Chicagoland Meet

[lvemy3100]

Originally Posted by lone_wolf025

Do they sell the Barq's Red Creme Soda in stores up there? I know the pizza place has it at least

I really dont know since I have never looked for it but if I had a list of stuff to look for I would but much more than happy to get anything anyone needs... just shoot me a pm and we can work out the details...


I actually am looking forward to this meet just so that I can have an excuse to buy from pizza from the antoch pizza place... looking like 2-3 Large pizzas maybe more

[Ajaxus]

well ill bring some beer for those that are 21, not a ton cause im gettin classy stuff..i guess i can also bring pop for the others, i can probably find some red cream soda if wanted.

[Mike Jung]

Does anyone have a Sam's Club membership ?
6570 Grand Ave.
Gurnee, IL 60031
1.84-miles from the La Quinta Inn Chicago-Gurnee Hotel

or Costco membership ?

I would think those places would have reasonable prices for things needed.

Edit: I forgot we are meeting at Walmart on Friday
I guess we always could go in there for supplies.

[silvergtjrad]

i'd be willing to paypal some money, its going to be much easier than telling 20 people to bring 20 different things.

[Mike Jung]

Originally Posted by lvemy3100

OFFICIAL DETAILS POST

When: July 20th-22nd

Where: Chicago and the Burbs

Hotel:
La Quinta Inn Chicago-Gurnee
5688 Northridge Dr
Gurnee, IL 60031
Phone: (847) 662-7600

Check HERE for a list of other local hotels

Schedule:

Friday-
10am-11:45am: Meet up with most everyone at Antioch Super Walmart Parking Lot
12pm-445pm: Mod/Detail/shoot the sh!t/Eat Pizza from A-town Pizza Place
445pm: Drive to Track
After Track: Bonfire by the lake.. grilling and drinking

Saturday-
12pm: meet with those who werent able to make it until saturday as well as those in town already..
1pm-7:30pm: Hang by the lake and BBQ/Mod/detail/shoot the sh!t (if not maybe will will join Terese at Blarney's Island)
8pm: Dog and Suds Cruise In Night.. after that who knows... More eating will be done at this event...

Sunday-
What we do sunday will be determined by all of us on friday and saturday.

This schedule is tentative to many changes.

So, where are people meeting up on Saturday & Sunday ?
The Hotel parking lot; or elsewhere, like the Antioch Walmart ?

& where is the hang-out for Friday afternoon ?
The Walmart parking lot

[lvemy3100]

Originally Posted by Ajaxus

well ill bring some beer for those that are 21, not a ton cause im gettin classy stuff..i guess i can also bring pop for the others, i can probably find some red cream soda if wanted.

I am sure beer will be needed and as for red cream soda.. I can get regular generic red crem soda but BARQ's Red Cream Soda I have yet to find anywhere but A-town pizza place.... still lookin though...

Originally Posted by Mike Jung

Does anyone have a Sam's Club membership ?
6570 Grand Ave.
Gurnee, IL 60031
1.84-miles from the La Quinta Inn Chicago-Gurnee Hotel

or Costco membership ?

I would think those places would have reasonable prices for things needed.

not really much need as you can hit up the super walmart and get pretty much ANYTHING you would want/need for this meet... they even have a cookout/grilling aisle (sp?) (we are meeting at super walmart on friday before hitting the track)

Originally Posted by silvergtjrad

i'd be willing to paypal some money, its going to be much easier than telling 20 people to bring 20 different things.

in order to get this to go a bit smoother I think it would be best that I make an email address linked to a paypal account just for donations for the meet... I will post up the address asap and then everyone can just send as much or as little as they want... this will also help me be able to be more prepared before most everyone is here since I wont be going around trying to get money from everyone who is willing to donate...

[lvemy3100]

Originally Posted by Mike Jung

So, where are people meeting up on Saturday & Sunday ?
The Hotel parking lot; or elsewhere, like the Antioch Walmart ?

& where is the hang-out for Friday afternoon ?
The Walmart parking lot

Leave it to you to have some great questions...


I think that either the hotel or walmart parking lot would work best for meeting on sat and sun... I will leave this for the majority to decide between the 2

friday afternoon is kind of a toss up since at first I did not think there would be such a nice turn out and as a result I dont know if we will have enough room on my street to have everyone there at once BUT i think that the large amount of forest preserves will be able to make up for where to go... worst case we will hit up the lake... but NO DRINKING WILL BE ALLOWED PRIOR TO THE TRACK!!!! (only after )

[silvergtjrad]

Im going to meet you guys at the track on friday night. I wont be off of work till around 4ish then have to drive home, then drive about an hour and a half to gld. Trying to see if i can start early on friday to get off earlier, but im kinda new still and dont want to be too pushy about it. Saturday night I'll be there till around 6pm.

[Ajaxus]

Originally Posted by lvemy3100

NO DRINKING WILL BE ALLOWED PRIOR TO THE TRACK!!!! (only after )

jk


I think I can find Barq's red cream soda in cans around here...I know I've seen it before..

[Mike Jung]

Is it worth it to take the I-94 north out of Chicago ?
Being a Toll Highway & all.
What is the toll fees along I-94 to Gurnee ?

Or take for example, a free road:
IL-21 to Gurnee.
or
US-41 to Gurnee.

[lvemy3100]

I have no clue about what is best when coming from Chicago.. maybe some of those who have made the trip in the past would be willing to chime in on this...


also FYI- the email for donations is.... donations@mpracing.org PAYPAL ONLY!!!

feel free to donate what you wish and if you want something specific to be purchased you MUST put it in the notes section or email me and let me know....

[Mike Jung]

Originally Posted by lvemy3100

also wanted to add we are taking DONATIONS for food and drink as any would be greatly appreciated.. but not required

Originally Posted by lvemy3100

in order to get this to go a bit smoother I think it would be best that I make an email address linked to a paypal account just for donations for the meet... I will post up the address asap and then everyone can just send as much or as little as they want... this will also help me be able to be more prepared before most everyone is here since I wont be going around trying to get money from everyone who is willing to donate...

Originally Posted by lvemy3100

also FYI- the email for donations is.... donations@mpracing.org

feel free to donate what you wish and if you want something specific to be purchased you MUST put it in the notes section or email me and let me know....

Is there a suggested amount to donate ?
(I don't want to under-contribute.)

Example: Like the last BBQ gathering I went to, that was held by friends (& friends of friends).
We all chipped in $10; & it was BYOB (Bring your own booze).
We had lots of food, & take home bags afterwards


& is there a deadline to donate ?

PS: How many days are we BBQ'ing ?

[lone_wolf025]

AJ if you find some pick up a couple big cases. I'll square with you later. Mark, if you can't find the Barq's don't worry about it, but if you do that'd be awesome...just don't go way out of your way looking for it.

Edit-

I think we should start a list for the competitions. If you're looking to compete put your name down for whatever category you want.

I'll repost the previous list

Originally Posted by lone_wolf025

Ok we'll settle on just the biggies for rewards and stuff. The rest will just be for bragging rights.

If you're planning to be in a competition post up. To make things fair, you can enter in two of the "majors" and as many of the "bragging rights" as you want.

Major (For rewards)

"Cleanest" Car (clean in appearance or just not dirty)
Best Sound System (we could go for volume or quality or both)
Best Overall Car
Best Show Mods
Fastest Car ( probably good for track competition)

Bragging rights

Cleanest Engine bay
Biggest bug on your windshield
Longest Burnout
Smooth as a baby's butt (could be a sub category for best paint)
Best Rims
Best interior mods
Best bad odor
Slowest Car
Dirtiest Car


All winners will have the option of having their pictures taken with their cars individually and/or as a group.

[lone_wolf025]

And I say we adopt these standards for rules or at least basis of rules.

Thanks to Iowagdam for the setup.



Judges
- 3 people that are not registered in the class that they are judging in.
- Must have high credit (senior member)
- Cannot be bribed with anything (food, drink, money) [But but but!!! I wanted to make some money off this! ]
- Must be randomly choosen from a hat at least 5 minutes before judging time
- Judging is a optional, if your choosen and don't want to judge please choose someone that can fill your spot

Big Contest
"Cleanest" Car (clean in appearance or just not dirty)
- Thou must have at least washed or waxed or polished there car
- Thou must not have the following on, or in your paint;
-dirt, mud, dust, bugs, tar, stains, rubber, etc.
- Five minutes before judging, hands and any other cleaning device is off the car

Best Sound System
- Contestants will play 3 tracks that are picked out by the judges beforehand
- These 3 tracks will test the three parts of the car's audio- the tweeters, the mids and the subs.
- For pure sound competition, 1 track will be picked out beforehand and played by the judge.
- Five minutes before competition, owners must stop tweeking.

Best Overall Car
- This is up for grabs, it could be a group vote, or it could be a 3 judges vote. [I say we do both seeing as this is the biggest one. Figure the judges determine top 2 and group makes the final call]
- Criteria for best overall car would be looks, performance, sound system and presentation.

Best Show Mods
- Mods must be done before judging and must be organized into the following groups, All SHOW, ALL GO, and Highest quality

Fastest Car
-Again, up for grabs. Could be an "overall" fast car or a bracket competition.

Bragging rights
[I say we do group majority rules. We got enough people that we could just yell or sneer. It'd be more fun than a show of hands.]

Cleanest Engine bay
- You have to eat off the top of your engine [figuratively speaking I hope!]

Biggest bug on your windshield
- Must verify size, squash pattern and damage [someone got a machinist's ruler with 1/64" increments? ]

Longest Burnout
- Who want's to get new tires?

Smooth as a baby's butt
- By running your finger along the car (not recommended for cleanest car contest)

Best Rims
- Based on style, look, bling bling, and proportions (no friggin 30"s) [I should hope no one would try to put 30s on a GA]

Best interior mods
- Based on style, bling bling, and technological factors

Best bad odor
- Smell test of seats, matts and trunk [or just overall smell of interior, whatever's most potent]

Slowest Car
- Slowest one at the track

Dirtiest Car
- Well, you know.

[Ajaxus]

Originally Posted by lone_wolf025

AJ if you find some pick up a couple big cases. I'll square with you later. Mark, if you can't find the Barq's don't worry about it, but if you do that'd be awesome...just don't go way out of your way looking for it.

If we have it, it will be in 12pks.


Also, I'm gonna pick up a set of these tomorrow since it's pay day..anyone else gonna have some?

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....=1171058471401

Might not be this specific model, depends on what the store has in stock..

[Mike Jung]

What channel are we going to use ?

Please keep it 1 to 14 FRS, as some like me have old school 0.5W FRS units

[Ajaxus]

Originally Posted by Mike Jung

What channel are we going to use ?

Please keep it 1 to 14 FRS, as some like me have old school 0.5W FRS units

Take your pick, doesn't matter to me. I figure the bigger the range on mine tho (not compensating) the better chance I'll have of hooking up with possibly the michigan caravan or maybe the southern chicago guys if any of them will be carrying.

[lone_wolf025]

Originally Posted by Ajaxus

.anyone else gonna have some?

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....=1171058471401

Might not be this specific model, depends on what the store has in stock..

No, see that would make sense, and we can't have things making sense at the airp.... Oh wait this isn't the airport....nevermind....

Oh and if they have em (the soda) just get two of whatever they got.

I'll bring a couple cases of "Mountain Breeze"

[laxjax13]

Originally Posted by Mike Jung

Is it worth it to take the I-94 north out of Chicago ?
Being a Toll Highway & all.
What is the toll fees along I-94 to Gurnee ?

Or take for example, a free road:
IL-21 to Gurnee.
or
US-41 to Gurnee.

best way id say is taking 94 north to gurnee. its only 1 toll just north of o'hare and thats it.

i'll probably be leaving around noon, be there around 1.
whats the exact address of the pizza place?

My car's been acting funny. TB keeps gettign stuck open hopefully iget it fixed by track time.

[Ajaxus]

Originally Posted by laxjax13

best way id say is taking 94 north to gurnee. its only 1 toll just north of o'hare and thats it.

i'll probably be leaving around noon, be there around 1.
whats the exact address of the pizza place?

My car's been acting funny. TB keeps gettign stuck open hopefully iget it fixed by track time.

if you have a cai or wai check the positioning of the couplers..my bro almost died when his TB got stuck wide open and it was catching on a coupler..guess there's nothing scarier than going WOT with the pedal mashed to the floor and not coming back up...