Time for another one. The first "Florida" meet was on February 20th of 2010. The location was good, and the people were good. Let's make it better this time.

1. SwissFerdi (Ferdi)

Please provide username and real name on the attendance list.

>>>>Location: >>>>

Magnolia Park, Orlando, FL

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source...=14&iwloc=A

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Noon.

The location and date are open to change pending conflict.

Current attendance:

1. SwissFerdi (Ferdi) -- burgers of awesomeness
2. b22ri22an (Brian) --charcoal to cook Ferdi's burgers of awesomeness
3. Axel04 (Axel)
4. yarik83 (Yuri)
5. RedVoodoo (Donald) -- Let me know what I should bring. Drinks?
6. Oldengrumpy (Bruce)

This post has been edited by SwissFerdi: Feb 12, 2011 - 10:44 PM

im down but my celica is out of commission starting major projects in a couple months. Im in lakeland

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I'm surprised I've never seen you around. So the celica will be down for the meet? What will you bring?

We need to get some moar people in on this... isn't looking too good so far. It's Ferdi's fault.

that becuase i moved from NC to Fl 5 months ago. My celica wont be ready it is a shell right now. Preping for a roll cage, I have v6 , awd swaps planned. Like I said major projects.

there is a possibility if/when you guys have a meet in the summer, id be able to show up. (my sister is going to move there in a few months and I can meet you guys when I go to visit )

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I'm sorry that you live in Lakeland. I just moved out of there about 7 months ago. Although, I am now in Winter Haven which still sucks. People in Polk County always drive about 20 mph below the speed limit.

Anyway, I have no idea right now if I would be able to make it. No idea what work will be like around that time.

I would like to attend but I want to paint it before that.. An possibly finish with my 7afe turbo

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Trust me it's not going to matter if you have your car painted or not. We really just need to get people to attend. I've been to both that we had before and I will try my best this time as well. Pluse I have a new Celica that you all need to see. We need to look up people again in the Florida and send them a pm lol.

Samir got a hold of me. While I no longer own a celica I may be able to make that meet. Right now I am tied up with work. If I was to come I would be traveling from 33547 to destination in my truck. I will know more later and will be updating on situation as things go.

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He is right. We don't care and aren't gonna give you any crap for how it looks. If the car runs, it should be there! No exceptions!

I did PM a bunch of people the last 2 times Axel, the messages either get ignored, or people write back their excuses.

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I'll punch your mother in the face if you has an excuse.

I might attend. Pending my availability from my two jobs...

I forgot to put some details, so I'll do that here. The plan is a little meet-and-greet at 12, just hanging out and stuff (all day son ). I'll be providing burgers, you guys bring whatever else you want. Afterwards, it's cruise time mothersuckers. I'll have new tires so I'm ready to pwn somebody with me auto ST.

Samir, ready for Ferdi's corner version 2.slow?

This post has been edited by SwissFerdi: Jan 11, 2011 - 2:46 PM

Wow 379 Views and 12 replies! Come on people..

well if i can finish my swap by that time i will show up, cant miss the chance to meet other celica lovers

What are you swapping in?

look at the norcal meet guys!



can we have a turnout like that, PLEASE? I'm jealous.

This post has been edited by samir0189: Jan 17, 2011 - 2:44 PM

lololololololol

Go look over our thread, and find a place you know is going to have what you need:
1:place to BBQ/eat
2:Place for pictures
3: Easy to get to a good cruisin road(we used highway 1 )

Also someone needs to take charge and organize everything (ie talk 1:1 with ppl about what to bring, go look at the location or at least contact the park manager or w.e. to ask if its alright and where and when the best time to be there is). I took control planning the norcal meet and in turn we had way to much food and everyone only had to bring like 1 thing. And yea PM members around the area, i mean hell i randomly PMed some ppl who dont even have 6gcs and they came out and made it even more fun.


Saying just bring what you want and lets hope **** works wont cut it.

.02.

This post has been edited by SupraKid: Jan 17, 2011 - 3:52 PM

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Did numbers 1, 2, and 3 last time. Park has bbq grills, ferdi made the burgers, there is a supermarket 1mi away that driving over to is fun. The place is OK for pics. I planned the cruise route as well and it can also be altered and branched out into some of florida's scenic highways and go over the tallest point in peninsular FL (Sugarloaf mountain).. if I wanted it to (a nice drive btw). I PM'd everyone last time and they all PM'd me back excuses, or they'd view the thread and no reply at all.

The problem is: no one in FL seems to want to meet.

TY for the advice... but its just a matter of getting these people to show up!

P.S. I am seriously jealous, Andrew. Looked like a good time.

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3rd gen 3s, and will still use the s54 tranny. currently have both wire harness out and should be sending it out soon for conversion

There are a lot of things that come to mind when .... frankly most of them have already been said. We all have lives and we all have excuses but some of us have more excuses than others and others have more lies than lives. Nobody is putting a gun to anyone's head and making them do anything they do not want. But if people actually join a website such as this one and actually attempt to socialize on topic of their cars (in this case celicas)... it seems only logical that once per year they would find it in their heart to come out and meet their online comrades. In reality people would make up excuses not to go even if they had to drive 5 miles to the meet. It is sad but also true.

Considering that many of our old members (myself included) have moved on to other cars and newer members showing less interest in staying active it does not really matter who gets delegated with what. What matters is that people say they would like to come out if there was a meet and then when there is an actual meet scheduled they start shuffling their feet making excuses and as time nears the meet date more and more flake out like dandruff. Some just dont show up at all even when all information is provided.

Our last meet at the park had everything going for it. Centrally located for North, East, West and South (not far south or far north but still many members non the less). Weather was beautiful and location and cruise route were fantastic. Guess who showed up.... guess who did not show up... What was more mind boggling is that people that we normally do not socialize enough with ended up driving across the state meeting us (frankly I dont even know why) but there they were with their cars... at out meet... and you know what.. it was appreciated.

So lets stop lollygaging and either do this or call this off. Otherwise there is no point in attempting all those meets in the first place.

Grumpy russian out.

^ Hear hear, my friend. Good to see the ol' pessimism back.

Having said that, I have since subscribed to Yaro's pessimism and am therefore also quite in agreeance.

It was nice of the others indeed to come out, even if they did have to drive alldayson.

This post has been edited by SwissFerdi: Jan 18, 2011 - 12:41 AM

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That made me giggle...Good to see your back yuri ...I feel as if im part of the FL scene now..So i will in turn help you nukkas out...

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Uhh...

This post has been edited by SwissFerdi: Jan 18, 2011 - 12:56 AM

Ya, sorry you dont get a choice,samir needs me..ill be here to annoy everyone in your thread now


But yuri is def right, if you dont have devoted members your gonna have a ****ty meet, end of story. You have to have one of you 6gc.net addicts talk to some members that are hardly ever on and help them out and show them that if they go to an online meet they wont get robbed and attacked by crazy ppl. Even maybe organize a few games to play with the celicas at the meet(it sounds stupid but its actaully pretty fun if ppl get into it. The Griff V smaay parallel parking war on 2010 was epic..

I mean florida has a HUGE car scene doesnt it?There is bound to be a bunch of 6gc members lurking around.

This post has been edited by SupraKid: Jan 18, 2011 - 1:03 AM

Hi all.

I wanted to make it last year, but had to work at the last minute. I hope to make it this year and can probably get another Celica friend to come.

I’m not sure if I'm one of the truly devoted, but I’ve had my Celica for 17 years now (bought new) and have done a lot of work to her over the years. I hope to see some other peoples’ rides, get some new ideas and just enjoy all things Celica

I am also looking forward to a bit of a ride from St. Pete to Orlando, I think my Celica enjoys I-4

Hope to see a few people there,
Donald

^ 17 years sounds like devotion to me. I'm counting you in.

This post has been edited by SwissFerdi: Jan 18, 2011 - 10:05 AM

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It depends on how you look at it. All the places I have lived in Florida have been dominated by Nissan and Honda. A lot of the 6gc's I see now are ragged out POS's driven by college students who don't take of their cars. I saw one where the headlight was just kinda dangling off to the side and the passenger side of thr bumper was all banged up. This would have been fine if the person got into an accident recently, but the first time I saw it was about 1.5 years ago and it still looks the same today. That being said, I would love to come to the meet, but as of right now I only work Friday through Sunday and go to school the other 4 days of the week. And to me, school comes before anything else at this point in my life. Plus I really don't have the money to drive out there. I'm a broke college student lol. I honestly feel guilty that I can't go. Hopefully all goes well and I can make a future meet. I think a Gulf Coast meet would be very nice.

A gulf coast meet would be pretty awesome actually, I'll look into that for the next meet. Seems like most of the active members come from O-town and further south.

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I would be a lot more likely to make the Gulf Coast. It really is hard for me with money right now. Plus a pic of a bunch of Celi's on the coast would be nice. I definitely need to try your burgers some time.