Midwest Se7ens Gathering

[locost7018]

Anybody going to the gathering Jun 25-17 in St Paul, Mn?? I am. See LocostUSA

for details. Russ

[jbanker]

Russ,

 

My wife and I are planning to come to the Mid-West 7s deal in June. Looking forward to meeting new se7ens owners and seeing old friends as well.

 

Jack & Penny Banker

[locost7018]

Julian D. found this nice place to camp. Looks like a winner.

http://pioneercampsite.com/

[locost7018]

30 days and counting till the Gathering. Russ

[glen]

One Week to go

[locost7018]

Wow, I just got back from a weekend of great roads, great cars and great friends (old and new). I am speaking about the Midwest Se7ens Gathering South of St Paul, Mn. Brent and Brenda put on one hell of an event. I’ve driven some nice roads in my life all around the world but these were right up there with the best. Where else could you drive all day long on the twisties and see such sites as river barges going through river locks, picturesque villages that look like paintings or model railroad layouts when viewed from a 500 foot high bluff, eagles soaring high above and on the ground, a cow giving birth to a calf, huge sand hill cranes in freshly mowed fields, white tail deer darting in front of a line of Se7ens, pick your own strawberry patches, great restaurants, $1.00 ice cream cones that you would pay $4.00 for anywhere else and not be any better, quaint shops and antique stores, very little traffic (and few cops), deep valleys that a cell phone showed absolutely NO coverage in, what seemed like dozens of commercial motocross tracks, lots of motels and camp grounds, and a whole lot more I could describe but that would take all the fun out of you discovering it for yourself. All this and we never were more than 15 miles from the Mississippi River or its tributaries. This place is like the Tail of The Dragon of the Great North only there are multiple roads to explore. Anybody ready for a National Gathering event here??? Distances to Wabasha, Mn: Kansas City-460 miles, LA-1565miles, NY-1939 miles, Atlanta-1052 miles, St. Louis-493 miles, Louiville-633 miles, Denver-933 miles, Portland-1818 miles, Austin-1180 miles. Guys this is doable!!!!! Russ Amos

[jbanker]

Here are some photos posted on a Picasa Web page by one of the attendees, Ed Young. Ed is in the process of building a Locost.

 

http://picasaweb.google.com/qclotusracer/LocostMeet#

 

Ed drove his white '88 Lotus Esprit to the the Minnesota/Wisconsin event.

 

Jack

[pethier]

I was there.

 

A gathering of Seven clones in 2010, the Midwest Se7ens Gathering.

 

I had my 1979 Caterham that I was selling since I was buying a Lotus Elise.  I picked up the Elise in Park City Utah over the July 4th weekend.  The Seven sold to a person on Cape Cod.  I kept the 74PHIL Collector plate and put it on a different Caterham in 2023.

 

The last I saw of the gang was a Saturday meal in a really cool place somewhere in Wisconsin that had the indoor kitchen and outdoor eating area under a common long roof. I already had my car in my trailer, as I was going to Eau Claire that evening to stay in a motel there and run an autocross the next day.  Suddenly it started to rain.  Hard.  While others scrambled to cover their Sevens, I bolted to my truck and drove away.  I drove on unfamiliar secondary roads all the way to the Eau Claire in a pounding rain.  As I remember, the weather was fine in on Sunday for the Eau Claire autocross.

 

see all my pix of the event at

https://www.flickr.com/photos/pethier/albums/72157624234182859/