If you want suggestions for a show to attend I highly recommend the Dash to the Dells, its held in mid September. It might be a bit out of the way, central Wisconsin, you would have a place for the guys in the northern half of the country meet. You would be able to have a place for the northern Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Northern Michigan members to meet. Easy interstate access, a resort area with a lot of motels and other attractions.

 

That is one of the most awesome pictures of all time....

"OLD THUNDER - ROLLING DOWN THE ROAD"

Will this help any?

(I can do better than that)

 

What my wife & I've discussed for years is to make the run from where Route 66 begins, to where it ends.
Then it morphed into visiting all the places Lampooned in the Anime "CARS" along the way as well.

 

I am pretty enthused with the idea, but if I could make a suggestion:

What about regional meets first?

It sounds like we're all somewhat clustered, so why don't we work on getting a couple smaller get-togethers going, and work up to a National meet and cross-country run?

Another point that occurs to me is that with regional meets, we could probably do our own version of the 'test and tune' days that the performance car crowds tend to run... except ours would be more of a 'troubleshoot and fix' day I'm not suggesting completing engine swaps in a fairground (but I would be game!), but smaller things like getting older engines tuned up right or fixing wiring gremlins. We've got quite a few members here who have developed good skills over the years, but I'd wager I'm not the only one who's better in some areas than others (ie, I'm much better at esoteric repairs like rebuilding engines and turbochargers than I am at more normal things, like brakes).

 

Im all wired up over the possibility of this getting off the ground, I can hardly wait, what a great time this will be and if your not there then you must be square.

 

Yep homade, we all had a GREAT time in PF last year. Thats where we met you. All you cats on FTE are the GREATEST!! We always have the greatest time when we get together. We met at Krispy Kreme in PF combining 2 of my favorite things (donuts and FTE guys)

 

Truxx,your just interested in the donuts and not the other NUTS, ha ha

 

Now that you mention it, he did seem mighty comfortable with that dozen last year...

 

LiftTech, I tell you the boy ain't right......................................

 

Y'know - maybe you guys should work up a map plot of where everyone is that is SINCERELY interested in the idea, and map out cruise routes that may or may not be national or "whole state" cruise routes.

Route 66, the pacific Coast Highway, stretches of Interstate 40, and so on.

You might not be able to do a nationwide run right off the bat - but enough runs with enough people by region might be one hell of an eye-opener...

I would also like to propose that you try the following:

Start a new "SOCIAL GROUP" now that we have that option titled "COAST to Coast Cruise 2009" now that the new forum software makes that possible, in other words: Run it up the flagpole sitewide, and see who salutes it!!!