News – Oregon Mini Society

OMS Scholarship: High Demand Leads to Bright Career Choice

ZPP — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 02:00:09 +0000

Snowmagedon or Icedoom or however you characterized the recent weather disaster caused an exceptional amount of automobile carnage. Hopefully no OMS members’ cars were victims. Anyone whose vehicle does need repair is also having an inconvenient, head-on collision with a new fact of life of the auto-body-repair business, as noted in this article from the Oregonian. The number of collision-repair shops is decreasing while the need for their service is increasing. This problem has been growing even before the recent, slip-sliddin’ calamity exacerbated it. A critical reason for the decline in the number of body shops, which this article does not mention, is the lack of skilled people to do the increasingly-complex work. It should be a good feeling to OMS members that the Clackamas Community College scholarship we provide is helping people get training in this field and fill a serious need of the community. Instructor Russ Peterson at Clackamas CC gets way more requests for graduates from shop owners than the school can produce.

2017 OMS Renewal Special

ZPP — Wed, 04 Jan 2017 17:13:21 +0000

This is a special January to renew your OMS Dues.
Any renewal of OMS Membership in the month of December 2016 or January 2017 will earn you (and your significant other) a special OMS Name Badge to wear at all the upcoming OMS Events and Meetings. When renewing online, you will have opportunity to update your personal information and car information so it reads correctly for the 2017 OMS Roster.

Renewing online is so easy to do:
Go to www.oregonminisociety.com
Select “Membership” tab
Select “Application/Renewal”
Use Paypal or credit card.
$20 for 1 year membership
$35 for 2 year membership
$50 for 3 year membership
Wow! What a great deal!

So don’t delay – Renew TODAY!

Rhonda Hull
OMS Membership Chair
[email protected]
www.oregonminisociety.com

Portland Vintage Racing Festival

Newland — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 23:57:14 +0000

This is the race where Brian Waters drove Ward Barbour’s car to a win the race.

Urgent Request…

ZPP — Sun, 11 Aug 2013 23:27:13 +0000

We have been fortunate to have several owners commit cars for our Feature Display at this year’s ABFM. But, we still very much need cars to represent these models:

Austin America/MG 1100 or 1300, or other ADO16 models
Wolseley
Mini set up for rally competition
Neo MINI, first generation

A car for this display need not be in concours condition, but nicely presentable. This means a sound, undamaged body, good paint, neat interior. Unless you want to show off your engine compartment and/or boot, these do not need to be show. The car should be near enough in outward appearance to stock to represent the model as it was originally sold.

If you have a car to fit the bill, please contact Paul Rollins: [email protected]

ABFM Results

ZPP — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 04:50:11 +0000

PEOPLE’S CHOICE CLASS AWARDS:
Early Saloon (external hinge) First Place: Jim and Cyndy B., Second Place: Roger F., Third Place: Don D.
Mini Cooper, Cooper S (all) Second Place: Rhonda and Mark H., Third Place: Steve W.
All LWB closed Minis First Place: Burt R.
Variants and Kits Second Place: Ward B.
Late Saloon and Clubman Second Place: Bruce and Mary W.
Neo MINI Third Place: Bruce and Mary W.
Neo MINI S Second Place: Robert T.
Neo Clubman, Cabriolet, Countryman Second Place: Roger W.

GIANT SLALOM:
Classic Mini (under 1098cc) First Place: Roger F
Classic Mini (over 1098cc)
First Place: Jeremy T. (46.516) Top time of the Meet,
Second Place: George O. (52.550),
Third Place: Eric N. (52.826),
Fourth Place: David T. (54.557)
Neo MINI First Place: Terry B. (54.295)

Way to go OMS!!! CONGRATULATIONS to ALL!

2012 ABFM-PDX Labor Day Weekend

ZPP — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 14:54:45 +0000

Are you ready? The ABFM is this weekend!!! http://www.abfm-pdx.com/2012

There is still time to register. Bring your lil’ beastie and join the fun!

This is a big event for our OMS club! OMS is sponsoring the Arts and Craft Contest on Saturday from 10:00am – 4:00pm, the Giant Slalom on Saturday and Sunday 11:50am – 1:50pm and the Ralley on Sunday with start time of 8:00am. Saturday is the big car show with LOTS of eye-candy and Sunday is the Swap Meet with LOTS of treasures.

Our OMS club representative on the ABFM board, Eric Newland, will be manning the OMS pop-up tents with plenty of OMS Regalia so plan to stop by and say HI. And our September OMS meeting is scheduled for Saturday, 3:30pm, at the same pop-up tents to be followed by the 4:00 announcement of the People’s Choice Awards.

LOTS and LOTS and LOTS going on this weekend with over 800 British cars in a single venue!!!

Hope to see you there!

Get a new grille badge!

oms-nicholas — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 01:57:04 +0000

Get the new OMS grille badges in our Shop!

MMW 2013 Now Has a Theme

oms-nicholas — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 20:31:18 +0000

Although our club contest to create a theme for MMW 2013 did not quite achieve our anticipated 1,000,000 entries (we were this |<-->| close), there was a quite respectable number of entries. Most incorporated some reference to the physical location, mentioning “Bend” or “Deschutes”, or more-generally, ” River”. Another general focus was on the na- ture of the area, referring to “Sagebrush”, “High Desert”, “Dust”, or a “cowboy” tie in. A few entries keyed on the number “13” as in Apollo Mission and Friday the __.
At our February club meeting members present voted, in a two-step process, on the entries. The most-popular and ultimately-chosen theme is ” Minis Conquer The Cascades”.

Mini Meet West 2013 Theme Contest

oms-nicholas — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:15:21 +0000

Wednesday, February 8

Planning is zooming along for OMS’s hosting of MMW 2013. Such a momentous event needs a earth-shaking theme. Remember such past masterpieces such as: MMW 2001 — a Space Odyssey, and MMW 2007 — Live and Let Drive. Since Minis, by their essence, attract the most-creative people, the club is asking all of you to put forward your best ideas for a theme for our next production.

Some basic elements you might consider are:

Location — Edge of the Cascade mountains and high desert, near a very-active river
Year — 2013

If you have some ideas for graphic elements that would be important to your theme, mention them. Also explain any rationale for your theme. Please send your theme proposal to me by February 8, to [email protected].

We will discuss the proposed themes among the members at the February 12, club meeting and pick the winner. Of course, the successful effort will not go unrewarded. There will be a prize for the winner.