About a month ago I posted about an attempt on a Guinness World Record for the most MINIs in a parade to be held in Virginia Beach, Virginia on June 10th. The current record, held by a group in Blackpool, England, stands at 269 and event organizers were hopeful for a convoy of 300 vehicles.
Registration was due to start at 2:00pm and as I only live about a mile from the Virginia Beach Sportsplex
where the event was due to start, it was nice to not have to rush to get there. Part of the registration process was to record every car’s VIN number, every owners name and address and issue each MINI/Mini with an official number. My car was number 229 which meant only another 41 were required to beat the record. As I queued up to buy raffle tickets for a set of wheel rims (all proceeds of which would benefit the Navy Seals Memorial Fund), we counted down the latest MINIs to arrive until number 270 was reached! This meant we had enough and could start the parade to break the record.
Lots of fun was had by all during the 5 mile convoy, and the official count after everyone returned to the Sportsplex was 273 MINIs/Minis – 4 more than the current record and a NEW GUINNESS WORLD RECORD
! Congratulations to all involved and especially to the organizers and local MINI club Se7en Cities Mini.
The after event social at Conklins Irish Rover was also great fun with good food and a great pint of Murphy’s Irish Stout (kind of ironic considering it was a Guinness World Record!).
A selection of photos from the event can be viewed below. For the full collection, take a look at my online gallery courtesy of Google’s Picasa.
Wow.. wish I was there to see all those mini’s! That must have been so great. Stumbled your article!! Thanks for sharing those pix, they look great…
Comment by Sandra — June 10, 2007 @ 8:52 pm
Yes, it was a great afternoon – the record was broken and most importantly a lot of money was raised for a worthy cause. I’ll post later this week when all the money has been counted and the record has been officially recognized.
Comment by Steve Speirs — June 10, 2007 @ 8:55 pm
Wow! that’s awesome.. Congrats on being a part of this record!
Comment by sindoo20 — June 11, 2007 @ 1:14 am
Nice one Steve. Of course the next record you have to chase is how many people you can cram “into” your mini and still drive it. I think the record is around 20. You might want to borrow someone elses mini for the attempt though
Dex.
Comment by Dex — June 11, 2007 @ 1:40 am
awesome!!!! Great pics! Gotta love Murphys. There’s a pub called the Playwright in South Beach Miami.. all the bartenders are Irish. Great place.. they only served Murphys. No Guinness… and I always drank that.. mmmm mmmm good. That is Ironic… good to see you saw the Irony in that..
So what’s next on the beer of the month club?
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“So what’s next on the beer of the month club?”
I’m not sure until the magic box arrives… Sometimes the Beer of the Month Club web site has the latest selections, but I’d rather wait until it’s delivered to see what I’ve got.
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it was an awesome awesome day!
so many MINIs and so little time to see them all.
not one of them was just alike. it was GREAT!
Comment by MIA MNI — June 11, 2007 @ 6:32 pm
Hi Steve,
It was quite a sight and I really appreciate all the pics you took and put on the CD for us. Those will be forwarded to MC2 for publication if the res is high enough for them. Hope you don’t mind. Barry will be doing a few pages in an upcoming issue about the event.
Thanks again. great Job.
Comment by Simon Biggs. BLUE UK. — June 11, 2007 @ 7:02 pm
They should have Organic beer of the month club.
Not sure there’s that many Organic beers around though. If you think about it though.. Beers are naturally Organic?
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lol… found it.. you know what’s funny. I have almost the same exact picture of me drinking Murphys in almost same exact pose. in fact, I am going to submit it to InCinq
Cheers.
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