Meets?

[almondcookie]

Maybe a monthly meet? Or is it too early? We could probably go somewhere a little cheaper and during the day. We would first need a place to eat that 1. is centrally located to be fair to everyone, 2. doesn't suck, 3. not too expensive, and 4. has a large enough parking lot for future expansion.

On a side note, I've already had dealings with the McDonald's on Route40 - next to Applebees. We held a car meet (mostly rx7's, 2 supras showed up, couple wrx's, couple STi's and my friend's honda civic =P) there and the manager is a car nut so there's absolutely no problems there. I might coordinate another car meet there because the turnout was really surprising... and I met a bunch of new people.

Fuddruckers in columbia is a good place. Saturdays are good and you can bring the spouse and/or kids along too. I wouldn't suggest the columbia mall because people can't drive around there. Or we could mix it up because since each meeting is a month apart, one month we'll do it slightly south (like columbia) and the next month, we'll cater to the northern folks and say have it up in white marsh (IKEA's swedish meatballs ... oh yea).

*ugh* ... I've already starting modifying the car and I only have 300 miles on it. This summer I want to see some track time so sitting down and talking to fellow legacy owners and getting expertise and having a good time is where it's all about.

Your thoughts?

[rockford33]

Not sure yet if I like you guys enough to see you once a month ;). Sounds like a good idea to me. Always good to meet other people and share information. Also helps if someones has done a mod you are looking at doing and you may get a chance to ride in their car. Maybe if we get a good idea of number of people interested and location (I know Keefe is a little far away if we meet on a non-work day).

You sure about Fuddrucker's? Last time I was over that way, the parking lot seemed kinda tight with all of the other shops there also. I'm in Owings Mills, so I am not too far from either White Marsh or Columbia.

[Xenonk]

A monthly meet is doable. I think there's a fair share of Legacy owners that are in the Columbia and Baltimore area to have a monthly meet.

Keefe

[almondcookie]

I guess the next question would ask is what's a good time for everyone? Say the 2nd or 3rd saturday of every month? Most likely it'll be around noon-ish so we can grab some lunch at the same time.

I only suggested Fudds because you can have a good handful of people show up and be obnoxiously loud and no one will care. The food's not bad either and the milkshakes are yummy. =P.

[Xenonk]

Fuddruckers in Columbia is a good place to be at.. Since there wont be a lot of passer-by ricers that will stop by to "join" in the fun of making a donkey of themselves or something.

I would say the 1st Saturday of every month is good and it would be nice to get some other fellow Subaru owners as well (I love talk to old school Subaru owners, you can learn soo much from them). I'll start a sticky on that for the Mid-Atlantic as soon as I get home tonight from work.

Note to self-
Need to start:
Entire East Coast Motorsports Calendar thread in the Motorsports forum.
Aftermarket Parts List of Companies in all aspects (power, handling, exterior, interior, etc)


Keefe

[Waynerm002]

This would be great. I would love to meet some other Subie folks and get to talk shop on what to do with my new love.

[almondcookie]

I know there's a Suby/something meet up in White Marsh every or every other wednesday. My friend's coworker has a wrx and she's a complete Suby nut. She's telling him... "your friend ... with the new legacy ... make him stop by work so I can see it."

I know that the Maryland Prelude Club and the MD/Mid-Atlantic RX7 people meet at the same Fudds. I think every 3rd saturday for the rx7 people and every 2nd saturday for the prelude group.

I definitely agree with the old school folks. One guy with an old RX7 (the long nose version - pre '85) showed up one time. He works in downtown baltimore at the Peabody Conservatory. Really cool. And he probably spent the entire day telling us all sorts of stuff, even a 5 minute how-to on tuning your car with a laptop. He just happened to have his and plugged it in, started the car and started to teach us. "Now this will add more gas... you can hear the engine react .. ok so if i pull the gas levels out.. ah you can hear the engine react differently".

Keefe, I'd like to see your list and get your thoughts because I think my next 'to-do' item will be the uppipe/downpipe/tbe. I'm going to save up some dollars first and once I get the positive cash flow back I'm going to do the entire exhaust all in one shot.

I personally like the monthly format because meeting too frequently detracts from the excitement. You haven't seen everyone in a month - things could happen. Someone will show up and it'll be a stock car and the next month they'll have X, Y and Z installed.
So we have a vote for the 1st week every month.

[usaplanb]

I'm in B-more... def like to see a monthly-ish meet.

[Xenonk]

I'll have to PM you my list of mods (which will be legal for SCCA Solo2 racing).

Keefe

[rockford33]

Another vote for 1st week of every month

[rallispec]

a lot of marylanders here.

if we were having a big meet to make it worth a drive from Manassas - you can count me in.

[almondcookie]

Ok. How long would it take for you to drive to say... Rockville? Rockville might be a little far for the northern folks. Hopefully we can find a happy medium. Oh and if anyone has any food likes or dislikes, chime in. I'll start:

Meat for me, i.e. steaks, burgers, etc. I don't particularly like mexican food (chipotle's, etc) because cilantro makes me ill. I can take a little bit but not a lot.

[PGT]

Rockville is doable. I am in Leesburg and can make it there in 45 minutes or so. Should be about the same for Manassas and most of the NOVA area.

[almondcookie]

Rockville might be the place to be. It takes me about 30-40 minutes also... I drive slow. =). I guess we'll have to wait for more people to chime in and get the concensus.

[rallispec]

rockville is cool.:)

[almondcookie]

Cool then we have another vote for Rockville. I know Keefe would like that since he pretty much lives there. He'd probably walk to the meet if he didn't love his car so much. haha.

[almondcookie]

Since the first weekend of the month might be a little sudden for some people, anyone have any objections with the 12th of march? I'll make another thread if anyone's interested. Hopefully the weather will be nice.

Word in the cube isles is that we're suppose to get snow tomorrow or something crazy like that.

[Xenonk]

the 12th is fine for me.

Keefe

[rockford33]

I might have to go to my niece's 7th birhtday party, but not sure what time it starts (might be on Sunday, not sure). If I don't have anything else, I am there (unless it is the first nice day, then I might be out buffin' the car!!).

[johnstch]

I dunno if I'd go so far as to say that Rockville is cool, but I'll be there if I'm not too hungover...

[c-lo]

Count me in! Never been to one of these before, is it cool to brings kids? I have a 4 year old son who probably love to come.

One suggestion I would make is lets see if we can maybe find one or two other locations? Just to make it fair for others who may be driving a bit to get there.

[Xenonk]

kids are fine, it's just a bunch of friends showing up to have some good eats and talk about anything.

Keefe

[almondcookie]

You mean alternate places?

Most of the meets I go to either stays in one place or alternates between 2 places. For instance this upcoming meet we'll do in rockville. Decent area with plenty of things to do if you wanted to drive around and check things out. i.e. you were new to the area. Run down to the meeting place early and cruise around. Also the area has different places to eat so the next time we meet there people might say "hey a friend of mine suggested this place and it can seat 15 person parties with no problem". That's a big plus. Another plus is parking lot sizes. Rockville is more southernly so it's more convienent for the Va folks and we might not see a lot of northern MD/PA folks. But the next meet, we can decide on something above Route40 (which is about the middle of MD) and everything works the same way. In this case, we might not see as many Va folks but we'll get to meet all the northern MD/PA people. We just flip-flop every mouth... maybe in the summer we'll pick a place in the center and have a BBQ.

I'll go start a new thread with the upcoming meet details. Looks like we have small group of interested people. Maybe we'll get some forum lurkers to show up also.

[Xenonk]

sounds fine by me, whatever works.

Keefe

[typeSpeed]

Found (http://www.imprezawrxsti.com/postnuke/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=22116) there will be a DC All Wheel Drive meet; will be on Thursday, 3/17/05 at 7:15 @ Hard Times

located at:
6362 Springfield Plaza
Springfield, Virginia 22150
(703) 913-5600

[typeSpeed]

Also, there is an event going on in Richmond on the 26th of this month.
read more here (http://www.usdrift.com/).

[almondcookie]

I'm going to start posting events each as new threads to keep everyone informed of what's going on in the mid-atlantic region. In this case, whatever you're interested in, just drop a line in that thread and set up a meeting place with other m-a folks or trade cell numbers.

A couple events I'm going to is:
formula D drift event in NJ in about a month
hyperfest in july
sema ias

Keefe could probably post the scca fedex schedule as well.

[Xenonk]

the SCCA FEDEX schedule is posted in the Motorsports section as a Mid-A Calendar of motorsports of events

Keefe