58mark

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air dam is on.. hopefully that will keep the temp cooler on the way there and back tomorrow. It never over heated, but it was about 75% up, and I didn't like that

monkihead

I have a stock tuned port harness w/ecm(165) - will bring it just in case.

IF interested, I can bring NIB Lakewood lower control arms, NIB Comp Cams 07-304-8 roller cam, used tbi truck harness w/ecm(747) and NIB Prw self aligning full roller rockers 1.5 ratio.

Stephen

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1 extra tire no longer needed.....Sumitomo HTR+

Plenty of life left in this tire. Over 1/4" tread depth left.

$50obo

I can bring it to the Gathering if anybody wants or needs it.

58mark

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ok, you all will be glad to know we are NOT going to be outside on the patio. We will have tables blocked off all together inside.

Also, i'm going to get some name badge stickers today so people can write their real name/screenname on them. I know it's a little dorky, but it sure helps when you are talking to people to know who you are dealing with.

flu_by_u

Good call on the name tags!

1fas92

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I have some name tag stickers for NTTGA.....printed....DONE.....

If any ohter group wants them made for FREE, send me your logo or what you might want printed on them..... before 5 today......

And i am limited to black & white

They are 2 inched tall by 4 inches wide.....

58mark

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that's very cool! emailing you a list right now... I'll see if I can find a couple logos..

did you leave some room on the badges for real names?

1fas92

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what i have right now, just black and white........

An they are printed 10 to a page

1fas92

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And Mark I found those window cranks, you want me to bring them?

58mark

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yes please! you get my email with the list of names?

58mark

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bring some blanks too for last minute RSVP's

1fas92

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They are done hopefully everyone is okay with what i have.....

58mark

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I'm sure they'll be great... thanks Robbie. See you at Braums!

weswisehart

I have a set of Iroc wheels if anyone is interested. I know short notice but best offer takes them.

58mark

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what a great day!
i'll get some pics up soon, but in the meantime let me thank stephen for helping put this together, robbie for printing out the name badges, and everybody else for coming and making it such a great day. the plans are already in the works for next years event, including some ways to beat the heat.

we ended up with at least 33 cars there, and lots of people, probably close to 80!

there were some great cars there, and really great people. it was everything I hoped for.

weswisehart

I agree thanks to all of you who helped put this together.

Stephen

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It was very cool to put some faces with some names on here. Talks already started regarding next year & I'll be pushing more towards a little earlier in the year. Late enough to avoid rain & early enough to avoid the heat. It was 97 today, 104 heat index in Georgetown!

A local member as offered the possible use of his big place for next year. It sounded like a very option, until it was mentioned that at the restaurant we had the benefit of food, bathrooms, free refills on drinks, access to more food if it was wanted & plenty of AC seating or even outdoor shaded seating. After all that was mentioned, we just may stay with a restaurant gathering. I know I made several trips back inside for refills of tea. I know I caught several members taking a break inside to get out of the heat for a bit.

A big thanks goes out to Mark (58mark). He helped me out planning & a lot in making the phone calls & such to Dukes to work it all out with them.

The name badges were a pretty good idea too. Thanks Robbie! Not a bad idea to stick with that for any following years. Maybe next year we can do more than just eat & bs with everyone?

drew.davis83

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was really cool onlything i wish was that the back parkinglot was a little bigger so we did not have to spread out so far

zimmstoy

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Had a great time everyone! Mark, Stephen and Robbie - great job with the logistics. It all worked out very well. Had a great time.

Stephen

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I wanna gather everyone's links to their pics, like to Photobucket accounts & such, and post them all here together. If you don't have any place to put pics....Email them to me & I'll put them in mine & share it here.

Here is the first one I've got....
Albani's Pics

58mark

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here's my album... I wish I had gottena picture or video of the North Texas guys in the caravan coming down. I was taking the point, and it was so cool to take a hill or a curve and see ten 3rd gens right behind me in my mirror!

http://s149.photobucket.com/albums/s...e%20gathering/

StevenK

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I added those, and others to the gallery here -> http://www.austinthirdgen.org/galler...hlightId=92586

I've set it up where anyone can upload to that gallery if ya'll want to add more. Just click "add items" in the navigation menu on the left and it will take you to the upload page.

Dark Ember

That would be me and my wife. We were getting sunburned and as mentioned, it was hot. Great event though, well worth the drive even from Houston.

Stephen

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Can't say I blame ya. But you guys weren't the only ones.

Next year it will be in spring or fall, to avoid the heat, but then we hafta avoid the rain. The rain is easier, since at worse, we just move it back 1 weekend.

Fall '11 might be easier to judge since there is less rain & we can watch this fall for when the rains come, to plan for next year.

travis401

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All those pics make me sad I didnt make it. Next year though....

zimmstoy

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I am down for Spring or Fall. If the attendance is about the same I can potentially host the meet at the house. Possibly get a commit and have food catered in.

Lucid

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I had been planning to go for months, and really bummed I didnt get to go. The thing with having a chronic disease is that things dont seem to pan out like you planned.

I see at least two guys from SA that made it out there, so I am glad they got a chance to meet the rest of you all.

drew.davis83

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here is the pics i got form the day http://s1007.photobucket.com/albums/...tewide%20meet/

Stephen

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Feel free to add them the ATGO Gallery that has been set up.....
ATGO Gallery instructions

flu_by_u

Did anyone happen to take video of the clubs pulling into the parking lots?

58mark

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no, i thought austin was going to be there before us, and they arrived as we were just getting a lay of the land. San antonio and Houston arrived later, after we fled indoors away from the heat.

Jim Berry

I got there late, but it was fun to see a lot of thirdgens. My sons' GTA didn't pass inspection that morning, so we couldn't bring it. We forgot to fix the handbrake issue that we had, we focused on getting the exhaust welded. Girlfriend insisted that we stop at IKEA store. Could have spent a fortune there. Looking forward to next year.

ellocojorge

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here are mine

http://s132.photobucket.com/albums/q...20meet%202010/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-UpbVE7HQA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuYuJtfBxbs

58mark

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those are great!

58mark

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OK, it's been a few days, and I'd like to get some input from all of you that participated and even those that couldn't make it

First of all, let me say I like the Austin area as a location for the gathering. It's around a three hour drive from every Major city in Texas. I know that can be a hardship on those coming from Dallas and houston, but there's only two fair ways to do it. One, have a Central location that is a short drive for all involved, or have the location rotate from year to year. I'm not wild about that idea, because if we have it in Dallas, the houston and San antonio guys would be less likely to participate, You have it in San antonio or houston, and that's a 4 to 5 hour drive for the Dallas guys.

The option was raised by one of the Austin guys about having the gathering on Private land, much like the thirdgenfest is up north. I think that's a great idea if we aren't restricting the participation to a cap of a couple dozen cars. I would hate to see the event held back from growth because we chose too small a venue.

I liked Dukes, but Salt lick in round rock would be good too. They have unlimited parking thanks to sharing a parking lot with the baseball stadium, and they are right next to a park as well.

Even the day of the event the idea was raised to move everybody to a park for more shade, but we decided to stay put because of the free refills available to us, and the bathrooms inside the restaurant.

Next topic... time of year.... I think an April or May date would work fine, but the chances of rain dramatrically increase, so if we did that we should have two dates in mind. one for the event, and then another the next week to use as a rain date.

throw out your ideas, I'd love to see this event grow every year. If we do leave it in Austin, it would be great if the ATGO takes over the majority of the planning. Next year it would be great to come up with more to do on the day than just eat and look at cars, but I'm not sure what that would be.

Stephen

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I like the central location idea of keeping in it Austin. Move it north & south people might not come. Move it south & north people might not come. IIRC, we only had 4 Houston people come.

We tried Rudy's, but IIRC, they were more like "Hope you find seating together.....Good luck." No "We'll Reserve a table for your group." Dukes wanted our business more than Rudys, so we went there.

If we move slightly West, I still wanna do the road cruise on our favorite roads in Austin. The crotch rocket crowd really enjoy practically laying their bikes down to hit the curves at speed on those roads.

As for moving the date, I was thinking possibly moving it into the Fall instead of into the Spring. Still cool weather & less rain to avoid. Either way works for me though.

TxTtopZ

I had a good time at the event, thanks for everybody who looked at my car trying to figure out if it was OEM FI on there...also I think I have a "crush" on the black IROC from D&D! That paint was PERFECT! I WILL be giving you guys some bus!! anyway... Dukes was HOT! too hot! The drinks were a good idea but I think we could have faired just as well with a couple big @$$ ice chests and more shade. I absolutely LOVE the idea of a private land based southern gathering... as a matter of fact I even know people who have the land and would let us do it out towards leander. Let me know if I can be of some assistance... I think we may have to mow some before hand...but my neighbor does landscaping and would cut us a deal.

Stephen

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I just had to share this info I just got from my insurance company.

Remember my fender?


From my insurance.....
"This email is in regards to the accident that you were involved on June 26, 2010. I have obtained a statement from the other driver and photos. My investigation is complete, and based on the damage to both vehicles; your accident description makes more sense. The damage to the front of your vehicle had to be done by her step rail when she was getting over. I have called the other driver and advised of me denying her claim."

She was trying to claim that all the door damage to her green SUV was caused my white car.
#1, there was no white paint on her car from mine
#2, there was no green paint on mine from her car
#3, her step rail was crushed in & black marks on my fender where we impacted
#4, my car is way too low to have caused the body damage that high to her SUV anyways

Now to get her insurance company to buy me a new fender. Non-vent/Trans Am fenders are harder to find than GTA/Formula fenders though.

Today is a good day!

If anybody knows where one (or both.....i need both front fenders) are, I'll gladly take the info & pass it on. Obviously I'd hafta buy the passenger side one myself, but I could save $ by getting it painted at the same time as the other one.

TxTtopZ

AWESOME!! All tho, when I looked at your car it looked as though the hood was pressed over some from the feder hitting it from the impact. Now that the hood was pressed over it hit the top of the OTHER fender, and created a domino effect type deal. Warranting the painting of both fenders and the hood... Especially since she is trying the arm lock reversal on you. Just my .02

one92rs

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actually looking to next year. hope the economy is a little better also. especially since i am hurt right now and not able to work. and i hope that more people will show next year.

Stephen

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I definately wanna set up a photo shoot next year. At the very least, one big group pic of everybody there. But it would also be nice to have individual pics of the members with their car & both their real name & screen name. Lets put some faces to these names! I have a good local photographer friend that could do all it for us too.

esc

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I'm still disappointed that I couldn't make it this year. Next year I'll try to get my car in shape with a little time to spare.

I agree that a central location (Austin) is probably best.

Ideally, I would like to see it happen someplace where we could have the run of a parking lot to set up a mini-Auto-X, maybe even a 330' drag strip. Towards that goal I would not have any problem with a registration fee. $20.00, even $40.00 wouldn't not make much difference to me compared to the $200.00 in fuel it would cost me to get there and back. Plus, if there is a registration fee, we would know who was serious about attending.

weswisehart

Just figured id share a few pics. I didnt take many but here are a few. Hope to see some from others.

Stephen

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Not much chance of that happening around Austin. Even the local autocross club, http://spokes.org/ doesn't have a local lot to run in. They either run in San Antonio, at A&M or a local dedicated road course style track.

And all the drag racing happens in San Antonio or Temple (if that track is even open anymore).

esc

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I know Austin has never had a decent racing sceene, but I wonder if it might be possible to convince some parking lot owner to rent us there lot for 1 day a year. If they don't ask what we intend to do, I wouldn't offer any extra detail other than a "state wide car club meet". Maybe hire a local off duty PD to make sure we don't ge hasseled.

As long as we are doing "1-at-a-time" events and set it up properly, there isn't any significant danger of bodily harm.

flu_by_u

I agree with Austin being the city we use for next years gathering. If Duke's isn't set in stone, I would like to throw this place out as an option. Southeast Metropolitan Park. The park info is provided in the link, but I've included a summary. We had a family party at this park/pavilion and it could definitely house our event.
Summary:
Website: http://www.co.travis.tx.us/tnr/parks...east_metro.asp
Map: Google Map of Southeast Metro Park
Features: Shelter, Restrooms, Playscape, Fishing pond, power outlet, big BBQ pit, plenty of parking!
Shelter Fee: $75 per day + $10 non-refundable fee + $50 deposit
$135 up front
$85 after deposit refund.
*Satellite photo attached. We could find a sponsor to cover the shelter costs(I used to do this alot when coaching little league) and take volunteers for meat to grill.

58mark

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looks like a nice place. If we wanted to do food, everybody could just bring their own coolers for a picnic type event.

Stephen

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That's a bit south of Austin, like Georgetown was north of Austin. A few things lean towards having it in Round Rock or North Austin though...

Abilene + DFW = more people coming for north vs Houston for South
There are more North Austin ATGO members than South Austin ATGO members

It just seems like the majority of people would be coming from north than south, which leads me to think we should have a Gathering further north than south. If we move it too far south, we could lose the northern people. I suspect that is also why only 4 people from Houston showed up. They might have felt like it was too far north. We just need to find a good balance for all.

58mark

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I'd be willing to drive a little more south.. not an issue for me. If it helps the houston guys and is a great location, go for it

flu_by_u

Its like a 15-30min difference, depending which route you take IH35 or TX130, from Georgetown. I don't think that amount of time will deter people from coming but I could be wrong. PPL could bring their own food, the grill isn't a burden on anyone bc its already there so just cook what you bring. Its by the airport, so cheap hotels are plentiful if anyone wants to stay the night like the SA guys did. I would be willing to get out there early and start the grill, cone off parking, and set up my old DJ equipment for music so ppl can just hook up their mp3 players.