I got an idea that will make everyone happy...
Have the west coast people meet in vegas, and have the east coast people meet somewhere over there >

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then those that choose to come to the east/west meet can head to that and the ones that arent down for that can just go home.
I would suggest where I live for a meet like this:
Its a fairly good sized city.. actually its like 6 combined but there is a really nice strip that has ALOT of weekend cars etc... we also have a REALLY nice dragstip that nopi was at last year and will prolly return next, maybe time it with that, we also have some pretty cool places for pics etc and water, there is also the district which is like 4-5 city blocks of bars/nightclubs and it stays open till 3am >

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there is also a mall that they do car shows at all the time.. im sure we could work something out for that.
also plenty of hotels etc that are usally pretty cheap.. would diffently work out some grouprate for a discount
I am about 300 miles west of chicago and about 4 hrs north of st louis... I would suggest stayin out of a large city... it would be too crowed for a large group of cars wanting to cruz around and would be really easy to get lost for those that dont know the city.
I would diffently be down to get everything organized for this on this end if you guys would wanna work out the details for the smaller meets.
Just a few thoughts to kick around