Central Meet

[Thor06]

Yeah, I just dont want to lose the DSM-ness of the meet. I dont care if we get a couple non DSM's there, just not every fuckin riced out Honda and meathead domestic guy in the midwest. You've got a DSM anyway, so its ok.

EDIT #1 - I too am getting excited, still no word from any of the tracks, I'll call them tomorrow. I have a feeling that it wont be the 100+ car meet that I thought it would be, but I dont think 25 is out of the question. If we get less than like 50, renting a track for a day is going to cost quite a bit. Say its $3000 at 50 people thats $60 a person. So for 30 people its $120. How much would you guys be willing to pay? $25? $30? $50? I'm aiming for $30, I think thats pretty reasonable, but we need some people to go. Talk to you local DSM friends guys!!!

EDIT #2 - In response to whoever said I need mine by then, I might have one on Monday. Its a maroon 92 with no engine, tranny or t case but has the driveshaft and 4 bolt rear. Other than that, its complete. I just need a truck to go get it with. It does have some damage, the hood, pass fender, and pass headlight are all f 'ed but the car is only $250. I will get try to get some good deals on a the body and power/drive train and I will chip away at it from next week until its done. I'm happy .

[xavier3jr]

Yea man bring some friends if u want, just no muscle car bitch's that think there the shit because they might just get there ass's handed to them by a couple of us

[blk_srt]

Well I was thinking of posting something on the southern minnesota forum(www.fivezeroseven.com) and seeing who all would be interestes. Most of the members have decient cars such as a wrx a hand full of boosted neons boosted hondas and cars of that nature. I just figured the more people we can get to come the less we will all have to pay and the more likely we will get this to happen. In a perfect world we would have 200+ dsms coming but I think if the plan is to try and have it this summer the word wont travle fast enough to get everybody, but if we decide to make it a yearly thing or even a few times a year the news will spread and who knows, we might end up with the biggest gathering of dsm/sport compact cars in the mid west

[Thor06]

Yeah that would be cool, not sure if I am up for that much organizing though . I dont know... we should see how many DSM's we can get first. All the other cars would kinda take away from the purpose of the meet... DSMs. We would be surrounded by DSM parts, knowledge, support, and DSM love. More than a couple guys with Hondas and muscle cars can lead to some misinformation (ever listen to a Honda guy ), create tension, and actually drive away some of the DSMs we are trying to attract. Lets see how much tracks cost and possible DSMers before we open this up more.

xavier are you even in the midwest?

[blk_srt]

Well if you take care of finding the track and setting stuff I'm willing to help get the word out or whatever else I can do to help

[xavier3jr]

nope im all the way in the east but this IS the central meet correct?

[Thor06]

Yeah, I was just confused about where you lived. Being very involved in the midwest thread, I though you might be in the midwest but I thought I remembered you saying you are in Virginia. Just of my own clarification.

[xavier3jr]

no im in anderson South Carolina

[ez1286]

If we can get a track closer to chicago I could probably get a bunch of chi-dsm people to come, the last meet near chicago had 50+ cars. That would bring the price down a bit!! I'll give some tracks calls and see how much it would cost. There's also a shop near here called automotosports (automotosports.com) i could see if they would sponsor us, plus they have an awd dyno. Let me know what you guys think about traveling a south a little.

Thor, that was me that said it, glad t hear you're getting a dsm!

[Thor06]

Well, I wanted to make it easy for ND, SD, IA, MN, WI, upper penninsula, and you chicago guys to go to. Also, I cant go very much farther away. Like my future DSM, my parents wont probably know about this. A bunch of my friends and I are planning a road trip, probably to the Wisoconsin Dells (depending on how far it is) or just to the twin cities for a couple days/nights. This will get shoehorned into there somewhere. dsmstyle.com is all MN, IA, and WI people as soon as I allowed to post there I will hit them up. I just checked, Chicago to Eau Claire is 5 hrs 15 min by mapquest time, i'm sure you can make it in closer to 4:30 or 4:45. Its 6:15 from here, but we can probably do 'er in 5:30 or so. Especially driving DSMs . I'm hoping be in between the twin cities and chicago we can get a bunch from each, plus we can probably get all the local DSMers out of Eau Claire. Spread the word guys, and tell me how many you think are interested!

[MexRocket]

In order to spread the word, I need to know a time table, a very rough one is fine, most people don't do this with less than a month or two notice.

[Thor06]

Late June or early July (not over or close to the 4th) in Eau Claire Wisconsin are my tenative plans.

I'll call the track tomorrow to see what prices will be. Once we can tell what its going to cost and a rough idea about how many people will be there, we can start to say how much money this will cost. Also, we might need to sorta rent a parking lot to have the swap meet/car show in so that might throw us a curve ball. 15-20 cars in the corner of a parking lot wont be a big deal most likely, but 200 will be. School wont be in session, we could maybe hit up some of that shit. Would registering before hand be a good idea? If its a little meet, it wont be a big deal to bring 10 cars into the track. However, with 30 of us it renting the whole track will be expensive as hell and 30 of us plus the other track goers would be too busy. I cant front money for the track myself, so I will need money up front. What do you guys think about that?

[E-Klips]

Originally Posted by ez1286

If we can get a track closer to chicago I could probably get a bunch of chi-dsm people to come, the last meet near chicago had 50+ cars. That would bring the price down a bit!! I'll give some tracks calls and see how much it would cost. There's also a shop near here called automotosports (automotosports.com) i could see if they would sponsor us, plus they have an awd dyno. Let me know what you guys think about traveling a south a little.

Thor, that was me that said it, glad t hear you're getting a dsm!

I am friends with a couple people from AMS. They are good guys down there. Martin is an excellent tuner! I'd say best in the area. I have doubts about them sponsoring it though.

[imtheoneandonlyD]

Hmmm well if its going to be in june or july im probably out. I play amature baseball for East Bethel(small town north of st paul) and we usually have games atleast every other day. But once an actual date is set i might know a little more.

[blk_srt]

If theres a swap meet someone better bring me some 2gb conversion pieces :P

EDIT: I'm totally in for having it in Eau Claire, its about a 150 mile drive from my house and I think its pretty much in the middle