[Chicago] JGTCA.com *weekly* meets on warm & dry Saturdays
 

Hello everyone, I'm new here, but am a huge fan of the RX-8 :)

To get an idea of the types of cars you'll see at our meets here are a few pics:

http://www.freebmw.net/wrbgga/jgtca/...tos/thumb1.jpghttp://www.freebmw.net/wrbgga/jgtca/...tos/thumb2.jpghttp://www.freebmw.net/wrbgga/jgtca/...tos/thumb3.jpghttp://www.freebmw.net/wrbgga/jgtca/...tos/thumb4.jpg
http://www.freebmw.net/wrbgga/jgtca/...tos/thumb5.jpghttp://www.freebmw.net/wrbgga/jgtca/...tos/thumb6.jpghttp://www.freebmw.net/wrbgga/jgtca/...tos/thumb7.jpg
Click here for more pictures (and the full size 640x480 images of the thumbnails).

We already have an RX8Club member as a member on our site too (as well as 240SX, Corolla/Trueno, 350Z/G/Z32, MR-2, SC300, NSX, S2000, RX-7, 3000GT VR-4, GSX, EVO, and WRX/STi members to name a few) and would enjoy meeting more GT owners in the area... especially RX-8s! We haven't seen many of you guys around and would love to see/meet RX-8 owners.

We meet on Saturdays (when the weather is good) between 4:30PM - until whenevers in the Des Plaines area. There is a mini-show and a cruise/tour--we try to mix things up by doing more than just standing around.

Meeting by 4:30PM is key so we can get parking by one another. Food/Cuisine is very similar to Portillo's. Join us at JGTCA.com for more specific details on the meet!

Last season we started a tradition of going for a spirited but safe tour through some of the more/most? interesting roads in Chicagoland. We will cruise out as a group PRIOR to nightfall as the police activity along our route intensifies after dark!

Well-behaved friends with NON-JGTCA type cars are welcome, but please no rice, and tell them if they roll up in a FF/FWD to please park away from the mass of GT cars :) Please no c0ckblocking by parking FF/FWDs in between or right up on the GTs, Thanks!

lateRZ

Pictures from our first meet last weekend (04/16/05)
 

Here's some more pix from this past saturday's meet (04/16/05):
http://www.freebmw.net/wrbgga/jgtca/.../041605018.JPG
The line of GT cars that went on the cruise.... Honda, Mazda, Nissan, Subaru, Toyota... our Mitsu representative left just before (EVO VIII)... this is just before we after we toured through some curves on our way to more :)

http://www.freebmw.net/wrbgga/jgtca/.../041605041.JPG
Some of the cars after the cruise...

For the rest of the pictures (75 total)...
Click Here

lateRZ

No damn highschool fights this time, ok? ;)

You'll recognize me as VR RX7 R1 from the other site.

No doubt :) This is why we have a pretty well-defined group (e.g. what the JGTCA is). The fight you're referring to happened at an open to the public meet (even our General meets are somewhat selective) and was related to some ricer activities (e.g. some geniuses in Civics).

Now come out to our meet VR!!! you missed 3 other FDs, one pretty significantly modded :)

lateRZ

Do you know who they are? If you can get in touch with them, let them know about Indianapolis this weekend.

I know who's in that black one in front. He's about as modded as I am (though I'm on a stock motor). I know the other guys too. We were out a couple of times at Borders last year. You may have seen me. I'm the red FD with the same wheels as the modded black FD. Sotck body though.

I'll track you guys down next weekend since most of us will be out of town this weekend. You are all welcome to come down Friday night to join in the rotary challenge at the strip. Kinda last minute I know.

Bump.

Just wanted to invite some more rotary power out to our meet (we have a few regular FDs and an FC that come out).

See you this weekend if it stays dry tomorrow afternoon, so far so good though!

lateRZ

Thanks for the info... looks like some nice rides to check out. I might try to join you guys in a couple weeks- I'm always looking for some new roads to explore.

Here's some pics of what you may have missed :) we had some interesting newcomers at the meet including a rare SVX

and a nice FC3S Turbo II...

http://www.freebmw.net/wrbgga/jgtca/...430jgtca00.JPGhttp://www.freebmw.net/wrbgga/jgtca/...430jgtca08.JPG
http://www.freebmw.net/wrbgga/jgtca/...430jgtca18.JPGhttp://www.freebmw.net/wrbgga/jgtca/...430jgtca26.JPG

For the fullsize pics of the thumbnails above and more pictures

Click here

Join us next weekend :) for details go to JGTCA.com

lateRZ

Just a reminder, meeting again Sat 05/07/05
 

Here's some video from last weekend to give you a better idea of what the club is like...

Click Here to Download (~14.8MB WMV) (You'll have to download and rename the video--remove the .nostream extension)

Thanks again to all the members who came out and made it into the video, and thanks to 303/Elf/Rayn again for filming/production!!!!

lateRZ

Are stock RX8s welcome or is JGTCA.com just into modded GT cars?

A Japanese GT car is a Japanese GT car... stock or not!!
 

Of course! We'd love to have an RX-8 show up to the meet/cruise. Your cars are s0000000 h0t :)

We have a number of essentially stock members, the club is more about format than it is modifications.

lateRZ

Video from last weekend's meet (05/07)
 

Here is some new video from the 05/07 meet! Thanks again Lupin5 for filming and production!

Click here...

You will probably need the latest version of Apple Quicktime (or Quicktime Alternative 8.0) to see the movie, but otherwise its quite good.

lateRZ

One more question:

Is JGTCA.com primarily a chicago group? From lurking on the website, it looks like it is mostly Chicago area and all your sponsors are local.

Yep, Chicago first, and then we'll spread out as we can :) We have members from WI, IN, and MI too.

lateRZ

Bump.

Weather is a bit sketchy, but it looks awesome outside right now! A few of us are going to meet rain or shine to get some grub and talk anyhow. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the weather stays good :) I wanna go driving!

lateRZ

Thanks to joyriderx-8 and matt rx-8 for coming out and representing the 8s!!!
 

After action report... thank yous to those that showed up Saturday and helped make it an awesome surprise meet.... I'm going to go by car where I can't go by forum name...

303 (JZA80)
Blacksnake (GDA)
Chow (GDA)
DROPTOPDEUCE (ZZW30)
derrick50stang (yes he has a Japanese GT car as well--JZA80)
Farbs (S14)
JabroninWarrior (FC3S)
joyriderx8 (FE3S)
Korrupt999 (FD3S)
lurker (D32A)
Matt rx-8 (FE3S)
Mk31jZ (MA70)
Rayn (JZZ30)
RockVR4 (AE86)
Scooobydoo (GDA)
SirWarrior (S14)
tip (Z32)
Valenzul (NA1)

WOW we had 18 named members (and my bad if I missed anyone) show up.... and now for our guests:

1 DSM guy (D27)
1 Supra guy (sorry I forgot your name, but I remember when you were still with GMCI-JZA80)
3 S2000s (one yellow: Kev, two black?)
1 FD3S RX-7 (red)

Again my apologies if I missed anyone... but that put the total count to 24... man good meet indeed. Pretty funny if you look at the original poll count which only had like 6 people willing to show smile.gif

And for those of you who were worried about rain? It never came! Oh well there's always next time!

lateRZ

Bumpity bump bump bump....

Looks like a good turnout today..... and we're extending the cruise to downtown today...

Hope to see some more beautiful RX-8s there!

lateRZ

PS: Don't forget your FRS Radios (e.g. Talkabouts)

Its on again this weekend.... Meeting 10 mins from Woodfield
 

Hey everyone:

Just wanted to invite some more RX-8 owners out. We've got another meet/cruise/tour and stuff for this saturday. We're also meeting only 10 minutes away from Woodfield... so that means we're close to I-90/I-355/IL-53....

Sign-up over at JGTCA.com for details...!!!

Here's a sample pic from last weekend (these pictures were during the cruise, we actually had more cars at the meet :)

http://www.h4r.org/109.jpg

lateRZ

Some of what you been missing :)
 

One of our other members TpCpLaYa (an FD guy :) ) hooked up another fresh video... this is a big one (100MB) but worth it I think... definitely shows you some flavor we've got everything from Honda to Mazda to Mitsubishi to Nissan (lots of 240s :) ) to Subaru to Toyota represented!

http://s26.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1...X3IC3HU19IIL0V
http://s26.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1...908HB7QA7SKAU8
http://s26.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0...G3LS52S50L19R2
http://s26.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2...P3KXF85LQD5WOU

These won't stay up forever but enjoy while you can :)

Here's one of my favorite pics, and yes, she's a member too :)
http://www.freebmw.net/wrbgga/jgtca/...os/photo70.jpg

More pictures HERE

lateRZ

Woops messed up on the movie links....
 

Try these out, they may not be up for long... and remember they're 100MB each (same movie, different links!)

http://s26.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1...X3IC3HU19IIL0V
http://s26.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1...908HB7QA7SKAU8
http://s26.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0...G3LS52S50L19R2
http://s26.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2...P3KXF85LQD5WOU


lateRZ

My, weren't you up early. I may be there again this Saturday.

Al:

Cool :) more RX-8 goodness!!! And yep I was up early/late (still awake after a long long workday/travel).

lateRZ

Thinkin about showing up.... will check out the website for more info! Thanks for the invite!

Excellent! Please do come out to the meet :) We <3 RX-8s and have been fortunate enough to have had 3 out to our meets already!

Please check the forum for details! :)
http://jgtca.com/index.php?showtopic=1444

lateRZ

My wife and kids are out of town this weekend, so I actually have some free time to check it out... hopefully I'll see you guys Saturday.