TIME, DATE & LOCATION SET.....
JUNE 26, 2010
1PM
Duke's BBQ web site
Map to Duke's
Parking Route Map

I'll go check out getting in the parking lot from the highway & post a map showing the best way to get in the parking lot.


NOTE: The first 9 posts in this thread were moved here from another. The 10th post was really the first post in this thread. esc


Same here.

I think Austin or Waco would make for a good area so that it was more convenient for north & south Texas members. A little west would be better for El Paso, but there isn't anything real big west of Austin, that comes to mind.

Houston & Austin are neck & neck the attendance lead!

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TOTAL SEAT COUNT: 89.5
TOTAL CAR COUNT: 70 CARS
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Names in green have emailed me to verify what I have listed is correct, in order to ensure seating & parking.

NTTGA - 25 PEOPLE/17 CARS
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1. 58mark
2. hazlt1 + 1
3. slayer Taunu
4. 1fas92 +1
5. 1fas92 2nd car + 1
6. Jekyll & Hyde +1
7. Jekyll & Hyde 2nd car + 1
8. David Wiley
9. Jason Kellum
10. Nathan
11. Damoncaravanman
12. Damoncaravanman's neighbor
13. vernw
14. War Chief (vernw's wife)
15. Frank_90RS + 1
16. Blueyerocz + 2
17.
18.
19.
20.

Possible
KYLE

DFW - 6 PEOPLE/6 CARS
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1. ellocojorge
2. travis401
3. jeffgordon
4. 82chevyz284bbl
5. hazlt1
6. tyrvidar
7.
8.
9.
10.

El Paso - 1 PERSON/1 CAR
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1. nathanec
2.
3.
4.
5.

HOUSTON - 22 PEOPLE/18 CARS
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1. esc
2. Dark Ember + 1
3. jordanandrewkay + 2
4. sailtexas
5. anthony
6. justin
7. 92t5
8. orr89roc-4th gen
9. adam
10. andrade
11. victor
12. antsZRS
13. Pierced_Zombie + 1
14. trifilo
15. Blueyerocz
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.

possibles

1. kevin89formula
2. houston_boss + 4
3.

SA3GO - 6 PEOPLE/6 CARS
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1. Lucid
2. throttleposition
3. Monkihead
4. Maxone
5. 2fast4love
6. 2fast4love 2nd car
7.
8.
9.
10.

ATGO - 29.5 PEOPLE/22 CARS
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1. Stephen
2. flu by u +1
3. flu by u +1
4. BigBadLou
5. StevenK
6. Albani + 1
7. Fyrchkn + 1.5
8. elementaltoad
9. mister hudson + 1
10. $750 L98
11. eagle_eyes
12. 83z28blackbetty
13. zimmstoy
14. jliroc
15. m14mike
16. weswisehart
17. andiechris (Chriso)
18. DAVEB + 1
19. Ameradian Man + 1
20.

Email me at SDC78605@Austin.r.com if I'm missing anyone/you need to be removed from the list/changed from possible to definite, or the other way around.

 

nice ta stephen

 

you know... why don't we do this... If the houston group has regulars that do gatherings, and central texas has one, we can have a yearly 3rd gen texasfest for everybody. Austin works for me, it's a 3 hour drive or less for most people

 

yeah i was thinking an event like that would be fun.. specially since houston has such a large concentration of members... i would think kileed/fort hood, would be a good mid point

 

There are a lot of us in Houston, but it is not easy to get a good turnout. That said, I'm all in favor of a state wide meet.

Austin is centrally located, so it would get my vote. I would prefer a location that is easy to get too, scenic and not in a small town where the local PD might start seeing $$$. I also suggest a Summer date (longer days for daylight driving too and from) and early start and end times. That way people will not have to stay the night.

 

Hmm, just imagine how much trouble we could cause with a convoy of 3rd gens heading up 290. But then again... might not be such a smart idea with all the small town Barney Fife's along the way.

 

thats sounds like a good idea to me. im game, if a dates set.

 

Sorry if I came across like I was trying to relocate the North Texas/Arlington meet.

If/when a Austin/Texas meet happens, it should be in a whole new thread. Not hijacking this one. Maybe like in Spring/early summer, when it warms up & the rains go away.

 

I AM READY FOR THIS ONE TOO................

 

I started a thread for a north texas gathering we are having later this month, and before I knew it, we had a bunch of posts with people expressing a desire for a texas gathering.

Since Austin is only 3 hours or less from all of the largest population centers of the state, It makes the most since to have it there, but if anybody has a great location available for use just about anywhere in the houston/ san antonio/ dallas triangle, speak up. After we get a location avaialble to us, details should fall into place pretty fast after that

I think late spring/early summer would be the best time of year for this, so let's keep the ideas coming for time/place and other organizational items

I know austin has a f-body club, but i'm not sure what the percentage of the membership is 3rd gen. North Texas has the NTTGA, and I'm not sure about houston or san antonio.

OK, here's the official brainstorming thread. Post your ideas and interest, and we'll see if we can get together something cool and fun.

 

Austin has a 3rd gen specific club. http://www.austinthirdgen.org/

There is an Austin F-Body Club, but lately, more & more members have swapped out for Vettes. The Austin Y-Body Club now?

 

are you a member of that group steven? Could you hit them up and see if anybody there is interested in hosting? (unless you have an idea of a place to do it)

 

lol, I just found you there... you've posted several (thousand) times....

yeah, i'll let you take care of giving austin first shot at hosting. If nobody there wants to, I'll try the NTTGA

 

More or less, but I haven't been very active over there lately.

I've got a couple ideas in mind, that are easy access from I-35, which would best for all coming, for easy access.

Georgetown, just north of Austin, has a good park on a river. Good parking, plenty of tables & (i think) even public BBQ pits!

 

i've got relatives in round rock. georgetown would be perfect

 

been in that area. that would work for me as well. were are the houstoniets at

 

i think it would be pretty cool. i know we are getting a get together done for the spring summer time down here now. and we will have another one near winter. but it might be a bit far for some to go. especially since most might be under the knife for the spring summer meet.

 

theres a couple park down here in houston that are pretty good. The one the local fbody guys around here meet at is bear creek. Theres expanses... plenty of parking bbq pits... and covered areas that are rentable... its whatever but i'm sure there are tons of places like that everywhere...

 

cool, my 7 year old girl will have somebody to play with!

 

A place for the kids to play is good, but there is no way I can get my Wife and Son to put up with riding in my car long enough to get to Austin. I'll probably be by myself. If I'm really lucky and drive slow I might even make it there and back on 3 tanks of gas.

 

send me anything you got... I can do it
i'll pm you my address

 

 

ok we are going to have to get a little organized here as well. some cars will fly thru with no problems. some will need to stop for gas. some will have something little go wrong and hope to god no someone might break down. the houston group will have to either keep all together or go in packs that will wait for some. as erc said he is going to have to stop and fill up so will i. there will have to be a group of people that stick together no matter what. my wife has offered to bring our avalanche to put in supplies. this would be really cool to get set up. maybe even two way radios with in the groups.

 

are you volunteering to try to organize the houston area?

If so, GREAT

Haven't seen to many people on the baooard from san antonio, but it would be nice to find somebody from there

 

i will help out on the houston side for sure. if so i would see if i can start a thread when the date is set for a roll call. 2 way radios would be really cool. but i will definately help out. but we also have a spring summer meet coming up. lets get a date together and then go from there.

 

other thing we need to think about is a place that is really easy to get to for everyone. from what i hear roundrock is on the other side of austin which would make the houston trip a 5 hour deal instead of a 3 hour deal. we need a park or somewhere that is really easy to get to without having to go all the way thru town.

 

round rock is 163 miles from houston... That's less than a 3 hour drive, maybe two.... LOL

 

take 290, you won't have to touch I-35 until you are north of Austin

 

actually from where i live it is about 180 to 190 miles. you are talking about a group that has to make stops. so you are looking at about 4 hours there and 4 hours back. all together it would take the group about 10 hours driving with stops and keeping together. not for me. that is a lot of time on the road. and if we have to go through towns that will make even more time. we need to come up with a local place in austin. not everyone is going to be haulin *** either. and if you are talking north of there it is even farther. not saying people cars wont make it but that is a long way on our cars. they arent brand new either. i live in league city not houston. esc lives near sugarland. most that live on the north side it would be cool. heck im only 20 miles from galveston.

 

I miss my thirdgen... can a 4th gen attend ? lol

 

I can't think of anywhere that is less than 3 hours away for everybody. Austin is the most centrally located place that also has good facilities. I'm not even sure where the park is that steven is looking at, so let's see what he's got

college station/Bryan would be fine too, but we would need somebody that lives there to be a point man for us

 

290 Comes out over by Manor... at least accoring to google...coming from houston, they would take a right on 130 to georgetown, they wouldn't even touch 35

 

i think we need to see how many people are coming from where. right now it seems as though most are from dallas-arlington area and then the houston area. if that is where the most are coming from then somewhere along i45 seems to be better. like buffalo or a place right above that. no toll roads. 70mph interstate. but it will depend on where most people are coming from. just an idea. i suppose if there are people coming from all over texas it would be different. buffalo os about 2 1/2 hour drive from arlington and from houston.

 

Austin is a 4 hour drive for me. My vote is Austin or Round Rock. If my car is ready by then, I'd probably trailer it up there and unload in Austin. Instead of a park, can we look into organizing a drive and with a bbq place as a stopping point to eat. I was in San Antonio/Austin this weekend and drove to Salt Lick BBQ just south of Austin. The food there is AWESOME and the drive from Kyle is just as beautiful. They have plenty of parking (not paved unfortanetly ) and a nice hang out spot while you wait for a table. Just an idea.....I'll try and keep updated with this post to see if I could make the meet.

 

a restaurant would be nice.. that way everybody could get what they want to, and we don't have to worry about bringing in food and drinks

What about rudy's in Round rock?

 

Oh, nice, let's do this!

 

im in favor of a summer date.

lance, if it is indeed a summer date i'll help out with getting Houston crew together how ever i can

 

I'm going to throw out two dates for consideration... June 19th, and june 20th. One is a Saturday and the other's a sunday. Both have advantages, but I woul think more people would be available on a sunday..

thoughts?

 

I would think the opposite, because of Church on Sunday, for those that attend.

 

Wow, just stumbled upon this. This would be awesome. Looks like Toad and Stephen are the only other Austin area guys posting on this thread. So I'll create a thread on ATGO and tell everyone to update the TGO thread. Anywhere is fine for me. I'm close to 130 so I could take that anywhere up north. If we do a Saturday, maybe some would want to create a Thirdgen invasion at one of the local Saturday car meets(Buda Cabela's, Tinseltown pVille, or any other spots).

 

very true.... that's why I also suggested a saturday date. For our local gatherings, I hear a lot of people say they can't make a saturday gathering because of work, but I didn't take into account the time it takes to travel, and how that effects people schedule

Saturday the 19th is fine with me

 

That would be great, thanks for taking this to ATGO for us.

 

Once some details get posted I'll make a sticky on ATGO, I'm sure most of us will show... including my LS1 thirdgen that hardly leaves the garage... I will make sure the bitch runs enough for this meet.

 

sorry man im not going. cant see being on the road for at least 6 or 7 hours. with fuel and tolls just cant swing it.

 

It would be half that travel time (3 hrs, 7 min trip & Mapblast always says longer than it really is anyways), one way. Not like 6-7 hr trip at once! So you'd have several hours to rest between them. AND...That is using no Toll Roads!

I don't wanna make big plans & rent space, then only 5 people outside of Austin show up.

 

its 3 hours there and three hours back. plus stops which would add another hour or two. even if no tolls gas is a 100 bucks or more. plus food is another 40 or 50. plus we are going to come in a group. which may take even longer. so to me 6 or 8 hours on the road to stop for about 4 or 5 hours with just a few people showing up isnt worth it to me. if it were a bunch of people say 30 or more it would be great. and if someone breaks the whole day is shot. i have to come back the same day since i have a family.

 

i'm coming either way, butI do think for the first one it would be smart to not rent a park, but instead use existing space in a restaurant.

Also, if the weather is too hot or to rainy to spend much time outside, we've still got AC and a roof

 

Hmmmm, I like that idea.....How about a Rudy's BBQ? They always have indoor AND outdoor seating, so we'd be covered either way. No cooking our own food either!

Round Rock & right on I35....
Google Map of Rudy's

 

LOL, go back to post 52. I suggested Rudy's back then, but it got buried fast

rudy's is great for me. Cool place!

 

Sorry. This thread has grown so fast, I musta missed that post.

A Mod spun it off into its own thread, "started by me"!