2018 MTTS Most liked posts in thread: MINI takes the States 2018 Official Route (July 14 - 22)

I could have sworn I posted here. Is there another MTTS thread?

I am thinking about joining in when they pass through Dallas. I'd like to go up to the Keystone stop, and visit family I have up that way.

I would probably go back to Dallas from there.

Dave.0, for obvious liability reasons, MTTS can't be a Cannonball Run kind of drive, but I still get to hang out with some MINI enthusiasts, hopefully eat some good food, and as a bonus, visit family. If I lived in Philly, I wouldn't make the long drive just to be a part of it, but since it runs through my city, and goes somewhere I want to go, I'm good.

CD

 

Brock Yates shut it down years ago. It is now an individual run thing. I know Dennis and Richard, who used to hold the record. I got to talk to Dennis about the drive in person, and it was a fascinating story.

CD

 

I have photographed a few dozen of Dennis' and Richard's cars. That's how I met them. My fifteen milliseconds of TV fame were the two times I appeared on Richard's show. Seriously, they were blink-and-you-miss-me appearances. I just happened to be in the background.

I was part of a group of people who were hanging out with Dennis at a pre-auction cocktail party, as he told us the story. We asked him if he would ever want to do it again, and he gave us an emphatic, "NO." It took his body and brain weeks to recover from the effort. I don't doubt it.

CD

 

I'm planning on doing part of the western route starting from Portland OR.

 

I have never wanted to go on MTTS because it seems like a 1 or two week MINI funeral drive.

So slow and too many LXM idiot drivers.

I’ll pass.

 

I'll be doing the eastern route.. Probably Florida start..

 

Rats! I would go, but it starts right in the middle of MOTD and I already signed up for the Donut Run.

 

There will be pics.. Otherwise it never happened ;-)

This was from MTTS 2006 at Indy

 

I know of all the controversies, but Dennis and Richard did have the record... for a while. Records are meant to be broken.

The problem was always verification. In recent years, record breakers were able to use satellite tracking to verify time and route.

BTW, the heavily modded 550 Maranello belonged to Dennis, and he was the lead driver. Richard was the co-driver. People either love or hate Richard, so that certainly is a part of the controversy.

CD