no worries, great minds think alike!

 

I'll defer choosing a start time to the long-distance drivers, since they'd have to leave the earliest.


There is a pretty nice little 1.5 lane short twisty we could make a cruise out of, pretty much behind Rudy's (going due east).

 

I think 2 pm works. it's a one day round trip for anybody coming from any of the main texas cities.. with all due apologies to corpus, lubbock, and El Paso

any problems with June 19th?

 

Except that is the day after MLK day, so I dunno if that would create any kind of holiday travel plan conflicts for anybody. Even they don't really celebrate that holiday, it might give them a 3-day weekend (its on the Friday before that date) to travel.

 

shows you what I know... I thought we just had MLK day

I think a 3 day weekend might work out pretty well...

 

I just know it as "June teenth". I had to look up the date, which is June 18th.

I know there are always some kind of Festivals or celebrations....Some kind of community gathering around here. Dunno if they do them ON it, or the weekend near it.

 

i don't think it's an issue, but if you feel funny about it, we can push it back to the next week

 

It won't affect me AT ALL, either way. Just thinking of a possible 3-day weekend, might interfere with others travel plans & reduce our attendance.

Wanna push it to the weekend after? June 26th?

 

nah, let's leave it on the 19th... things start to get hot later in the month.

I could do the 12th, but I'd rather do the 19th

 

OK....June 19th, 2pm? Not a little earlier, so people don't have head home so soon & end up with just a short day here?

 

yeah, let's make it 1PM... people from dallas and houston can leave at 10 and still get there for a late lunch.

 

OK....First post edited with the date, time & a map to it!

Now for a headcount? Who's coming?

 

kinda early to tell for me but i'd like to come out

 

I'll be there

 

I love it when a plan comes together!

Graphic updated...

 

I want to go. It's too early to know if work might interfere, and I can't drive my car on a REALLY rainy day because it will suck too much water in through the holes in the hood.

But chances are VERY good that I will make it.

BTW, before we get too far along, I suggest that someone contact Rudy's and make sure that they are not already hosting a Juneteenth parade or something else that might interfere. For that matter, it would be good to see if they are even interested in hosting this. Maybe they could provide some reserved parking or free drinks or something.

Hopefully if the Houston and San Antonio crowds show and ATGO and maybe NTTGO we will have a good size turnout.

Does anyone know anyone in the Corpus Area? We don't hear much from around there, but every time I am there I see third-gens everywhere!

 

I'll contact Rudy's this week, and i'm actually going to be passing right by it the weekend before that, so I'l drop in and confirm everything with the manager then

By then we should have a pretty good idea on how many are coming

 

Coming from DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. My car should be out of the paint shop by March so I'll make plans to be there. It's a 4.5 hour drive for me, so i hope we have a good turnout. Can we try to plan a whole day event, maybe a carshow early morning, lunch, drive and possible dinner or party afterwards. I think we need to make it worth while for people to drive that far and for a good event. We should also look into meeting at a local track Friday night for anyone who may be driving up the day before.

 

ill be there

 

you know... I think this idea has a lot of merit to it, but I'm not in a position to plan anything like this becasue I'm in Dallas

How about we work with the ATGO, and see if they can plan events before and after the lunch. Leave the lunch at rudy's intact, but offer more events for those wanting to do more.

Austin guys, what do you think?

 

We could make a whole weekend out of it.

It would be nice if we could set up some track time, maybe have an Auto-X, a Drag Strip, an on-site Dyno, maybe even a... I had better stop there.

I know it is a little ridiculous, but Texas is a big state, it seems like we ought to be able to find a big parking lot somewhere in the state where we could play for a day.

 

yeah ^ that you be like a tx2k10 type event, that would be really cool

 

Yea, thats the idea.

 

ATGO has a thread going about this......
http://www.austinthirdgen.org

There is a dyno to hit.... http://www.colvinautomotive.com/ That is when Overhaulin' built Lance Armstrong's car for the show. And I think I've heard of a dyno in Pflugerville, which is practically part of Round Rock, but I don't know any more than that.

South of Austin is a small roundy-round track that we could set us up for Parade laps before the race started.

Some nice hill country/twisty roads we could play on (within speed reason), but nothing really in the way of race tracks, either ni drag/autocross or even open parking lots to play in. Even our local autocross club runs more in San Antonio than here.

I local road race place, but no idea on the fees to rent that, or if they even have open-track days.

 

Last year before our April burnout meet @ Thunderhill Raceway, the owner asked me if our local club would be willing to do a parade run before a race. We never had enough commitment to organize it, so it kinda fell to the backburner. If we had a good enough commitment on this event, I could go talk to the owner again and see if we could do this on the June 19th race.

 

I would be willing to drive to the austin area. but if its just a lunch get together I don't think it would be worth the effort. thats about a 7 hour round trip. something with a set meet area that can hold 30 or 40 cars would be pretty cool. and like esc mentioned something to do that day besides eat makes it a little more interesting. 1/4 mile, dyno, mini show and shine, anyone thing would work?? don't really have to cruise anywhere because it would take 3 hours to get there.
ofcourse I am not doing the leg work, so its easy for me to make a suggestion.

 

And what if some of us wanted to drive up the day before (or stay Saturday night), but are too cheap to get a hotel, and wanted to pitch a tent. Are there any good parks around that allow camping?

BTW, there was this cool, outdoor, party place with pavilions, parking and a variety of other amenities, tucked away in the N.E. corner of 183 and 71 where Motorola had a company party once upon a time when my Wife worked for them (We lived in Cedar Park at the time). Does anyone know anything about that place?

 

I will post this on our SA3GO boards.

I would prefer Round Rock over Houston of course, its closer. I and a buddy drove for over 4 hours and ended up attending the last hour or so of the Houston meet in frigid cold weather.

I will keep an eye on the thread, it looks like we are still in planning stages.

 

You must be referring to Richard Moya park. That place is no good anymore. It has an old style bridge near it correct?

 

id be down to go. Subscribed. time to work on everything between now and then

 

That sounds right.

 

If you want I can contact Rudys since I'm local...

 

Never been to that Rudy's but a co-worker told me they have a big back patio.

 

Depending on how my cars running at the time I plan on comming.

 

i called them today, they dont take reservation for tables, but they said 1PM is about when the lunch rish is ending, so by 2 we should be able to get tables all together

 

Subscribing.

 

I'm hearing from so many people how busy rudy's is, I'm having second thoughts about the place. I've got an uncle that lives in round rock, I'll call him and see if he thinks it's stupid to try to have a gathering there on a saturday, and ask if he thinks there is someplace cool we can get a room reserved, or at least a few tables close together reserved

Sorry about the waffle, but I don't want to get there and not be able to sit as a group

 

I've never been to that location, much less at 1pm on a Saturday.

We could have 20 coming or 80 coming. No way of knowing, especially this early.

 

talked to my relatives, they said rudy's is busy, but they have a very small parking lot. SHe gave me the name of a couple of other places, and they have a friend what does a lot of car club events down there and will find out what places in the area are "car friendly"

 

I'm all for picking a place which WANTS our business. I would hope that the prospect of 20 to 80 more customers should at least warrant a roped off part of their parking lot.

As a matter of fact, if they (whoever "they" are) are not willing to offer us some sort of concession (reserved parking, free drinks, something!) I suggest that we keep looking.

 

I second that. Free drinks is not a must but the parking is.

 

Did you speak to the manager of Rudys?

What else is in North Austin that has good parking? Stephen if you need me to call any places for you, send me an IM on AIM

 

We all know the Rudy's on 183 has PLENTY of parking. No doubt there, with the car show they hold every year there. That would be a good location for this, except that I've been trying to lean more towards easy access/easy to find for the DFW & Houston guys.

Since I am north west of Austin, I don't know the I35 corridor all that well, as to good locations for a gathering of this size.

I've thought about just going, driving it & looking, but I don't have the time to, that I used to.

 

There was a restaurant out in Cedar Park that had a car show occasionally when I lived out there (10 years ago). They were (IIRC) right on 183 out past 1431, maybe near Co Rd 180. It was on the end of a strip center.

Anyone know about this place?

 

i tslked to the manager. he said they dont reserve tables or parking. my relatives were the ones thst told me they had a psrking problem there

if anybody has any suggestions, speak up

 

McKinney falls state park is a nice campground that's only 12 miles Southeast of Austin. I actually lived there for two months when I first moved to Austin, until I had enough money saved to get an apartment.

I think the party place you once visited was Shady springs party barn. I've been there 5 times for the company picnic. Very nice but probably expensive. http://www.shadyspringspartybarn.com/

 

i'm half joking, but this place might be fun

http://www.twinpeaksrestaurant.com/index.html

 

If it is anything like Hooters, the food is over priced & under tasty, but the lure is the waitresses. Me? If I go to EAT. I care about the food. Not the waitresses clothing (or lack thereof).

On the same lines, there is http://www.tiltedkilt.com/ which is right off I35 & my (17yr old) step-daughter actually be a waitress there. You'll hafta take my word for it, I'm not sharing the pics! While I am proud of here, I'm more proud that she went & got a different waitressing job, just up the road. Hmmmm.....Maybe I'll hafta see what the layout is up there, but it is like right by the Rudy's, so the parking lot isn't that big & "shared" by all the line of businesses there.

 

Count me in. June 19 sounds good.

 

this place looks great... good reviews, plenty of parking, several different area to sit

I think Ill try calling their manager

http://www.dukesbbq.com/gallery.htm