Elk River 2.0 was GREAT! Lots of people showed up, Did lots of stuff. Hung out around the camp fire and got drunk. ALl the fun stuff. Then there were cliffs and flying rocks Bunch of drunks triapsing through the woods with no light. FUN FUN! ALso a few bad things but I'll let those involved in the more Damaging aspects of those things post about them. But I will say that we almost wiped out the most active members in the crew all at once!!!!

 

Dido to Johnny!! It was a blast, the good out weighed the bad cause the people were GREAT! I was SO pleased with everyones politeness and friendliness. The only gripe I have was the distance........Was SO far for me! (as well as the "bad things" that happened, I was one of the crew members who almost got wiped out!....but I will let Jess or Joe tell the story) I have a story that happened before we even made it to ER........


I met up with our friend John who started this thread and a buddy of his named Tim (who has a really nice looking 85 Z28) in Vancouver on Friday morning. We met at the local Safeway and proceeded to Chevron to fill up. After doing so I pulled up next to Tim at the light as we left. The light turned green and we accelerated, he started going faster and so did I and next thing we knew we were racing. He's got a carbed 350 with a 5 speed against my TPI auto 305. Well as we continued our pavement pounding I took over as I slung shot out of second into third thanks to the help of my torque convertor. All of a sudden I'm looking in my driver side mirror and I see his car slightly pitch left, then hard right......right into the drivers side rear of my car! The world just slowed down it seemed and all of a sudden this wasn't fun anymore!! We pulled over to the side of the rode and got out to check the damage.....My baby is scarred!! It creased my body line right underneath the fuel cover, and flaked off my 17yr old paint. I will get pics of the damage whenever I get ahold of a camera. Anyway, I check his rig and try to find out what happend to see what the hell he was thinking or did wrong or what the story was. His beautiful just painted red Z was busted up on the passenger front, and the hood was peeled up on the corner. As for the story of what happened, he told me his carb is brand new and started chugging and flooding out and stalled his car.........causing him to lose control It seemed like a not-so-believable story at first as I didn't know the guy....and I am still unsure if that is the truth as he knows it and doesn't know any better or what.....but he is a nice guy and apologized and we still had a fun weekend together.
All in all the weekend was pretty incredible, in good and bad ways. There was another incident that I will let either Joe, Jess or Johnny tell........it was worse than my accident!!....and could've been very fatal to all or some of us!! The people I met this weekend were amazing and I totally enjoyed all their company. Thank you all who came and helped and are now great friends! Bart, Mike and his wife, Rodney and his wife, Joe, Jess, John Dewey and his girlfriend, Johnny and his wife, Lance, Theresa, Tim and Paul, Brandon and his wife, Tony and his 2nd gen,..........all of you guys, THANKS!! It was a weekend to remember! I'm glad you all made it and made it safely both ways!! (and we all made it safely out of the river road!!) See you all again!!

I also wanted to give a formal thanks to our host and one of our fearless leaders Mr. Joe Blount (that's pronounced "blunt" ) He as well as the rest, is a GREAT guy and a lot of fun!! (he was voted "Most Humurous" of his graduated class!!) Thanks Joe! It was fun my friend!!! :hail:

 

Yeah, ditto what Gibby said.

Good luck on fixxing your car, I would be happy to take a look at that fender with my trusty hammer.

 

I too will quickly add that I had a lot of fun, even with the incidents. It was great meeting those of you I hadn't met before, and seeing old friends again! I'll post a link to my pictures within the next few days.

THANKS JOE!!!!!

 

yes i too had a BLAST, as one of the few to get away without incodent, i feel sorta bad. the drive home with lance and bart was great, we stopped at several spots to do various activitys, and then about salem the famous BLUE502 broke , with enough fiddleing with sensors and stuff we found out it was his handy fuel cutoff swith , he can explain more if he wants.

it was great to see all of you guys who made it , and those who didn't really missed out.

CYA in JAN. guys.

 

That was Very fun! And you forget Samantha and Rheann, Gibby! BUt I bet I could name someone who didn't... HAHAHAHAHA

 

Shoot, sorry Sam and Rheann......You guys are cool too! I guess I just forgot cause they are not active members of the Crew AND they didn't get in the wreck like poor Tony and his nice *** 2nd gen.

 

It was great to see everyone again and meet some of the newer additions for the first time. Roger and his wife Kelly are excellent people and are fit in exceptionally well with the rest of those in attendance, thank you two for making the long drive.

I'm also thinking Roger got a decent public speaking grade in school right now. Anybody else thinking that?

 

Definately better than a C+

 

Absolutely!!!!!

 

Definatly that was one of THE best gatherings to date! They just seem to get better and better! I can't wait for the next one! January in the couve? hahahahahaa To all those I've met before it was great seeing you guys again! For all those I just met for the first time it was great meeting you all and I look forward to seeing you all again! It was great!

 

Thanks for the ego boost on my public speaking skills guys.......

Thanks for the great words on behalf of myself and my wife Mike. I can speak for both myself AND my wife when I say that what I say stands firm......all the people there totally made up for our little fender benders and stuff!! You guys are all some the nicest people I have yet to meet! Thank you all!!


Rodney......Stay away from my car with your hammer!! I've seen the way you split wood!!! There would be nuthin left of my car big fella!!!

 

Aww, come on Rodger.
After you left I fine tuned my fender fixxing skills

 

NO RODNEY!!!!

 

damn

 

Rodney really did improve his skills. It was quite impressive!!!

 

What.....did he get ahold of Tony's car??

 

just a side note.

even after rodney mercilessly beat that car, the tire still rubbed

 

LOL, yeah, my dad and I had to work on it too...

-Joe

 

How's it coming along??

 

He just needed a bigger hammer.

 

Double damn, I HAD a bigger hammer.
Everybody was lookin at me like I was possessed or something.
Roger, my final offer, I will drive up there to pound out that dent. PLEASE :lala: :lala:

 

Dude, if you drive all the way up here.....you can hit it once with a hammer!!