The Texas 8 State Meet 2010 (Quad state area welcome)
 

Hey guys, its getting to be that time of year again for the Texas State Meet.


DATE IS OFFICIALLY SET AT APRIL 30th-May1st

Please let me know what everyone is thinking about. If you have other suggestions please let us know.

As always check out the site at www.thetexas8.com

Yeah lets make this year bigger and better.......hopefully we can get more Houston people this year!!! :)

By the way I am down for whatever dates.

um....no may dates. idk my exam schedule. and if there's a monday holiday. that'd be prefered. for nick

We were just talking about this .......


I was gonna suggest that instead of having the meet in Kerrville that we have it in San Antonio. There are better places to stay, things to do, and routes to leave from. Not to mention that we can have an after run BBQ at a local park or even a local's house.

i'm also gonna try and have the 7 inspected and all by this event. even though there's no way i'd take it on the drive.

Are you suggesting that we just stay in SA and then drive to the three sisters?? Or that SA completely host the whole thing?

Fuuuuuck yahhhhhh! Should have rims and coilovers on by this time. Gotta plan some more exterior mods before this goes down.

i can only do april 16-17 or 30-1.....

April is good. I'm going to Colorado on May 20th for a week so.............


Riley, we can take a different route from SA and do the same roads but in SA there are places to really party and better places to stay.

San Antonio!!!! lets do this!!

man...we need to set up a photoshoot or something...i want a cool sig pic like yours! lol

Begin Threadjack:

Let's do it. Anytime.

I made tbk's and Grungepups too and theirs look better than mine :( Q

I was suggesting that the Meet stay in San Antonio and leave from here, there are plenty of back roads that lead to the three sisters.

shit im down for whatever as long as 8's from mcallen are invited??

ill be there but unfortunately not in rx8
but ill try it out in a s2k
the rx8s brother from honda

i dont think any of those dates will work for me depends on whether i get my new job or not.

may 14-15 = best

Do you have some route suggestions that you can send me?

The only concern I have with staying in SA is time. Starting out in Kerrvile and doing the whole complete run takes close to a day. If we stay in SA that's going to add 2 hours to an already full day of driving which could lead to people be very tired by supper.

I'll keep yall posted on dates for the state meet... But I'm totally down...

We are ready... Hell yeah we are bringing 2 8s this year...

I will ask grungepup and kevo to provide route data. If we start out on HWY16 and Bandera I don't think it will add any extra driving to and from. That route is good from the start.

Actually, we did a run a while back where we Started out at Hwy 16 and 1604, ran up to Bandera, then onto Medina, followed by 2!!!! trips around the three sisters. We left around 11 because of stragglers and were back and done by 5. The original run we had planned called for 8 hours according to google, but that calculation is based on going 35mph through most of the roads. We were completed with the run by 2 and some decided to head home while a few of us decided to tackle the three sisters a second time.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&sour...73,2.90863&z=9


Here is a run that we had planned in the past but never went on. It brings in some new roads as well as a new place to eat. If everyone is ok with BBQ, there is Cooper's BBQ in Junction and has plenty of seating and even an outdoor eating area. This route also changes up the way we attack the sisters, we would be doing the 2 majors legs in reverse and at the same time breaking it up giving the drivers to recoup before hitting up the second leg. I also added in a stop at Garner State Park for a photo op, ofcourse that can be changed.

oh yeah.. and the dates... remember that the week leading into the 16-17th of April is Fiesta for San Antonio. Which comes with good and bad, the good is there is plenty of things happening that weekend, we could even shorten the run so people can rest up and hit up the carnival that night or some other event. The bad would be traffic in San Antonio. I am not sure how the hotel/motel situation would be, I doubt many tourists come in and stay that far from downtown as we would be.

I will respectfully disagree here. I would not like to come to a State meet to cut the driving short for a carnival. This is meet for driving, now I wouldn't mind going around the Three Sisters twice then after the meet hang out and chill for the Fiesta but I don't think we should cut drive time. Just my opinion, I came to drive baby not chill lol

Hmmm, that actually doesnt look too bad. SA doesnt seem that much further than Kervile from the Three Sisters when present in this fashion. This is indeed promising.

I'm actually a big fan of BBQ, as long as its good BBQ.

People have been asking me for something a bit new in regards to the meet and this may be just the change it needed.

On dates, its looking like based on the feedback so far April 30 May 1st

Yeah, the run from HWY 16-Loop 1604 was a good one, too bad I did one lap :)

This is the best run, I agree.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&sour...3,1.738586&z=9

i have an exam may 1st :(

What the hell kinda school do you go to that you have exams so early? Tech has such a weird schedule considering that may 1st is a Saturday!

730am on saturday. at that. the last day of exams is the 11th. which is why i suggested the 14th. but i wont be all butt hurt about it if you cant. you have a lot more people to accomodate than me.

i have exams early may too but as long as its the weekend it wont matter

<--- liar.


i just double checked. exams start the 6th. i have one the 8th. my b. i still say the 14th would be best tho considering ill be back in dallas and able to drive down with youz guyz.

I'm pretty sure I'm down for any of the April dates. I also know several people in the Boerne/San Antonio area that would be down for tagging along. Unless we are trying to stay a Mazda crowd this year, then they might just ride along. As far as starting from SA the drive out is almost as fun as the 'drive' itself. It's not as tight and twisty, but it's still fun. And remember that last year we stopped in Medina, which is on the way back anyway. And more cinnamon apple ice cream.

That ice cream is the shit. My kids and I have rolled out there on a whim a couple of times.

Man, I am heavily considering stay an all 8 event this year. I'm still having flash backs from the BMW wreck last year. Trying to have a perfect safety record, and we have failed miserably. Its harder to boot people for not staying in the yellow lines on a public road compared to a track.

Its def a fav of the event and will not be modified from previous years :)

I'm definately down with it.. Any of those weekends, with the exception of April 23, work for me. I also think staying in SA is a great idea.

me and my friend bobby are going for sure but wanted to know what exacly goes on like im knew to this so its going to be my frist time

Well Friday is usually drive to the event day. Depending on where you live in Texas this could take most of the day (as it does for the DFW folks). So we usually caravan and make a very long cruise out of it. Everyone then meets up at the hotel we are staying at and then we all head out to dinner.

Sat Morning we all meet at the hotel for instructions and maps. We then head out in a big group to basically drive the roads all day. We take breaks along the way for pictures food and gas. The reason this is such a big deal is that the roads (when there is no traffic in front of us) are great because they are very twisty.

I encourage you to check out the website: www.thetexas8.com

Isnt April 16-17 DGRR?

Would one of you SA peps like to call around your area for hotel deals?

Staying in San Antonio does sound like a good idea, now we just need to figure out the date and then what kind of deals we can get at the hotels?

i live in bryan college station i got a 8 but thats way too far to go.

People come from much farther.

I will echo what 9krpm said. Kerrvile was 4-5 hours for us in the DFW area, and that is just from the point we meet at. The Dallas people have to drive an hour just to reach that point.

I notice that was your first post, so you probably do not share the friendships that alot of us do having known each other for years. That 5 hour trip flies by so quickly when you and a bunch of your friends get together and drive down in one group.

I'd encourage you to think about it some more, and possibly meet the DFW group on the way down.

Yep :)

Some of you guys should consider coming to DGRR this year. So far we have over 100 rotary cars signed up and some top rotary racers and cars have signed up.. Including 6x 3 rotor cars.

www.DealsGapRotaryRally.com

Meh, I didnt get the 8 to show it, I got the 8 to drive it! :rock:

Damn that's far:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&sour...89&ie=UTF8&z=5

Road trip anyone?

Before you knock it, at least give it a shot... as its different than what you think..

Yeah I recently watched a show on Speed about Deal Gap. It looks pretty sweet.