from the WEST of Syracuse, could meet at the Clifton Springs Rest Area...on the NYS thruway 9 o'clock ish... the Copi is not far from there...(Should be able to be south of Syracuse in an hour from that point).... I am planning on going UNLESS it looks like rain or is raining.. if the weather is bad, I need to go to work...
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I was thinking that those who are coming from the WEST of Syracuse, could meet at the Clifton Springs Rest Area...on the NYS thruway 9 o'clock ish... the Copi is not far from there...(Should be able to be south of Syracuse in an hour from that point).... I am planning on going UNLESS it looks like rain or is raining.. if the weather is bad, I need to go to work...
Sounds like a great plan! We're going to wait at the Thruway ramp near us from 8:30-8:40. Here's where.
Then we'll head onto the Thruway and meet anyone else at 9:00 at the Clifton Springs Rest Area...on the NYS Thruway. According to Google, it'll take a good hour to get from the rest stop on the Thruway to the park @ Syracuse.
-- Edited by the_copi at 08:41, 2007-04-28
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Hey Thanks for coming to the Rally! It was nice to meet all of you, and i hope you all had fun. If any of you have any suggestions for roads or ways to improve the next rally or things that you liked about this one, let me know. Thanks Venno
oh and I'll post pics later tonight
-- Edited by Venno at 18:01, 2007-04-29
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Venno
DS w/DS '06MCS-17%/Alta CAI/Detroit Bypass Valve/Alta Air Diverter/Schroth Rcng Hrnss/CF Uber Scoop/Alta 19mm Sway Bar/Irlnd Cmbr Plt/Team Dynamics ProRace 1 17" Anthracite Rims with Jerzee Plts and a Gray-Scale Czech roof flag
We had a great time at today's rally. Venno, you really did your homework on that route. I live in Syracuse and I saw roads I never knew existed.
Sorry we had to bail at the last minute on lunch. I hope the hostess at the Dinosuar didn't want to kill anyone for changing the number of people for the table so much. We had a call from home and had to run unexpectedly.
Hey Niel, Thanks, Glad to have you join us and have a good time, even for just the rally, next time you can join us for lunch.
Here are some pictures from the rally, these are the none-blurry ones/ones that you can actually make out that its a MINI. If you got any other pictures post them or send them to me at Venno1@aol.com. Thanks Venno
And for those of you that want to retrace our route, I attached the directions. Happy Motoring! PS if any of you wanna kick it up a a few tick marks on the spedometer on this route, send me a PM.
Hi Venno, Nice to meet you and all the other folks at the rally. I must say you really know the back roads around Marcellus! You must spend alot of time cruising the country lanes in the Syracuse area. Great Rally! It was fun to see the smiles on people's faces as they watched our column of Minis pass. I tried to attach a few photos of the rally but the uploading doesn't seem to work. Rob Ferguson
Congratulations to Venno for putting together a GREAT run! The hills, curves, scenery - it was all there. AND the were lots of MINI's and great people to boot!
We look forward to another great rally in the Syracuse area...
For those of you subscribing to this thread, check out the CNY thread (from the Homepage). I posted details for the upcoming rally....oh and check out the flier, i used pictures from our last rally to make up the backround.
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Venno
DS w/DS '06MCS-17%/Alta CAI/Detroit Bypass Valve/Alta Air Diverter/Schroth Rcng Hrnss/CF Uber Scoop/Alta 19mm Sway Bar/Irlnd Cmbr Plt/Team Dynamics ProRace 1 17" Anthracite Rims with Jerzee Plts and a Gray-Scale Czech roof flag