New Rotary Club In Wichita Kansas
 

Hey all I am on here to see if there is anyway that people would be interested in getting a new rotary club started in Wichita Kansas. I have a dealership in Wichita that is interested in helping sponsor some things. I know that there are a lot of rotary's here because I have seen them. I was part of TVRX8 club out of Huntsville Al before I moved back to Kansas so I know how much fun these clubs can be. If anyone is interested PM me back asap.

Thanks
Chuck

member list:

MEMBER
Cq5chand
NAME
Chuck
MODEL
RX-8 GT
COLOR
Black
YEAR
2006

MEMBER
Rotary REVolution
NAME
Juston
MODEL
RX-8 GT
COLOR
Velocity Red Mica
YEAR
2004

MEMBER
Rotarypower18
NAME
Mark
MODEL
RX-8 GT
COLOR
Liquid Silver Metallic
YEAR
2009

MEMBER
mxdeb
NAME
Deb
MODEL
RX-8
COLOR
Winning Blue
YEAR
2004

glad to finally hear from someone. I am chuck and drive a black with fullybody kit rx8

I'm in Newton...but drive to work in Wichita!!! Count me in!

good to hear

Bump for a good friend and great guy!

come on people I know there are lots of 8s in Wichita I see at least 2 every day

any word from anybody else?

^bump^

Ya might catch me or the misses out cruising time to time

I live here in Wichita. I get out once in a while. count me in.

I just joined the club a while ago, but if there's still any interest in this, I'm up for it

Im pretty new here and just bought my RX8 a couple weeks ago. I am stationed at Ft.Riley and know a couple rotary owners up here. We would probably be able to attend some events. Just keep us posted.

Hi I would be interested in coming to gatherings and such. LMK

interested
 

the post is late but i hope someone's still got this idea going on or hopefully a club started, i own an rx8. please let me know if you guys are meeting, when and where, i'd like to join.

well I am glad to see that there is some pull for this. what day works best for everyone.

Weekends.

Weekends are good.

RX8 noob ... Just got my first 8(blue 2004) would love to hang out with other 8 owners.

I have seen several others in East Wichita, lets rejuvinate this group!

+1^

wichita rx-8 owners have been inactive for far too long... let's actually get something started ^_^

anybody in? when is anybody available?

Count me in. I've seen a lot of RX-8's around Wichita.... Weekends are good.

weekends are best for me as well. how soon would anybody want to do this? and are there any ideas on where we'd actually go?

seeing as there aren't exactly any "scenic drives" in wichita, i'm imagining meeting up for either lunch or dinner somewhere possibly followd by some cruisin' around the town? any thoughts?

Weekends work for us too. We could meet for lunch or early dinner. Don't know what you guys like to eat but we're quite flexible. Old Chicago has good parking. Granite City has awesome Idaho nachos... I cannot speak for the West Side chow? Just got my 8 back tonight, hope they fixed her right this time LOL! What MPG's are you Wichita folks getting with your 8?

My little blue 8 is back in the shop 30 hours after I picked her up ... CEL and engine shutter. Maybe I have it back by the time we figure out where to meet, if not I'll be there in the station wagon loaner?! Any more ideas of where to eat/meet?

wow, you really aren't having the best of luck with your 8 so far =/ sorry to hear that.

either of the places you mentioned to meet would be fine for me... just waiting/hoping to hear back from others as well. pretty much all there is to do in wichita is eat out at restaurants and/or go see a movie lol, so there are plenty of nice places to eat, and i'm fine with any of them

idk about when. it'd be nice if you could actually bring your 8 to the 8 meeting haha >.<

I am good with any of those places mentioned. Ted's Montana Grill is another good place... I would rather if we could wait until the roads aren't nasty or full of salt becuase I don't care to drive my 8 on that.

I know what it is like to have your 8 in the shop... I had mine in the shop for 34 days 9 hours and 38 minutes to be exact. My '09 had shifting problems ever since I bought her new and I waited awhile to take her in because I knew that I would be without her awhile but never dreamed that long... I can tell the rest some other time.

I hope your 8 gets fixed for good this time!!

I have a good friend that has an 8 too and he would probably be able to come??

im in too, i've been waiting for this, so whatever works for you guys im in

dude...
 

I dont really care for eating, i can eat anytime of the day, i wanna cruise around and take pics of all the cars together, and park somewhere where there's a lot of traffic, i mean if we"re starting this club we want to show it off right? how about some club stickers??

i hear you on the eating thing. we don't have to do that if nobody wants to. i was just throwing out ideas for a first meet, and the idea of a meal was just for meet and greet... so we could talk/get acquainted and such.

if we actually get this club going, a club vinyl somewhere down the line might be a pretty a cool idea - something we could discuss

i agree with rotarypower that we should hold off on our first meet until some of this nasty weather clears up. that way we could have our 8's nice and clean and get some group photos as well. plus, that might give mxdeb's rx-8 time to get fixed

looks like we've got at least four (potentially five including rotarypower's friend) commited members so far... let's keep the members and ideas coming and maybe try to set a date for our first meet?? ideas on that?

LOL Thanks Rotary REVolution! I want to get her cleaned up! Hubby bought me a ton of Maguires for my b-day. I want to give her a good bath and clay and wax. That is IF they get her up and running properly. Today they finally changed one of the coils and the plug wire(s). They are keeping it to run some more tests. Hoping they check this site out, I keep telling them to.

Can't wait to see you guys' cars! It would be cool to have group pix. I would put a club sticker on...wonder if we can find a mutually acceptable color!?

hey all I am totally interested in getting together. i would love to get out of this crappy weather first.

i'm sure we could come up with some cool designs/colors for a group logo. seems like most people are in agreeance on waiting to meet until there is better weather. shall we pick the location and just leave the time and date tba for now?

if we have five cars there is really no where that we can't go but if we have around 10 cars we are really all going to want to be close to each other

yeah, that's a good point. so maybe the first thing we should do is see who is definitely in on this and planning to attend - basically get a member list going.

i stole this from the vegas lounge. it'd be nice for everyone to fill it out so we can compile them and see where we are at, or if you want, you can just send me your information, and i can fill them out/compile them.

here's mine:

MEMBER
Rotary REVolution
NAME
Juston
MODEL
RX-8 GT Package
COLOR
Velocity Red Mica
YEAR
2004

Gentlemen, good luck on your club. If you wish to get a message board going you can use phpbb. It's free, but you will have to do a little setup work. That's what we (evolvchicago) are using at the moment until we have the funds to use vbulletin. We are also incorporated as a not for profit organization. I don't know if there are any other rotary organizations in your area, but you may not want to limit it to RX8's. Consider including the RX7's too. While EvolvChicago is a rotary club, we allow all Mazda cars to be involved in the club. This makes the club more appealing to the dealerships.
All the Directors of our club are rotary owners.

no one?...

MEMBER
mxdeb
NAME
Deb
MODEL
RX-8
COLOR
Winning Blue
YEAR
2004

Took my 8 to Mazda after Carmax got done messing with it. They replaced 2 motor mounts, reflashed it to MSP?16 and replaced the cat. WOW I liked it before but now I LOVE this car. Can a car get more aggressive?! It's quieter, less vibe and more powerful in all gears but especially in the lower gears/RPM's!!! I am betting the MPG's will be a lot better too, have not run a full tank but the gage is already reporting good news. Guys at Davis Moore Mazda were top rate and friendly to boot!

Here Is Mine:

MEMBER
Rotarypower18
NAME
Mark
MODEL
RX-8 GT
COLOR
Liquid Silver Metallic
YEAR
2009


I think it might be towards the end of March or begging of April until it warms up a bit and this winter weather moves out. Pretty sure as long as it's a weekend my friend will be able to join with his RX-8.

glad to hear that you finally got your 8 back mxdeb! hopefully you can actually drive it for a while this time lol.

and yeah, it's still pretty cool, but at least the snow/ice is cleared up. we'll just have to wait and see.

i will update my first post here (2nd post of the thread) with our members. i will put them in order of who posted on the thread first. thanks for filling those out! i think it will help to get things going once we know who all's here

MEMBER
Cq5chand
NAME
Chuck
MODEL
Rx-8 GT
COLOR
Black
YEAR
2006

so why dont we decide who"s gonna take care of the setup, who we are gonna give our numbers to and contacts us about info, and when we"re gonna do this, its supposed to snow this week but im sure the weekend after will be fine, lets just do it already, btw, getting paint off rims is a bitch, now i have to buy a new one cause the idiot that i paid to paint them in the first place decided to sand one of the rims with i dont know but it scratched the crap out of it, so to anybody who's thinking about getting ur wheels painted, dont do it.

hey does the 10th of April work for everyone it would be a good chance for us all to get together in some fairly nice weather.

I'm out April 10th, 17th and the 18th.

what about April 3rd

april 3rd would probably work for me

April 3rd should work for me and my friend that has an RX-8.

The 3rd works for us.

where would everyone like to meet up at?

no one wants to speak up lol. i really can't think of anything either though -.-

the weather is kind of crappy again today... hopefully it clears up by next saturday

OK, so things are heating up for us, horse show season starts April 10 so we will be busy but for sure want to meet with other 8 owners! What about the Warren Theater East parking lot? Would they let us use the overflow area? Or if we wanted more attention Walmart East parking lot out by the Burger King? Or for that matter the Sportsman's Warehouse is empty now. I am sure we could go there without being in anyone's way??? Not sure where everyone lives. Maybe somewhere more west? It would be cool if we could use the Mazda lot but I don't know anyone there. Going to be there tomorrow for rear tires and touch up on the paint... maybe could ask if you guys are in? By the way what time would we be meeting? 12? 1? 2?

i guess it wouldnt' hurt to go ahead and talk to somebody at mazda about it while you're there, but i kind of think somwhere more public than that might be better just in hopes that maybe some local 8 owners (unaware of this group and website... there are obviously a bunch) would happen to see us and maybe even stop by to see what's going on ^_^ i'd be fine with any of the places you mentioned. and same for the times... pretty much anytime around noon or after would be good.