Irish Mini Owners Club

Best of luck to all travelling to IMM, hope ye all have a safe Journey over & back. Enjoy every minute. Don't drink too much guys

I think you mean Monday Keith, but we'll be lucky to be on the way by midday.
After sitting on a boat for 20 hours anybody looking at maps or having a slash will be left behind

Southbound Convoy
Meeting place south of Dublin on N11.
Petrol station at Kilmucanoge (Texico I think)

Meeting 11.30am
Departure Midday

On the ferry imm here we come :-D 9 minis on the boat

Best of luck on the trip, keep it between the ditches ;P Enjoy.

8 Minis left Cherbourg this morning. Woody, KMG,Keith & Derek made it to Gien, Conboys, Mulqueens, & Mealiffs in Chateaudun. Dan & Lena last seen heading for Orleans. Rang Dan's mobile but someone in Abbeyfeale answered it!

Now in Macon hoping to make Annecy tonight to catch up with the others.

reached the italian riviera with all 8 cars & crews more or less intact. some had snow today, everybody had rain: seems the wet weather is close on our heels all the way from Rosslare. - IMM meet formally starts tomorrow when the campsite opens.

Here in Monaco. The Grand Prix is on this weekend. Very hot.

I m a broken Man today

joebe1 wrote:I m a broken Man today

As 'broken' as last year Joe??

looks like everyone had a great time

7 Minis are still making their way towards Roscoff for the ferry this Saturday.

Had a great imm. Walked Grand Prix track Wednesday, spent Thursday on nice beach, was in pits today and now having a pint on track in red bull bar listening to minestery of sound. Keeps getting better

In Rennes for tonight's sailing from Roscoff to Rosslare.

Safe driving the rest of the trip ! Pity ye didn't get to stay for Grand Prix !

2 Minis on the ferry, my own & Dan Moloney's.

and the fuel stats are just in... Euro 398.04 - 239.55 litres - 3.215 km - 13.42 km/l or 38mpg -


one fuse blown, one unexplained cut out at speed on autoroute, solved by pulling in and looking under bonnet while scratching head... then it started again! - some damp related problems with the rear fog-light, a speedo that got very excited, went off the scale a few times and now reads 20kph when parked (!) and soft suspensions springs that were too soft - oh yes and the "good" shocks i fitted for the trip aren't. they never were.


out & back:




the "beach" at IMM

We are all back . Great trip
I picked up a puncture in Normandy at the D Day beaches .
Tom Maeliff broke a rear Hilo bar near Eniscorty lucky Geoffrey bought a new set at IMM for Molly .
41 mpg on way over
39 mpg on way back .

Had a grate time can't wate till Kent next year here's some phoots I took

Great photos! That's a mammoth amount of miles. Makes me feel a lot better driving to Brighton next weekend!

Well done in make it back in one piece.

More IMM pics

What a trip so far.
Highlight of the trip down was the mount cinas pass through the snow. Imm got off to a shaky start but then the sun came out and the party started. On Saturday we went out for a Big Mac but instead ended up driving in the Mille Miglia for 20miles before finding somewhere to pull in and watch the rest go by, craziest thing I have ever seen on public roads. After the imm we hit the Ferrari museum before heading for Monte Carlo . Found a small villa to stay in were every morning we enjoyed breakfast looking at two Pucks which we obiviously tried to buy. We walked the Grand Prix track on Wednesday and on Friday we managed to get into pit lane. Took Thursday off to lie on the beach in Nice, sunshine all week. Saturday saw qualifying but we missed the race Sunday as we had to drop dave to the airport so we headed for Cannes for the film festival. Stumbled into the premier of Zulu and spent couple of hours star watching on the red carpet with Speilberg, Kidman, Orlando, gooding jr and others were too old to recognise . Drove over the French alps today,amazing scenery ,found a trio of minis including an innocent I, and are now in Saint Etienne . Heading towards Le Mans next unless we get stuck in a vineyard.
Photos to follow

Don't forget the museum in Loheac.