This post is set up for people to organize caravans to Thirdgen Fest from the south. You can make plans to meet up with other cars and cruise up together.

 

Who's coming up from the south anyway?
I'm planning on attending on Saturday, probably leaving Pekin, IL area around 7 am.
Any one want to get together?

 

i'll be heading up 57 from mt vernon effingham is a good meeting point and are other places up the road i'll post my cell number when it closer so we can set up a meeting place

 

What day you going up Jim ?

 

not sure if i'll make it on fri but i'm going to try, if not go up early sat

 

Well I won't know until closer to the actual day , but I''ll let you know when I am heading up ? You staying the night up there ?

 

i'll be up there all weekend i'll be staying at my brother in laws in joliet.

 

Me and a friend we'll be bringing our formulas

 

I am in carbondale and will not be able to leave untill friday afternoon at the earliest. would not mind driving up with you guys. I will also be staying with a friend in joliet very close to the race track!

 

i prolly won't be heading up till sat morning

 

I think that saturday morning would be best. It takes about 5 hours so what time should we leave.

 

more than likely i'll go up sat morning i'll be leaveing mt vernon around 7 make a stop in effingham meet more there, and the first rest stop north of champaign. met some both places 2 yrs ago. like i said i'll post my number when it gets closer to time....

 

Depending on if someone needs my trailer or not I could meet up with you guys in Bloomington on Sat. if you are coming up on I55

 

57 is a straight shot north for me

 

Duh I don't know what I was thinking lol (55 is how we nomally go to chicago)
How about meeting at 24 and 57 just let me know what time

 

that can be done. if i remember right that is gillman. if everthing goes good i'd say around 10:30 11:00 about a hr from denny's

 

Works for me..... I will PM my# as we get closer and make sure everything is still on
Like I said the only thing that might change would be if someone up there needs to use my trailer to get thier car to the show then I will have to get there early enough to do that

 

sounds like a plan

 

You're not trailering your car this year ?

 

I usually drive the car most places we go but I have 5 members in my family so if everyone goes we have to trailer (got one old enough he will be on his own soon) also if the low is going to be 47 or lower at night my carbs and linkage ice up and freeze so thats another factor I have to watch out for.

 

i have thought about trailering mine ,,, but i'll have more fun driving it

 

whats a trailer ??????????????????????? hahahahahahahahaha

 

this thing is coming up and I want to know where and when the closest meeting place is to carbondale so we can cruise in style.

 

from carbondale mt vernon is the closeest to you i am leaving here at 7 am on sat the 27th i'll post my number when it gets closer.

 

I cant make it. at least not with my firebird and I do not want to show up in the berretta.

have fun guys

 

what happened to your car???

 

I melted a cam down at 7gs and now I have to put screw in stud in the heads and do a ring and bearing overhaul on the bottom end

 

you got time get her fixed and go with us

 

sheesh i won't have all my motor parts until thursday of next week, thanks again summit!! they are shipping my order from 3 different parts warehouses since i said i needed the parts ASAP....couldn't be happier. but i'm building the motor next week, hope to have it in the car, and the bumpers, hood, etc etc wiring, new column, etc etc. all done by may 10th at the latest, which will give me 20-ish days to relax with the car in the garage this year before thirdgenfest.

 

time is getting close, whoever wants to caravan up post up.... i am leaving here at 7 am

 

I can't give anything definite Jim . i want to go and my car should be all up and running and liscensed and insured , but I gotta wiat to see how everything goes before I make definite plans .

 

Its gonna be next year for me fellas. I need a break so I am putting a nv3500 in my 69 c-10.

next month I think I am going to start on the bird motor. I am also going to strip it down and make it straighter than the day GM gave birth to her.

 

wow soo many people dropping out of this thing. who would have thought...lol.

 

Heh lol

 

not me my bird is primed and ready for the flight to crete lol

 

sounds good i hope to fire up my motor tomorrow as long as the install goes smoothly...but when does that ever happen

 

Tell me about it man . I've had my car down since December . Started to do heads and cam on the 305 , then decided to go ahead and install a 400 I had previously bought . Well it turned out the 400 wasn't in even close to running shape . So then it went to the machine shop , and he ordered the wrong pistons . Had to look for other pistons and he wouldn't give me my money back on those . Then decided to upgrade the Edelbrock RPM cam , so I bought a different cam and springs . Had to orderv a special flywheel balancer to fit on a 153 tooth flywheel because I had a T-5 . I didn't have the money for all these steps since I had planned to only install the 400 , so everytime I had to stop and save for the next item . Anyway it is very close to done , but the curse has stayed with me . I must have just had to buy the most rare starter in the world. $355.00 mini-starter !!!!!!!!!. I really hope to have it running this weekend !! We''ll see . Good luck to you too .

 

the only way you curse yourself is by getting ahead of yourself and not thinking things through.

I want to go to thirdgen fest bad but I am not going to rush and slap it together like I did last time to spend a weekend showing off my car

I did not build it to show it I built it to maybe drive it for more than 3 months someday

 

is there anyone else going up from the south ???

 

Im still going leaving sat morn n !