It'd be nice if someone who lived closer to Santa Cruise could go scout parking lots. We gotta figure 30 cars right?

 

Ill be there in santa cruz. i kno a place in manteca prints shirts for like 10-20 bucks if you bring in your own shirt you can always have norcal on the front but again there needs to be more interest in the shirt so far only a few people have said anything about it

 

Your going to Santa Cruz before the Cruise Tim? or you mean you'll be at the cruise?

 

so whose meeting where? im driving from Patterson,Ca i just wana cruise with a couple more third gens leaving any where from tracy stockton sac. manteca... just wondering where i can meet any one off an exit or something. Let me know.

 

Where are you located in the South Bay? I'd be up for cruising to the meetup spot with you. I've been wanting to get a close up of your ride since I saw your COTM write up..

 

I am near Oakridge Mall on Allen Ave. We'll roll out together.

 

Manteca/Modesto/Stockton/Tracy the exact meet up spot has not been determined. But most likely it will be at Target in Lathrop off of Louise Avenue. I will be arranging the stuff. But we are a month away still. I will make the official thread with info. so we can get it all organized.

 

That sounds good. I'll be coming from Tracy.

 

I will be at the cruise come man.

 

well i thought you were responding to my parking lot question. my bad.

 

na jus tryin to get on the list without sendin an email is all lol

 

What is the address of the official start of the cruise? I will probably come down friday night and be ready in the morning!

 

Ask Will to send you a pm with his address. We're meeting at his house

 

Anyone from the east bay rolling out? Im in Martinez.

 

A Steve from San Jo, want to meet up then go to wills house?
Anyone coming from south of me too so we can head north together to sf

 

This is going to be FUN.. (is this only open to 3rd gens, or can other generation F-Body's tag along)?

 

I am hopefully going to rent a 2012 Camaro for a day and will be driving that in the cruise!!

 

Well obviously 3rd gen's are preferred. Last year it was open to anyone wanting to cruise. We had corvette, 4th gen's, monte carlo. older trans am. Pretty much we appreciate all cars and having 40 cars is better than having 30. Feel me? But third gen's are the focus. So everybody is welcome

MR. IROC is coming from San Jose. You can meet up with him. He wouldn't mind. But las time they joined in at the first stop and not from Norcal's house but I do not know what his plans are for today.

 

Travis, do you have a place to crash Friday night?

If you guys decide to do that, that would be cool, but it would definitely tag on some additional driving to your trip. You can come to SF, or meet us at the midway point, which will be either the 84 west @ 280, or the 92 west at 280. I need to drive by the 84 west @ 280 location and see if the park n' ride lot will accommodate us.


We had 2nd, 3rd, and 4th gens in attendance last year, as well as a g-body and a c5. Even though it's a ThirdGen club activity, it's nice to see a variety of GM cars.

 

Not yet

 

You can crash at my place if you need to man. I know your car is pretty low, but we can put some 2x4's down and get her in the driveway off the street for the night. Let me know

 

Ill be in my 4th gen

 

I might have a few of my 4th gen buddies tag along with me.. (I don't want to be the only Trans Am out there lol, being that the 3rd gens are rarely seen at all anymore)

 

92rs,
I was planning to meetup with Mr. IROC and we were going to drive up together. Not sure if we plan to drive to Will's or to the meetup spot on Hwy 280.
I'm sure we can arrange to meetup somewhere and cruise up together.

 

Yeah that's cool I'll meet upwith you guys. For some reason I thought the cruise started at norcals house lol.

 

About half of the group that comes from Sacramento and the Valley met at my place last year. The other half met us in San Mateo before actually starting the cruise. So is somewhat of a mini cruise before and after.

 

Their will be a few trans am out there. but no one mind's 4th gens at all


well it kind of does but the distance missed isn't too much so you'll be alright

 

Hay guys this year we need to take group pictures.......maybe I can go down this weekend and look for a place

 

How would everyone feel about ending the cruise at a park or similar (scenic) location this year? I've been looking for places in DT Santa Cruz that can handle the group, and I just can't find any that will allow us to park together in an orderly fashion. That being said, there are a few nice parks in the area, and we could end at one of them, do a simple lunch, and then cruise back our own ways.

Would this be something that you guys would be ok with? I figure, it's cheaper, less of a headache, and we might actually get a chance to take that group photo we've been waiting a year for!

Will

 

Anything is good. By simple lunch do you mean picnic or find somewhere close and go in large or small groups?

 

I think a park with bbq pits is perfect give us more time to hang out and bs wouldn be worried about crowds around cars and parking shouldn be a problem i think thats a good idea

 

I wanna go. I'm in Fresno. What do I have to do?

 

show up. haha.

Join the nor cal facebook page. Other than that email norcalz28 and tell him you are going. william.a.mays@gmail.com That is quite a trek from Fresno. Mark might also be coming from Fresno so you too should talk. You on facebook? join the facebook page.. sorry misinformation here is the link to the facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/groups/129085253810414/

 

im from fresno to n i wanna be there too

 

I'm from Yreka and thats as far as Fresno is...I think lol I love the idea of going to a park and doing a bbq type thing. Do the burger or hot dog thingy. Bring our own what we want made? Or someone bring a bunch of one thing for everyone? (like what we did in April '11 gtg @ Norcals house)

 

Eh Fresno is closer Duane haha

 

So Anthony, I'll get the long distance award. haha

 

Oh freck, you are NNOOORRR cal!

 

A park would be great, although the parking lots could be full in Santa Cruz. Maybe a Best Buy/Walmart location with a large parking lot, or even a large church that has a massive parking lot. We need to think outside the box. Do we even really need to drive through Santa Cruz? I for one hated the traffic last time we went.

 

whats the status on the t shirts? how much ? do we pay for them when we all meet ?

 

I've never figured out yet how to enlarge these pic's yet, but you guys can feel free to use this drawing I've had done to stick on my garage floor for T-Shirts. Just don't copy the paint job till Mine is actually finished please!!!! Thanks, Nitro

 

Having a meet up point on 280 would be good, i live just off of 280 in redwood city, and if i can get the camaro running well enough to go either at 84 or 92 would be good meet up places for people around san mateo...

 

Does anyone work for Hertz car rental, or any other rental agency that rents Camaros? I want to rent a Camaro for our cruise to Santa Cruz. Hertz charges 39 cents a mile after 100 miles and I'm trying to void the charge!!

 

So are we going to a park or burger. ?

 

We could take over the boardwalk LOL.... How about Capitola? There are a few large parking lots out there from what I remember and they are still close to the beach/marina settings.

 

For a logo they should include the california bear...

 

I for one don't want to end the cruise at Walmart of all places. This is a cruise to Santa Cruz, down the coast. If this was a monthly meeting or something like that, your location would be fine. But we're trying to have an enjoyable experience here. FWIW, there has been plenty of outside the box thinking to date, and while there was some traffic last year, I don't think it really bothered anyone else. Even the guys from SA with the overheating car took it in stride. Can't please everyone.

Looks like the park idea will work out. I'll post locations this evening and we can figure out which one we want to go to.

 

The day is getting closer and closer. How do we get/pay for the shirt? How many ppl are officially going?

 

The shirt is on the backburner it seems and rightfully so. I'd rather more time be taken into making a great shirt. instead of rushing it and not everyone liking it (althoug it is always hard to please everyone). Just focus on more of a nor cal third gen. and forget about doing anything with the annual santa cruz trip. and go back to the shirt afterward. IMO.

We are 26 days away, let's pick the official cruise end spot. Decide on food. (im going to burger regardless). And then we can all focus on making sure our cars are in tip top condition for this day.

 

Officially I've had email confirmations from about 15 people. Unofficially, we have over 30 people going through the facebook page, which includes a couple of confirmed people. Its impossible to tell how many will actually show up.

As for the T-shirts, deciding on a design has proven harder than I would have thought. So they will not be ready for the cruise.

Will