North American Mazda Meet in June

[mazdamp3_18]

Ok well since the two boards are joined now maybe i can get more people interested in this. right now weve got about 25 or so people wanting to come. Im inviting Every Mazda make, and probes. it is going to be June 21st through june 23rd. were going to have an auto x, drag racing at the local drag strip, a car show or a cruise, and a banquet or dinner of some sort. i want to make this a huge thing b/c there are possibly some magazines coming to do some articles on it. Either way whoever comes is going to have a blast and im putting a lot of effort and time into this and i want it to work.

hope to see you there

Chris

[enry]

Excellent idea. Now edit your post and tell people WHERE it's going to be! :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

[mazdamp3_18]

OOPS sorry about that....
its in Ann Arbor, Michigan

[Onatrum]

Hey, sounds like a great idea to me. I'm from Lima, Ohio...so a trip to Michigan won't be much. I'll try to spread the word to other people's I know that own Mazda's or Probes!

[mazdamp3_18]

great... thanks for trying to spread the word

[freekwonder]

ill see if i can make it.

[Antoine]

mazdamp3_18...THANK YOU!...lol...finally...are those dates truly set? How are you promoting this? Who is coming in terms of car groups (ex: mp3's, p5's, protege's, other makes?
etc etc). I hope people will commit and actually go!

[DigginYellowP5]

Hey mazdamp3_18


Its about time someone set something up for a meet. I am totally interested in this. So what you need to do now is make a list of how many are definately gonna be there. I think it might be in your best interest to take down names and email addys for all that are interested. If you do that keep me posted. I would love to be there. My email addy is engine592@aol.com

Brian
2002 vivid Yellow MP5

[gujustud]

I'd love to come, but the drive from Vancouver, BC is just way to far...

[mp301guy]

if your going to have a meet why is it in michigan thats a long distance for most to make up north including me here in texas. doubt your going to have a great turn out.

[big_ben]

Seriously,.... and what's there to do in Michigan. It should be somewhere warm like Florida. Just my opinion.

[mazdamp3_18]

answer this for me... why would i want to plan a meet that will be 24 hours of a drive from where i live.... personally even if one mazda shows up ill be happy... i just want to have fun with the mazda family.... im not looking to impress anyone and if you wont make the drive to the meet then fine.... its your loss.... and there is a lot to do here in Ann Arbor... nor does it really matter b/c were having an auto x, and dragging, and possibly testing and tuning if there is enough interest... and there a quite a few people making a drive to come to this... almost all of the toronto protege club is coming, a club from FLORIDA is coming, a cuple people from MA are coming, a lot of mazda's are coming from ohio, and about 15 rx7's from canada and michigan are coming, along with a cuple MX-6's, 2 MX-3's, some probes, a 626, a turboed subaru legasy, a few neons (even though their not mazdas..) but there a a lot of people planning on coming to the meet.

[cjstringer]

Don't know if I'll make it or not, but I think it's a great idea! At least someone has the initiative to plan all of this and get things organized. If you all want to complain about the location, plan one for yourself! Go through all of the trouble of getting a drag site, reserving a lot for the autocross, assisting the people with directions and locations to stay, and getting all of the equipment and such for all of the events. Until then, don't complain about the location, just make the trip and be happy someone has taken the time and energy needed to get all of this done.
And for those of you who ask the question of what is there to do in Michigan, have you ever been there? It does get hot in the summer, and if I remember my elementary geography, they have a couple little lakes in the area also. Maybe you've heard of them?
Anyway, I'm sure there is something everyone would be interested up there somewhere. I used to take a couple weeks each summer for vacation in MI, and I don't ever remember being bored. Things can only be as fun as you make them.
Ok, enough venting. Congrats on the expected turnout. Hope everyone can make it. Hope I can make it for that matter.
:cool:

Afterthought: Maybe those of you that can't make it shouldn't complain about the location, just show your sadness that you can't be at such a cool gathering. Just MHO.

[vegasmp3]

THAT SOUNDS GREAT BUT I LIVE IN VEGAS SO I DONT KNOW ABOUT MAKING IT OUT THERE........WITH SCHOOL AND WORK......I WILL LOOK INTO IT.........

[ARD MP5]

Well I wouldn't be able to drive my car there either. Flying is a different story, but I'd prefer to take the car.

In any case, you should be sad that we can't make it due to an inconvenient location. You guys should want us to be there. It's not a matter of complaining, of course we'd all want to go but it's just not feesable when we're not that near. I admire those who have the time and means to drive their cars to the meet. That's awesome.

The alternative solution would to have one for the rest of the areas which could not arrive. I work with a lot of the RX7 guys and we have sevenstock in SoCal. Mazda is there, duh? So the turnout is amazing. I'll contact Dan at rotarynews.com and see what we can do about possibly adding another event using his promotional and setup abilities.

If we had one in the Southern US, like LAS VEGAS, so Cali, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Texas could come there would be an amazing turnout plus there's a ton of shit to do in the forbidden city. Plus Dan lives there. He can probably get some shit handled easily.

Just my two cents.

Rishie

If interested, I'll start taking some of the initiative to get things going. Let's come up with a name like SEVENSTOCK, THREESTOCK. LOL!!!!!!1 hehe. Protostock.

[cjstringer]

I wasn't trying to be rude, but It's just hard to be able to say that there would be a perfect spot to do it. Maybe Kansas? Is that central enough that everyone could get there? If you lived in Maine, Washington, Florida, Canada, would that be any easier? Probably not. Anyway, I hope you can get a SoCal event together. It would be nice to see pics from all of the events, and maybe eventually get enough groups together in different areas that we could have a NA (all -encompasing) event at some point. I know it's tough, but thanks still goes out to those prepping the events. Hope I can make it!(Maybe to both!)
:cool:

[solar6]

ill be there. along with my Mipoc buddies.

[derrick1623]

im definate. i will be wherever the hell ann arbor michigan is , coming from glenburnie, maryland...but i WILL be there!!! it better not be a waste of my valuable time!

[ChopstickHero]

i'll throw this idea to my Toronto Protege Club members....

www.toprotege.com

[gene in cincinnati]

How about Columbus, Ohio? Columbus is less than a days drive from 60% of the Canadian and United States population. Supposedly, there is not another major metropolitan area in North America that can say that.

Just a thought.

[scooby419]

That would be a great place to have it. Because it seems as if a lot of the southerners are not ready to drive up to A.A. Michigan. Maybe the 3-5 hour difference in trip time would allow more people to come and play?

[MidnightP5]

i too live in TX and I do not want to drive far, i would love to join the event though, it would be fun. but the drive is a killer.

[mazdamp3_18]

im now in the process of mazda sponsoring this event and they said if they do they will probably bring some cars for us to drive and see what we think of them....

im also talking to other administrators of websites to help me get the word out...

[cjstringer]

Can you say SCHWEET?!?!?! I knew you could...
That'd kick ass. Are you still gonna do an autocross? I might have to look into making it for sure now. Won't even be missing a local event to do it. :)

[mazdamp3_18]

the place hasent gotten back with me if they will let me use the parking lot or not.. there is no way i will not have an autocross... i love autocrossing. and i cant wait until i go to the next one here...

also the guy at the dealership that i was talking to has a 250 hp first gen rx7 that is silver... and a 95 rx7 that has about 300 hp....
this guy knew his shit too... he knew of a lot of the problems with our cars.. EXCEPT THE TRANS(which im pissed about..b/c my car is having those problems now.) :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

im gonna have to open a can with mazda if they wont fix it... this is getting rediculus:mad:

[makeminemazda]

Wow...sounds like a great idea. I live in the Mpls/St. Paul area and would love to make this event. Please let everyone know when schedule of events, dates and times are solid. As well as what you are hearing for turn-out.
The all Mazda makes plan sounds awesome to me. Now I just have to figure out how to get both of mine there! I own a 1988 RX-7 Anniversary edition turbo and a yellow 2002 P5. My brother lives in town also and he too owns a yellow 2002 P5. I'll see if he is interested. Please keep us posted! Thanks.;)

[mazdamp3_18]

well im shooting for june 21-23

on the 21st well all probably meet somewhere and eat somewhere and all of us can meet eachother....

22nd : we will go to milan dragway and have some drags... cost is $20 for unlimited runs....

23rd: we will have an auto x and jsut enjoy ourselves....
im hoping to charge less than $25 for entry into the auto X

hotels are a matter of what everyone wants to sleep at... i never got a reply from anyone so i didnt get any prices.... let me know what hotels you prefer and ill get some group rates....

we could have a turnout of 200+ mazda's
i met a miata driver on sat and he is head of all the miata clubs in michigan.. he told me that if i wanted he could get about 150 miata's to come...
theres a car club from florida that is probably coming up... and some individuals from all over coming.....
i hope you can get all of the toronto protege club to come i really want to meet you guys... i want to meet everyone...

hopefully we will have a cuple magazines coming

the Rally MP3 (Lurch) is going to be coming up...
mazda may have some cars for us to drive....

its going to be a blast.....
i wish everyone could come.... but that is impossible...
but i hope to have one of the largest turn outs for just mazda's ....
i want people to look back in 30 years and be like "damn that was a good time"

i cant wait until june and meet everyone...

Hope to see you..

Chris

mazdamp3_18@yahoo.com
feel free to email me anytime...
if you email me and i dont email you back within 2 days email me again i may not have gotten your email.

[Korey Chaos]

From what one of my friends tells me, Ann Arbor is pretty cool. Being all the way in North Carolina makes it rather difficult to attend. I mean, i could fly there but what about my 5 u know? Too bad cause it sounds like u will have a good turn-out. Let me know when u decide to vacation and come to the lower part of the east coast. Now that will definitely be within drivin distance!:D