zsak

hey guys well after a rough week at home, I am happy to say I can finally make it out there. Given the only s2k out there lol. But I really hope we do the drive. That will be fun. Hope to see all of you there...

Brett144

What time are most of the 8's showing up, have to get some things done in the A.M. and don't want to miss the fun.

epitrochoid

hey man, i got them finals toooo!!

meet starts at 10. me and strong are gonna be there around 9:30

if anyone's interetested, I'm going to roxy tomorrow night around 11.

Brett144

I will try and catch up with you guys around 9:45, hopefully I can get my *** moving and get all the morning grunt work done early.

Morgan

yay! it's now 1130ish and i just finsihed washing and waxing my car...talk about waiting until the last moment!!!! I CANT WAIT TO MEET YOU GUYS TOMRROW! *MWAH!*

I feel like a giggly, bubbly, joyful little scchool girl all over again!!!

Pinhy

ummm....maybe thats cause you ARE ?? :shrug:


:evil:

epitrochoid

you wanna talk about waiting till the last moment...it's 4:30 am and I'm just getting to sleep! someone bring me red bull tomorrow

Razpewton

0559.....MY DAUGHTER HAS ONE MINUTE TO FINISH UP IN THE BATHROOM. I MAY be coming without her.

I talked with Meowloud last night. They've run into some bad luck. They're trying to get their car towed to the dealer and waiting for roadside assistance to show up. Keep them in your thoughts and prayers and let our collective POSITIVE ENERGY reject any more negative vibes that may be lurking about.

zsak...glad to see you are gonna be able to make it.

OMG!! My daughter is ready!!!!! <thump>

Pinhy

im awake....bout to hit the shower and last minute run through to make sure i have everything i want to bring.

the day is really here!

MyLadyDeb

OMG OMG OMG - I've been offline a few days - had computer issues (at least not car issues - lol) - just saw the special announcement - I LOVE YOU GUYS and I'm sitting here with tears in my eyes because I WANT TO BE THERE TOOOOOOOOO - so I guess I get to be 29 again???? lol - actually the big number is - drum roll please - 52 - aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh - I am so hoping to meet all of you soon - I'll be checking posts all weekend - keep me updated - ok ok ok ?????

Meowloud

Thanks Air_ForceRX8 and Razpewton, thank God that you guys were able to get a hold of. Jon and I have had the night from HELL. D Menac 7, we are OK... thanks for the message, but your PM is full :D
Jon's 8 (titanium) broke down in S. GA. We had to leave it in Macon, GA!!!!! Mazda has REALLY screwed us!!! Depending on when they get it fixed (seems it may be the ECU), we will have to drive BACK down to GA. to fetch it!!! I KID YOU NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for your well wishes. We _JUST_ got home and thought we'd check our messages. I am so upset right now... I don't have words to describe it. Mazda left us in the sticks for 2 hours, and finally got a tow to Macon where we were greeted to a closed dealership (2300 hrs at this point) and awoke to a dealership that was not willing to help, other than to stay "stay here until Monday, then we'll have someone to look at it". It goes ON AND ON from there. I'll have to fill you in later, I'll post in the Lounge.

THANKS EVERYONE!

After reading this again, I think I'm going to cry

epitrochoid

I have an awsome time today guys, it made me really proud to own such a unique car. we definately are doing this again in early fall/late summer. glad to see you're ok meowloud...too bad that had to happen at such a bad time

a link to my pics is below. they're enormous resolution. raz, maybe you can downsize them and put them on your site.

http://www.ucfcarclub.com/rotary

please be kind to my bandwidth and save the pics to your HD. there's a few videos of the big pic at the end too.

ok, time to take a nap. lol

Air Force RX8

Hey everyone I had a great timeout there today, but I wanted to point out an issue that upset me. As I was standing there watching everyone getting ready to leave I saw so many people from the RX-7 group taking trash from their cars and setting it in the parking lot and leaving it. There was a water and Mountain Dew bottle that appeared to have been left by the 8 group, but almost all of it was from the 7 group. Even one water bottle had GAS in it! WTF?!?!

This is unacceptable behavior IMO because Race Rock allowed us to meet for free there and yes they benefitted from us eating lunch inside, but that is no excuse whatsoever for dumping the amount of trash that I stayed to pick up. The Boy Scouts of America have a saying..."Leave no trace". Simply put leave the area cleaner than when you arrived. If we do not adopt a position like this for future meets we can expect places to require a deposit.

Let's have another meet, but please make it clear that we need to conduct ourselves as responsible adults or we will have fewer places to have meets.

Flame out...

strong bad

sup everyone. AWESOME turn out for the meet. i had a great time...even though we all left earlier than we planned..it was still plenty of time for chillin and picture taking. I wish that we could have been able to stay closer together during the cruise, just b/c that would have looked bad ***. but w/ all that traffic and lights....and those who just flat out took off (all the 7s!! hehe) that didn't happen...all good though, it was great. thanks to everyone who made it happen.

Hey Randy, thanks again for all your hard work in setting up the meet. That includes maintaining the website, contacting dealers for door prizes, t-shirts, registration forms, etc. WOW! Big time kudos to you, man. It was great to meet you and the other members on the board. What a turn out today. You did good, man.

Morgan, our lovely event coordinator. big ups for taking hold of the idea and running with it...this obviously wouldn't have come together w/o you...it was also good to finally meet ya...your a lil cutey... anyways, i'm done kissing your ***...i should jump you and steal those prizes you won today! grrr haha..

Brian, props for settin up the meet location and gettin hold of race rock..and for finding our picture takin spot..pretty nice $700 nav you got there, heh..cya around campus

and to everyone else who contributed to the meet...yall are the crap...cya in a few months hopefully... peace

Gary

strong bad

Ah crap! randy..did you ever get a chance to hear those diff exhausts? i totally forgot to show you my borla...i know i wasn't the only one out there with it...i'm hoping you got a chance to hear the racing beat and greddy as well...shoot, my bad

Morgan

Hey you guys-

Thanks to all of you for coming out. I had an AWSOME time and feel like i've really accomplished something. It was so nice to put a name with a face and all that fun stuff...

Brian: I too loved your Navi. I had an awsome time on our cruise, although we did lose most of the people...Keeping up with you is like trying to keep up with me...Thanks for all of your help and all! I can't wait to finish planing this up coming meet....Are you going to be in orlando this summer???

Randy: Thanks for everything!! I don't think i could have pulled it all of without you...and i deff. wouldn't have been able to get anybodys attention w/o you either!! Your daughter is a complete sweetheart...Now she just needs her permit so she can drive the 8!!!!!!

Gary: Thanks for all ths support through out the day. I'm really thankful for you helping me along the ways with all the little things that needed to get done. I'm really glad we all managed to pull it off...I'll see you around this summer down in the o-town!! Can't wait for this up coming meet! eek! You, brian, Randy (if he wants too) and I have our work cut out for us to be able to top this one in the fall!!!!

Doug: Thanks for helping me put on my clears!! You too "guy321"

Everybody else: Thanks for the rotary accents. I LOVE them! They're going on my car ASAP! Thanks a million for making my "rotary car dream" (well, as far as meets) come true...Just hang tight for the next one...it's going to be even better!!!!!

I hope everybody got home safely!!! *MWAH!* Luv you guys!!!! Hope ya'll aren't as sunburned as i am! hehe!!

MyLadyDeb

I wanna go - waaaaaaaaaaaaaa - sounds like you guys had an awesome time. Wanna see some more pics. Hurry - lol

Morgan

Quick update--I added the rotary accents to my car. They look great!! I didn't wear gloves while putting the primer/glue stuff on the car..so now my fingers are sorta sticking together..hehe! It's all gravey though! Once again..A big thanks to all!!! *Kiss's!*

strong bad

Holy crap, Meowloud...i'm soooooo sorry. i just can't imagine what you'd be feelin right now. how potentially you'd have a wonderful time meeting up with ppl u've been posting to for months...to the opposite extreme of having everything go wrong.. it's bad enough that you got stranded..but for those ppl that dumped soda on you..i swear that PISSES me off.

we did end up having a blast and wished you could have come out and been a part of it..i'm glad you're back home safely though...if you're up for it....you should come out to the next meet..

btw, it's awesome that you were game to show up to this meet in the first place...comin from TN n all.. take care, and i hope you get things straightened out with the car..

evot23

Captain Obvious says

Pics here:

https://www.rx8club.com/showthread.p...threadid=26622

Topgun

It was great to see all the people here in Orlando and meet everybody. I do have to say how embarrassed I was to be part of this group when the group left Race Rock! I did not leave with the group but stayed to have lunch with my wife at Race Rock while everybody was leaving I watched the group of kids in the RX7's doing burn outs out of the parking lot and driving like complete idoits in the middle of heavy traffic and tourists. Almost everybody in Race Rock thought that the group leaving like that was going to hurt somebody.

It is a shame to take a positive event and leave such negative impression behind.

Jeff

Pinhy

just got home....had a great time today. wish i would have remembered to look for trash before leaving race rock, i did pick up some stuff and throw it away in a small garbage bag Randy had. everyone should have been respnsible for their own garbage though

thanks to everyone for planning this shindig

thanks to everyone for getting door prizes (including myself) even though i didnt win anything :-(

we'll have to be sure to do this a couple times a year at least. maybe the next one can be our BIG one. i will be working on more sponsorship (i only had a week on this one as i didnt get involved early). maybe some big items or gift certificates.

to the door prize winners. it would be a great gesture to email the companies you won prizes from and thank them. if you dont know who donated your prize, i am sure raz or bluegrim or myself know. (the sidemarkers and carbon fiber bumper guard are from Rotart Extreme) PLUS they also are giving 15% discount on body kits till the middle of May to anyone who was there.

anyway....great to meet everyone and hope to see you again soon!!

Meowloud

Yes, I'm from St. Augustine (below Jacksonville) and was going to spend Sunday with my family. Everything is ruined, but thank you to all who was there. If you can just imagine a small trip you were going to take... drive 5 hours just to break down. Then, no one on here seems to care. Oh well. *Sigh* Guess I will go back to stupid jokes and pics.
Be careful with Mazda Roadside all. Do NOT depend on them.

Thanks All! Zoom Zoom

Morgan

Deb: I'm glad to know you're ok and all. We're having another event sometime before the fall school season starts. I can't dissclose where it is probably going to be yet...but it's going to be awsome! a few of us already started on the planning for it and all, i hope you'll be able to make it down for it!!!!!

Everyone else...SHAME ON YOU FOR LEAVING TRASH!!!! Thats a wee-bit childish don't you think? Regardless, and not to completely bash the RX7 guys..i do believe it was mostly them. Mostly because the rx8 guys all ate inside or didnt eat at all! hehe

Oh well, i'm still glowing for the whole event... yay, i'm sooooo happy right now!!!

Agent of Chaos

Hello all,

I just wanted to say how much fun I had at the meet in Orlando. I thoroughly enjoyed seeing all the RX-8's and their various mods and options. A few of them I think I'll "borrow and modify" the ideas from and add to mine.
It was also good to be able to put a face to some names. Instead of only having text to some names, even though it will take a couple more meets to really get the names and faces remembered.
The onlt thing I regret about the meet, is that I forgot my camera But I see a lot of people have already posted pictures and they all look great.
I wasn't expecting to see as many RX-7s there, but I'm glad they were. Seeing the 7's next to the 8's and then the RX-2 at the photo op, made me realize it's not just the RX-8 I like. But the Rotary Engine and Mazda all together. And now I want to really get deep into the workings and mechanics of the Rotary.

Anyway, The meet was a blast and I can't wait to attend the next..or even be part of setting it up. And by the next one my 8 will hopefully not be so stock

Gary J.