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You wouldn't be able to come at the end of summer this year or next year even? That's a hectic schedule lol.


Yeah, it cost me about $200 to drive from Wilmington, NC(the beach) to Phoenix, AZ. Another tank when I moved from Phoenix to Cali(and that tank would've gotten me to the beach. Mileage will differ from location to location, so that's why the meeting place is gonna be based on where we get the most solid interest from. If it's more north, we go north, more south, we go south, and mixed, then we go right in the middle. If it's not enough interest to get more than 50 ppl on 6gc alone to attend(not counting the other sites I plan on posting on, and other clubs((yotas only, preferably celicas, then supras, mr2s, and camrys))), then we wont have it this coming summer and will shoot for the summer afterwards. I gotta get a good following for this one if we want it sponsored and all that. I talked to my dude at Yota and he was saying that region would work, but I need to get more solid interest of course. Also, he mentioned something about some gas cards to help out with everything(won't cover the full cost, but will help). And all of you members who live in one of the 3 mentioned possible states should have no excuse not to show up ppl, even if for just one day of this meet when its out of theory and more into planning.

Again, spread the word people so we can get some feedback.

P.S., some of you Canadians should come down too, depending on where you are at, cuz some of you aren't far at all from the area we are looking at.

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I most likely can, pending that I don't have a job. But sorry, driving a few days for a meet in the middle of the country is a bit ridiculous.

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I feel ya on that. That's why if we do get enough possible interest and things start coming together, we will figure out where, and then plan out some cool things to do and see along with the meet. It's probably about a 22 hr drive from you to OKC which isn't too bad, but definitely a long way if you are busy/the turn out wont be great. Tryin to prevent the second thing from happening by getting some ideas off ppl now. Figure there's no better time to start getting this set up than now, earlier the better.

Well...there are a lot of things you can do as far as what is going to happen at the meet. For example, out here there was an ATS meet (its a local shop, specializes in MR2's, swaps, etc). What they did was have a 3 day meet in which people had to pay an entry fee. In these 3 days they had seedoo excursions, dyno/tune day, track time, a little drive, BBQ. Im sure that someone here went to it and can shed more light on what they did. But its an idea. Get some sponsors, do a meet/greet, dyno/tune days, stuff like that. Even if it was two days but you had things going on Im sure youd get a better turnout.

I do admit that if the event was Toyota sponsored, free shwag, a little track time, maybe dyno time, would be awesome. However, I don't see why Toyota would care. Sadly.

dabazied, 22 hours sounds about right. Quite a distance. But I'll be keeping my eye on this thread anyway.

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Oh for sure. I think the entry fee thing isn't such a good idea for us, just because we *fingers crossed* will have people spending loads on gas and stuff like that coming halfway across country for some of us. But, once we get some more people in the maybe pile, we will decide on an area, get the sponsor stuff worked out, then figure out what there is in the area to do and plan out some details on what we should do by popular vote.

And Swiss, Toyota has no sporty cars out at the moment. They are doing good on the sales that they have. To see if the company wants to roll out some newer sporty cars or bring some back from the dead(per the guy I've been talking with), a nice little car show/Yota sponsored meet would help gauge interest on doing something like that and re-expanding their line up. Gets their name out there more, shows what they used to be, and sees if there are enough people wanting to see some great cars from toyota. If they get enough people to come to a show, and get good reviews from people looking, then bam, they are more likely to put out a sporty car WITH a Yota badge. That's just how he explained it to me. Also, depending on when this happens(meaning this or next yr) there is a possibility of them bringing out the new mystery car that they HAVE been working with subaru on to show it off.

This post has been edited by dabazied: Nov 16, 2009 - 9:09 PM

I agree with not having an entry fee as well....I think they used it to cover some costs. The only problem I would see with sponsors, is that the local sponsors would have a problem selling their stuff to people who are not locals. For example, if I want to get the celica's interior redone, im not going to drive out of state to do it....

Well, so far, all I have is Yota, so after we get more organized I will start contacting local places in the area to see if they wanna sponsor in the way of maybe something discounted or if they do some sort of service, make it so that it would be pretty much done while at the actual meet or whatever, just simple stuff.

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Pretty sure that secret car is called the FT-86. Not so secret.

I would totally go to test drive that, kinda what Hyundai did with their Genesis tour.

I'd definitely go if Toyota brought the FT-86, even just to look at. But I say if your contact at Toyota says if we can get a good group of sports car interest going, then we hit up all the Toyota forums. Celicatech, Supraforums, MR2OC, the works. Let's get EVERYBODY to come. I definitely want the 6gc scene to have a good share of this though. I don't want to see our cars get completely shut out. But I say we get everyone we can to come. I'm sure if this meet turns out to be big enough, then certain shops would LOVE to have us. Imagine all the money walking around at a meet like that. Surely some shop or some track will want to get a part of that.

Yeah, probly have a larger turn out if it just wasnt 6gc, get all the nice toyotas involved and youd have a turnout!

sounds really really fun if the turn out can be really in the 100's but 22hours of driving personally I don't think I can handle something like that, and I am all for meets.

I say a west coast meet in the Yreka/Big Springs, CA area.

^^why sudden change of mind?

Definitely, I will be hitting up the other forums and some of the club connects I have to get more cars out. I definitely would like to get it so that we have a really strong 6gen presence as well. This is my community, toyota is my community in a broader spectrum, so I'm not leaving the rest of the fam out, but 6gc is where I belong for a long time.

2C2L, come on now, we will caravan out there, and its not quite 22 hrs to OKC from here, it was 22hrs for him cuz hes down south in FL. It's close, but not quite. Plus we have New Mexico and AZ that makes it a little quicker of a drive for us out here. Distance, we are about the same, but time wise, we have a little less than that as a drive out there.

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I don't think I ever changed my mind.

I don't want to drive 27 hours to the middle of the country. I would rather drive 7.5 hours to Northern CA.

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the point is you dont need to hang out with all douchebags for a weekend, if thats what you call us

This post has been edited by nics: Nov 16, 2009 - 11:45 PM

I'm planning to drive out west in the summer anyways in the summer to oregon. Maybe if this ever happens i could work something out

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That's actually already in the works for early summer of next year, just getting some more plans/research done first before starting that thread up.

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Sweet Jesus. If you couldn't tell that was a joke then god help you.

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My family has some land out in the boonies in Big Springs. I'm sure if I spoke to them we could utilize their field for camping and stuff.

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You rang?

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Sorry, wrong number.

According to GOOGLE (the know-all-be-all in the world) the geographic center of the contiguous united states (sorry HI and AK) is:
near:
Lebanon Kansas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_ce...s_United_States
sounds like a hick-town in the middle of no-where but...?
its only fair?


edit: holy sh!t i just checked and i'm 15hours from there (cincinnati, ohio)... and hell no i'm going somewhere warm if i'm traveling 15hours

This post has been edited by cjh4l22: Nov 16, 2009 - 11:57 PM

Alright 95, sounds like something to look into. I was looking into probably early summer for that meet. Just hit me up or I'll PM you sometime after I do some more research and stuff. Where exactly are you located at?

Seattle

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That's geographic, not driving wise, trust me on that. But like I said, the location will shift a bit based on responses of positive maybes/I'm in's from ppl and where they are coming from.

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Shot DOWN.

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lol ok.. then why so serious and you cant take mine as a joke? well then god help you as well.

smiley talks

This post has been edited by nics: Nov 17, 2009 - 12:02 AM

Alright kids, don't make me put you guys in those chairs facing the corner. Hahah, jokes, 95 is an ass, but its funny, nics has some good ones too. Anyways...... back to meet discussion.