I know everyone is just waiting, for someone to tell them
(when & where)........ So I'll take charge!

I am going to find a place to meet on February 7th 2004!

I will have all the info by this Sunday.... (Place, Time & Directions)


WE CAN "NOT" USE THE SUPERAUTOBACS PARKING LOT........

IT'S TOO SMALL.

I AM MEETING WITH SOMEONE ON MONDAY TO USE "HUGE" PARKING LOT!

SO WAIT UNTIL I TELL YOU WHERE TO GO.... I WILL KNOW ON MONDAY!!!!

I KNOW IT WILL START AT 2:00 p.m. ON FEB. 7 - SO BOTH THE LA & OC CAN COME DOWN!

I'm game.. depending on location/time :P

yea me too...not to far though mike..i'm in the 310 area code...

I am looking for somewhere by the 5 - 57 - 22 crush! Maybe even Angels Stadium....who knows!

There's a Hooters at Katella and the 57.

what about here on 02/07/04 since it is a regular spot according to BERN

ORANGE COUNTY - 11:00 AM
IN-N-OUT (Tustin Mall)
3020 El Camino Real
Tustin, CA 92782

I suggest Autobachs in Stanton/Westminster because that way the LA people can still get down, as well as most of OC... and we can laugh at all the riDICKulous prices there.

Last time I dropped by, they had 2 STi's, 1 Evo8, and 1 Dodge Viper GTS, and of course the usuall 4 bangers. Imagine a line of RX-7s and 8's. :)

lets do it

super autobacs noon on 020704

I'm good with it... Autobacs, It's kinda like Fry's.. you go there, look around, then go home and buy the items online :)

Use 22 Freeway, Exit Beach, head north, On left side.. where the old Edwards theatre use to be... or next to the old location for Southern Hills Golfland >My old stompin' ground<

In-n Out in Tustin IS the regular meeting spot and will be for the first OC chapter get -together.


Autobacs is additional. Roll in together or just meet? Maybe grab some 7 forum guys. I'll hit 'em up.

Just Meet.. there is a Robin's to grab a bite to eat and chat up a storm.. or we can head towards Norm's down Beach.. that place rocks for meets... affordable food. :)

Ok, the word is out. Thanks for the great idea, O.E. :)
Shine 'em up. You never know if RXTuner guys will be about. ;)


(Oh, and please do not feed the rice boys there. They get skittish around rotaries and try to hump your leg.)

Too bad Golfland closed! Otherwise I could get all of us Free Mini Putt Putt golf and arcade gaming :P

I'll be there. Wonder if we can get some So Cali Stickers from Polak in time for the meet..... This way, when we ever see another one of these, we will know that we use this board for messages..etc. Unlike some people that drive 8's and have no clue when I acknowledge them... hehehe

I'll be wearing my nifty Yoda is Cool T-shirt from 1983, Red floppy hat I got at Comdex, and my ultra Coolio Silver pocket protector I got to match my RX-8. We can all hold hands and dance in circles in front of Autobacs and sing merry songs together... ohh.. it will be so much fun. Aye, indeed it will!

I'll be there

Originally posted by mikeb
what about here on 02/07/04 since it is a regular spot according to BERN

ORANGE COUNTY - 11:00 AM
IN-N-OUT (Tustin Mall)
3020 El Camino Real
Tustin, CA 92782

That's right guys... The SO-CAL RX CLUB has established a regular monthly meet point in OC for all RX owners and enthusiast to meet. This is a very informal loose monthly meet for everyone to meet and greet and BS some... We would really hope that all the RX-8 folks would join us 0n 02/07. Maybe you all come down for an early lunch and then we all cruise over to SUPER AUTOBACS! Guys, we set the meet point, to get a regular thing going in OC, especially for all those new RX-8 owners. We are really looking to support the RX-8! You guys will all be able to give our guys feedback on all future OC meets....

FOR ALL THOSE IN OTHER AREAS, PLEASE CHECK OUT OUR WEB PAGE (or below) FOR A REGULAR MEET IN YOUR AREA, on the same date!


FULL DEATAILS AT: http://www.socalrxclub.com/calendar/calendar_detail.asp?ID=32

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VENTURA COUNTY MEET - 12:00 NOON

Topper's Pizza Place
520 Arneill Rd
Camarillo, Ca 93012
805-385-4444

101 N, Exit Lewis immediate Left Daily, Right Arneill, 1 Block Down 101 S, Exit Carmen Dr, Left Ventura Blvd, Straight Ventura Blvd, Left Arneill over bridge, 1 Block Down

Contact info:
Micah Robles - micah.robles@verizon.net
Adolph Finley - Rotareenut@aol.com


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S.E. LOS ANGELES / SOUTHBAY -11:30 AM

IN-N-OUT (Long Beach Town Square)
7691 Carson Street
Long Beach, Ca

Traveling north on Interstate 605, exit at Carson Street. Turn left onto Carson. The In-N-Out is on the left side of the street.

Traveling south on Interstate 605, exit at Carson Street and turn right. The In-N-Out is on the left side of the street, next to an empty Chevron station. From both directions, enter the Town Square on the first possible left turn

Contact info:
Jeff Garcia - socal91@pacbell.net
Gary Salva - revn247@yahoo.com


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SAN FERNANDO VALLEY - 12:00 NOON
Bob's Big Boy
1407 W. Glenoaks Blvd
Glendale, CA 91201

Contact info:
Latross Carroll (L.C.) - lcarroll@payden-rygel.com
Berny Herrera - brhslm@earthlink.net


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ORANGE COUNTY - 11:00 AM
IN-N-OUT (Tustin Mall)
3020 El Camino Real
Tustin, CA 92782

Contact info:
Mike Scott - mjscott2@cox.net
James Bailey - cars-sc7@riche.net


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SAN GABRIEL VALLEY - 12:00 NOON
Clearman's Village.
SW Corner of Huntington Drive/Rosemead Blvd.

From the 210, exit Rosemead, go south to Huntington about 1 mile.
From the 10, exit Rosemead , go north to Huntington

Commonly referred to as "The Boat"- it's a burger joint

Contact info:
Andy Lee - Rotary13B1@aol.com
Jeremy Romero - Jeremy.Romero@socalrxclub.org


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SANTA CLARITA VALLEY - 1:00 PM
Quiznos Subs
23126 Valencia Blvd
Valencia CA 91355
(661) 254-5343

5 north to the Valencia Blvd exit. Right turn on to Valencia. Travel 2.5 miles to Bouquet Canyon Road. Right on Bouquet Canyon. Enter the second driveway on your right (the K-Mart shopping center parking lot) and you will see Quiznos on your immediate left.

5 South to Valencia Blvd exit. Left turn on to Valencia. Travel 2.6 miles to Bouquet Canyon Road. Right turn on Bouquet Canyon. Enter the second driveway on your right (the K-Mart shopping center parking lot) and you will see Quiznos on your immediate left.

From the Antelope Valley, take the 14 south to the 5 north. 5 north to the Valencia Blvd exit. Right turn on to Valencia. Travel 2.5 miles to Bouquet Canyon Road. Right on Bouquet Canyon. Enter the second driveway on your right (the K-Mart shopping center parking lot) and you will see Quiznos on your immediate left.

Contact info:
Marcus Fitzhugh - eyemmarcus@yahoo.com


Thanks for the support guys!!

-Bern

Anyway we can combine the South Bay LA/OC meet to Autobacs? More the merrier? This way we can show off our cars in front of all the riced up cars.

hmm yeah.. tough choice.. I wanna go but the south bay one is so much closer....

Oh well either one will be fine! Hope to see some of you guys there

No problem.. just make the AutoBacs meet around 2:00pm and the peeps from the So-Cal RX Club Regular Meets can all head over to the AutoBacs afterwards.

-Bern

The South Bay meet is 15-20 minutes from AutoBacs. From Long Beach, south 405 to the 22. 2 exits up, off at Beach Blvd N and go left thru 2-3 lights. It's closer to the South Bay meet than the OC guys! :D

count me in! i live 10 mins from super autobacs =)

by the way..ive been seeing alot of 8's in buena park? do any of you happen to pass by there or live there?

So no way we can just combine the two? It's like the midpoint for both sides..and that means more people might show up. Usually at these things we get like 5 cars at most... with two groups converging, we might get 10+?

How about Autobacs at noon? That way if the other two meets only have like 2-5 people there, they can meet more people at Autobacs.

<Like I said before, we're not buying their expensive stuff, just meeting there and check out other cars...:P>

I am in Cypress Gary, so you may have seen me at one time.. that is if you saw a silver.

Personally I think it would be really cool to have a huge group all together. But since I have never been to one I cannot make any accurate commments.

I'm in Cerritos now myself, and the South Bay one is closer to me... but it would be nice to have a ton of us show up at Autobacs or something... from the OC peoples.. like our celebrity poster mikeb.

Silver huh.. hmm I've seen a Yellow one headed from the Cypress area.. also a Silver with Appearence Package... I might be meeting up with Koala Joe and his Red 8...

Ok how about this... Dream Scenerio...

Meet at whatever location you gotta meet closest to you, then at noon, meet at Autobacs.. this is going out to everyone in SoCali...
When we meet, I can get some premade stickers from Polak for So Cali RX-8club members... you can decide whether you want to add it or not..etc... then we chat about BS cars, laugh at the STi's people that are parked at Autobacs, laugh some more about how silly we are all meeting because we are fortunate to own this car, then if we are hungry, make it down to Norm's on Beach Blvd, Grab a bite to eat, chat some more, about our Star Wars Collections and other weird hobbies... and uhmm ya, call it a day.

:P <Woooo all in one breath>..

Originally posted by Outlaws eXtreme
So no way we can just combine the two? It's like the midpoint for both sides..and that means more people might show up. Usually at these things we get like 5 cars at most... with two groups converging, we might get 10+?

How about Autobacs at noon? That way if the other two meets only have like 2-5 people there, they can meet more people at Autobacs.

<Like I said before, we're not buying their expensive stuff, just meeting there and check out other cars...:P>

The So-Cal RX meets are pretty much set and have been on the schedule for awhile. So it would be difficult. But why would it effect the meets?

-The guys from the So-Cal Club OC meet will drive over after their meet at 11:00am

and we will also ask

-The guys from the So-Cal Club South Bay meet to move over to the AutoBacs after their meet...

No real issues... just make the meet time at the AutoBacs a little later... 2:00pm or so. So it will actually be two caravans coming; one from the South, and the other from the North... we will encourage everyone at our meets to attend. Ohhh and you'll get a lot more than 10 if we do this...

-Bern

It's all good with me... maybe we should make a poll and see if people would show up at 2pm?

Then we can all caravan to Mazdatrix with a line of 20+ RX-8s, 20+ RX-7s and take a nice group RX8club pix of the meet... :)

Oh wells...

ohh ive also seen that yellow one driving...ive seen him park at cypress college.

go here: maybe weve all seen each other before on the road. =)

http://www.rx8club.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19650

Originally posted by Outlaws eXtreme
It's all good with me... maybe we should make a poll and see if people would show up at 2pm?

The So-Cal RX Club is set... just let me know if you want us to join up with you guys at AutoBacs.

Thanks,

-Bern

Meet at whatever location you gotta meet closest to you, then at noon, meet at Autobacs.. this is going out to everyone in SoCali... 12, 1 or 2pm, doesn't matter. Make your local meet first. Get there earlier you can jaw-drop at the hyper-inflated prices(It's known as AutoBuck$ for a reason). The LA guys need a little travel time understandably. Like Bern said, expect much more than just 10 cars.
:D

I'll meet up at the South Bay in Long Beach (10 minutes away) and then go down to Autobuck$ around 2pm.. perhaps sooner, not sure what we're suppose to do at In N Out for 3 hours..hehe.. kinda scared of the parking there too, lots of people that might ding the car.

yeah that in-n-out is normally packed too! I never really liked the long beach town center thought..

Originally posted by Outlaws eXtreme
I'll meet up at the South Bay in Long Beach (10 minutes away) and then go down to Autobuck$ around 2pm.. perhaps sooner, not sure what we're suppose to do at In N Out for 3 hours..hehe.. kinda scared of the parking there too, lots of people that might ding the car.

The details are:

S.E. LOS ANGELES / SOUTHBAY -11:30 AM or so...

Although we set the meet time at 11:30AM, we know that this really means 11:30am to 12:30pm, by the time everyone shows up...

by the time all the folks eat lunch and hang for a bit... it's 1:30pm or so... it's easy to spend 1.5-2.0 hours eat'n lunch, BS'n and chill'n.... At around 1:30pm or so, folks can head over to Autobacs... it's all pretty loose... if things slow down earlier, then everyone can head over to AutoBacs earlier.

Just suggestions guys... we are hoping the whole RX community can get together in So-Cali... noth'n better then hang'n with a bunch of rotorheads!

-Bern

Originally posted by Kaliken
yeah that in-n-out is normally packed too! I never really liked the long beach town center thought..

This is good input guys... if you show up to the So-Cal meet, please give your input on an alternative meet site. We are open to changing the meet point, if the TOWN CENTER sucks. Just mention this to either Jeff G. or Gary S. both So-Cal senior guys, at the meet. An alternative can be hammered out for the March meet, if needed.


Jeff Garcia - socal91@pacbell.net

Gary Salva - revn247@yahoo.com


Again thanks guys!

-Bern

PLEASE TAKE LOOK AT WHAT I PUT ON THE FIRST POST! (http://www.rx8club.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19623)

Originally posted by MikeA
PLEASE TAKE LOOK AT WHAT I PUT ON THE FIRST POST! (http://www.rx8club.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19623)

Mike,
So does that mean no SuperAutoBacs at all? I think the whole attraction to this thing was the Autobacs...

Let us know, I guess... thanks!

-Bern

Well, I went to Autobacs on Saturday at 2pm. and the parking lot was full. There are to many companies there that use the parking lot. So I don't want to have people parking 2 min. away!

Although I am meeting with someone on Monday at UCI, to use their extra parking lot.......its right next to the Block of Orange.
Their parking lot is HUGE, and there isn't but 2 or 3 cars there on the weekend.

But I think the whole point was to go to Autobacs and look at their expensive crap, and also show off Rotary Power to all the other import cars. That parking lot is huge though... hmm..

Yeah but when I got there, there was only like 4 spots open to park.
Also, if everyone "just" wants to go there to make fun of the imports and to talk crap.........then they can do it on their own time!!!!!

MikeA,
Sorry for asking, and please don't take this wrong, no sarcasm or bad wit intended to this quetion... but what exactly was the purpose of your meeting? Did you just want to get the So-Cal RX-8 peeps together? Just wondering....

Anyway, if that's the case... why not just join up at a local So-Cal RX Club Local Meet point? BTW, our Tustin meet point should have no parking issues...

-Bern

I thought Autobacs would have been a good place because of the "importness" of it all.. I usually see some nice cars there, WRX, Evos, RSXs, Supras, etc.. And we can show our Rotary enthusiasm there as well to all the piston cars. That was it... otherwise I could have said let's meet at a Park or something since there will be plenty of parking and no one there to disturb us.

I'm still going to meetup at the SE Long Beach meet first, and see how my local Rotary enthusiast's cars are like. It was interesting to meet some of the RX-7 peoples at the LA Auto show meet, and Bern and Adolf etc were cool peeps. Seems like they know their junk...

Wait a second, what car do you drive MikeA? Or are you showing up with MikeB?

First off, I didn't know that the So. Cal Club was having a meet on the same day.......So I thought it would be fun!
Second, I didn't say anything about meeting at Autobacs.......
Third, I really DONT CARE WHEN OR WHERE EVERYONE MEETS UP!
I JUST WANT TO MEET !!!

So I'll just blow off my plans and you guys can just meet @ the So. Cal Meet!

Originally posted by MikeA
First off, I didn't know that the So. Cal Club was having a meet on the same day.......So I thought it would be fun!
Second, I didn't say anything about meeting at Autobacs.......
Third, I really DONT CARE WHEN OR WHERE EVERYONE MEETS UP!
I JUST WANT TO MEET !!!

So I'll just blow off my plans and you guys can just meet @ the So. Cal Meet!

1) But if you knew there was a So Cal RX club meet you wouldn't have had fun?

2) But the whole point of suggesting Autobacs was to meet... and I thought some of the other members may want to meet here as a midpoint.

3) Let's still all meet! After the So Cal Club meets, we can still make it to somewhere... :P

I'm lost, what was your plans that you had to blow off?

I think MIKE A meant he would blow off meeting with someone from UCI to ask if we could use their parking lot on the weekend.

1.)
Guys we're locked in with the original official OC meet in Tustin for sure. Show up if you can.


2.)
I personally can't envision the Autobacs lot being full of company/business parking on a Saturday, even at the outside parking fringes. It's a big lot belonging to a now-defunct Edwards theaters/now Autobacs. Any locals want to recon the lot ?
The LA/South Bay clubbers need to know ASAP.

When I use to work for Golfland, I believe there is a back area parking lot behind the Autobacs/rest of the stores. Usually no one ever parks there. I'll recon this week sometime... but when I went there a few weeks ago there were lots of spaces still... Not sure about parking like 10+ cars next to each other, but we can be fairly close.

I'll still show up AFTER the SE Long Beach official meet, and then head on out to Autobacs if anyone else wants to still meet there for the OC group. If not, we can all just gather around Mazdatrix even if they aren't open, they have a huge area... we can all meet, take pix, write a mini-column of "Meet the X's" for RX Tuner Mag...etc.. :)

then I say we still meet at autobacs around 2

So who's going to be at Autobacs?

Maybe start a new thread?

I can possibly make it to Autobacs...

I'm going to the meet in tustin and then autobacs around 1pm

So some of us will be heading to the respective official meet at 11am, then if those people would like to show up, we're all going to Autobacs at around 1pm-2pm ish until whenever. :)

Originally posted by Outlaws eXtreme
So some of us will be heading to the respective official meet at 11am, then if those people would like to show up, we're all going to Autobacs at around 1pm-2pm ish until whenever. :)

excatly

I'm getting a oil change at tustin mazda then its over to the meet

ill be at autobacs for sure! but not sure bout tustin..i dont think i can get up that early =)

Is any one who's heading to Autobacs have a Greddy or HKS exhaust???

I'd like to hear them in person.

Thanks. :cool:

i second that =)

mikeb won't show up. It'll be something came up during the oil change or his gf got sick again or he was there but didn't see anyone in the parking lot (like last time). LOL.

I will bet anyone in here $500 that mikeb does not show up.

LOL! Brutal.
mikeb is that bad? :eek:

Anyway, I'm not going to be able to make it to Autobacs. :( Getting there from West L.A. between 1-2 p.m. won't happen for me.

Yeah, he's THAT bad. Apparently, last time he said he drove all over the HUGE parking lot and DID NOT SEE anyone. This was met with skepticism as there were a bunch of RX8's parked side by side on a virtually empty parking lot!

I change my mind. Forget the $500. I will give up my left nut if mikeb shows up.

Originally posted by ArXate
I change my mind. Forget the $500. I will give up my left nut if mikeb shows up.

Get ready for the snip snip bro....MikeB was there... ;)

So how was it?

I'm stuck at home completing traffic school (internet). :mad:

Are you serious? Mikeb was actually there?

Originally posted by ArXate
Are you serious? Mikeb was actually there?

yes , I was there

and thats just rude to talk about me when you dont know me

last time my girl was sick JERK

yeahh u had a nice ride mikeb =) too bad i wasnt there when u left to hear your exhaust =(

How many went to Autobacs, if any?

Originally posted by itsallaboutgary
yeahh u had a nice ride mikeb =) too bad i wasnt there when u left to hear your exhaust =(

did you take your 8 to autobacs

some of us were trying to figure out whos blue 8 with the ap package we were looking at???

yeah Mike was that yours with the Billet grill? Looked pretty good!

Also wanted to hear the exhaust! oh well next time. (shoudn't have been wandering around in Autobacs for so long)

Fun stuff guys.. we should do it again!

Ya kinda sucky that MikeB and 2 other guys left.. oh wells.. I even asked one of the ones in the Titanium grey was leaving so soon..and he said ya. That was about 2:30pm when they left.. so ya, MikeB did show up. Get ready to lop off that nut ArXate.

I believe I could take care of that for ya. :)

I was there I did have to go at 2.30 for a little gathering I had planned. Wish I could have stayed longer. :) Thanks for a good meetup. Went to both of them, i was known as Nick there, i had the titanium gray rx-8 :)

Originally posted by Speed-ER doc
I believe I could take care of that for ya. :)

You sound very freakily weird. I am becoming very concerned. Would you consider your homosexual fantasies DEVIANT?

Hey guys, I have ALREADY given up my left nut to many many super hot, super smart women. Since Mikeb was there, I will give the left nut up to YET ANOTHER hot woman just for you guys.

Sorry for dissing Mikeb. Is Mikeb actually a man of little emotion and words in person? Now we just have to work on his written eloquence. I swear, if I see another post that perfunctorily says "pics please," I am going to break something.

http://www.strages.homestead.com/files/Grey.JPG

http://www.strages.homestead.com/files/autobacs.JPG

dam nice pix..was that from yesterdays meet?

yep that was my blue 8. heres more pics

another

one more

aw man i missed the meet i just read about it. and i drove right by there an hour earlier too. well let me know if you giuys ever get together again!

Can't wait till the next little meetup :) Was stimulating.