When it comes to the classic Mini, there is a lot of misinformation out there. Fortunately there are some experts like our Don Racine who are able to help clarify some of the top tech concerns about caring for your Classic Mini including oil, cooling systems, electrical, brakes and more!

As Thanksgiving draws closer we are graciously thanking our many customers throughout the years by featuring special offers on certain products and product types. Starting today and ending Thanksgiving day, these are 7 Days of Giving Thanks. Here is a breakdown of each day's offer.

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Last week a truck and trailer holding two rare early 60's Minis pulled into our parking lot after a long trip from Texas. One is a 1961 Morris Mini and the other a 1962 Morris Mini Pickup! Our whole team couldn't help but go outside for some oohs and aaahhs.

You're invited to watch AND meet Team Mini Mania Mini at the various races we'll be running in the next couple months. Founder, Don Racine will take on several tracks! Here are the race dates running between July 20 and September 16, 2018.

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Enthusiasts and racers of the Classic Mini are invited to join us at beautiful Sonoma Raceway for the third Can-Am Mini Challenge race! In addition to some epic Mini racing, there is an opportunity for spectators to enjoy a thrilling ride at speed in a race car.

Preparations are well underway for the team of seven cars and drivers being fielded by Don Racine and Mini Mania, Inc. at this weekend’s Can-Am Mini Challenge at California’s Sonoma Raceway. Over 30 Mini Cooper vintage racers are expected to take the green flag. Three of the team's seven drivers are European champions. They were joined by team leader Don Racine last week at the famous...

Four Class Wins Sought by International All-Star Team at Vintage Historic Races! Car assignments are now complete for Mini Mania’s assault on the vintage racing Can-Am Mini Challenge at California’s Sonoma Raceway Sept. 29 - Oct. 1. The four-driver Racine family racing team is being joined by three of Europe’s top Mini Cooper Champions.

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Mini Mania officially finalized today its seven-driver lineup to take on the Sept. 29 - Oct. 1 Can-Am Mini Challenge at California’s Sonoma Raceway. Joining the four members of the Don Racine family are three Mini Cooper racing champions from overseas...

When the Racines converge on Sonoma Raceway this September 29 - October 1 for the Can-Am Mini Challenge it won’t just be as competitors, but as life-long enthusiasts celebrating the historic appeal of these classic race cars with their extended Mini Cooper family here and overseas.

Mini Mania's owner/founder Don Racine is launching an all-out assault on the prestigious Can-Am Mini Challenge this September with a fleet of vintage Classic Minis featuring race and championship-winning cars spanning some five decades of competition.

We asked our resident Classic Mini expert, Jemal Katat, to give his suggestions for the top 5 mods for the Classic Mini. We wanted to know his opinion when it came to multiple types of modifications. Here we share his answers. Enjoy!

We see this sort of thing happening all the time! What's not original is the car that the VIN plate it attached to! That is almost certainly a 1997-2000, known as the Rover "MPI" for multi-port-injection.

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When all the stars line up it was an easy decision to make the plans for this blitz of America. In about 35 days the plan is to race four different Vintage Races, attend both Mini Meet West and Mini Meet East, returning to California in time for the July 4th celebrations

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Classic Motorsports magazine project Mini Cooper S nears completion.

We've been in the business of providing parts and accessories for the original Classic Mini Coopers since 1974, and as a result Mini Mania is the largest US supplier of parts for the Classic Mini.

Mini Mania’s Nevada City & Grass Valley self-guided tour Friday May 30th 2014

Fifty years ago, a young Irishmen named Paddy Hopkirk surprised the racing community by driving a 1964 red Mini Cooper S to victory in the world famous Monte Carlo Rally.

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Making a small patch for the inner fender well and one for the underside of the cowl on our 1967 Austin Mini Cooper S.

Picking_Through_the_Parts- The first order of business after getting this project home was to sift though all the boxes that came with it. We needed to see how what we got compared to what the seller said it came with.

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The first ever Mini with 2 engines was produced by the factory in 1963, it was built on the original classic version of the Mini Cooper called the “MOKE”. The Moke was a jeep version of the Mini with intended military applications. It ran the standard 10” wheels and built simple by putting a second engine mounted on the original front subframe in the back of the vehicle. Originally the gear shift linkages were connected together along with the clutch and throttle pedal. This proved to be a bit of as nightmare as it was very difficult to synchronize both engines and transmissions.

Founded in 1974, Mini Mania first presented itself on the Internet in 1996. Always a leader in information and customer service, the Internet was and continues to be a great means of giving more to our friends and customers.

This event represents a great early summer meeting opportunity for your club members.

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Enthusiasts Wanted - Mini Enthusiasts that are comfortable in front of a computer. Contributing editors, tech writers and bloggers- all are welcome If you think you know your Mini or at least would like to tell others about your experience with Minis now is your chance to earn money just for being...

Wish your family could read your mind and get you what you'd REALLY like for the holidays? Mini Mania’s Wish List feature is just what you’re looking for!

Now that we’ve spent some time explaining where engine performance comes from, and how to get more out of your MINI Cooper S or Cooper, we need to inject a note of reality.

Mini Mania races across America with Classic Mini Cooper Vintage Race Car. Follow along with all the pictures. This is part 7 of a 7 part series telling the story of a great adventure of Driving and Racing across America.

Photo Log Part 6 - Mini Mania Crosses America

Don took the mini through tech inspection...passed with flying colors. That evening there was an escorted parade of the race cars along a 17 mile route through quaint New England towns. It was quite a thrill to hear (muffler sound restrictions lifted) and see about 100 race and classic cars winding through the countryside.

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Don Racine, owner and founder of Mini Mania, is now traveling across the US towing his infamous 1960 Mini to take part in three exciting races

Follow along as Don Racine, owner and founder of Mini Mania, is travels across the US towing his infamous 1960 Mini to take part in three exciting races: Glenora Wine Cellars US Vintage Grand Prix in Watkins Glen, NY, the Historic Festival at Lime Rock Park in Lakeville, CT and the Vintage Grand Prix Au Grattan XXVII in Grattan, MI.

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With the help of Mini Mania's parts and advice, our friends at Classic Motorsports magazine are making great progress with their 1967 Cooper S restoration project. The driveline is completed. We just sent them a big box of suspension pieces and they tell us they have both subframes nearly completed and ready to go back on the car.

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Team Mini Mania's caravan of four Classic Mini Coopers have again been selected to participate in the upcoming Sonoma Historic Races at Sonoma Raceway, California. ***UPDATE*** Do you needs parts and you're going to the Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival? Mini Mania will delivery them t...

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Sobre Mini Mania -Nuestra compañía se encuentra en el Corazón de las tierras mineras del norte de California, a las faldas de la Sierra Nevada de California. Que mejor lugar para manejar tu Mini Cooper que las curvas de nuestra región!

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Swap Ideas Day encourages us to share and trade ideas and concepts. As you fully participate in this day, we think you will get plenty of good ideas to put to use in your everyday life. Some will be so good, that you will want to pass them along, (or swap them) to others. Sharing is good. Ideas...

I have been looking to replace the convertible stolen from me for 25 years now...And this week... I did!

As most of us are driven to race for the experience and thrill of it all with a little tinge of winning it is easy to know that almost everyone has dreams of racing various circuits around the US and even the world.

The mystique of Phillip Island was with us for almost 5 months, before we left for Australia. The anticipation of participating in the world class premiere Aussie vintage racing event was intertwined in our daily life, everything relating to "when we go to Australia....."

First U.S. Mini Meet was held in Reno, Nevada the 26, 27, 28th. There were 43 paid registrations. Eventually, the Meet became known as the first Mini Meet West after the start up of the Mini Meet East events in 1975.

The 1st Spring Thing was held the 24th – 26th at Kissimmee, Florida. It was sponsored by FLAME (Florida Mini Enthusiasts).

Early rise this morning in order to meet Graham Russel at 7 am for our road trip to the Blue Mountains, about an hours drive from Paramatta.

The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series kicks off its 2012 preparations at Daytona International Speedway. The Daytona 500 is to racing what the Super Bowl is to football.

We’d like to sponsor an entry in this Summer’s NEVADA CITY ADULT SOAPBOX DERBY. Those of us who attended last year’s inaugural race witnessed a great community event that benefited our local Pioneer Park in Nevada City, just around the corner from Mini Mania. In fact, our parking lot was used as a staging area by the teams competing in the race!

I was at work when I opened the email Don sent telling me that I won the essay contest for Arrive and Drive. I read it, and then reread it because I couldn’t believe I won! I jumped up out of my chair emphatically yelling “I won, I won, I won!”

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        I absolutely loved that car and my favorite thing was to drive along the desolate windy country roads where I lived. My dad even became fascinated with all things MINI and was..

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The Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival is coming up and were excited!The Festival takes place the first weekend of June. The 4th  & 5thMini Mania will be there for our 25th year and to celebrate were giving a free lunch to anyone that wants to come out and support us.

Vintage racing has very much been a part of the Racine’s life style for quite a while. And now with the whole family racing, it’s been even more special. We now field no less than for Minis out at the track.

the Dyno can yield a lot of great information and this was no exception! Dyno testing is like a ‘great dream’! Lots of us talk about them but how many people can really live them! Proving our metal is often equated to ‘dreaming’ about demonstrated how good we are by how much horsepower we can buy for our steed of choice.

Founded in 1974, Mini Mania first presented itself on the Internet in 1996. Always a leader in information and customer service, the Internet was and continues to be a great means of giving more to our friends and customers.

Mini Mania celebrates 40 years in business during 2014! Mini Mania is located in the heart of the Gold Country in Northern California's Sierra Nevada Foothills. What better place to drive Mini Coopers than in the twisty mountain roads of the region!

With plans for 6 days of running/testing now underway, Team Mini Mania will be ready to see the green flag at the start of the Sonoma Motorsport Festival.

The Racine family from Team Mini Mania has annouced a busy schedule for the 2011 Vintage Race season. The team includes, Don Racine, Dennis Racine, Julie Racine and son-in-law John Burmann.

With the 2010 year coming to a close it's time to start thinking about next year. 2010 was a great year for us, and we're looking forward to another in 2011.

I want to thank all these people and your business in general for making my foray into this awesome hobby/lifestyle hassle free and extremely fun. Its people like you that bring more people into this hobby. Once again, thank you so much for making this a effortless transition for me. Rob Crawley

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Over the years the MINCOMP MINI has gone from being a converted street tub based mini race car to what is now a full tube frame purpose built race mini! Although the SCCA GT rules do allow building a mini as a rear wheel drive (RWD)

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Monthly Racers Lunch Program April 21 at Autovino in Menlo Park California The Monthly Racers Lunch Program April 21 at Autovino in Menlo Park California is Vintage Production Sports Cars – Low Cost, Fun Vintage Racing a presentation and discussion by Don Racinge of Mini M..

Advanced Street Driving Skills Created: December 11, 2009 Now that we’ve spent some time explaining where engine performance comes from, and how to get more out of your MINI Cooper S or Cooper, we need to inject a note of reality. No matter how much potential speed and performance an owner builds into a car, fast is as fast does. At the end of the ra..

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Searching and Finding The Parts You Need at Mini Mania At Mini Mania, we have literally thousands and thousands of parts available for your Mini! This vast selection is a great asset, but it can be tricky to find what you want without knowing where to look. If you're not sure which Mini/engine combinatio...

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MINCOMP/Team Mini Mania 2009 racing season (so far!) The 2009 SCCA National racing season is in full swing and the MINCOMP MINI has been out and running the SoPac events! Due to the economics we all are facing this year, it was decided to run only the SoPac National races and not travel up,...

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The Redwood Empire MINI Club joined forces with Mini Mania to put on a show at the recent 22nd annual “Wine Country Classic Vintage Races” held at Infinion Raceway during the week-end of May 31st, 2008.  

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I would like to ask that you to join me and Mini Motors in celebrating the merger of Mini Motors in Santa Rosa, California with MiniMania, Inc. of Nevada City, California. After faithfully serving the world-wide community of both the Classic and BMW Mini Coopers for over 10 years I have made the ...

Mini Mania, USA announces that the Mincomp Mini Mania Classic Mini Cooper has again been invited to participate in the SCCA “Race of Champions” annual event. The Classic Mini Cooper will run with the other regional champions during the week long motorsports challenge to be held in Topeka, Kansas. The first qualifying session will start October 9th with the National Championship race to be held October 12th.Mini Racing at Mini Mania Website

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Mini Mania, Inc. strives to make “Customer Service’ our primary objective. And while this customer service objective for us may not be consistent with the classic definition in our consumer world, the nature of our business is to supply information and parts to a very small community of owners of ...

The historic races in Monterey for the last 31 years have been considered the ultimate Vinatge race held in the USA.  Drivers and cars from around the world all enter this event. Regretfully only about 350 cars are accepted each years from the 1,000+ entires.  This year was no exception.  The tradition has it that each year a specific marque of historic significance is chosen to be honored and thus while many of the same cars are there year after year, the changing featured marque results in new and exciting race cars year after year.

Mighty Minis fought for bragging rights, fans took a track tour, and a celebrity sighting at the Mini Mania tent during the 33rd Monterey Historic Races at Laguna Seca, August 2006.

Many of us are still driving and enjoying our Mini Cooper every day and seldom really appreciate what we experience. How many of us can remember exactly when our daily driver started being referred to as a “classic”? How many of us would be proud to drive around in a 20+ year old American car? Do you ever stop to think that our MK1 Mini & Mini Coopers are 40+ years old and that even our MK3 Mini & Mini Coopers are 30+ years old!

Now taking orders: A 5 speed transmission for the Mini will be available within the next week or so! These A+ Rod Change gearboxes can be fitted to any Mini model or engine. 5th gear is overdrive! VERY, Very limited quantity.

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The weather was beautiful, the ice cream was fantastic, and there were many, many Minis at Mini Mania's annual car show, swap meet, and open house on May 6, 2006. We had our biggest turnout yet, with ...

The Mini Mania Website now offers many customers the option to view all prices in their native currency. This latest innovative feature of both the classic and BMW MINI portions of the Website allows the customer to easily choose the currency they are most familiar with and thus making it easier to appreciate our great prices. On the left side of the screen on almost every page on the classic side you will find a drop down menu that when you select your currency the entire page will reflect your price in that currency.

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A love for cars, trucks and SUVs is the motivating force behind the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA). This trade association consists of a diverse group of manufacturers, distributors, retailers, publishing companies, auto restorers, street rod builders, restylers, car clubs, race teams and more.

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Hello everybody...We ran the Team Mini Mania / MINCOMP MINI COOPER at Thunderhill for a SCCA Double Nation over the March 18th weekend. There were three minis entered in this event Doug Peterson was guest driving Ward Barbour's mini (this is the sister car to the Fortech Mini), Jon Becker had his mi...

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Mini Mania plots to conquer the world by getting every Mini on the globe to go a little bit faster.

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It's official! The Mini Mania New MINI will be on display at the 12th Annual Inland Empire Auto Show in Ontario, California, Feb. 27 through March 3.

Mini Mania and our New MINI modifications were prominently featured in the San Jose Mercury News just prior to the Mini Challenge.

On Sunday, April 29th, Mini Mania held it's first Nevada City Adventure event. Being our first swap meet/car show since our move, we weren't sure what to expect...

I decided to drive my Mini more than 200 miles to California's Gold Country to attend Nevada City Adventure at Mini Mania's new location....

A thank you letter we recently recieved with some great photos to go with it.

I just ordered an engine from you folks and it represents my first transaction with you. My experience with your effort to be a focal point to the mini community has been filled with respect and admiration.

If you received multiple copies of this week's newsletter, we apologize. We have implemented a new mail list program which is causing some problems, including sending multiple emails to individual recipients. We are hard at work fixing this problem. Again, we apologize.